If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand

I’m really sorry you lost your job, again.

I work in healthcare IT and I had to do the layoffs this past year to send the jobs to the Philippines and it was eye opening what their salaries are compared to ours. They are good people there and they are smart and have ambitions just like we do, only for a fraction of the cost. And yes, in one case I had to layoff an entire team regardless of how good they were (they were really good). For them it was just the case that I could find replacements for them in the markets we were looking and if I laid them off then I could layoff fewer in other departments. This was the first time I have been faced with having to do this and it was pretty awful. I take my work really personally and treasure the relationships and I think this whole thing has had a lasting impact on my happiness level. So many times I was fearful that I would be in a position of lying to my teams if asked a direct question, something I would never do. Trying to navigate the whole thing was led to many sleepless nights. I went through exercises where I practiced my responses to potential questions I might be asked as the rumor slowly started churning.

I don’t know why I’m sharing all of this, but it helps me to talk about it. The mid tier management (that’s me) that gets given the marching orders and has to carry it all out suffers a different kind of pain, even if we did keep our jobs. I hope I’m never asked to do it again.

I’m sorry again. Don’t take it too personally is maybe what my winding story and opposing perspective is to mean. I’m sure you are good at what you do.

Because we all saw this coming after everybody voted for Trump last November. If you didn’t see it coming then you were just part of their plan.

A waste of our time for sure, but I did it as well.

Well this is surely upsetting.

Yes, which is why it is stupid that their board recently approved to pay him billions to be their CEO.

This is what we all wanted, right?

Oh yes. Time for the pain his voters have been itching for.

I’m running one of the R1 models locally on my M1 Max Mac and it can do data extraction way better than other free models that are small enough to run on the same hardware. It’s been a game changer in terms of accuracy and speed.

I read that Memmy wasn’t under active development any longer. I switched to Voyager and I’ve been pretty happy.

So is run and jump.

Too much work. If somebody is that excited about posting a new version release they should consider tossing in a blurb about what it does so I can tell if I even want to click the link.

Ok, but what is DarkTable? The link is a to a changelog. Worthless.

This should answer all your questions

Action Cats! (Guns actually fire)

You should consider a password manager.

You seem like a good person to ask about how I can glue my pizza toppings down so that they don’t slide off.

Right? Before the election I had a political conversation with a coworker who leans more conservative and she was excited about Trump “making peace with Putin”. It was a serious wtf moment for me. “Peace” with Putin means pulling funding for Ukraine and letting Russia roll over it.

I’m sure he is somehow shielded by the PAC.

I swear if I get another Word document with nothing more than a screenshot pasted inside I’m going to run off a cliff. Everyday at work. Microsoft must love this.