Alexander Martin (alm) @alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org

Russia has stolen an election in LEGO City!
Build the new Special Investigatory Commission,
Start the investigation,
Save the democracy!
New from LEGO City.
(Sets sold separately.)

At work we're looking at replacing our old proprietary phone system that no one understands and will probably die on us with a new Asterisk-based system.

I thought we were going to have problems with hardware requirements.

No. Turns out it would be harder to build an underpowered machine than an overpowered one, at least in our case. There was much joking about running the phone system on a Raspberry Pi or a smartphone, or about having dozens of failover backups scattered around the building.

If we ever figure out how to reverse brain death, how will we redefine death? "A state of zero metabolic power?" Just tack on an "irreversible?" Those both sound thin and likely to need another redefinition later.

@splatt9990 I have accounts with several organizations that use the same system.

No, actually it just logged me in on the wrong account.

I was just having trouble with an SSO system. It consistently refused to log me in. I turned on "collect advanced troubleshooting data" and it worked.

Congratulations, now you're broke AND on Mars.

Character: You've been on an IV drip for a year and a half.
Character: Have a medium-rare steak.

@ultem Unfortunately, Stardates are very inconsistent. By some guesses there are somewhere around 1000 units in a year (3-ish per day, with 0.0=2323-01-01), but pretty much every interpretation handles them differently. I figured it was easier to do it by rough guesses and allow a slight fudge factor than to try to dig up a calculator for the hours, but I'll do the math for the years.

I just spent several minutes adjusting the Stardates in my fan-fiction to match up with the times-of-day and I think I'm about to spend another several minutes trying to make the year about right.

@amiloradovsky Yeah but you still end up having to explain it a lot.

@amiloradovsky Libre is a great term, but literally no one will understand what I mean if I use it at work.

I've used the abbreviation "F/OS" one or two times.

In my own head and with other advocates I say "free software," but at work and online I use either "open-source" or "free/open-source" depending on who I'm talking to.

@mdhughes The engineers regularly rewrite the software at will for various reasons.

@Thomas And don't fix the a/an discrepency. "A atlantic part."

@Thomas Escalate. Start saying "atlantic."