When bad things make for good work
A vulnerability prompted a massive migration and update/upgrade, but I chose to use increasingly nebulous “modern tools” and was surprised at how little they sucked compared to what I was previously used-to.
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Welcome to ActivityPub
Oh lawd, His posts sync with the fediverse now.
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Frivolous Comparisons: Electric Vehicle Tech
In the vein of comparing things to other things they are not but have the same tendencies… I am going to compare Electric Vehicle Makers to Technology Companies (mainly Phone makers) that I think fit their general gestalt. Chevrolet/GM as Qualcomm: Actually holds all the patents for Electric Vehicles (as pioneered with the EV1) but…
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A New Magical Space Car (part 3)
So, as you may recall from the earlier magical space car posts, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt was starting to struggle in 2025, the charge port gave out and needed to be re-assembled with cobbled-together bits that were not warranty-able, and it took almost 3 months for them to get placed… and it HAD to be…
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Not those kind of shots…
Greetings everyone. To wit: I’m okay, I haven’t heard of anyone except the police officer and the shooter getting hurt, but everything points to some nutjob trying to shoot up CDC (which is next to Emory’s campus; hence all the misleading “active shooter at/on Emory Campus” news). Also, as crazy/scary as this all sounds… RFK/Trump/Musk…
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Magical Space Car and Patience, Pt 2
This is a follow up to Magical Space Car and Patience. So read that if you are lacking context. I got the magical space car back. The dealer, having gotten 4 different charge housings that were broken in different ways, cobbled/Frankenstein-ed a working charge port housing out of it, got it all put back together…
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Magical Space Car and Patience
Abstract: My 2013 Volt has been stuck in the shop for two months for want of some parts related to the charge-port which are very backordered. The dealer is trying to source them from other dealers/parts depos but keeps getting mislabeled or busted parts. May is my Birth Month and also when I need to…
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Federal Worker Happy Fun Times: VSIP edition
Greetings epaulets. I have seen Yet Another News Screed about HHS offering Big Big Buyouts to their employees, and I feel like the journalists didn’t really understand what was going on (or at least didn’t match MY perspective) so I thought I would give it (my perspective) as a federal employee. Abstract: I feel very…
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Pettifoggers
I lamented during the pandemic that my high-functioning anxiety was an asset. Here most people were, sort of locked up and too-scared-to-do-anything and not sure what to try next because they were worried that the second they walked out the door they might touch something or get sneezed-on and then come home and accidentally infect…
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Another one bites the dust: Social Media Edition.
As of today, Facebook and anything else Meta (Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads) is a place giving me “the ick.” They have pretty much shut down all DEI and basically “Unprotected” anything having to do with LGBTQIA: The ability to quickly report queer attacks, misinformation, or slurs. If I see something horribly wrong about trans or gay…