I asked a buddy that works at Amazon about the outage and he pointed me to this article.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

I know quite a few people who currently work there and pretty much all of them are trying to leave.

Hol up, DS is now old enough to be considered retro‽

Why does my back hurt so much? Unrelated I’m sure.

A person I know (and don’t particularly like) created a start up on this idea a couple of years ago already. It’s creepy AF.

This show was the shit when I was a kid!

You just reminded me of the early days at a company I worked where the factory pattern was absolute. There were interfaces and factories for fucking DTOs. It was insanity! That was the place where I really learned the concept of “cargo cult”

When I was in university, I learned that I made more money as a level one support guy at the tiny MSP I worked at than my professor who had multiple awards, papers, patents, and was also some kind of bouldering champion apparently. He was an awesome person and a firm lesson that the amount of money one makes should never be used to measure the worth of a person. Also that teachers need to be paid like, a hell of a lot more.

Actually that reminds me of another guy I know. I spent a few years working at a GameStop and my store managers dream was to be a history teacher but he would have had to take a significant paycut in addition to getting a lot more schooling and certifications. Last time I ran into him though he told me he’d done it and I’ve never seen him happier.

Actually yeah, that sounds rad af

The design and building of authorization policy systems. And crypto (as in cryptography as the word originally meant) but that one tends to be slightly more common.

A buddy of mine and I used to play this game where one of us tried to think of an absurd metal concept and the other tried to find a band that actually fit that description. The game ended the day that the challenge was Maori folk metal and we discovered the band Alien Weaponry. At that point we pretty much decided that there must exist a rule similar to the internet’s rule 42 along the lines of “if there’s a genre of music, there exists a metal subgenre influenced by it.”

I’ve already seen the taking point showing up on the right that the “… and domestic” part applies to the “antifa terrorists turning our cities into war zones and besieging federal (especially ICE) buildings.”

I was openly an atheist in highschool (early 2000s). Death threats weren’t sent, they were spoken to my face

Sometimes it isn’t even media literacy. I’ve known several nuero divergent people over the years who can have a hard time understanding sarcasm in person unless the person being sarcastic is really over doing it. They have no chance differentiating sarcastic and serious if it’s written.

It’s pretty fantastic actually, especially if you’re sick.

I’ve got one of these and it’s super easy and convenient. https://wandp.com/products/the-popper-microwave-popcorn-popper

Just drop in some loose kernels and microwave.

I also cook on the stove top with a large pan, it’s not hard at all.

It has now been officially confirmed that he is in fact dead.

I think I had to step away for a few minutes after that

It’s pretty different from the other games listed so far, but I’ll toss it a recommendation for Oxenfree. At least for me, that game did oppressive creepy atmosphere better than just about any other I’ve played. When it first came out we were dealing with a massive heatwave and I would be shivering while playing it in a 100f+ apartment.

An older one I always really like as well was the very first F.E.A.R. game.

It’s an affair for sure.

That’s just sort of how I roll. The BBQ was what I was already doing when I answered the question so if a buddy of mine hit me up and was like “hey, what’re your doing? Mind if I come and hang?” I’d just be like “bring your appetite.”

Came out great too.

We’re BBQing! I’ve got a couple of nice tritips and some some sausages from the local butcher, freshly harvested corn from a local farm, and I’ll make some garlic bread. I’ve got a few beers from my favorite local brewery, an unopened bottle of eagle rare 10 year, and can break out a couple of nice cigars if you’re in to that.

The temperature on my back patio is a nice, comfortable 77f with low humidity and just enough of a breeze.

Me too. That and sometimes I just need to fiddle with something.