Send Pics of Sandwiches

I’ll take it!

What color is the thermos?

Throw in a 6 pack of thermo-cumular missles for that snow blower and you got yourself a slap happy butt smackin’ deal, my friend.

Where do I find money wife?

Plex announces that it is tired of having all of these customers buying their software

10 years ago I’d have probably thought this was a really cool idea, but now all this seems like to me is another way to pay someone else in order to feed them training data for them to make more money on.

The old sandwich/alien extortion game

Galaxy quest is a fucking banger

I love doing that from time to time. It’s not something I’ll do daily, but probably once or twice in a week, especially if I’ve found a new song or artist that I really like.

I’ve lived in the same place for four years, which is the longest I’ve been anywhere since I was 15, and right now I’m not taking care of any dying relatives which has also been a constant over the years, so I’m not in a rush to make any drastic changes to my situation.

You go: “Wow, I’m an adult now and sometimes I have to do things I don’t want to do”. And then you drink the water.

The fact of the matter is that almost nobody’s favorite beverage is water, but in a display of forbearance (combined with not being too fond of the whole dehydration thing) we drink it anyway.

Additives and things can help you in the near term, but developing good habits takes time and effort (and is very often the cornerstone of good health).

I had a patient who attempted suicide by overdose on OTC pain relievers because their parents refused to buy them cat-ear headphones, and was then presented said cat-ear headphones in hospital by their parents.

Gah damn

The school district where I grew up had a dropout rate of 50% by Junior year of highschool. Junior year was the earliest they allowed highschool students to drop out.

It’s expensive for what it is, and you’re demonstrating your ignorance of that which makes you look rich and ignorant.

Just pining for the Fjords

Security still plays. If I'm offering a blog for instance or some FOSS software that isn't in Russian or about Russia and I'm getting frequent bad traffic from Russia, I'm probably going to geoblock Russia.

Security is very often the reason (other than legality or copyright) that web services employ geoblocking. While people can easily circumvent this via VPN or any number of other methods, this takes slightly more effort which helps improve the overall signal to noise ratio for web-traffic considerably. 

It's not about trying to stop those people from accessing that service per se, it's just a fact that there are a number of countries who don't have laws or don't enforce laws regarding tampering with foreign systems. While this may be the action of just a few people in any given country, the traffic can be from many thousands of different IP addresses which may only have a country of origin in common.

Attacks on FOSS software as a means of gaining illicit access to organizations using that product as part of their infrastructure are more and more common (search: supply chain attacks). People who are earnestly trying to use a website that they are being geoblocked from are sadly caught in the crossfire of a fight they have no part in, and probably don'tknow is happening. However, the people doing the geo blocking are generally not doing so out of malice, but out of necessity.

A friend of mine was a security administrator for a small webhosting company for a while and he would often block certain countries based on the fact that his company didn’t do any business in those countries, and simultaneously those countries were prominent sources of malicious traffic. Not to say that the only traffic from those places is malicious, but if you don’t plan on offering any services in those areas it definitely makes sense to geoblock them from a security standpoint.

My mom taught me to cook from a pretty young age. Not that it’s exactly cooking, but the first thing she taught me to make myself was just a bologna and cheese sandwich, which obviously left an impression on me lol.