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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 19/09/2026
some... "choices" are being taken
"21 sep - 22 sep
estimated delivery"

image of a crate with the number 12 in a chip bottom right.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 27/08/2026
is this tail scale
a monkey sitting crouched on a ledge; its tail dropping from the ledge

two markers

1. covering the monkey's body, 125pt
2. covering the monkey's tail, 182pt
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 30/07/2026
oh the IRONY aws re:Invent 2022, youtu.be/zZPzXEBW4P8?... and us-east-1 going down oct 2025 aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
a pop-out video player with a presentation slide

title: "Raw logs"

"I'm seeing errors talking to Amazon DynamoDB."
"Did the request make it to DynamoDB?"

java.net.UnknownHostException: dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:
unknown error

followed by a stack trace
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 16/07/2026
delia 😭
a girl with a baseball cap at a dinner table,

subtitles read: "and you can't call me sweetie when i don't like you"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 27/06/2026
dracut-sshd ;'(
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd/refs/heads/master/pubkey-login.dot

a convoluted flow-chart detailing how to get pre-boot disk decryption working.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 27/06/2026
my genius confounds people
> "Are we playing tomorrow?"

today is tomorrow when tomorrow is today
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 21/06/2026
go watch obsession while it's still playing in theaters
spongebob standing against a wall, behind a plant.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 15/06/2026
a guy with a grey shirt and overcoat, captions say:

"Lucky for you, I have no life."
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 12/06/2026
pain peko
a display port cable, broken at the connector
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 10/06/2026
a reply to this post,

this is a fun fact because i have the worst policy for myself (the role)

- sign in frequency = 4 hours
- never persistent browser session

the latter means no refresh tokens for me, all my tokens just valid for 1 hour

IMAGINE having to relogin to `az`, `kubectl`, `$internalTool` every working hour of the day I HATE POLICY MAKERS AND WORSE YET I AM THE ONE WHO HAD TO MAKE THIS POLICY TO BE COMPLIANT WITH SOME GODFORSAKEN "MANDATE"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 17/05/2026
here goes nothing!
a bowl of kidney beans in gravy; with a spoon.

on a plate.

a pan with a lid in the background. a plate with ladles to the side.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 17/05/2026
gonna try making rajma (kidney beans) for the first time it’s poisonous if cooked incorrectly (yay); let’s see how this goes !remindme in 8 hours
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 06/05/2026
salvaged, i guess
a plate full of rice mixed with a gravy mix of some kind; and a couple handfuls of kidney beans
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 06/05/2026
a handful of kidney beans with a smattering of chopped cilantro
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 25/04/2026
me when i copy a tailscale machine IP (dont have a custom tailnet name setup yet) and it gives me a notification
a tweet from jon bois (@jon_bois)

level 1 idiot shit is texting a link to myself because i don't know an easier way to get it from my computer to my phone. level 44 idiot shit is hearing my phone buzz 1.5 seconds later and going "oh who's that"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 05/04/2026
lol someone actually listening that suggested revisions to estimates are unrealistic
maintenance worker: that'll be 24 hours, general, minimumgeneral: i'll give you half that
worker:
no, sir, 24 hours is the best i can dogeneral: then you'd better get back to it
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 05/04/2026
wowowow
two people in a military uniform talking to an officer on the right; officer says

subtitles,
> do it (off screen)
> how about filling me in?
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 04/04/2026
😭😭😭 > they posses "artificial intelligence", yes? < yes, that's how they can adapt >
a person with military uniform

subtitles read: "Which means they could adapt themselves right out of this facility"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 27/03/2026
carbon footprint although i guess these compress pretty well
a bluesky post draft (151 chars beyond post limit); reads

emails
vertical height = 900 px
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remaining
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 17/03/2026
the dynamics of this is sending me.. third party vendor's (mendral) promo post about a customer (posthog) that uses clickhouse as the "main analytics backend" replying to the CTO of clickhouse that flaky tests are ok.
zX41ZdbW> Two problematic statements in this article:

1. Test pass rate is 99.98% is not good - the only acceptable rate is 100%.

2. Tests should not be quarantined or disabled. Every flaky test deserves attention.

> lab14

a test pass rate of 100% is a fairy tale. maybe achievable on toy or dormant projects, but real world applications that make money are a bit more messy than that.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 17/03/2026
me when the firewall i configured stops me from doing something
a surprised pikachu
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 04/03/2026
i'm only doing this from here on out
a bunch of git commits with no 'message' in them.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 02/03/2026
a good article to start the day.. might leave you feeling bad/sad www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you...
“But the company—” Will you shut up. Companies value velocity and new launches and shipping first at all costs because of course they do; it’s table stakes. Speed of delivery is basically the number one corporate value of every organization whether they admit to it or not. They’ll say they value experimentation, but not as much as shipping. Or they’ll claim to be really into investing in people and fostering growth, but not to the extent that it should let the schedule slip. Maybe they’ll say something about embracing failure, unless it’s a failure to get the app redesign in users’ hands before the end of the fiscal quarter. Some places really, really mean it when they say “ship or GTFO,” and those organizations have a tendency to grind employees into dust and then burn the dust for fuel. But going purely on outcomes, it sure seems like most places don’t actually value velocity as much as they claim to, just like all the other corporate values that pad out their Careers page.I don’t actually believe that AI is coming for everybody’s jobs, by the way. I rather believe that greed and mismanagement are coming for the jobs, and that workers are being laid off as a direct consequence of leadership failures. AI is simply a convenient smokescreen for these feckless cowards to hide behind. See, if a CEO announces layoffs because the company’s earnings are in the toilet, that CEO looks incompetent. If a CEO announces a reallocation of resources to better leverage the rapidly evolving landscape of workplace automation and AI, they sound Very Smart. Who doesn’t want to sound Very Smart? Here’s your token budget, now go do three people’s work.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 23/02/2026
feels like i'm doing something shady lol
whatsapp web texts

me: i need in the coming months; this month budget over 

march = 1x toshiba 1x wd
apr = 2x wd

24 tb all

seller: Okay !! Do let us know in advance we will arrange !!

me: i will confirm 1st week of march

can u back order and lock the price for me 3x wd and 1x toshiba now? for march and apr ?

seller: We will need 10% advance to stock it. As prices will keep increasing every 2 day.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 31/01/2026
on-call rotations, runbooks, and training, and yet
a character looking at a mirror;

text reads “despite everything, it’s still you.”
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 09/12/2025
egg yolks really do bring out the color huh (2 egg whites, 1 full egg)
an omlette on a plate; a cup of milk in the background, near the plate.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 04/12/2025
this is better right? right???
an omlette with tomatoes and onions
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 01/12/2025
it broke :(
an omlette; it’s half broken and one side’s flipped
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 26/11/2025
idk if it’s the pan size or heat management; the one on the right’s on a larger pan.
two omlettes; one’s kinda round, the other’s bordering on scrambled
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 24/11/2025
i should just break down the problem statement > the problem statement
a low quality stock photo credited to "RomoloTavani"

of an iceberg; the major chunk of the iceberg is inside the water.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 22/11/2025
a stock image of several girls playing dodgeball. The image depicts one girl labeled as "Apollo" throwing a red dodgeball labeled as "the gift of prophecy" at her friends, who are labeled as "random internet users just trying to be comedic."
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 17/11/2025
this is what my coworkers have to put up with
a slack message sent at 16:47
the same image of a well, sent 3 times
followed by the text "what is this"

and a code snippet (irrelevant)
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 05/11/2025
so long. looking for decent mail clients on macos outlook support needed. offline support optional. (pls don't say thunderbird, doesn't work with my org's tenant for some reason)
a cancel modal with a bunch of radio options

"other (please describe)" is selected.

the field "what is the primary reason why you're canceling?" is filled with the text

"i am not giving a single penny to grammarly"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 05/11/2025
you remind me of my early school days when we used to get these at 1 anna each :')
"thaen mittai", translated "honey sweet"

a bowl with a bunch of small round red structures, edible.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 27/10/2025
few bad apples ruining my grand in-memory cache plan
an excel sheet with 3 columns
sz, name, szMB
the sz column seems to be bytes, the szMB column is a computed field corresponding to sz, in megabytes
the name column is redacted

entries,
181 MB
74 MB
33 MB
23 MB
20 MB
12 MB
11 MB
10 MB
8 MB

and so on
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 30/09/2025
in today's shenanigans
a nano editor window with the message

add pid1 handling

we need this to ensure our grandchildren get reaped by the reaper?
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 28/09/2025
next time somebody tells you "no need to handle that edge case" heed caution
a flamegraph

 logs=[kube_log_to_log(x, http_request.TraceId) for x in logs],  highlighted

56.2 GB total
6.6 million allocations
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 20/09/2025
post a horror movie that everybody should see.
a movie poster for the movie “the life of chuck”

tom hiddleston is standing on a vast expanse of something glittering, and is mid dance pose
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 16/09/2025
yeah no yeah i'm keeping increase contrast turned on.
a "shottr" window with just "reduce transparency" turned on in accessibility options

the buttons in the top bar are "unclear".a "shottr" window with both "reduce transparency" and "increase contrast" enabled in accessibility options.

the buttons in the top nav bar are clearly demarcated, and the current selected button is clearly highlighted.
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 16/09/2025
so "reduce transparency" - definitely "increase contrast" it' jarrring. may turn it off.
a macos 26 (tahoe) finder window

with both reduce transparency and increase contrast turned on in the accessibility optionsa macos 26 (tahoe) finder window

with just reduce transparency turned on in the accessibility options
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 16/09/2025
forgive me @mozilla.org for ever doubting session restore it worked through an os upgrade
same sideberry icons with a number above; from before

icon 1 - a list of some kind - 1347
icon 2 - a book of some kind - 380
icon 3 - </> - 50
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 16/09/2025
oh wow this looks soo good /s
The macOS 26 Tahoe release and its new Liquid Glass user interface theme. Credit: Andrew Cunningham

from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-ars-technica-review/
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 16/09/2025
pray for me
a "sideberry" extension tab group icons; with a number at the top

icon 1 - a list of some sort - 1297
icon 2 - a book of some sort - 380
icon 3 - </> - 50
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 10/09/2025
do you think they strip consecutive whitespaces
an airpods pro case with engraving

"L." ".R"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 10/09/2025
i could never..
an image of a person sitting on a train; wearing airpods; with a mac open in front of them, typing something

there's a person diagonally behind them

a red arrow from the eyes of the person diagonally behind them to the macbook screen
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 08/09/2025
a slack message, reads

"things to not parameterize for prod debugging in the future"

followed by a code snippet

kubectl \
  --context=REDACTED -n prod \
  run \
  -it \
  REDACTED-one-off \
  --image=REDACTED \
  --command=true \
  --labels app.kubernetes.io/name=REDACTED \
  -- /bin/sh
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 24/08/2025
oh this is going to be the death of me
a microsoft entra ID page titled "authentication methods | registration campaign"

settings
days allowed to snooze - 1 day
limited number of snoozes - "enabled" (arrow pointing to this)
excluded users and groups - none selected
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 21/08/2025
ffs css
a table with inconsistent borders
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 18/08/2025
absolutely unhinged
a dialog confirmation box "warning"

"are you sure you want to close 419 tabs?"

two options
"yes", "no"
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trivial_inanity @thewisenerd.com · 07/08/2025
what the zstd
thewisenerd@eniac-howler ~/data> du -h fp_log.parquet
 13G	fp_log.parquet
thewisenerd@eniac-howler ~/data> du -h fp_log.parquet
208M	fp_log.parquet
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