Gushi
@gushi.org
Sysadmin, blogger, erudite ferret in Pacific NW US. Opinions are my own and do not necessarily represent my employer.
When a fur con that takes place in one of the most leather cities in the country decides that a spiked choker is too risqué, I'll spend my money elsewhere.
In other news, maybe learn how Unicode works before you try and make a website?
In other news, maybe learn how Unicode works before you try and make a website?
October 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When a fur con that takes place in one of the most leather cities in the country decides that a spiked choker is too risqué, I'll spend my money elsewhere.
In other news, maybe learn how Unicode works before you try and make a website?
In other news, maybe learn how Unicode works before you try and make a website?
Look, if you're going to penalize Jimmy Kimmel for something, it should be this:
September 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Look, if you're going to penalize Jimmy Kimmel for something, it should be this:
I think I've discovered why I love Dropout so much...
It had to be a streaming service, because you couldn't have done it on TV.
It had to be a streaming service, because you couldn't have done it on TV.
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I think I've discovered why I love Dropout so much...
It had to be a streaming service, because you couldn't have done it on TV.
It had to be a streaming service, because you couldn't have done it on TV.
I hate this timeline. Trying to log in on bestbuy.com to get a UPS. Login, no matter what, says "something went wrong". Their chatbot and their phone support, when I ask for help with my account, tell me I can reset it myself. Calls for an agent hang up on me, or tell me to reset it myself.
August 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I hate this timeline. Trying to log in on bestbuy.com to get a UPS. Login, no matter what, says "something went wrong". Their chatbot and their phone support, when I ask for help with my account, tell me I can reset it myself. Calls for an agent hang up on me, or tell me to reset it myself.
My god "please sign in once in a while (and wait for us to mail you a 2fa code) so we don't delete your account" is such a shitty vibe.
I log into this when something you make breaks. If you expectation is that something of yours should be breaking more than once every six months, we need to talk.
I log into this when something you make breaks. If you expectation is that something of yours should be breaking more than once every six months, we need to talk.
July 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My god "please sign in once in a while (and wait for us to mail you a 2fa code) so we don't delete your account" is such a shitty vibe.
I log into this when something you make breaks. If you expectation is that something of yours should be breaking more than once every six months, we need to talk.
I log into this when something you make breaks. If you expectation is that something of yours should be breaking more than once every six months, we need to talk.
@loresjoberg.bsky.social are your old bandwidth theater vids available anywhere? Google’s not being helpful.
July 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@loresjoberg.bsky.social are your old bandwidth theater vids available anywhere? Google’s not being helpful.
Ugh, Google can't even get itself right between its own paragraphs (brought on by City on the Edge of Forever, spock asks kirk for 5 pounds of platinum):
May 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Ugh, Google can't even get itself right between its own paragraphs (brought on by City on the Edge of Forever, spock asks kirk for 5 pounds of platinum):
At some point Google is going to realize that their AI BS is a bad idea, but they'll never apologize.
May 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
At some point Google is going to realize that their AI BS is a bad idea, but they'll never apologize.
It's a line from My Cousin Vinny.
May 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It's a line from My Cousin Vinny.
We need to have a word about how you do mail headers.
Why would you set your from: to info@dropout.tv (ostensibly a real email address), but then explicitly set a reply-to header that points at a “no reply” address?
If you’re gonna do that bullshit, why not just use that as the from?
Why would you set your from: to info@dropout.tv (ostensibly a real email address), but then explicitly set a reply-to header that points at a “no reply” address?
If you’re gonna do that bullshit, why not just use that as the from?
May 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We need to have a word about how you do mail headers.
Why would you set your from: to info@dropout.tv (ostensibly a real email address), but then explicitly set a reply-to header that points at a “no reply” address?
If you’re gonna do that bullshit, why not just use that as the from?
Why would you set your from: to info@dropout.tv (ostensibly a real email address), but then explicitly set a reply-to header that points at a “no reply” address?
If you’re gonna do that bullshit, why not just use that as the from?
This led me down the rabbit hole to find the one my grandmother had (with a drop-door), from 1971(!!), and it was NOT made by Amana, but Kenmore. No power levels, no window glass, and just an "in operation" lamp. Would be about $3.5k in today-dollars.
April 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This led me down the rabbit hole to find the one my grandmother had (with a drop-door), from 1971(!!), and it was NOT made by Amana, but Kenmore. No power levels, no window glass, and just an "in operation" lamp. Would be about $3.5k in today-dollars.
I have many happy memories of decorating eggs the day before easter with this kit. The new rendition of the box art is more FNAF than Happy Easter.
Get you some egg dye with the dead, dead eyes...
Get you some egg dye with the dead, dead eyes...
April 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I have many happy memories of decorating eggs the day before easter with this kit. The new rendition of the box art is more FNAF than Happy Easter.
Get you some egg dye with the dead, dead eyes...
Get you some egg dye with the dead, dead eyes...
Oh, for anyone who cares, I'm pretty sure it's an old American Tourister hardside case. My dad had one.
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Oh, for anyone who cares, I'm pretty sure it's an old American Tourister hardside case. My dad had one.
I went down the rabbit hole trying to find out what briefcase the main character in the movie "Falling Down" was using. It's visible in the poster, the cover art, and in the movie.
Google...didn't help.
Google...didn't help.
April 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I went down the rabbit hole trying to find out what briefcase the main character in the movie "Falling Down" was using. It's visible in the poster, the cover art, and in the movie.
Google...didn't help.
Google...didn't help.
I just visited Mexico for a week. I used my Work VPN while I was there. And now, at home (on a computer that was never in Mexico), Google still thinks I'm in Mexico, for some reason, when I'm on that VPN. I allow all their stupid cookies.
1.81 trillion dollar value, and they're this dumb.
1.81 trillion dollar value, and they're this dumb.
April 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I just visited Mexico for a week. I used my Work VPN while I was there. And now, at home (on a computer that was never in Mexico), Google still thinks I'm in Mexico, for some reason, when I'm on that VPN. I allow all their stupid cookies.
1.81 trillion dollar value, and they're this dumb.
1.81 trillion dollar value, and they're this dumb.
Oh, Linux. You have no network link. Deliberately. I unplugged it after cloning a VM, so I can reconf the network.
Why do you insist on blocking for several minutes with no stated timeout, just to get to a login prompt?
Why do you insist on blocking for several minutes with no stated timeout, just to get to a login prompt?
April 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Oh, Linux. You have no network link. Deliberately. I unplugged it after cloning a VM, so I can reconf the network.
Why do you insist on blocking for several minutes with no stated timeout, just to get to a login prompt?
Why do you insist on blocking for several minutes with no stated timeout, just to get to a login prompt?
This is your regular reminder to go in to any social media site you use, and download your data, and put it onto storage *you* control. (Yes *clutches pearls*, that's my REAL NAME).
There are guides to help you do this.
There are guides to help you do this.
March 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is your regular reminder to go in to any social media site you use, and download your data, and put it onto storage *you* control. (Yes *clutches pearls*, that's my REAL NAME).
There are guides to help you do this.
There are guides to help you do this.
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
March 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
Some days you just deal with a piece of software so frustrating it's just won't fit in a single bug report.
March 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Some days you just deal with a piece of software so frustrating it's just won't fit in a single bug report.
And don't get me started on the Diaper they call a case.
February 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
And don't get me started on the Diaper they call a case.
I'm an Apple fan, but seriously, every time I see someone wearing a set of the $500 apple Airpods Max, I just see this. There, I said it.
February 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm an Apple fan, but seriously, every time I see someone wearing a set of the $500 apple Airpods Max, I just see this. There, I said it.
Help me out, how do you tell in this screenshot that it's "dead"? I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
January 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Help me out, how do you tell in this screenshot that it's "dead"? I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
Obviously, the princess learns her lesson and quickly reverts the ban, and the story doesn't get into how much work must have had to be done as a result of her stupid, childish, myopic vendetta.
I think someone who lives in Florida either didn't read this story, or missed the point entirely.
I think someone who lives in Florida either didn't read this story, or missed the point entirely.
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Obviously, the princess learns her lesson and quickly reverts the ban, and the story doesn't get into how much work must have had to be done as a result of her stupid, childish, myopic vendetta.
I think someone who lives in Florida either didn't read this story, or missed the point entirely.
I think someone who lives in Florida either didn't read this story, or missed the point entirely.
I remember a story in a book from my youth, the Story of Princess Ruby, based on Sesame Street. Ruby spills some red paint on herself and so her orange-faced mom the queen, without considering the implications, issues a knee-jerk, broad, sweeping Proclamation in response, banning anything red.
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I remember a story in a book from my youth, the Story of Princess Ruby, based on Sesame Street. Ruby spills some red paint on herself and so her orange-faced mom the queen, without considering the implications, issues a knee-jerk, broad, sweeping Proclamation in response, banning anything red.
Look, if you're going to start your campaign on day one with hatred and erasure for trans people, maybe you should double check which church you book when you go pretend to be a man of God.
As usual, your venue-picking team displays priceless irony.
Image from their Gift Shop.
As usual, your venue-picking team displays priceless irony.
Image from their Gift Shop.
January 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Look, if you're going to start your campaign on day one with hatred and erasure for trans people, maybe you should double check which church you book when you go pretend to be a man of God.
As usual, your venue-picking team displays priceless irony.
Image from their Gift Shop.
As usual, your venue-picking team displays priceless irony.
Image from their Gift Shop.