Yeah. It’s a poorly-compressed 6.5 MB GIF. I’m running it through my instance’s proxy to not overwhelm catbox where it’s hosted. Not part of the joke lol.

Ah, lol. Weirdly, I warmed the proxy and it worked for me (so should have worked for everyone after). Should be fixed.

My guess is it’s for the next guy

Lol, yup. The ol’ .NET Optimizer background task.

At a prior job, one of the junior admins updated the master image for our VDI linked-clone desktops. They snapped and deployed that without waiting for that background task to complete. The next day, when people started logging in and the desktop pools started spinning up, we got 70+ complaints that every virtual desktop was un-usably slow. Those were coming in as we were watching our performance monitors say almost every VMware host was at max CPU.

Some UIs will treat anything in the title in brackets like a flair: “Enough Musk Spam [Rant]”

I believe Photon will let you filter based on those.

So it’s possible now (apps that don’t support flairs will just have [Flair word] in the title), but it would require community rules for it. And from seeing what gets posted to a lot of communities, good luck getting people to actually read the rules before posting.

I don’t care about how long it takes to boot up, but I do care how long it takes from login to the desktop environment being usable.

Dealing with servers, I’m used to long boot up times since the low-level lifecycle management takes forever. But, once it’s booted, I expect it to be ready to go. I have no patience for “Just a moment…” or “Getting things ready” after I enter my credentials. All that shit should have been taken care of during the boot up.

Thankfully, I mostly use Linux at home/work, so that’s less of an issue, but it does make it all the worse when I have to remote into a Windows server.

I run a custom build of Nginx with a few extra modules compiled in:

• ModSecurity
  • https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx.git
  • https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity
• Nginx GeoIP2 Module (https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module.git)
• OWASP Core Rule Set: https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/tree/v4.10.0/rules

Some guidance can be found here: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-waf/admin-guide/nginx-plus-modsecurity-waf-owasp-crs/

That guidance is for NginxPlus, but you can compile the dynamic module yourself with the community versions.

Ski Free. Came with most installs of Windows 3.0 back in the day.

When the player passes the 2,000-meter mark, the Abominable Snowman appears and starts to chase the player, eating them when it catches them.

JFC we really are at the “Paper, please” point in history, aren’t we?

Saying “Luigi” or even that you agree with him: ✅ (Fine)

Using “Luigi” as a verb and/or dog-whistle call to violence (which is a TOS violation on LW and other instances): ❌ (Not Fine)

Edit: Added text in case the emojis don’t show up.

Doesn’t matter. First step would be an immigration detention facility. If there’s no country to deport her to, she just stays there, I guess. And while she’s there, might as well dig a hole, build a wall, or assemble furniture or something to cover the cost of housing her or some shit.

Oh, no, it doesn’t work that way for them. See, if a natural disaster strikes a blue city/area, it’s god doling out punishment for their wickedness. If a natural disaster strikes a red city/area, it’s god testing their faith because he loves them so much.

You know what the bible also says, Elise?

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

– 1 Timothy 2:12

Please STFU Elise Stefanik as is your biblical right, nay duty, thus sayeth your lord.

The standard deduction is $14,600 for FY 2024 ($15,000 for FY 2025)

So you would have to itemize your deductions and donate at least the difference between $14,600 and the itemized deduction total to “break even” if you were to not take the standard deduction. And then donate above that amount to reduce the taxable amount.

One scummy way would be to have an artist friend paint you something. If you can get that painting appraised at a crazy high value and donate it to a valid charity, you can deduct it at the appraised value (I think, anyway.)

Well, would you look at that, third-party protest voters / abstainers / “undecideds”: you saved Palestine. /s

For my own mental health, I have to change “America voted for corruption” (which isn’t necessarily wrong) to “Not enough Americans voted against corruption”. Looking at you, everyone who stayed home or threw their vote away on non-viable third party protest votes.

Maybe ask her for something small so she feels like she’s helping me too?

If they always insist on paying, yeah, that’s what I usually do. Typically phrase it something like, "No thanks, I don’t really need the money, but I do like [biscuits | cookies | whatever her cooking specialty may be]. Helps if you know they like to cook, though.