Who is the patron saint of email?
Saint Francis of A CC.
(Don’t @ me, I stand by my choices)
I’ve finally sorted out my heating in order to have a consistently warm flat so you can all thank me when summer comes early next week.
Companies running mailing lists, you’d have a way better chance of me not unsubscribing if you could resist emailing every single day just to remind me you exist.
I must know, was the Notepad RCE demonstrated by using it to launch Notepad?
I should also add I’ve had this switch for months. No idea what possessed me to try and put it on over lunch.
“I’ll quickly put this smart switch on my water heater over lunch”
Reader, my hot water system is currently held together by Wagos and controlled by turning that loop on and off at the breaker box due to a missing part in this puzzle, and being unable to get the old switch back on. I truly hate electrical work.
Advertising is basically an intrusive thought that a company pays another company for you to have.
@gsuberland they’ve got to notify their 2,187 close partners of the update as well, and they’ve not been talking to a few of them for a while so they’ll have to find the right moment.
@akareilly 100% this. Yours, the person who caused catastrophic data loss by rebooting both Redis nodes in quick succession during an outage, which unexpectedly resulted in them both coming back up empty.
Should I have known that would happen? Probably. Should there have been some sort of warning anyway? Absolutely.
The bad news, it’ll cost £1,200 to repair. The good news, it’s entirely cosmetic damage and so doesn’t actually need repairing.
Things that weren’t on my todo list for today when I got up this morning: going to the Apple Store so they can make my work laptop less of a fire hazard.
To Apple’s credit this is the only damage I can detect from it being dropped on a concrete floor from about 4 feet up.
@rachel oh, where’s the desk? I should be in the office which is right by Aldgate East station at some point within the next two months.
Are you trans / gender-fun, an Engineering Manager (or Director, etc), in or around London, UK, and would like to attend LeadDev.com this year in early June?
If so, I have 1 free ticket to allocate to someone and I would really like to support other trans people managers in tech to be there.
It's a good conference, and will help you in your role, and yes I'm going too but I would like to help other trans eng leaders to be there.
Feel free to boost if this is not you, DM if it is you. 
I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@alice @alice_watson I genuinely believe this is a big part of why LLMs are being heralded so much by people. The internet has become an unusable maze of ads and misdirection for anyone who doesn’t know how to install ad blocking.
Today in things The Orange Site found controversial: Stalking and harassment are worse than property theft, and given a choice the former should be prioritised over the latter.
I am once again pleading with music streaming services to provide the non-deluxe versions of albums.
An album is (or should be) a coherent authored experience with a beginning, middle, and end. It is not enhanced by slapping a few half arsed remixes and acoustic versions on the end.
@rachel I’m playing on basically the easiest mode available, almost all PAYE but because of some slightly annoying circumstances I still have to do self assessment.
My most hated chore of the year, filing my tax return, is done. It’s always fine, and I always find it incredibly tense in the lead up because no other chore comes with the threat of criminal prosecution if I get it wrong.