R Sitze

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Transplant, Earth. PNW Ally. Equality. Safe ground. MSFT Alumni. Cats: Pumpkin and Saturn. You might know me as NetDef

Pumpkin the orange cat, sitting on a short stack of pet towels, preventing their use... He knows why they are staged on the floor!
A color sample represents hex code #080085 as a fairly deep shade of blue.
Crowd forming in Downtown Park, in the background is Lake Washington with a tower in glass to the right.
Detail of two load bearing joints on a table held together by tension.
Black and yellow bee partying on the lavender in our garden today.
Another black and yellow bee, this time on our lavender. Took about 40 tries to get one good picture...
PNW black and yellow bee on a cluster of small white flowers.
A large round tin of: WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PULLMAN, WA Cougar Gold A SHARP WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE
A stray cat having a snack on our deck. There's something in the background.....
A stray black kitty cat has found a way station on its journey. It's not shy about it either. PET ME, FEED ME!
Heavy-handed requirements – such as institutional quarantine for hantavirus or banning travelers from the DRC, Uganda and South Sudan, for instance - will likely lead to people evading the rules or not providing sufficient information about their activities, making it harder for public health officials to follow up on possible cases or contain outbreaks at the source, Hodge pointed out. "The threat is not knowing cases that are actually out there, because we created a climate to which people would not self-report for this. That would be the biggest threat," Hodge said. It also signals a dangerous "authoritarian" approach from top health officials, Hodge said - despite previous opposition from those leaders to unspecified “lockdowns” from the Covid pandemic.
My new Bluesky ID Card, showing some stats that I really don't care about. My profile picture is embedded depicting an orange cat with a blep. The card resembles a gov issued ID branded for Bluesky.
My notifications screen on Bluesky, showing me a notification I should not have received...
The New York Times OPINION THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Trump Lost This War
Saturn, a dark and white cat, rubbing her face on someone's cute bee sock.
The Chat Settings screen where one may set how invites are allowed. Chat Settings Allow direct messages from You can continue ongoing conversations regardless of which setting you choose. (Select one of the following) -Everyone -People I follow -No one (The new setting is below) Allow group chat invites from You can continue ongoing conversations regardless of which setting you choose. (Select one of the following) -Everyone -People I follow -No one Notification sounds (toggle on/off)
Seth's photo, cropped and turned sideways. A set of dish antennas on a roof now look like the head, eyes of a preying mantis. She's very hungry and very large and is peeking out a hole in the roof next to a sideways chimney.
Pumpkin, an old orange cat, with his face buried in the side of someone's arm to rest his eyes. There is part of a keyboard in foreground, which has cat hair on it.
The official Microsoft logo, over the years, in various dubious font styles.
A fuzzy bee sipping a drop of nectar on one of the budding peonies in our garden.
Star trek starship orbiting a planet. The title reads: "we've been trying to reach you about your shuttle insurance"
A peony blossom in our garden, with a very happy bee harvesting in the middle.
Windows error blue screen: Something went wrong But you can try again
Wisteria closeup, a few of the blossoms hanging down on the... Vine? Bush?
A peony blossom has just started to open up, first one this year.
New book cover: Depicting Murderbot in a white suit and helmet, floating in zero G, or maybe falling, in a futuristic passageway. Author: MARTНА WELLS Blurb on front cover: "Light, a little violent, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. -THE WALL STREET JOURNAL on System Collapse HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD WINNING SERIES! Title: PLATFORM DECAY Series: THE MURDERBOT DIARIES THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
A row of peonies beside a wood rail fence. The large buds are fully formed and dewy but not yet open.
A mostly clean BBQ grill in the foreground, it's black with some stains from past seasons. Behind is the corner of a blue deck umbrella, and beyond a spectacular blue sky with tall evergreen trees.
Episode IV IT WAS ALL SO STUPID Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we'd brought this on ourselves.
3. Shutdown, Restart on your terms Restarting or shutting down your PC should always be simple, predictable, and on your terms - even with updates waiting to be installed. We're improving this experience by clearly separating power actions from update actions. With this change, the Power menu will always show the standard Restart and Shut down options, meaning you will always have a choice to just restart or shut down your device without having to install the pending update.
Pumpkin the orange cat, posing elegantly on a soft nested blanket, looking over to one side.
Pumpkin the orange cat, posing elegantly on a soft nested blanket, looking directly into the camera.
Clock it, my besties: The Hugo Awards shortlist is gonna drop on April 21, 2026 at 10 a.m. Lowkey, this Hugo ballot is about to serve peak SFF drip. Valid sauce: these works are goated. We can't wait to give the deets on what's catching dubs. (With image embedded:) 5 ... 4... 3... 2 ... 1... IGNITION! Hugo Finalist announcement launches April 21 10 a.m. PT August 27-3
Pumpkin the orange cat, laying on a lap, we can see part of his vacant face but his tail swiched up right as the camera clicked to occlude his nose.
Blue sky with a wisp of white clouds over a row of evergreen trees, as seen just now outside in the PNW between Teams meetings. It's sunny!
Pumpkin the orange cat, a close up photo of his face. Distinguished whiskers frame a blep protruding from his mouth. His eyes are bright green.
Book cover of ACK-ACK MACAQUE 'Fizzes with wild ideas... A ripping yarn about murder, mayhem and monkeys. (Book blurb by Philip Reeve, author of Mortal Engines) By GARETH L. POWELL
Close up photo of Pumpkin the orange cat, sleeping. All we can see is his face, eyes closed, curled on someone's jeans, and a single paw gripping said jeans.
Home baked pizza with a spice shaker of New Mexican Tia Rita's Chipotle Seasoning Blend
Pumpkin the orange cat. BIG bubbly eyes looking VERY hopefully up at me with two bowls beside him, one empty and one full of kibble...
Pumpkin the orange cat, glaring at close range at my camera.
Pumpkin the orange cat sitting stoically beside his gooshy food bowl. Note a second bowl of kibble is RIGHT THERE. And he likes his kibble at any other time of day. "This bowl is empty, the opposite of full."
Pumpkin the orange cat standing on the kitchen floor, tail up and floofy, looking upwards towards the counter which is cropped out, with BIG BUBBLY EYES and a very expective expression.
Searching my photos for the word Hell No results, error suggests trying a search for other words...
Screen clip of Outlook Online for MSN/Hotmail at outlook dot com showing Settings, Mail, and a list of options. Highlighting marks indicate the four places to check for malicious email handlers: Rules Conditional formatting Sweep Quick steps Empty/delete everything found in these places after securing the account with new password and kicking out all other devices from the MSN account security page. If not already done, also implement MFA. It may take up to 24 hours for all other devices to be revoked, so recheck these rules and email settings more than once.
Sunset near Puget Sound, dark trees framing the foreground, with dim clouds high above highlighted with brilliant golden light on the lower clouds making glowing streaks across the sky. It looks like like upside down waves on a beach.
The important points about this architecture are as follows: Prescriptive hardware bill of materials (BOM) featuring preintegrated racks that contain SAN storage, servers, and network devices. Azure Linux OS installed on the hardware and hypervisor for virtualization. Azure Local services: Software-defined networking (SDN) services including virtual networks, logical networks, software load balancers, Network Address Translation (NAT) gateways, and network security groups. Deployment of Windows and Linux Azure Local virtual machines (VMs) and Azure Kubernetes services (AKS) enabled by Azure Arc. Azure ExpressRoute to connect your on-premises infrastructure to Azure. Azure Arc-enabled add-on services like Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and more.
When you use this approach, it becomes your responsibility to ensure that critical parts of your app's UI (for example, the built-in controls in a Maps application) don't end up getting covered by system bars. This could make your app unusable. In most cases you can handle this by adding the android:fitsSystemWindows attribute to your XML layout file, set to true. This adjusts the padding of the parent ViewGroup to leave space for the system windows. This is sufficient for most applications. In some cases, however, you may need to modify the default padding to get the desired layout for your app. To directly manipulate how your content lays out relative to the system bars (which occupy a space known as the window's "content insets"), override fitSystemWindows(Rect insets). The fitSystemWindows() method is called by the view hierarchy when the content insets for a window have changed, to allow the window to adjust its content accordingly. By overriding this method you can handle the insets (and hence your app's layout) however you want.
Top of a screenshot showing the app controls behind the system status banner.
On the companies web page their Privacy page is a 404. skylight-usa.com/Privacy "The page can't be found. It looks like nothing was found at this location."
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, posted the below message to employees on Viva Engage this morning. I am excited to share a couple updates in two of our core priorities: security and quality. Hayete Gallot is rejoining Microsoft as Executive Vice President, Security, reporting to me. I’ve also asked Charlie Bell to take on a new role focused on engineering quality, reporting to me. Charlie and I have been planning this transition for some time, given his desire to move from being an org leader to being an IC engineer. And I love how energized he is to practice this craft here day in and day out!
NFL > SuperBowl Final Score Seahawks 29 Patriots 13 13 and 29 are both Prime Numbers, the 6th and 10th. What are the odds... 6 + 10 = 16, the spread The RNG for this corner of the universe is broken
Pumpkin the orange cat is snuggled almost completely under a tan fuzzy blanket, with just his head visible. He's been napping a bit, but looks slightly grumpy at the light for this photo.
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp Unshaved, ungroomed. Wild hair sticking up randomly, looks like he just got out of bed, but is speaking on stage to an audience holding a microphone.
A Google Earth map segment of the West Coast of the US, but "South" is up so that WA and OR are "below" California. Really though, water flows (in and from the PNW) mostly north, not south.
The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret. Ann Landers
Why I'm not advancing in my technique master? Have you seen the sunset when the seagulls fly flaming across the plain? Yes master And the water from the waterfall hitting the rock without achieving anything? Yes master And the moon reflecting on calm water? Yes master There's your problem. You keep watching stupid shit instead of practicing.
A grey hoodie with a raised lunar boot print embossed on the front, modeled by its recipient.
Dear colleagues, In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference. At time of writing the Boulder servers are still available due a standby power generator, but I will attempt to disable them to avoid disseminating incorrect time. The affected servers are: time-a-b.nist.gov time-b-b.nist.gov time-c-b.nist.gov time-d-b.nist.gov time-e-b.nist.gov ntp-b.nist.gov (authenticated NTP) No time to repair estimate is available until we regain staff access and power. Efforts are currently focused on obtaining an alternate source of power so the hydrogen maser clocks survive beyond their battery backups. More details follow. Due to prolonged high wind gusts there have been a combination of utility power line damage and preemptive utility shutdowns (in the interest of wildfire prevention) in the Boulder, CO area. NIST's campus lost utility power Wednesday (Dec. 17 2025) around 22:23 UTC
* WHAT...Snow expected at or above elevations greater than 2000 ft. Blizzard conditions are possible at times due to winds gusting as high as 45 mph. * WHERE... Cascades of Snohomish and Northern King Counties, Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties, Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties, and Cascades of Southern King County. * WHEN...From 2 AM to noon PST Wednesday. * IMPACTS... Travel and other activities could be very difficult to impossible. The hazardous conditions could impact the Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning commutes. Very strong winds could cause extensive tree damage. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... Total snow accumulations upwards of 10 to 15 inches at Snoqualmie Pass, with 15 to 20 inches at Stevens Pass. Mount Rainier and Mount Baker could see amounts upwards to 2 feet or more.