I used to be like you, laughing and enjoying life.

The new director of technology we just hired a few months ago flexed about how he’s now hit 6-digit donations to Star Citizen. It’s still early and he hasn’t shown any results, but if he’s following the Star Citizen path of growth, my department is fucked.

In my city, there’s a LOT of homeless addicts who abuse drugs. My city invested heavily in providing specialists who walk around with narcan and other supplies.

A few years prior to that, Law enforcement used to arrest these addicts.

I don’t know about you but content has gotten better for me.

Ranma 1/2, Squid Games, Super Mario Bros Movie, new season of Arcane. I felt like every 1-2 months, there was always something interesting.

Also note that I don’t pay for Netflix. I do own stock.

BUY MORE NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTIONS…

Honestly this is how I met my wife.

I used to get all preachy about how stupid Star Signs were and how dumb it was to watch heroine movies. But then, I was just tired of feeling so angry. I just started listening and approaching them from an understanding perspective.

My wife told me that was the only person who ever made her feel heard. and I’m also a lot happier!

I was thinking about this for a while.

I’m very short and direct with people. I’ve gotten more polite, but like if someone starts to ramble, I politely redirect them back to the focus and to stick to time. It’s great at work! Every non-essential thing eats into my work hours.

But I noticed I was doing it with friends too. and I realized how selfish I was becoming to them. Like, I’d cut them off to bring up something I was interested in. And they’d politely listen.

Over the year, I’ve gotten better at recognizing that fair exchange of time with friends. They can talk about babies, or life. And I can talk about which Pokemon is acceptable to eat.

I went to see HR a month ago and they had a post-it of their password for their password manager. We use passkeys too.

And this was after security training.

That was my take too.

Security training was something you know, and something you have.

You know your password, and you have a device that can receive another way to authorize. So you can lose one and not be compromised.

Passkeys just skip that “something you have”. So you lose your password manager, and they have both?

I mean why wouldn’t they?

Koreans have no beef with Ukraine. They’re fighting in a war for a paycheck.

But they’re probably seeing wartorn Ukraine, with bombed out buildings and roads, and going, “Well shit this place looks better than home” and leaving.

Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up – the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.

1. Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.

2. Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.

3. Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.

Electric bikes are so freaking cool.

I hate how they’re everywhere in Asian countries.

And in America, it’s like a luxury.

My dishwasher broke and for a year, our dishes got progressively ickier and ickier. Then we got a new one and everything felt clean again.

Maybe it was all mental. But the hot wash kills a lot.

Unsubscribe is your friend.

FOMO is a marketing strategy.

We want to stay in your inbox so we can temp you on big marketing days.

As a person who manages people, I cannot fight for your raise if YOU don’t fight for your raise.

I cannot tell you how many times where something like this happens. I tell my higher ups, “Sarah should get promoted and increase her salary” and then my bosses go up to Sarah and she responds all limpdick like, “I like my job and I’m happy.”

God damn it Sarah! Flex a little. Talk about how you see a opening you want. Stop being a keyboard warrior on Work Reform and actually SAY IT OUT LOUD. Share your wins! Brag about your value to the company. Demand your worth to MY BOSSES TOO.

It’s not a single person who makes these decisions. It’s multiple people.

Nobody is going to hand you shit if you’re timid about it.

Every conference/tech showcase is carefully staged to maximize investments.

Well, often times not Tesla.

The AI responses are so incredibly bad.

I searched for a video game walkthrough that has a similar name to a movie, and it GAVE ME THE MOVIE PLOT.

What a shit show.

I can’t say I’m liking DDG. The first page gives me the same domain links. Like when I search for “eye washing gifs”, the first three links is the same website. Where I’d expect it to give me three separate websites (and combine searches).

It does that for a few searches.

But then again, I’m not even liking Google.

Google: “Well surely, he couldn’t tank TWO massive social media engines in one lifetime!”

My fantasy is that PC games become similar to roms, where it’s a single file. Maybe encoded is the system specs, OS, etc.

Then the “emulator” just works.

Of course, no financial incentives and a lot of work just to exist. Not to mention, it’ll be impossible to do for modern games. But maybe every game that’s older than 10 years old gets this treatment.

Also I’m not a OS engineer and maybe this is what Proton is doing with Linux.

Then pure decentralized gaming on any OS - computer, browser, raspberry pi, “smart Fridge”, whatever has the specs. And the game just works.

Absolutely! It’s representation!