Ryber

I keep getting weird text messages asking me to be a DJ at poling places. What's the scam here?

Something I wish more people would realize.

1. Basic D&D 2. Star Frontiers 3. Paranoia 4. Warhammer RPG 5. Cyberpunk 2020

Good Morning!

Since coming back online I’ve taken a stance that I won’t install apps for media. Bsky works fine in a browser. Others don’t, and trying to force me into an app is a hard no.

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

Interesting sun-dog effect happening right now

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and post one that you like

It’s 35f outside. Take that you MFing mosquitos!

Metronet is down for a huge chunk of Des Moines due to “vandalism“. someone chopped the line down in the industrial area east of 2nd. I ride by there every week, that was sabotage if you ask me.

I sold lawn chemical treatment over the phone. Made it 2 hours, got up, said I was going to the bathroom, left and never came back.

Anymore it’s not enough that a project is open source for me to adopt it. It also needs to be non-corporate. I’m tired of being jerked around. GPL is also preferable if I can get it.

we go on walks at Grays Lake and I’ve wondered about the temp bridge they‘ve been building, but this is what’s going on, which they posted on the other side of the River

I think it would be fun for Silo to have infinite endings from here on out. Do multiple 3 episode arcs each with different directors.

Good evening! From the Midwest

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

For anyone in the DSM area. I'm doing a talk at Iowa Code Camp nov 7th. Deck is written in HTML (no JS), I'm presenting as my long time handle "Ryber". I'm going to say some things

While I was on my little online break I took this picture of Barry and it was so hard to not post it immediately

Years ago I did a photo shoot for the state dept of tourism which then became a stock photo for the gov. most recent use is this manual for IPERS (gov employee retirement fund)

River is looking a bit full. But at least the sun is out. Happy October!

I’m going to be taking a break from online until October when the political junky in me will need his fix. Until then… smell ya later

Evening

Good Morning!

Ok, review of the My Chem show. It was quite fun. They did all of the Black Parade set in some mythic former Soviet republic, lots of theatrics, a dictator, a murderous clown, etc. After that they came back out as just a rock band and tore it up for another 45 minutes.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Today I finally sold a car that I've been wanting to sell for a long time but that my ADHD, the county auditor, and Nissan Financial all conspired against me selling. My long automotive nightmare is over!!

My review: I think a lot of people showed up for a evening with Pete Seeger, and Jesse gave them that for the 1st 20 minutes and then proceed to rock the fuck out for the rest including covers of "War Pigs" and "Come As You Are". This guy is legit.

Why is Jessie Wells this hot?

I’m at the Jessie Wells show at the Val Air, and the opening band “Ratboys” was quite awesome.

Good morning! I for one am ready for football weather

IDK who needs to hear this but you don't have to be gay to cut your parents off.

Ok do the “three artists” thing but it’s the most divisive artists you legitimately like: - Throbbing Gristle - Tiny Tim - Chicago

Rolling coal is the automotive equivalent to crapping your pants to own the libs.

I remember as a kid in Iowa schools I was taught that Amana was proof that communism doesn’t work. And well, it wasn’t exactly communism, and also it did work for a long time. I wouldn’t call it a failure. Kids not being into their parent’s religion was most of the problem

Stopped in Amana today and that’s a whole very interesting thing that happened. Also I got the BEST popcorn.

I still refuse to use the webp format out of spite

The other day I was having the robot upgrade a dependency and it got to a method it couldn’t fix. I tried all the models, none of them could do it. It was just one little method. They all faceplanted on it. Absolutely fascinating. I fixed it myself in 2 minutes

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

After repeated listens I’m going to finally take a stand and say that “Use Your Illusion I” > “Use Your Illusion II”. Although there are specific songs on II that are better than the majority of I. (You Could Be Mine, Civil War)

. @flavorflav.bsky.social gave a fantastic speech at the end of the PE show in Minneapolis. I teared up a bit. He should run

Every man I know is currently reading or at least listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl