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Cake day: May 1st, 2026

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  • “Collaboration” “Mentoring” Outside of thee military, few companies have any mechanism to train people to move up the corporate ladder. If you’re not there watching the boss, then you have no idea how to do their job. If the boss can’t see you, they can’t delegate the little tasks that amount to job training. If the boss can’t see you, they have no way to evaluate whether you’re helping or not.

    The boss got his job by watching his boss and being in the right place when some opportunity came up, so that’s their entire understanding of corporate advancement.








  • So, I’m not particularly surprised that a bunch of rich psychopaths hang out together, virtually or IRL. I mean, we all find our tribe eventually.

    I’m not particularly surprised that a bunch of rich psychopaths hanging out together come up with schemes of mutual benefit. I’d be surprised if they didn’t.

    I’ve always thought of the Illuminati as a thing beyond that. Like, some kind of quasi-religious thing that transcends mere greed and grift. Maybe we’ve just reached the point in capitalism where oligarch collusion is indistinguishable from world domination, because enough of our governments have already ceded authority to their corporate overlords.



  • I started doing the One True Database method because I got worried that the high write count on all the little db’s was abusing a raspberry pi’s SD card. Moved them all to a bigger server with NVME and mirroring to a RAID.

    Not all the compose files make obvious how to reconfigure the db host. Homeassistant uses s a sqlite db built into the container, rather than a separate unit, but you can force it to use a remote db through its config file. May or may not be worth hiding db user/pass in a .env And sometimes there’s trouble restarting after power failure, depending on what order the database, pi, and various containers come back up.

    I also feel it’s worthwhile. I feel better being able to check on all the databases. Feel better not writing to the SD card so much. Feel better offloading those megabytes and cpu cycles from the little pi. It’s been fun snooping through database structures. There have been a couple times where I decided to query one of the ccontain databases directly, or cross from one project to another, and it’s easier (for me) to give a different user privileges to the database and query some deep bit of data than to figure out how to extract it from an API or frontend.

    I’m not even running that many services, but why would I want the overhead of 6 separate mysql instances when I could just have one?


  • It seems like it should be possible to build keyboard (and other) peripherals that exist in both virtual and physical worlds. Give them sensors similar to the hand controllers, so the headset can know where they are in space, project into VR so it’s easy to find and use.

    VR handsets are incredibly flexible as spatial controls, but we’ve got all this evolution and a lifetime of learning just amazing finger dexterity. That control is based more on tactile and proprioceptive feedback than visual, so I think it’s been overlooked in the vision-focused VR space.








  • Here in Georgia (US), as recently as last summer, there was tons of wildlife noise when I’d open my windows at night. I couldn’t Identify most of it…just your usual call-and-response mating behavior, an owl once in a while. This year, it’s just dead silent. Daytime is almost as striking, but that’s because last year was locusts.