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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Bet something’s broken in IT. Some system can’t talk to some other system. In any case, something stupid is broken in logistics. A desk jockey decided return labels were cheaper than implementing the solution, and that might well be true!

    Making shit up: The frontend can’t talk to the backend without an expensive, highly specialized addon, which is a monthly subscription, which has to be applied to 1,000 machines. They could unwrap all that and simplify, but now we’re talking a massive overhaul that drags in 14 other systems, costs 10,000 man hours and had some inevitable downtown.

    “Fuck it! We’re sending return labels!”

    And this kids is why tech debt comes with usurious interest rates!


  • Keep saying this, and no one has ever had a plausible answer: YouTube does not do that to me.

    I watch lots of gun content, you would think I’d be overrun with right-wing horseshit, but that never happens. I get sane channels, apolitical, learning, legal and fun related stuff, like I like.

    Here’s my front page this evening. All interesting except maybe some TV shows I’m not familiar with but have watched clips. Don’t think I’ve done much of anything to curate all that, just let YouTube decide.

    The only time I remember the algorithm going nuts was after looking at survival gear and gas masks. LOL, quickly run down with crazier and edgier content. That could have been a rabbit hole, had to cut myself off before it got worse.

    Maybe it has to do with my subscriptions?