A solid pop song. It feels like stuff you’d hear on the B-side of some obscure girl group’s sophomore album in 1988. And I mean that in a complimentary way, to be clear.
Author: Chill
All the Gbs
Eventually, I will go with something like this when all-SSD NASes become practical for home use.
25Gbs NICs are fairly affordable now, specially if you buy old but-still-fine off-lease enterprise gear. I technically already have infra endpoints (NVMe SSDs, etc.) that can push more than 25Gbs across the network if I had the switches and NICs to support doing so, but I just wouldn’t use those capabilities that much. But when I’m tossing 8K video and VR stuff around it’ll be a lot more useful.
And then I’ll show that data the meaning of haste.
Blaze
5 hidden bottlenecks that are quietly killing your home network speed.
Trust me, this is not a problem I have. My network is insanely blazing fast.
Clown Design
This dude is everything that is wrong with software and how it is built now.
Havoc Pennington also really sucks, so it’s no surprise that the poster I linked above seems to adore him. The problem with the approach this post applauds — of removing features because it makes devs’ lives easier1 — is that it ends up creating software for the stupidest people alive. And who wants to use software for the 75-IQ crowd? Certainly not me. Let them have their own drool-based interfaces. I simply need more power than that.
This post was written in 2013. Of course, people like me knew this was the path to taking away as much control as possible from Firefox users. And we were told we were wrong (and I was banned for Reddit for saying what was occurring was in fact occurring), that was not the reason Mozilla was doing the things they were doing, and that we dissenters were crazy.
And of course it is exactly what happened. Just as we knew it would.
1980
It’s wild that I’ve been using computers since 1980. I can’t even really remember a life without them.
Obviously, they’ve changed an enormous amount and are no longer “bicycles for the mind.” But I’ve had some fun along the way, at least. And that matters.
Online Gamingโs Final Boss: The Copyright Bully.
Finland to acquire anti-personnel land mines and start training staff.
The rising cost of basic necessities could widen the gap between the well-off and everyone else.
Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.
Exercise is as effective as medication in treating depression, study finds.
Most people arenโt fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs.
Archaeologists Uncover Gigantic Medieval Ship With Features Seen Only on Paper.
U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least.
Vana
That is pretty funny at least. Not clear if the original tweet is a joke? In a meta sense, it’s a joke no matter what.
If you want actual modern transgressive artists, check out Skuzland or Tokky Horror or Lambrini Girls or Pudeฬnduฬm or Witch Club Satan.
There are tons more!
Lanza
Excellent. That is some really great equipment.
Paloma Morphy – me faltas tรบ
Me encanta su cereal “Cap’n Morphy”.
UnitedHealth Commits Massive Fraud to Boost Medicare Payments, Senate Report Finds.
Putinโs great-power project faces the โend of an eraโ.
Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy.
The largest meteorite on Earth is still exactly where it landed.
American exceptionalism is real, but not in ways worth celebrating.
Oil, Venezuela, and China: How Trumpโs Caracas Raid Fits With 25 Years of US Grand Strategy.
Return to the Office They Said, It Will Improve Collaboration They Said.
The RAM shortageโs silver lining: Less talk about โAI PCsโ.
We can go ahead and label the current internet era as the Enshittification era.
Pre-Cov
The pre-Covid world seems strange and fairly foreign now.
Intellectualized
I’d say 0.0001% or so, and most of them are not academics or in academia.
Cape
I really hate escape rooms.
All I want to do is escape.
You Actually Do
Stonewalled by Citrix’s new AI “Customer Service” model : sysadmin
This is so common in my industry. I’ve had to do that with HP, VMWare, Citrix, and others.
Me: I’m calling about your SDN product. (Note that I called the correct support line.)
Them: We don’t offer SDN at this time.
Me: Yes, you actually do. I am using it and have five licenses I bought six months ago.
It’s amazing how often that sort of thing happens. The idea that corporations are “efficient” is only something a true libertardian could believe.
Rain of Fists
Lately, I’ve been seeing and hearing people say “rain of salt” instead of “grain of salt.” As in, “Take this advice with a (g)rain of salt.”
I want to hurt these people very badly.