neocamel

I've been told I sound like Tracy Chapman.

...which would be a huge compliment, if I weren't a middle aged white male.

Last week:

"Hi Neocamel, it's Tom from work."

~no follow-up message~

Me, 15 minutes later: "Hi!"

The end.

The article seems to indicate that the loss of 200 satellites is largely attributed to solar flares, not orbit degradation.

I can understand why so many programmers suffer from imposter syndrome.

I know more about SSH than anyone I know, but I still read articles like this and think, "SOCKS proxy. Huh. I don't actually know what either of those words mean."

Before anyone jumps in to educate me on what SOCKS is (please do though!), my point is that through my entire career in tech, I've always read articles and had to skim over terms and acronyms that I didn't know, unless I wanted to fall into a ten-hour rabbit hole of learning, where I ultimately feel totally overwhelmed and not sure I'm actually smarter than when I woke up this morning.

Seems like an interesting article, but for me to fully grasp it, I'd need to read like six other articles, which I can't do during my morning coffee/mindless scroll time.

I've taken the approach of learning through osmosis. I'll regularly read articles that I don't fully understand, assuming that I'll eventually gain a better understanding of whatever topic I'm reading about over time.

I find the last sentence of that quote particularly interesting. Any example of this tactic recently?

Does that work on Mobile?

Me: "Maybe next year's zenphone will finally check all of my boxes and I can break free from the giant phone universe."

ASUS: "Hold my beer."

I bought factorio like two years ago and haven't brought myself to start playing it because I know what will happen.

I just can't spare to put off everything on my to-do list for the next 2-6 months while I fall completely into the rabbit hole.

I learned my lesson with Kerbal Space Program.

I'm about halfway through Dante's Inferno at the moment.

I started reading it about ten years ago...

I was thinking about setting up a jellyfin server that could be publicly accessible from a domain I own. Something like jellyfin.neocamel.com, which would point to my jellyfin server on my home windows PC, but it sounds like that opens up some pretty serious security concerns.

Oh no according to tiktok (so you know it's true), he was saying itsumi, which is apparently Japanese for "Super".

It's not that I'm unable to install an app on my phone and learn how to use it, it's that I'm unable to convince every person I know to install that app, then teach them all how to use it.