Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

A month ago I found a cute meme on the internet that I thought would look excellent on my office wall. The bottom of the image said “National Park Service” and some quick image searches found it was originally from the nationalparkservice Instagram account, part of a promotional series to encourage park safety. But Instagram resizes things for the web. So, of course, I did what any internet weirdo would do; I filed a DOI FOIA request for the original artwork. Today the DOI found it for me!

From the desk of Understanding the Systems that keep you Alive
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If you appreciate somebody's work, like their kid, value their friendship, learned a lot from that thing they wrote, or whatever, for heaven's sake, tell them. I've gotten two really kind emails out of the blue in the past couple weeks, and the people who wrote them have no idea how huge those tiny glimmers of light are to me in this shitty, painful year. Say thanks! Tell people exactly how they're great, preferably in writing!

Wow another reason to use @tenacity instead of Audacity

Audacity is promoting """AI""" """features"""

https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/openvino-ai-effects/

Edit: Sorry, I thought that stuff was built-in cause of an article I read, they're just linking to some plugins, but it's still really iffy IMO

@drahardja @bumblebeedc I was early in my it career in the 90s. But in my experience working in financial and telecommunications it at the time, even by 1994-1995, industry hardware and software companies, academia, and even governmental oversight was already happening to find and address Y2K issues in US and nascent Internet infrastructure by then.

By Christmas and New Year's 1999 transitioning to 2000 it was still somewhat stressful. Nobody knew for certain that nearly everything had been addressed. I personally volunteered to take the overnight shift as technical lead/project manager so the rest of my team could enjoy the holiday (and incidentally setting the example for other managers at the private bank where I worked at the time). We had a couple hiccups based solely on some preventable human error from other managers getting nervous and blinking against the psychological stress. But nothing actually broke because of uncaught technical failures.

Everyone, in total, across almost all technical, automated industries had done well, addressing and changing technical and procedural issues in time to make the actual chronological transition a piece of cake. But it had been the fruition of a lot of care and effort. Everyone at the time understood that.

@PaulWermer @drahardja True. That reminds me of this comic by #WorkChronicles. https://workchronicles.com/comics/page/38/

@drahardja there is a distressing tendency to reward those who respond to a disaster, while ignoring those who do the difficult work of preventing a disaster. The latter is so much harder to see, and also so much more challenging...