If it’s a side project, then by definition I’m doing it for fun or to build certain skills, not as some sort of “product”. Personally, I don’t do “professional” work outside of my job.

But yeah, getting sidetracked is absolutely a classic trap.

At risk of sidetracking more, could you turn the monitoring you’re doing into its own project or something at least re-usable?

If not, I’d either self-host something or just continue using what you’ve made as-is.

People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.

pidgin

God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program

Man, I’ll never forget Final Fantasy Legend 3 for the GB. I wasn’t super familiar with RPGs yet. You spend the whole game flying through time in a magic stealth bomber, fighting monsters flowing out from a giant pot in the sky flooding the world and releasing monsters.

You finally get enough upgrades and equipment for your jet to travel to the flooded future you were sent to the past from as babies, and get the final upgrades. You’re traveling to the farthest past you can, flying directly into the evil pot in the sky, and stopping things at the source before any of this can happen. Bootstrap paradox? No. We’re stopping this.

God is there. Begging you to kill them as they are losing the fight to hold back the evil that they have now absorbed to make it an easy target. So the final boss fight starts super somber as your team just fucking pummel the hell out of God while your jet does fucking bombing runs, lays down laser cover fire, etc. God doesn’t strike back, just occasionally spurring you on. Sad music.

Then God falls. But not fast enough. A Lovecraftian nightmare bursts out as the true final boss. The real boss battle begins, music switches to what you’d expect. While you still have backup from your time traveling stealth bomber.

It’s fucking wild, and a great game. It’s actually the third game in the SaGa series, but they wanted to leverage the Final Fantasy brand recognition in the US.

Got a Japan-only remake on the DS that has a (technically incomplete, just missing some automatically triggered cutscene special move names) fan translation.

Again, I must emphasize: Time traveling stealth bomber, that eventually provides air support in battles.

But I need my armpits for THE STINKING

It’s an edit of one of their real marketing slogans, “play has no limits”

Say no more say no more

I believe they’re logged in paid Azure Tenants, and tenants with security licensing can set up Conditional Access policies to do things like restrict IPs from specific countries from making login requests.

More profitable, allows for far more control. When you’ve abandoned all morals and everything else for pure maximization of profit, it unfortunately makes a lot of sense.

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

So your complaint, for posterity

More seriously, you pretty much got it. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.

It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.

A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”

It’s boring and overdone.

No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.

More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?

This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”

Neither did the constant media and internet frenzy focusing on the stupidest aspects of their bullshit. Are we going to start talking about the two scoops of ice cream again? Look at the birdy and ignore the gutting of the board of education.

Man, I sure do love when people put words in my mouth I never said. That is one bad jacket there.

There are plenty of more recent and more relevant examples of this type of bullshit without having to go back years, and this is some of the weakest "call out"s of these stains on humanity I’ve seen in a long time.

Next time you want to masturbate about how much better you are than Trump’s useful idiots, get some better material at least.

Are we really still giving any attention to the tiki torch carrying fucks? How long ago was this shit again?

Wish my company allowed that. Everything goes to a licensed secure destruction service that literally puts them through an industrial shredder. Awesome to watch, but wasteful as all hell.

Yes. If I want to organize and dedupe what I have then I need enough storage to work on it, a lot of my storage is spinning rust 7-15 years old, and if I have the space I’m going to use it. I have family photos and a music library going back to 2005. Too many things like old games need custom fixes installed to work correctly on modern hardware, and the internet isn’t as permanent as it was cracked up to be.

There’s plenty of reasons to hold on to older data.

You’ll never develop your own skills in that type of communication, it’s incredibly obvious when someone uses LLM output in that manner, and many people consider it incredibly rude to use it that way.

Sink is right there, what’s the problem?

That’s definitely worth bragging about, or at the very least being proud of.