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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I asked nicely why do I need to give my phone number and I was told that to register me as a member so I can get the discount.

    I declined and said I don’t want to join and would like to just pay.

    I’ve just said “I don’t have one” when asked this for awhile. This never seems the phase the cashiers, I’m guessing they know what that really means. Half the time I still get whatever discount, though I’ve never tried to sign up for a membership saying that.

    If it’s an online form my phone number is just (local area code)555–5555. I’ve never had that not take, except for one case where it automatically enabled 2-factor auth and I had to create a new account.






  • At work we have a contractual design deliverable that was due yesterday, I still can’t get anybody to tell me what I’m supposed to be designing/building. I’ve got the contract, but its so vague that it’s more unhelpful than it is helpful and there’s apparently been 9 months of conversations with the customer, none of which have included engineering, nor has anything from them been written down. So we’re designing something just based on rumors.

    So we’re in crunch mode, but also we don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish… 😩



  • Hey, this might be something I’m interested in, but I’m not sure because there aren’t many details in your readme.

    Some questions I’d suggest you answer in the readme:

    [Edit: after looking through the code quickly, some of my questions probably don’t male sense because this seems to be an alerting style monitoring tool, not a observability style monitoring tool. Answering my own questions for others that are curious:]

    What does it monitor?

    [Disk space and CPU use]

    What is the interface? Web? It does compare itself to grafana, so maybe. TUI? Maybe that’s what makes it more light weight?

    [It doesn’t have one, it sends telegram messages when alarm thresholds(?) are hit.]

    Does it only work on Debian? If not, are there deps that are required that are installed as dependencies of the deb?

    [Looks like it should work anywhere, the ‘watchers’ use the nix crate and read procfs, so I assume that means it should work anywhere without depending on anything besides the Linux kernel.]

    Is there history or is it real time only?

    [Realtime only, well I guess there’s the telegram history.]

    What does it look like? (Honestly, a screenshot could possibly answer most of these questions and a whole lot more.)

    [It doesn’t look like anything. There’s no screenshot because there’s nothing to screenshot.]


  • [edit: To be clear, I assume the part that OP is not sure if it’s satire or not is “or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.”] The emphasis in

    Firefox is worse than Chrome

    is in the original. To me that clearly implies that they are of the opinion that in general Google & Chrome are worse on privacy than Mozilla & Firefox. The comment at the end is just tongue in cheek snark alluding to the fact that in this particular case google did better for privacy in Chrome than Mozilla in Firefox.

    or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.