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Cake day: October 8th, 2023

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  • Last night was bad (far east side of toronto… like Durham Region). It was over 180 and not only could I smell the smoke from inside the house, but my eyes were burning, too.

    Having flashbacks to the fires from a couple of years ago. We were nowhere near (these were the Quebec fires IIRC) but outdoor AQI was bad for weeks, regularly topping 300 and peaking at 4-500. Had everything closed up, AC and multiple HEPA purifiers running, and it was still awful indoors.





  • This is something that even larger corps struggle with. My old company would buy some other company, lay off a bunch of people, others would quit, and then it was shocked Pikachu faces all around when That One Thing stopped working in an office they turned into a ghost town and, well, no, nobody was going to be there until Monday morning to power cycle etc. True lights out/OOB reachability is WORK. And there’s always going to be a SPOF somewhere that requires hands on-site.

    Do what you can, when you can. And thank you for all that y’all have done so far.









  • I hate that people in charge were never able to properly communicate this subtle difference.

    It was communicated just fine. I got that info. You got that info. It was out there. But the signal to noise ratio was unreal. People seem to prefer soundbites and false dichotomies over accurate, nuanced information. Sprinkle in a metric shitton of wedge issue misinformation delivered via sledgehammer and you get what we got:

    VACCINE BAD!

    VACCINE GOOD!

    GRANDPA HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL DIE!

    VACCINE STILL GOOD!

    I HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL GET SICK AND BOSS MAKE ME STAY HOME AND NO GET MONEY! VACCINE BAD!

    VACCINE… BAD?

    DOCTOR LIED! SCIENCE BAD!

    Well actually…

    YOU STUPID, VACCINE BAD!

    VACCINE BAD!

    COVID OVER, NO NEED VACCINE!

    HOORAY!