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After getting back from sitting my exam, found a Slack message complaining that my GitLab CI job was using up all of the project-group's free monthly-compute minutes. So, been spending the remainder of the day trying to update the logic so I can run the jobs via a GitLab runner hosted via […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Bought a very smol (sour cherry) pie this weekend.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 9h

On the plus side of today's certification-exam, they handed me a "congratulations: you scored a 93%" piece of paper (even if it looks like their printer is 5 pages show of being completely out of ink). On the minus side, the certification-vendor's portal isn't showing my cert, yet, so I can […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Back when GrubHub (et. al.) was in the "get everyone dependent on you" part of the #enshittification cycle, I'd always disliked what I thought was the deleterious impacts of delivering food that was meant to be eaten AT the restaurant. However, during the lockdowns, I continued to order because […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Recently got added to a new project. No specific tasks have yet been assigned. Figured I'd look at the backlog queue to see if there was anything I could grab. There were six items in the backlog. All six were showing as both assigned and as "in progress". Umm… Why are they still in the backlog […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I get that the #Eagles are banged up and I should be happy they haven't been blown out by teams that c/should have. But two weekends in a row where the loss was due to coaching? Fire Sirianni. #NFL #PHIvsJAX

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Even if they don't manage to undermine this year's elections, the amount of criminal and civil liability they would face under a non-bought administration means the FAANGs — and every company that aided them and think they couldn't turn states' evidence — will be pumping hundreds of billions […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

When I see lifted trucks like this — and this one's worse from street level than from my porch (where I took the picture from) — I always think, "my condolences to your wife". And,judging by the sound, he's hit a modified exhaust and is warming up to leave.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

At supermarket. Pass by a dude in a sleeveless shirt and lots of arm ink. Wife compliments him on the ink. He thanks her and says it took a year to complete. My first thought was, " how'd you get that much time off work?"

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Stopped at the German grocer. Passing through the beer section and say to my wife, "they have your beer". Took her a couple ticks to realize we were standing next to the Hoegaarden display.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Always makes me a little sad to see an unattended Cybercuck. Almost feels like a wasted bird-flip. #swasticar #cybertruck

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Always weird when I join a new project, am told "go look at the IaC repositories on the git server," and, when I do, I see huge swaths of automation commented out. It's ike, "you're using `git`: why not just remove that block of code? If you ever need it back, it's in your `git` commit-history."

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Something I will never understand is people that prefer "on window mode" for any application that intrinsically operates as multiple screen-areas. If I can't quickly <ALT><TAB> between two, related actions, I get right vexed.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Been collaborating, for a few weeks, on a (long) document at work. During the initial writing, it was in a folder that all of the collaborators had write access to (and every document within it). Yesterday, they did a presentation on the topic the document was speaking to. After the presentation […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"She" has a more prominent Adams apple this do.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Vampire Teeth Pin. Most people think Dracula says "I vant to suck your blood" because of his Transylvanian accent. But it's actually because vampires are unable to make a w sound due to their fangs. collabs.shop/vw386d

Enamel pin shaped like red open lips with white teeth and elongated vampire fangs dripping with red.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

European confused by "American tipping culture". It's like, _America_ hasn't had "American tipping culture" since the lockdowns. Before then, tips were for actual service roles, not self service kiosks. not for McD's type places, etc. youtu.be/6uvg5WSF7TU?si=NGKqP_Fo_oj…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Watching a show on scientific paradoxes. Say to my wife, "wonder if they'll mention the 'coastline #paradox ' — where the smaller the ruler you use, the longer the coastline gets". Wife shuddered, looked away and clapped her hands to her ears.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Yeah, she said she wanted to move in, but when I came home expecting to find her with her stuff, it seemed like she just disappeared.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Huh... Can use #Gemini for EV charging/route planning ...and that it accurately factors in range drops related to weather and external accessories (matches what I observed on our 2025 Thanksgiving and Christmas trips versus summer temps and no external accessories) is pretty nice, too. #ai

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Don't Know Shit!!! But I Feel Things!!!" Pin. Happy Monday, I am immediately making this my new email signature at work. collabs.shop/oefsbq

An enamel pin with a black circular border featuring a sleeping gray and white cat in the center. The text along the top curves to read "I DON'T KNOW SHIT!!!" and along the bottom reads "BUT I FEEL THINGS!!!".

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I'd actually had to have my manager reschedule the review: Dominion power was supposedly shutting off power to clear a rotting oak in my neighbor's back yard from the lines. Arborist's trucks showed up. Power technician showed up. Power technician checks the line, sees that deenergizing it will […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Annual review season, again. All 4s & 5s, again. hopefully that means a raise that at least offsets medical insurance increases — by dollars if not percentages (if not #Trumpflation).

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

At Saturday's #Diplo show, someone dropped their vape and weren't nearby when wife found it and held it aloft. Sadly, it's also _just_ a nicotine vape and in a cloying scent.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I _get_ that some people prefer that other call participants (on a Zoom-type meeting) include video feeds, but I really hate camera angles that are looking up into people sinuses or have that "horror movie" angle.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

In the race between tech companies to improve things, when did mail-merge die? I mean, "dear member?". Good, christ: 90s spam was more-personalized. At any rate, dunno that I watch $22/mo worth of #Hulu. It's about the last streaming service we have because […] [Original post on blahaj.zone]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Watching #MNF and they're having the celebration of the Superdome ...A venue that probably would have been demolished due to age, by now, were it not due to post Katrina renovations. #NFL #ATLvsNO

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

How is it that CompTIA became the arbiters of who is adequately security-aware as to be worthy of a certification that organizations use to determine who has what level of systems' access??? If you're asking people to send you a picture of your drivers license or passport through unencrypted […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "Eat, Drink, and be Scary" Felt Banner. I think it is offensive to call skeletons scary. This one is just trying to host a nice dinner party. Maybe he thinks humans are scary. I'd argue that skin is creepier than bones. collabs.shop/vsylud

A Halloween-themed pennant banner with a black center on an off-white background. The text reads "EAT, DRINK, &" at the top and "BE SCARY!" at the bottom. In the middle, a skeleton sits at a laden table with pumpkins, candles, and food, holding a glass. An orange bat is illustrated below the bottom text.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

In the #NFL, if the player starts a slide, they're supposed to be untouchable from that point onwards. This year, I'm seeing a lot of QB slides where they're still getting hit mid-slide but there's no flags, any more? Did they "fine tune" the rule or it's enforcement?

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

If the #Rams' Mevis were able to put his weight (accurately) into kicks, he could be racking up 3s from 80yds. #NFL #LARvsPHI

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

This "perfect" ribeye from Wegmans isn't even as thick as my index finger is wide. I'd have shown with my little finger — which is also wider than the thickest ribeye in the case was — but was impossible 6hold the steak to provide a comparison and still take a […] [Original post on blahaj.zone]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

With the midterms coming up, I can't wait to vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party. So today's Low Quality Ad is for this Bloody Leopard Pin. Surely, the leopards won't eat my face. collabs.shop/vlydbl

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Do they not test ability to park when you take your driver's license driving test, any more? It feels like not only has parallel parking long been a lost art of the 20th century but now parking in parking lot seems to be a genuine struggle for most people, especially those under 45.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The best part about people that back into spaces? They seem significantly more likely to park off-center, even to the point of violating lines.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Selected a #Spotify list based on Course of Empire. A half dozen or so tracks in and I've been served three Machines of Loving Grace tracks, some God Lives Under Water, some Stabbing Westward and a couple others, but no Course of Empire. I get that they were small, didn't have any real chart […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Oh, you think it's a bad thing that Trump is constantly falling asleep during meetings? Well guess who else sleeps all day long. Babies, that's who. That means President Trump has the energy of someone 79 years younger than him. Checkmate, liberals.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Commercial for Roku's Ad Manager service. Just another example of every company trying to put advertising everywhere. Add it to the ads for online information removal discussing how your information is used to advertise to you, among other things.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm 56. My #dog is 6yo. If he stays healthy, he should live to my early mid-60s. My dad died at 62 of a heart attack. His dad had several heart attacks before eventually succumbing to congestive heart failure (in his 80s). I've already started to see a cardiologist because my last lunch cancer […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A I was laying in bed, trying to get to sleep, it occurred to me that the current crop of #AI is great proof that having a lot of facts and information isn't the same as being intelligent. The current generation of AI are basically very, very expensive Cliff Clavens (if I were naming a model or […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Was supposed to be seeing #TheChainsmokers on the 17th. However, it got delayed a week .,. conflicting with a Halloween related #EDM event. So, had to fuck around with #Ticketmaster's app to request a refund ...that I'm using to buy tix to a 12/29 show.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Interesting exemptions to #JuryDuty for the county I live in.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fire up browser without a home page set and you get news tiles. Happened to notice this one. It's like, "aww, what happened? They seemed so well-matched and happily married" /s

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"We raised prices and demand surged? We must be onto something!" youtu.be/s3gtIXeBugg?si=orehAN8Ag1o…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

There's only a loose coupling between intelligence and stupidity. The coupling is far stronger between stupidity and laziness. youtu.be/gmEWjeFkQcI?si=DxD4hyCRxlJ…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I wish #YouTube had a regex-based way to block suggested videos by title and/or channel. I'd block all "reacts" channels and videos.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Two types of people in the world: • Those who, after changing something, immediately test the change so they know whether the change fixed or broke things and whether they need to redo things, return things to a store, etc. • Those who, after changing something, toss it back in a drawer, hand […]

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