Doug Tabacco @tabacco@idlethumbs.social

Updated to Mastodon 3.0 finally, which includes account migration.

(TL;DR) In case you wondered how little Oracle cares about MySQL, the ability to store a TIMESTAMP value after 2038-01-19 03:14:07 is considered a feature request.

Is 2037 the year that this MySQL bug from 2005 finally gets upgraded from "Feature Request?": https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12654

Also, if you’re a conspiracy theorist, the Presidio Trust has done you the favor of adding two layers of fencing and a very modern gate mechanism.

I run by this old military building in the Presidio all the time, and if you’re a location scout or conspiracy theorist who needs a secret entrance to a giant clandestine underground facility, here you go.

This looks like a thing you'd find at Bosco's in a Sam & Max episode.

This destroyed me. https://local.theonion.com/pizza-crust-saved-to-make-pizza-stock-1836491332/amp

I'm not confident anyone at this company has worn a shirt before.

I call this "hospital versus actual nurses". The cabinet is full of coffee cups.

You know you're visiting an old timey company when they don't give you free coffee. A perk so minimal that even car dealership service departments give it away for free.

In confusing headline photo juxtaposition news...

One of my favorite architectural features is the obvious former pay phone alcove. This one brought to you by Davies Symphony Hall in SF.

Aw man...

https://news.avclub.com/the-good-places-next-season-will-be-its-last-1835340971

Well this looks promising

https://github.com/chrisballinger/OpenCallBlock

If ios allowed globbing in blocked phone numbers I think it'd solve 40-50% of my robocall issues. I'm kind of tempted to try building my own call filtering app just to allow me to do that.

Full retail for a game that comes with all the traditional drawbacks of digital storefronts, but also I can't play it offline or keep it when Google product management inevitably loses interest in this whole endeavor.

Yeah that's a hard pass on Stadia, thanks Google.

But why though?

Well this is insane and I'll definitely buy one: https://play.date

Sorry for some quick instance downtime there. Should all be back and happy now.