"scientists had hoped that the new vaccines would remain effective for years…Now some researchers fear the unchecked spread has given the virus nearly unfettered opportunities to reinvent itself, and may have hastened the appearance of escape mutations."https://t.co/93uEuaX8dF

— wsbgnl (@wsbgnl) January 21, 2021

This was almost inevitable; we didn’t get a handle on the pandemic early enough, so it has plenty of hosts now in which to mutate, and we didn’t start vaccinating as soon as we possibly could.

Now the virus will be endemic; with us forever. Expect to get vaccinated every year or two for its new variants. Our failures are vast and now we reap the consequences. Also, fuck anti-maskers.

I often tweet critically about the left more than the right, and I suspect this is because I see more bad leftist stuff closer in my social spheres, and only rarely bad right stuff. But I do think if I started hanging around more right wingers I would get more upset about it.

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) January 20, 2021

Same here. I don’t hang out or read righties (much). When I do, my skin crawls. Because I am on the left and read mostly left-wing stuff, that’s what I tend to be thinking about the most.

Goldman Sachs, With Big Earnings Jump, Is Having a Profitable Pandemic.

The story could’ve also been titled “Why the Lockdowns Won’t End Soon.”

I’m not sure I’d rather die than use Facebook, but damn, that would be a hard decision.

Container networking is simple.

Lord, what a dipshit. “Simple,” then proceeds to write a 4,000 word guide about this “simple” thing.

I’m pretty good at networking, and I understand the entire article, but even in my own field I think only about 10% would. Anything involving containers is absurdly and needlessly complex and you can tell it was designed to be programmer-friendly as it has 50 layers of complexity when anything production-ready should have far less than that.

Anytime you have to manually set up IP masquerading to make something function correctly, you can no longer claim the mantle of simplicity. If anyone ever has to troubleshoot this, they just won’t be able to. I know the ethos of the container assclowns is just “destroy it all and rebuild” but that only gets you so far — and not very far at that.

Be glad when the containerization trend ends — which it will. It’s too complex for most who attempt to use it, and also very fragile. But it makes the cloud providers loads of money.

While we’re talking about such things, I can understand a lot of fetishes…but foot fetishists? It doesn’t gross me out or anything but why? What’s going on there? That’s one I can’t quite get.