I am moving to a usage-based billing
Dear employer, I will no longer charger a flat monthly salary, instead I will move to token based billing. Included will be every token I receive as input, including but not limited to emails, slack messages, spoken words and mandatory multi-modal meetings that could have been emails. Included will also be output tokens in the form of code, documentation and small talk. Tokens will also be consumed by my internal monolog as I reason about problems.
@kunsi if you’ve got a soda stream handy it’s dangerously drinkable when carbonated.
… more at https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/ for those interested.
I have received what I hope is a very exciting email (I’m currently 80% sure it’s very exciting and would really like the follow up to be replied to l).
@nikitonsky “Resigned to the fact I have once again gone deep enough into my savings that I’ll have to sell my soul for a few months before I can once again quit and follow my true dream of living in a yurt”.
@jackeric it feels like cargo culting to me. People no longer know what hashtags were for, not least because they’re being spammed to the point of uselessness on most platforms but they see people using them and feel they must as well.
@jackeric it’s completely #baffling behaviour. Not #only is it useless because #nobody is searching for those tags, it makes the post borderline #unreadable.
Just discovered the social engagement I thought was tonight isn’t and I’m inordinately relieved by that fact.
@ketan in any sane world the follow up to this would be “government plans to legislate against private use of gas generation”. Even if the law doesn’t get passed suddenly all these data centres will find another way rather than pay for gas generators they’ll be forced to turn off.
@an0key I kind of enjoy that someone clearly sicced trading standards on the VPN vendors and now they’re all clutching at straws with “it might get you better prices on flights? Idk?” or giving barely veiled “it’s for piracy ok” pitches by suggesting you might enjoy the Costa Rican Netflix catalogue.
Fuck you annoying message. Topped another. Turns out incandescent rage is a powerful antidote to a normally quite nervous climbing style.
Just got notified of some deeply annoying news while halfway up a climbing wall, which has completely killed my mood, which had been quite good from smashing a few boulders I’d been struggling with for a while. Really need to remember to turn on do not disturb and leave my phone in my bag.
I’d once again like to lodge a complaint at the fact being an adult seems to be a never ending list of chores that get in the way of me fiddling with whatever hobby has taken my interest.
@bluewinds CGNAT can be worked around but you’ll probably need another machine somewhere that can forward traffic back to you. That could be a £2/month VM, it literally just needs an IP and the ability for you to connect to it from home.
@bluewinds check whether you have a real IP address or you’re behind CGNAT where your ISP shares one IP between multiple customers. If you are this won’t work, otherwise sounds reasonable to me.
Maybe we are in the cyberpunk future. I just had an independent contractor in a hoodie show up in the most battered van I’ve ever seen, hand over a parcel, vaguely wave their handheld terminal in my direction, and leave again.
@jezhiggins @Edent hey, it keeps my Dad out of trouble. If he’s checking how much power is being directed to his car for free he’s not being persuaded to vote for Nazis by an AI generated picture of the local high street in 1827 posted to Facebook.
(For the record, I’m not aware of us ever having come even close to killing anyone, but today it’s an explicit aim)
The tech team at work going with an ambitious target for the day of “nobody dies”.
I find myself reading the TLS spec (because what else would a boy do at 11pm on a Thursday?) and this document is full of cursed phrase in the form “For reasons of backwards compatibility with middleboxes…”
So far my highlights are “all negotiations must claim version 1.2, we’ll stuff the real version in somewhere else later to stop traffic inspectors crashing”, and “this new message identifies as an older message but one of the values is the SHA256 of the name of the new one”.
@pikesley well that case I would simply run VNC inside the [crook appears from side of the stage as I’m pulled out of view and a clattering noise comes from the background]