T.Rob
I make stuff with code and with wood. Just, you know, not at the same time.
#actuallyautistic #cybersecurity #woodturner
Joined Oct 2022
If a birdsite user doxxes someone in a tweet, the site has safe harbor. But when Elmo gives user information to third parties, such as journalists, no safe harbor applies.
As of today, the Privacy Policy dates back to June 2022 and states that user info will only be given to 3rd parties with that user's consent.
I'm monitoring the policy and seeding it into the Wayback machine so anyone with a cause of action has a record of if/when it changes.
Yearly mandatory training came due at work. The "Information Retention" course has updated guidelines with new restrictions stating that sensitive company information may not be retained at a golf resort or in the garage.
Well, there goes my offsite backup strategy.
#Humor (In case someone believed the bit about the new curriculum content. Feel free to believe the bit about my offline backup strategy.)
We are expecting a repairman in the kitchen so I had to take down all the naughty gingerbread snowmen and snowwomen from the fridge. To replace them, I whipped up some whimsical but much less naughty bunny butt magnets. Cute as a button, eh?
(No actual bunnies were harmed in the manufacturing process.)
Hot off my success with the Grogu doll stand, I'm making us mango curry shrimp for dinner. That'll sweep her off her feet! Of course at our age what follows dinner and getting swept off your feet is usually a nap.
The wife complained that Grogu should have come with a stand because he keeps falling over. So while she was napping today I made a stand out of some scrap walnut and engraved instructions for use onto it.
#hotoffthelathe tonight is a turned and carved cedar bowl at 6.25" wide x 2.5" tall. Wife gave me a Master Carver Pro for Christmas which I used to carve out the 1" high band of dimples along the outer rim. This piece is from an outer section of log that grew into itself, leaving the bark inclusion in the bottom right and swirled grain like a burl.
I don't know what Trump told McCarthy but if I had to bet it was "No matter the outcome, just claim you won, Kevin. Have you seen the C-SPAN feed? Clearly there are dead people voting."
McCarthy allies currently ensconced in back room assembling alternative slate of Speakership electors.
Santos now promising to open House investigation of Snopes if elected Speaker.
Santos now talking up his prior experience as Speaker in bid to get nominated for next ballot. 😂
#hotoffthelathe tonight is a Majestic style rollerball pen made from cedar burl. The second photo shows the pen blank before it was cut from the slab. The cap barrel is beautiful in its own right and would be stunning on almost any pen. But the burl in the bottom section makes the cap look bland by comparison.
We normally don't do exotic textiles like ostrich or snake, but my wife fell in love with this mummy-skin lamp shade and I caved.
All I want for Christmas is a context-aware spell check. I wrote an email to some colleagues saying that, given the delays so far, completing the project on time "would be like pulling a rabbi out of a hat." Spell check was perfectly OK with that and human vigilance only goes so far.
#Hotoffthelathe tonight is another cedar pen. Looks much like the one from yesterday but that's because they are intended to be a matched pair.
The yellow box in the 2nd pic shows the blank before I "liberated" it from the parent wood. The jagged edge at right is because the wood developed deep cracks as it dried and became brittle. Much of the wood around the edges, like this piece, is too cracked and unstable for anything large.
Took forever, but I finally made something new AND what I'm calling "Possibly The World's Most Overengineered Pen Blank Squaring Jig" worked perfectly.
So today #hotoffthelathe is a Stratus pen with stylus tip made with a cedar wood barrel. This is the same cedar as the bowls I posted a while back and I'm giving the bowls and pen to the guy who gave me the wood.
So, this just happened...
Me: Options A and B are mutually exclusive. We can't actually do both.
Developer: That decision has to be deferred because we've been told to get something out there ASAP.
Me: Let me get this straight - we can't let solution design decisions delay implementation?
Dev: Exactly.
Me: {facepalm} Is it insider trading if I sell all my stock now?
TFW you realize you really are just a lowly underling as far as the cat is concerned.
Last retro
ADL: We need to stop operating as a triage team and focus more on strategic activities.
Today's retro:
ADL: We need to tighten up on Jira due dates.
Me: Where do we manage things longer than a sprint?
ADL: We don't. We're a triage team.
Me: [facepalm]
I'm not making this up and have the link to prove it: McDonalds defines "for life" as a period of not more than 50 years if you eat their food twice a week.
Maybe Republicans should give up on getting rid of Social Security and just buy McGold Cards for everyone. Same long-term result, but massively more popular.
T.Rob
I make stuff with code and with wood. Just, you know, not at the same time.
#actuallyautistic #cybersecurity #woodturner
Joined Oct 2022