And today's multi-hour confusing time suck was:

`curl -H "Authorization: ${TOKEN}"`

(Note conspicuous lack of the word `Bearer`)

To add #insult to #injury, this old #Perl guy had to dig into some #PHP in order to figure out where his stupid #shellscript went wrong.

On the other hand, I did gather enough #research to propose a #solution to #decommission a piece of #commercial software in favor of a mix of #cloud services and #selfhosted #opensource.

I love the smell of decoms(*) in the morning. It smells like... victory.

(*) Decommissioning a host or other service. It means things have been migrated to the new hotness, and I can take this old crufty thing out behind the woodshed and KEEL IT WITH FIIIIREEEE 🔥 💥 heh heh, heh heh heh heh...

(I mean, I'm a Celt. We LIKE things that go Boom. :)

#decommission #crufty #old #geekery

Microsoft is closing down Skype, proprietary videoconferencing service, which originated from Estonia more than two decades ago.

As someone who used Skype before Microsoft's acquisition, I consider this an end of an era 

Microsoft is closing Skype in favor of Microsoft Teams. Interestingly, both Skype and Mixer (game streaming service) served well for Microsoft to acquire decent real-time video encoders and other moving parts to build Microsoft Teams 

#skype #meetings #decommission #microsoft

Singapore Decommissions Final Two Challenger-Class Submarines

Submarine Training School Launched to Advance Republic of Singapore Navy’s Capabilities

Singapore Decommissions Final Two Challenger-Class Submarines

Submarine Training School Launched to Advance Republic of Singapore Navy’s Capabilities

Diablo Canyon Power Plant to host Outage Hiring Information Fair Thursday

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant will host its Outage Hiring Information Fair on Thursday, Oct. 10 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. and from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

KSBY News

Oh #Jenkins, how I miss’d thee not.

Myriads upon myriads art the ways thou definest thy #pipelines, many that dost not #commit to a #sourcecode #repository.

#Plugins hast thou in surpassing abundance, and ridiculous art their expressions in #XML.

Yet reckon with thee again I must, if we are to #decommission thee in favor of #AzurePipelines and its #templates of #YAML, with indentation most rigid.

Once again the utter folly of #HydroElectricity gets #greenwashed by the media. What long-term lessons has anyone learned from decades of #draught, followed by months of #atmosphericrivers; Apparently, none?
Don’t squander this opportunity to #RemoveTheDams and (finally) #decommission #Hydro & #NuclearEnergy.
#SammyRoth - you can do better than this

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-03-14/column-water-is-life-its-also-energy-whether-you-like-dams-or-hate-them-boiling-point

Column: Water is life. It's also energy — whether you like dams or hate them

Hydropower is a fact of life in the American West, and a key piece of solving the climate puzzle.

Los Angeles Times