probably not worth it

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Microsoft Frustrating

I'm running Hyper-V on my work laptop to test the process of automating the rollout of OpenSSH in a cluster of machines for work. I installed some Dell critical updates because of Dell Command Center. when i opened Hyper-V post reboot Hyper-V told me that my laptop should be running the Virtual Machine Management Service in order to connect its hypervisor tool to localhost. The service was not listed in services.

The interwebs/LLMs told me that i needed to enable the Virtual Machine Platform Windows feature to enable this service. I i turned on Windows Hypervisor Platform feature, nothing. I turned Virtual Machine Platform feature off then on again. nothing.

finally i turned off ALL Hyper-V features, and turned them on again. it worked again.

just to note i now check Services, and there's a Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service that is running. I'm not the state of THAT service before the disable/enable processes.

hope this helps someone else!

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You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop 💩🕶️

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/

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Youtube music "remixes"

I suppose I may have been duped by AI bots making music, but...

Attention youtube music contributors:

Slowing, speeding up and using effects to the entire track is not a remix. Please stop packaging these varieties of your tracks. If I like it I can slow it down, speed it up or process it with audio effects just like you can. You just make me not want to listen to your music because I want to just hear the track, not a bajillion different copies (slowed), (sped up), (ultra slowed), (slowed to perfection), (slowed with reverb), etc.

If it's slowed to perfection don't release it at the original speed... perfection should be how you want the listener to hear your music.

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Not that anyone reads this, but I just wanted to share a news article link about how the Trump tariffs are based on a formula. But they gornthe values in the formula wrong, so the tariff rates are off by about 4 times....

Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says

The error over-inflates tariff rates by about a factor of four, AEI's economists say.

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skin-tone emoji and me

so, i'm just lazy and don't want to pick what skin-tone i am when i react on slack. however that leaves me looking "yellow-ish".

as a white dude I acknowledge the privilege granted to me by the color of my skin. and the possibility of presenting that through emoji reactions makes me feel like i'm trying to claim that privilege in a space that i historically viewed as colorless, because it was all just plain text chat, but as i reflect now also represented another facet of my privilege within the upper echelons of world socio-economic-status by being able to participate in the nascent internet of yore through my access to high tech modems and personal computers...

**sigh** presenting race within communication tools still feels like a tricky space to participate. and it makes me feels slightly icky.

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-light-doctor/202404/banned-in-the-us-healthy-light-bulbs?amp

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My Adidas

RUN DMC's "My Adidas" was inspired on a night with Russell Simmons, and the Def Jam crew using Angel Dust.

PCP.

As a whitebread suburban kid, my only knowlege of PCP is middle school health class in the D.A.R.E. era, is that's basically like the worst drug ever. like it turns you into a violent maniac who will keep raging after being shot multiple times by a cop...

and it resulted in an unheard of (multi?) million dollar deal between the rap icons and the adidas brand. my health teacher never talked about that part of it...

Watch Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story | Peacock

Watch Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story, a series that celebrates RUN-DMC’s music, innovation, style, and influence on hip-hop. Stream on

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So often we don't struggle to improve conditions We struggle for the right to say "we improved conditions" And so often we form communities Only to use them as exclusionary devices - Thursday 'Where the Circle Ends'

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In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection - Silver Jews, "Random Rules"

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What do they call a Whopper? I don't know. I didn't go in a Burger King. -- Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction'

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Various - Soundman Shots The Caribou & Downbeat 78's Story

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2009 CD release of "Soundman Shots The Caribou & Downbeat 78's Story" on Discogs.

Hey You in the bebop shades and suede shoes!

But Occifer, I mean Lucifer!

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Egg punk

I have no idea what's happening, but I feel oddly connected to the writing about something up and coming

The Rise of Second-Wave Egg Punk - SPIN

Many people love it. Some roll their eyes. But society's ills are cured by egg punk's squiggly synth melodies and sneering affectation.

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https://bit.ly/4aWUVkS

Worth a read for the tech that might have been. It's worth the time. And... I got wheighlayed a couple times

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gnome-boxes vms using virt-manager bridged network

I started with using gnome-boxes.

it was flaky

i've started primarliy using virt-manager ( virsh --connect qemu:///session to be able to talk to the domains)

i wanted to share services from my hypervisor host (ubuntu 20.04 currently). primarily, because i'm still on old versions of libvirt/hypervisor kernel/whever else virtiofs isn't available to me without extra work, so i want to nfs share host files because sshfs doesn't support symlinks.

i found a couple of really good explanations of the process.

stack overflow ( https://bit.ly/47xx3S0 )

blog post ( https://bit.ly/3H9myJJ )

unfortunately that blog post going through the specifics of creating /etc/qemu/bridge.conf explicitly sets readability of the file to 640. AND thanks to bad error handling in virt-manager i was being told when trying to start the domain.

"Error starting domain: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xab in position 159: invalid start byte"

thankfully i came to my senses and started with virsh start because that got me a helpful error explaining that there was no access to read /etc/qemu/bridge.conf. makes sense if it's not a world readable file and i'm starting the domain in "user mode"...

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James Holden: "I got really bored of making music. But the moment I discovered modular and Live and Max/MSP, it all opened up again"

Two decades into his career, James Holden is still searching for new ways to make electronic music sound human. We visit him in his West Lon

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Really short and simple life-hack. Sometimes we have to pay for a few things with personal bank checks. Some banks charge you like $1 per on

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Toyota yes day ad

Why is there a grandpa in the Toyota grand highlander "yes day" ad? He doesn't say anything or interact with the kids or the parents! Just sits there like putting an adult in the third row isn't uncomfortable. Especially for and old dude??