@NanoRaptor My local cave management org bought a property with a hitherto unknown cave on it, then decided they were going to auction off the naming rights to the cave. It has been redo to as “Unnamed Carta Valley Cave” since its discovery. After the auction last year, I suggested to the winning bidder that he simply change that to “Named Carta Valley Cave.”

@NanoRaptor I'd simply put the horse in yellow packaging. https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/en/collection/no-name

@NanoRaptor I was in the supermarket trying to reach some cheesecakes that were really high up and I couldn't make it. Some kind scandinavian lifted me onto his shoulders so I could reach then we went down the isle getting the top shelf cakes we needed.
I asked him his name but he said he didn't know

And that was when I realised I was riding through desserts on a norse with no name

#dadjokes

@NanoRaptor if I came from a land down under, I would simply speak-a your language

@NanoRaptor
ABBOT: put $50 on A Horse With No Name
COSTELLO: With no name?
ABBOT: Yeah, A Horse With No Name
COSTELLO: When the guy at the counter asks me the name of the horse, what do I say?

@NanoRaptor

Holden: You're in a desert, riding a horse, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see your horse, Leon. It has no name...
Leon: Horse? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a zebra is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a horse... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You ask the horse to stop, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The horse doesn't respond, its mane baking in the hot sun, beating flies with its tail, but it can't stop. Not without a name. It needs a name, but you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! You're not giving the horse a name. Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?

@NanoRaptor This is just to say

I have named
the horse
that was in
the desert

and which
you were probably
riding
for nine days

forgive me
there were plants
and birds and rocks
and things

@NanoRaptor

For every horse ridden through the desert with no name, there is an equal and opposite re-action:

Alt...

A scene from the movie 'The Neverending Story' showing the hose 'Artax' sinking into a mire in the Swamp of Sadness, while a young boy, Atreyu, is desperately trying to pull him out.

@NanoRaptor Inside you are two horses. Both have no name.

@limneticvillains I keep my iPhones 4c and SE alive with replacement batteries--I have a shop do it, it's quick and they always do a good job. (I use them for listening to podcasts and music.)

@limneticvillains oh definitely go for it. If iFixit has a battery they are usually a source of decent parts. The 6s is a good phone if old, and yeah not too hard to do it.

@csilverman Every day there's a road you choose to take, and a road not taken. So it's clearly unlike software, where your choices are ACCEPT or ACCEPT LATER.

@csilverman i LOVE the colors you used for this one <3

@csilverman happy to learn these are separate places

@MrLovenstein blue guy is a tech bro?

@MrLovenstein Ironically Clippy has been used in PFPs to pro-test against AI.

@MrLovenstein
A true lolcry moment

@MrLovenstein we wouldn't have forgotten that we had ruined outside, if we hadn't ruined the internet.

@MrLovenstein rioting is all that's left I guess

@MrLovenstein only mistake is that popup should say "Cookies? Y/Y"

@eniko it's the future of work

it's here to stay, adopt it or you will be left behind

it's in the search engine, it's in the code editor, it's in excel, it's in notepad

it will only get better

also, unrelated, it's just for lolz

@eniko at least it's entertaining 🤪

@eniko wait... isn't "for entertainment purposes only" og language from the microsoft flight simulator eula? did somebody in legal make the funnest possible category mistake?

@eniko The license agreement is itself entertaining.

@eniko
"Our toy operating system that always crashes and wastes your time and drives you insane now includes something new that also doesn't work as expected." -- Microsoft

How is that even news?

@eniko clownslop

@eniko I've been saying for years that AI should come with "entertainment purposes only" label, so imagine my reaction to the news

@eniko which is a weird thing to say given that businesses have to pay for that with their Office subsciption.

But then again, even MS Windows Pro used to include solitaire.exe, giving hours of entertainment to bored office workers

@eniko where did they say this? there are tons of ai bros at work who think this is fine for safety critical infrastructure and they need a beat down

@eniko Wait..that happened?

...that's deranged. 0_0

@0xabad1dea Sometimes there are also fake pockets on men's suit jackets. This is not nearly as diabolical but it gives a taste of the exasperation.

@0xabad1dea so ridiculous! especially when they go to the effort of integrating the upper edge of a non-seamed pocket with a flap into the pattern, but then there's no actual pocket sewn in.

@0xabad1dea I truely do not understand what the fuck the thought process was with those.

@0xabad1dea This isn't accidental; it's a material manifestation of patriarchal norms embedded in everyday objects.
So Fight fake pockets ✊ ♀️
https://fashionmagazine.com/style/womens-pockets/

@0xabad1dea all of the accusations of witchcraft, none of the practicality

@nina_kali_nina AAAAAAWWWW ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

@nina_kali_nina
Definitely something I'm interested in.

@nina_kali_nina i’m fascinated by the cursor. it looks truly original, that’s rare

@0xabad1dea Codeberg can't manage that, even with all the DDoSes!

@0xabad1dea This is why I'm migrating to hub hub.

@0xabad1dea

There are two nines in their uptime number!

No one said they had to be leading digits…

@0xabad1dea aw hell yeah zero nines

I am going to once again clarify that a) this is an independent third party tracker b) it tracks ten subsystems and overlays all incidents on one timeline to arrive at the sub-90% overall reliability; it does not mean that the github site is just completely dead 10% of the time.

@0xabad1dea my self-hosted gitea has a higher uptime lmao

@0xabad1dea Maybe github management counts that as "two nines"'?

@0xabad1dea There's still two 9s in there. Depending on what or who that is counting, that is probably just fine.

@0xabad1dea copilot is flying it straight in to a cliff face...

@0xabad1dea waiting for 0.99999% reliability, see there are five of them and this is where it counts

@0xabad1dea there are 2 nines in there, I don't see the issue :P

@0xabad1dea Thank goodness GitHub is just a popular code repository, and not something anyone would treat as an essential piece of infrastructure in their software provisioning, integration, distribution or whatever process.

@0xabad1dea That's like when GE merged with Bell Atlantic, and we got the worst quality of service paired with the lowest reliability provider. Just getting dial tone was a crap shoot...

@0xabad1dea sure, if you're going to be a stick in the mud and only count nines at the start of the number.

If you get rid of that restriction, they've still got two nines.

@0xabad1dea
To make matters (much) worse, copilot seems to be very reliable ...

@0xabad1dea I'm sure CoPilot would agree that 9.9999% is much easier to accomplish than 99.999%

@0xabad1dea I love that I am reading this while waiting for GitHub to fix their API throwing HTTP 503 errors :)

@0xabad1dea i really don't understand how and real companies still use microsoft products. and i try really hard. i build software infrastructure and do tool selection for developer teams for a living. my previous company used microsoft dynamic 365 as their CRM. they paid about 4 million per year euros for it (significant expense given the company size) and they threw away their own solution in favor of that. yet, the thing was down and unusable (as in whole departments of the company cannot do their work at all and we were bleeding hundreds of thousands in real money every few hours) at least once every two months! longest outages lasted 2 or 3 days. and that's not even counting all the consultancy expenses to manage and customize that thing because there was no internal know-how to do that. the company before that switched from one cloud to another for no apparent practical reason with disastrous consequences for development of the product... these kinds of management decisions are entirely irrational and the only way i can explain them is that companies like microsoft and google invest more in kickbacks to decision makers than into development of their products.

@0xabad1dea i mean it does have nines in it, so it’s the slop version of two nines

@0xabad1dea sloptastic news!

@0xabad1dea Looking at it positively, they do have 4 eights of reliability.

@0xabad1dea Microsoft would argue that 89.91% actually has 2 9s

@0xabad1dea its probably running on #windows now go https://codeberg.org

@0xabad1dea I mean technically, they still have 2 nines there... 🤔 😅

@0xabad1dea microsoft can't devops.

@0xabad1dea
"What are you talking about I see two nines right there." John Microsoft probably

@0xabad1dea I wonder at what point they will declare Uptime Bankruptcy and start fresh?

@0xabad1dea
@mogi ok maybe codeberg is doing alright lol

@0xabad1dea Paraphrasing Queeg, "it's got a nine in it".
I've worked for enough companies that I've seen teams who couldn't even manage nine fives.

@0xabad1dea Five nines (0.99999%)

@0xabad1dea @zazzoo those LLMs sure are helping!

@0xabad1dea "We did it, boys!"

@0xabad1dea THERE ARE ZERO NINES

starting to think Microsoft has a humiliation kink

Alt...

Picard yelling in defiance of his Cardassian captor

@0xabad1dea That is #radicle

@0xabad1dea The other day I got a 500 error just by creating a new issue with 5 text lines, that's how bad things have gotten. (Never happened before)

@0xabad1dea they're working toward 5 nines - 9.9999% uptime

@0xabad1dea 4 eights, here we goooooooo!

@0xabad1dea WDYM, 89,9 has TWO nines!

@0xabad1dea soon we try to keep track of percentage down time instead of uptime 🤣

@0xabad1dea this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing and giving us hope!

@0xabad1dea Like Copilot, github is Only For Entertainment.

@0xabad1dea Nobody ever got fired by being bought by Microsoft...wait!

@0xabad1dea fake, I can see 2 nines right there. :P

@0xabad1dea

if you live in the ~~codeburger~~ codeberg land nothing ever happens (and it's good)

@0xabad1dea

Has Github tried turning it off and then on again? 5 times? Its probably all windows and azure based now since the takeover, so they need to boot the hell out of it all i bet.

The whole back end is also probably vibe coded by copilot. I strongly advise people migrate their projects to greener pastures that don't feed the MS attack chain.

@0xabad1dea people in the comments channeling their inner Gul Madred "there are two nines."

@0xabad1dea Soon the reason I don't use Github will be "I can't access it" rather than "I don't use centralised services or Git".

I never had use for it myself, but I am gobsmacked how many people and projects continued to use Github after Microsoft bought it. Everything piece of bullshit that has happened since was foreseeable and foreseen.

@0xabad1dea
Incident/day > 1; ^_^

@0xabad1dea

https://codeberg.org/

@0xabad1dea We have reached the singularity

Alt...

A screenshot of the non-official GitHub status page. it displays an error message after a picture of a very angry unicorn head: We're having a really bad day. The Unicorns have taken over. We're doing our best to get them under control and get GitHub back up and running. Contact Support — GitHub Status — @githubstatus

@0xabad1dea

How very dare you! 89.43% still contains a 9.

@0xabad1dea ...and nobody's actually leaving though, to speak of. The network effects are too strong. I prefer #codeberg myself, BTW
#github #OpenSource

@0xabad1dea they misunderstood and their SLA says nine 5’s instead

@eniko we had an internal workshop about this (a lot of techbros at work...) and yes, that is basically it, begging and praying (and spending enough money to hire more people)

this isn't engineering this is a religious cult

@foone you are silly and pretty and precious and loved

@foone I was born silly, and I will die silly.

@foone if you are silly, you must look for ways to get sillier

@foone I'm working on it 😅

@foone That's silly

@foone i never got favs for being silly. so i stopped. i'm not going to be silly for silliness' sake! i need signs of salience! otherwise i'm thinking i am making a big mistake! why am i yelling!

@foone This whole castle is a sillyness machine.

@foone The silly must flooooooow

@foone

Surely goodness and silliness shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Silly forever,
Wearing a fake mustache and horned rimmed glasses and carrying a whoppe cushion, Because why not?

@foone
This is the way

@foone Yesss. Silly as in walks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8

@foone

the only possible response:

@foone

Alt...

"Always has been" meme for "Is it silly?"

@foone HONK! (of approval)

@foone I'm doing my best! And always researching new and innovative ways to reach sillier heights! 🩷

@foone

@foone how do I find way back to silliness, if all I feel is tired?

@foone you can never be silly enough, keep being silly

@foone Can I just be dry and serious to a silly degree?

@foone

Silliously, take these rules seriously.

@foone 😜

@foone the silly spiral will allow no one to escape

@foone
While the excellent points in your post, Alice, may be suggestions elsewhere, I for one, am of the opinion that here on the Fediverse, they are the law.

@foone thank you for the reminder. My silliness does not summon as easily as it uses to.

@foone Definitely words to live by!

@foone Nah. Sometimes you gotta just put on your shoes and go. This is how to optimize life silliness-don't be a little silly all of the time-find places where you can let that out to its fullest extent

@foone ...and this is The Way of the Silly-Fu.

@foone Harrumph!

@foone

@foone I'm silly but not really more sad then silly

@foone

That's just silly.

@foone When I was a kindergarten teacher I never told the kids not to be silly. Why not? Well, it's a miserable old world if you can't be silly when you're only 4 years old. Sometimes I would join in being silly with them. Silliness is a kind of creativity.
#silliness

@foone Seems a little silly to me.

@foone

Why should a man bother to be serious when he knows that one day he will get buried along with all his seriousness.

- Ibn-e-Safi, Kali Tasweer (Imran series 26), 1957

4. If you don’t want to be silly, go to silly therapy (essentially the fediverse)

@foone

@foone

The Colonel does not approve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonel_(Monty_Python)

@foone also: walk silly https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI !

@foone https://videacesky.cz/video/snizte-si-sve-iq

@eniko
this is where i would show a boxed set of dos floppies... if i had one

@eniko *fires up the old XT*

@eniko "btw"

@eniko I guess I’m doing as okay as one can with the world in chaos.

@eniko I have set the bar pretty low for myself, but I'd like to think that I'm doing okay as long as I can pay the rent, which thankfully is the case at the moment.

@eniko I oscillate between ok and not ok, currently in the not category, but hopefully it doesn't last long.

@eniko I may not be thriving, but I am surviving

@eniko not really, but I keep trying.

@eniko I'm doing OK financially but I wish the world was a better place and I could help out more, so I marked it as Other

@eniko I wasn’t doing well 10 years ago, since then everything has gotten worse:/

@eniko "What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."