Jim Gilliland

Having meatloaf tonight

A weird UI design I've started seeing in a lot of places is when you drag a mouse over text left to right to select it, it drags some sidebar out over the content blocking you from selecting.

Like, I get mobile first design but did no one use these applications?

Y'all, I don't think I'm human anymore...

I couldn't make out a captcha, literally some letters overlapped in ways that it could have been multiple things and it was the third captcha I'd filled out.

So I tried the audio and it was just noise! 6 aliens talking over each other, nonsense, noise.

I guess we kinda knew but yikes. Not what Boeing wanted trying to get out from under their previous leadership. Also just bad news for having options for astronauts. Yikes.

Microsoft seems to have a new feature when opening documents.

If you accidentally click on a giant spreadsheet and it takes forever you might click "close".

But Microsoft has you covered! it _cancels_ you closing the document and pops up a helpful toast message with "Document still loading"

Windows users: An update? Don't ever bother me or update my computer again.

Linux users: Lets run updates while I get my morning coffee.
also Linux users: Lets see if there are any updates while I grab lunch.
also also Linux users: I'm heading to bed. Let me run any pending updates.

Photo of mixtape card game: Side A: Lovefield Public Enemy No 1 There She Goes Pour Some Sugar On Me Say My Name Its a Sin Whatta Man Linoleum Genie in a Bottle Side B: The Message Oh Carolina Opposites Attract Jump Live Forever Can't Touch This

Made a mixtape. What do y'all think?

So if you're say the CTO of a major tech company who took down a large portion of the internet, posting your update there instead of say your blog or support page or anywhere else shouldn't be acceptable.

I'd like to point out that to whoever might need to hear it that Twitter requires bypasses or a login to view so is no longer a public forum.

I heard their doh was struggling yesterday so that's my assumption until I hear different.

Cloudflarestatus, the most trafficked site on the Internet today.

Screenshot of slack warning: "Sorry, TestContent.zip is a type of file not supported by Slack Try uploading a .zip version of this file instead."

This goes on the special list of error message.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to wonder this but, unless you're a networking wizard, IPv6 addresses can identify specific devices behind a NAT. And IP addresses are already generally sensitive PII you have to be careful with how you store.

Does that mean IPV6 addresses need extra care?

a “Space Force”, if you will

That's great news for anyone that want's some sweet intel hardware video encoding on linux!

With MS Fabric being down again, I'm really enjoying the increased productivity and stability provided by our new AI driven workflows. Its really been just an amazing year for cloud computing.

I guess fully AI generated sites are a thing now. I've run into several sites I can only assume where AI, complete gibberish with the veneer of being a real site. One suggested I 3D print a heat sink (in plastic on a home 3D printer) with a link to a different site on a completely different topic.

haha the face! It was very loud in the studio.

Fun to be able to celebrate it live. More fun to be able to hang out with chat live for a bit; usually comments are a bit less real-timey!

a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other in front of an orange vehicle . ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other in front of an orange vehicle .

There's some weird Speed Buggy vibes going on there.

Oh I see... See you in slack!

@tuple.app been sneaking by with the old Linux client just working but it can no longer join meetings. Any chance you'll revisit Linux support soon?

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account Microsoft is disabling the best local account workarounds

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...

Engagement?

I used to try to use DDG for ethical reasons. Lately I've found myself there for trustworthy results. A couple times because I searched Google and it straight lied and said it didn't exist.

Been warning AI is going to burn companies reputations and trust. Guess we'll find out soon if that's true.

Apple "struggling" with AI is looking more enticing everyday.

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Large companies: Be fully accessible or else we wont do business with you.

Also large companies: Here's our FAQ for our new product:

Screenshot of a Signal message from Pete Hegseth: "More to follow (per timeline) / We are currently clean on OPSEC / Godspeed to our Warriors."

"we are currently clean on OPSEC", you write to the group chat with the journalist

Putting “Trump declares Pluto a planet again” on my bingo card.

Eric I’m sorry but you have to go to jail

Doing cybersecurity training for work.

"Do you know what the 5 most common passwords are? Check them out:"

Sure do! Well "love", "secret" and "sex". But not necessarily in that order of course. But also "god" of course. Sys operators love to use god. I guess like "password" too?