Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The worst trait of middle management I have seen in both the UK and US is attempts to solve engineering problems with endless meetings that have no engineering staff.

Wicket gacked out of his mind again

It'll be a nice city when they finish it

Although all these teenagers that are *never* in school is still really funny.

Rewatching Twin Peaks for the first time in 30 years (although I watched and loved the Return) the Bob stuff is still really fucking chilling.

Summer powercut season has arrived

Came back from taking the boy to look at trains and there was a brief storm. The smell of hot, wet asphalt is overpowering.

The Merriam Webster app, which I paid for back in the day, is now trying to get me to opt in to a subscription. I despise the modern software market.

The notification glut has now got so bad that when I get an SMS now, I can't see it because there are two pages of crap spamming the notification area.

I am in an absolutely foul mood and i can't put my finger on why. Everyone is irritating me.

A first for me this morning. I could not get to my parking due to road closures. the DPW has been slowly strangling the access road for the last month, this morning finally everything was closed. Several hundred of us use this lot. No notices about it anywhere.

We have a Redhat license at work but I never used any of the support (we don't run anything complex or any parts of their stack) and I used CentOS for a lot of installs. I am steadily rolling out Debian now. I liked Ubuntu Server but Canonical plays a lot of the same pay-to-play games as Rhel so fuck that.

This is my surprised face
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/02/computer-speed-gains-erased-by-modern-software/

The last couple of days have been characterised by high humidity, boiling over into intense thunderstorms. I remember one August like this, back in 2016. I don't miss it. It's diabolical outside.

It's Anthrocon weekend and one thing I like about Pittsburgh is how the city just completely embraces it.