Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

I sometimes feel like I'm talking to Dr Lexus when I deal with these people

Of course they sent it to my old address. I updated my address in their online portal - which they sacked all their service staff to pay for - but apparently this does not mean things will be mailed to my new address because clown world.

I am awaiting a new bank card and so had to call my bank. 2 minutes to get through the automated button press bit, then a hold for eight minutes, at which point I am asked the same questions. How the *fuck* did this get so broken?

#F1 ominous poise from the new Red Bull in Bahrain.

I had a power supply let go on a server. A loud clank (imagine a piece of aluminium dropping to the floor. Light grey smoke issuing forth, smell of Best Buy. Very alarming but the weirdest part is that everything (including knackered PSU) had green LEDs.

Fedora 39 ships the updates Network Manager open connect by default, which means MFA works now. This is a big deal for me, frees me from fucking Cisco proprietary crap which also meant being forced into a debian based distro.

I know it's been like this for a long time, but truly the mobile web has been absolutely wrecked by aggressive and intrusive advertising. It's disgraceful.

Every so often the ploughs go down the main road at the back of the house. Lots of steep hills here so they'll be doing this all night.

Well I thought it was getting warmer.

Happy Friday all. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Wasn't Event Horizon about this
https://futurism.com/the-byte/contact-lost-spacecraft-quantum-drive

Nitter finally got killed. Well done Elon. Twat.

Okay Techcrunch. Nobody cares.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media/

We get to find out next week exactly how much Broadcom are going to stiff us for fees. In other news, my boss - without prompting - has asked me to investigate open source alternatives.