--- Log opened Mon Apr 17 00:00:15 2023
06:54 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
06:54 <@Dolemite> Evilpig: Sorry to hear about your mentor, "The Captain"
07:31 < Evilpig> thx.  Captain bob.  Wish there were more like him for sure
07:34 <@Dolemite> yeah, my favorite teacher passed away last year.   Henry Isenberg.   Taught drafting and computers.
07:35 < Evilpig> that's what I had bobby for too, but at that point he had started doing tech stuff too, so we had a little desktop publishing, some video stuff, he got a vinyl cutter at one point
07:36 <@Dolemite> He had fixed up an Asteroids standup arcade game.   If you finished your work, you could go play it during class.   All the quarters went to buy supplies for the class (because, you know, CAD wasn't a thing yet...  so we had to have erasers, paper, and mechanical pencil refills).
07:41 <@Mirage> We had a single computer w/ some sort of CAD on it that was mainly used for designing things for and programming of the CNC milling machine we had.  There was a pen plotter next to it (one of the ones that look like the inside of an etch-a-sketch)
07:42 <@Dolemite> Yeah, I was born too early for that.   State of the art was the Radio Shack TRS-80 III.
07:42 <@Dolemite> We had 8 of them in our classroom.
07:43 <@Mirage> You're what, 2 years older than me?
07:43 <@Dolemite> 53 this year
07:44 < Evilpig> my high school was definnitely advanced for the time.  we had specific funds for technology education.  it was the first couple of years of that
07:44 <@Mirage> You didn't miss it by much.  We had that when I was in 10th grade
07:45 <@Dolemite> The Apple IIc came out when I was a freshman.
07:45 < Evilpig> freshmen year we had a 21st century tech class that was set up with modules that you would do swap through every couple of weeks,  there was a tv/bradcasting setup, cad with a pen plotter, a robotics station, seems like there 8-10 more that I can't think of now.
07:45 <@Dolemite> So we had video games - but definitely no GUI OS
07:47 <@Mirage> That CAD system was only for that, I don't recall it having anything else.  Once you created something you could save it to diskette (5.25" floppy), print to the plotter, or to the punch-card cutter for the CNC mill
07:48 <@Dolemite> I remember my first version of Linux - kernel 0.96 - back when I was at TN Tech.   Since I was a student worker for the computing center I got to be the floppy jockey for installing it on a few PCs.
07:48 < Evilpig> I'm thinking we had a cnc set up too in that 21st century tech class.  I recall something about having to zero it to make sure you didn't drive the bit into the platform
07:53 <@Mirage> Of course only the a few of the seniors were allowed to touch the thing w/o direct supervision from the teacher
08:24 <@Dolemite> Starship clock is held at 00:00:40
08:25 <@Dolemite> No launch today, official word
09:04 <@Dolemite> Oh, and in today's episode of "The Joys of Adulting", we found out when trying to e-File our taxes over the weekend that someone has claimed one of our kids on their taxes, already.   So now we have to print off and mail our check instead of doing things electronically, along with filling out paperwork with documentation to prove that the kids are our dependents.
09:04 <@Dolemite> Hopefully it's just a case of someone fat fingering an SSN and not outright identity theft.
09:27 <@Dagmar> It's definitely "a morning"
09:27 <@Dolemite> No such luck.   Pamela just got off the phone with the IRS.   Someone has been filing as Patrick for the past 2 years.
09:27 <@Dagmar> One center's camera system is inaccessible, which doesn't surprise me because the port it's plugged into has no link
09:27 <@Dagmar> Apparently more than once now someone's been send to go unplug and replug the cable
09:28 <@Dagmar> ...and I'm hearing crickets when I ask "Why is this cable not being replaced?" because it's apparently a 150ft run
09:28 <@Dagmar> I know _for fucking sure_ that not a goddamn thing I can do in the firewalls or switches is going to impact an electrical issue
09:29 <@Dagmar> WEll, the @-sign is there so it knows you're talking about epoch seconds
09:29 <@Dagmar> @#$@#
10:12 < Evilpig> Dolemite: well hell.  filing as him, or filing him as a dependent ?
10:13 < Evilpig> if they've done it the last two years, you e-filed last year and then whomever it was paper filed after you did and claimed him?
10:13 < Evilpig> that's... ballsy
10:13 <@Dagmar> Someone probably buggered up an SSN entry
10:15 < Evilpig> I've got some helper functions for my work machine to interact with the various vms I have running.  I made it where I can do stuff like start <vm name> stop <vm name>  etc.  right now I have it if I do something generic like start ubuntu it will throw an error if it matches more than one
10:15 < Evilpig> someone convince me that I should / should not loop those results and do whatever to everything that matched
10:18 <@Dagmar> WEll, it appears to work here
10:18 <@Dagmar> @#$@
10:19 < Evilpig> you know.  I think I am gonna do that, but put an input there so if it finds more than one it lists them and says continue y/n ?
10:20 < Evilpig> I can see a time when I might want to start several vms at once or stop them similarly
10:50 <@Dolemite> Evilpig: Yeah, apparently they paper filed after we e-filed last year
10:51 <@Dolemite> The IRS agent says that they have already filed as him this year, too
10:51 < Evilpig> that's wild.  that is supposed to trigger a notice to you that someone else filed and you may be required to file an amended return
10:51 <@Dolemite> Yeah, didn't happen.
10:52 < Evilpig> that's what happened with ash and liam last year.  and then baby huey filed early this year so we had to file hers via paper
10:52 < Evilpig> waiting on that notice now since it's supposed to send to both of them in the next however many weeks.
10:55 < Evilpig> you're sure it wasn't patrick himself too right?  he is working and did he just screw up the status when he filed?
10:56 <@Dolemite> He didn't make enough to have to file.   $10K is the limit.   He didn't work at all the previous year.
10:56 <@Dolemite> Pamela walked him through the process, but never filed
10:57 < Evilpig> surely he would have gotten a little something back, but damn.  that's gonna be a mess to straighten out and likely never track down
10:58 <@Dolemite> Yeah, well, that's for the IRS to figure out once we send in the proof that we're the legit ones.
10:58 < aestetix> Evilpig: https://www.techspot.com/news/98336-pcie-card-houses-21-m2-ssds-up-168.html
10:58 < PigBot> This PCIe card houses 21 M.2 SSDs for up to 168 terabytes of blazing-fast storage | TechSpot (at www.techspot.com) https://tinyurl.com/236so9hr
10:58 <@Dolemite> time for some lunch
10:58 < Evilpig> sorting out the money part is their problem.  your mess is someon ehas his SSN
10:58 < Evilpig> that's the bigger issue
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