CHP officer’s bullet killed sheriff’s deputy who responded to Thousand Oaks bar shooting.
Only a good guy with a gun can kill another good guy with a gun.
Oh, wait, that wasn’t it?
Day: December 7, 2018, 5:17 PM
Every Case
In every case I’ve been banned from forums or boards (probably two dozen times over the years), I’ve been banned for being right. Either about some prognostication, most often, or something happening contemporaneously.
Not that I am always right. Of course not. But literally every single time I’ve been exiled it’s because I was correct.
That says a lot about human nature and human failure there.
K & W
I need to read more Nancy Kress and Connie Willis. I’ve missed too much of their works. And Joanna Russ. Too many books, too much noise in the world and in my own brain.
Walking Dead, Browser Edition
A world with a single browser made by Google would be just as dangerous as the world with one browser made by Microsoft was. Mozilla's role in the world just became even more crucial.
— Laurie Voss (@seldo) December 4, 2018
Mozilla has already fucked it up. They have no hope, no chance, and are done. Dead but don’t know it.
Not a Good System
just thought of a fucking amazing network design: 10.10.y.z ip schema, where x is VLAN, y is the switch and z is the port. 10.30.3.15 = VLAN 30, switch 3, port 15. locate anything instantly.
— Graviscera (@gravislizard) December 6, 2018
Until you inevitably need to use smaller subnets or change configs; then you are totally screwed and have to destroy the system or redesign everything. Also, it would be likely to waste many IP addresses in all sorts of different ways.
That’s why you don’t do things like this system. It’s extremely fragile and wasteful. Instead, you document. The best data centers I’ve worked in had documented the location of every cable, port, and what it was all connected to, and kept it updated.
Big Powah
I was looking on amazon for power strips (because my local Frys are all sold out of them because CHRISTMAS) and I found this SWEET OUTLETY JESUS one. pic.twitter.com/n607fsYtkc
— foone (@Foone) December 7, 2018
Typically used in data centers or for A/V equipment. I’ve built data centers with this exact model, though I prefer the fancier (and more expensive) ones.
You mount them vertically in the rack. Really helps with cable management and having enough outlets. Then the strip itself is plugged right into a large PDU.
Cel It
Why Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius for anything human-related:
FS
“Why are Tumblr and Facebook cracking down on sex so much? And why is Facebook in so over zealous about it? It’s all Apples fault!” Etc etc
I can explain all. It is largely the fault of a set of US laws called SESTA and FOSTA.
— Cookie Cyboid (@CookieCyboid) December 6, 2018
Yep. When FOSTA/SESTA was being debated and nearly everyone was so ecstatic about this horrible law, people like me were warning what would happen. We were told, “Nah, it’ll just prevent sex trafficking.” Supposedly, we were over-reacting and just plain wrong.
Then FOSTA/SESTA passed, it increased trafficking (also predictable) and simultaneously made it harder to combat and meanwhile caused real repression of freedom of expression and marginalized people which is only going to get worse. Far worse.
Which, you know, was exactly what we few said would happen.
I sincerely wish people were smarter. Stupid-ass motherfuckers, many of whom were liberals. Fuck all ya’ll.
American Left Out
The American Left and Right are more similar than different. Both believe in American exceptionalism. Both are fully neoliberal in outlook and approach.
Because both believe in American exceptionalism, they subscribe to the idea that we can “fix” other countries and peoples — the Right believes we can do it with military adventurism and bombs while the Left holds that we can do it with compassion, open borders, and saying all the right words. The Left’s version sure sounds nicer but is about as likely to work in reality given that there is no plan there or good ideas, just as there is none for the Right.
As I recently wrote to someone else, one area where I agree with the objectivists to some extent is that compassion and altruism are used all too often for bullying claims on other people’s time and resources, with no realistic plan to make it work well for anyone. It’s a variant of “what about the children” but more intellectually-framed. The Left is guilty of this particularly reference immigration.
I wish more people were more thoughtful.