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yeah, the beancounters saved some money by installing only a sub-light connection, so the system knows it’s missing patches, but the actual patches are still downloading, should be done in a couple of months…

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>> ROGUE SYSADMIN HAS COMANDEERED COLONY SHIP. THAWED CRYOPODS ONE BY ONE WITH INVITATION TO JOIN PIRATE CREW OR EXIT VIA AIRLOCK. CHARTER TO FOLLOW. SEE YOU IN ALPHA CENTAURI OR HELL - UP TO YOU.

@neurovagrant @buherator This is 💯how it would play out 😂

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Space travel is impractical because it takes too many Patch Tuesdays to bring an OS back up to date. In this spaceship of Theseus I will

@neurovagrant Sounds like an update to Vinge's *A Deepness in the Sky*.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-deepness-in-the-sky-vernor-vinge/19547026?ean=9781250905970

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Imagine spending most of your life fixing active directory while everyone else will not even know you existed.

@neurovagrant My response to that last would just be an ascii art middle finger followed by the severing of comms, and going back to cryobed.

@neurovagrant @pluralistic I'm a big fan of that one. I just picked up Life on Mars by Jonathan Strahan, a kind of Martian Chronicles, Cory wrote for as an homage to Bradbury. I'm excited for it to arrive

@neurovagrant @iaintshootinmis @pluralistic yep, agreed! re-reading it atm https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html (also, the joy of pure text in an un-enshitified html file alone)