RyeNCode 🇨🇦

@ifixcoinops 🦝💻🪛 "Raccoon Computing" is basically how I exist these days. I've done support for a bowling alley where their official support channel closes tickets without comment and turns of the customer's Urgent flag without comment, parts are shipped from another county and at amazing markup for (checks notes: serial cables) that, as it turns out, were not the problem.
We tested it all, it was the ATX PSU in the scoring computer that was reaching end of life and not able to push out as much W as the computer plus the additional scoring components needed.
I suspect they had been provisioned at JUST the needed wattage. At normal operation. Add 15 years of operation in a dirty dusty hot space and that will degrade.
More in current tech cycle, getting a PSU with appropriate pinning and form factor to fit into the milled aluminum chassis without modding and connect faithfully to the 17 year old mainboard...
Some racooning did happen to get then though league night before a proper solution could be sourced.

@Njord
Voted for current cat,
Previous cat had a prior abusive home and baggage to prove it.
If the food dish bottom could be seen then it was a rush to eat as in the past home the other cat and dog would bully her away and she'd get none. Then after gorging herself she'd be sick. We learned to try to keep the dish well stocked. She never over ate then.
Also, she had a compulsion to lick at new or soft plastics. Shopping bags, new kid's toys, containers etc. Anything that might still be off-gassing or just smooth plastic would get her attention. She'd lick at it until she got sick.
We learned to not leave a bag out, or let new hard plastic things off-gas in a separate room or the garage for a free days. We'd sometimes find some paking tape affected her too.
That cat was super effective for desensitizing me to the gross stuff, which was handy for when our kids were born.

@pythoneer
Heretics of the the ChatBot Unhiring Frenzy, those whom failed to credulously adhere to "surrender or be left behind", unite! Or at least cease arguing about the small details of our resistance!

#ABWeather #plants #hailstorm
While we were out at the local ball game that got postponed during the 3rd inning due to the hail storm, the pumpkins we transplanted yesterday got some icy kisses from the sky. 😭

@gloriouscow @retrofan64
I vote for 90⁰ either way.

@RikerGoogling
what data about me is stored in Data

@socketwench
Truth,
I was already preaching against delegation to algorithmic systems before I read that book. But dang did it cement some things.
I should give it another go since I read it before this Agentic AI crap was shoved into every corner of our lives.
I do recommend it for anyone who is the least bit open to hearing how systems can be built to mask and reinforce substantial bias, even without (or often despite) effort.