My wife’s siblings and her all have the same weird trait: when things get stressful, they clam up and do this “shut up and let me save the world” thing. Her sister’s worked on it a lot because #fireman, but it’s a strong compulsion.

The “hmm, maybe if you’d talked to anyone instead of going missing-person” is extra fun when it’s a tech thing, as after the stress and the teeth-pulling contextual questions, it’s two mouse clicks and an object lesson.

And, when THAT fight’s over…

Yeah. We do it if we catch someone logged in and away from their desk.

You may want to ask a member of the cult of the subgenius the difference between “real” midnight and “conspiracy” midnight.

Microfiche.

Those people who pronounce it ‘nitch’? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.

Fuck yeah.

Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.

“Do you need a sign to wear?”

If you guessed Drill Sergeant, saying it to me, you’d be right.

Also a bonus:

• don’t change, mister guppy. I’ve got a bet riding on you!

(They had to say mister)

Family can be SUCH a challenge. You need to limit your exposure to the bad elements and increase exposure to the good ones (who likely suffer like you with those bad ones).

It’s okay to ghost your family a lot, my dude, if it keeps ya sane. They may love you in some weird broken way, but they aren’t you; take care of you.

Everyone should have the opportunity to work where it suits them best.

I’m glad I have a great environment, and I wish everyone else could find and get into their best workflow, as it’s a waste otherwise.

It’s fun to first expand on initialisms the first time you use them.

I have a sleep issue and my latest job has a standby/on-call component I can’t avoid right now. I’m dramatically affected by even the potential to be awakened and it’s been a challenge.

I’m looking forward to avoiding that again, as I can usually recover about a week after that all ends.

Skype is still a very good voice chat app, despite a succession of cluttered and pointless updates. It’s clear and clean in sound, and has an excellent gain tuner.

I will use it until the day it dies, and then switch to WhatsApp or something else. It’s all shit by comparison, so I’m not too chuffed as to where I go. Yeah, it’s all junk.

But with my contacts on Whatsapp, signal, teams, slack, and zoom, this feels so much like the pre-jabber days where pidgin was the only sane app. Now we don’t even have that.

This is lame.

Whither Jami ?

And I live in a very country.

Very country! Many joy! So people!

Battlestar Galactica (the remake with Eddie Olmos) . It changes throughout the series, and it highlights important bits.

I’d say Firefly too, but that’s just because it’s awesome. Airwolf was the same way, back in its heyday, and it was cool in ways that knight rider wasn’t.

But I’m here only for Battlestar today. So say we all.

we should abandon copyleft entirely?

You do what you need to do.

Can’t do it without doxxing myself.

I don’t need validation of the facts. I’m just saying why I cannot go with an encumbered license for any new stuff. I can’t put others in that kind of risk.

There are three valid affect/effect pairs, my dude. Are you sure you have the right one? :-D

If you see one getting caught, imagine how many at large

That sounds like FUD. Intentional?

I managed and maintained a known open-source project. GPL license.

4 guys in SKorea submitted patches back as required, which their company claimed was corporate espionage – because they intended to violate the license?

Someone from the FSF took their case, but was unsuccessful. 4 guys went to prison because of them adhering to my license. Prison!

I’ve done BSD ever since. I can’t prevent companies from being right sociopaths, but I can keep well-meaning and honest people out of prison.