She is an old cat for sure.

It’s hard to say whether it’s bothering her. The ear was very visibly swollen before the draining. She never used to hold it sideways like that, either - that’s developed over the last two weeks or so.

She’s mostly been minding her own business - we had trouble even finding her to take her to the appointment - but recently she’s been very clingy and rubbing (to be fair) both ears against us. I suspect it’s itchy at the very least.

Honestly, she’s so old I’m just worried about her.

Lumpy Space Princess?

If not in person, I prefer asynchronous conversation. It doesn’t require my constant full attention, so if I’m working or something I can still engage; and if it’s any kind of serious conversation (whether emotional or just reasoning out something complex), I can take my time to think about an answer to ensure I provide a complete and accurate (to the best of my ability) thought.

That said, no one ever seems to respond to texts, even if they started the conversation. It’s a lot harder to do that in a voiced conversation.

Assuming it’s not a bit, good luck at your interview. I believe in you!

There are at least two!

https://bash-org-archive.com/

https://qdb.lol/

Nice! I currently have a PiKVM but haven’t been able to get it working with my NVR. Maybe this would work better.

edit: Whoops, got it backwards.

I’m in shape.

Circle (well… More oval) is a shape.

When I was about your age, I got my first girlfriend pregnant. I was homeschooled and sex education was not part of the curriculum; I had no understanding of women’s biology and she mislead me about when and how pregnancy was possible. I tend to think of this as her tricking me into it, as she was not quiet about her fascination with motherhood, but it’s true that I could and should have done more to educate myself about the whole process before engaging in it.

Anyway, we ended up giving the progeny up for adoption, but I maintain contact with him (and the family when he understandably doesn’t want to talk to me). He turned eighteen this month.

I was going to make a comment about how young thirty-six seemed to be young to have offspring capable of posting on lemmy (I wasn’t even born until my parents were both in their forties) (no moral judgement here BTW!), but then I realized I’m sort of exactly in that situation. The ages are a little different, but pretty close, and I can assure you it’s shocking from the other side as well.

edit: On rereading my comment, I’m a little worried that it could be construed as negative regarding you and/or your father. I mean neither. I wasn’t ready to be a father for a host of reasons, some immature and some rational. It sounds like your dad was and that you have a great relationship. I’m very happy for you! Please accept my apologies if this message was in any way hurtful.

A decade and change ago, in a past life, I was tasked with switching SELinux to permissive mode on the majority of systems on our network (multiple hundreds, or we might have gotten above one thousand at that point, I don’t recall exactly). This was to be done using Puppet. A large number of the systems, including most of our servers, had already been manually switched to permissive but it wasn’t being enforced globally.

Unfortunately, at that point I was pretty familiar with Puppet but had only worked with SELinux a very few times. I did not correctly understand the syntax of the config file or setenforce and set the mode to … Something incorrect. SELinux interpreted whatever that was as enforcing mode. I didn’t realize what I had done wrong until we started getting alerts from throughout the network. Then I just about had a panic attack when I couldn’t login to the systems and suddenly understood the problem.

Fortunately, it’s necessary to reboot a system to switch SELinux from disabled to any other mode, so most customer facing systems were not impacted. Even more fortunately, this was done on a holiday, so very few customers were there to be inconvenienced by the servers becoming inaccessible. Even more fortunately, while I was unable to access the systems that were now in enforcing mode, the Puppet agent was apparently still running … So I reversed my change in the manifest and, within half an hour, things were back to normal (after some service restarts and such).

When I finally did correctly make the change, I made sure to quintuple check the syntax and not rush through the testing process.

edit: While I could have done without the assault on my blood pressure at the time, it was an effective demonstration of our lack of readiness for enforcing mode.

I’ve been trying to find a network capable KVM for home use. They’re all pretty expensive or lacking functionality. I don’t actually need one or I’d pull the trigger, but I sure have been tempted.

I wondered whether escaping would work, but not enough to test it.

I actually like the escaping method better because

• My time spent with git has resulted in me seeing lots of editors argue about whether whitespace at the end of a line is acceptable, but I prefer to do without
• I post almost exclusively from my mobile device, so two spaces create a full stop where I don’t want one
• I’m accustomed to escaping newlines from my shell scripting experience, so it looks right to me
• It reminds me of xkcd, which I have frequently enjoyed

Regardless of which method any of us use, thank you for the information!

Little Johnny was a scientist pessimist

Little Johnny is no more

For what he thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

edit: I love markdown, but I hate how it handles line breaks.

A while ago, I made a post saying things very similar to your first two sentences.

I definitely am far more active here than I was on Reddit. It’s less intimidating here because of a smaller audience. Also, on Reddit, I’d often get negative responses if any at all. The crowd here is much friendlier; once or twice people have lashed out in response to something I said, but mostly people have been kind even if they apparently disagreed with my message.

You’re such a light user that when I try to look at your post history, my client says you don’t exist!

Don’t have to recognize the whole URL. XcQ, link stays blue.

Never understood the joke anyway, though.

Ah, thank you. That makes more sense.

Ah, thank you. That makes more sense.

And also is still writing books! I think it came before Jam, but Mogworld is a great one.

An interesting but largely unrelated aside: he’s also the one who coined the term “PC Master Race,” apparently.

edit: Corrected a word.

You’re fortunate. I had a friend who was similar, but rather than verbal, his jokes generally involved intentionally acting in a way he knew you found annoying. I once told him that being annoying was, in fact, annoying and not amusing. He said “sorry I upset you. I’ll probably keep doing it though.” I said that that wasn’t what sorry meant … He didn’t respond and did, indeed, keep doing it.

He and I have both grown up a lot since then. I don’t see him often, but I don’t think he’s intentionally annoying anymore.