None of you can understand the power of a fully-loaded browser context menu:
And yes, I use all of those. Too bad dumbass Mozilla took away the easy ability to edit and re-order all of that, because I really fucking need that capability. All of you are weak and puny in the face of what I could do with the right tools.
So of course Mozilla had to limit people like me. We were just too powerful.
“Some bad things happen” because of Starlink (and similar tech) is the same as NIMBY arguments that we should not build anything because there are some negative externalities.
And I’m not an Elon supporter by any means. It’s good tech no matter who puts it up there. And worth having. We should probably toss a whole lot more shit like that up in LEO.
India becomes uncompetitive price-wise when you can no longer hire three people in India to replace one American hire, as the average Indian worker is about 1/3 as good/productive as the average American 1.
If that’s racist — well, the truth is racist (has nothing to do with race, but MBAs who want to offshore along with woke clowns insist it is).
It’s Not Just in Your Head—Tech Companies Are Getting Desperate.
I hate the future. An ad stuffed in everything and always being surveilled is really terrible. This all should be destroyed.
On today’s things I heard a user say but did not correct as they were adamant they’re right….
In my experience, an end user says something correct about 1 out of 20 times. And then it’s only accidentally right.
It was a mistake giving computers to normies. And now we’ve given them smartphones, which are easier for them to use but infect their minds with nonsense. Not better, really.
This is from the Hacker News comments about data caps where tons of industry shills always come out of the woodwork, but take a gander at this fucking dumbass:
It’s not at all unusual for a family of four working adults or those attending school to have 3+ computing devices per person. In fact, that’s fairly typical now! For instance:
That’s four, and that’s common. Many people have a work phone and a personal phone as well as a desktop PC. That’s six.
It always amazes me just how many utterly clueless dipshits there are at a place like Hacker News. Just complete fucking clowns and supposed to be intelligent. Nope.
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year.
I remember when Excel came out. Nine years old is when I started reading computer magazines and that’s when Excel debuted. At the time, it was seen as a woefully underpowered competitor to Lotus 123.
How things change.
If batteries continue to get better at their current rate, drones will actually be useful for low-altitude short-hop (0-20 miles) cargo hauling and delivery in 6-8 years.
That’ll be interesting.
It’s not hard to do that by accident if you have a complex network. Say you have SNAT set up and a pool (or, more likely, various pools) of IP addresses that are allowed to do SNAT. Oops, you don’t have MAC filtering and some help desk mook with too much access but not enough knowledge changes the IP address of a device and boom, now you have a potentially-fatality-causing medical device on the open internet.
Just as with lab escapes, that kinda shit happens all the time.
The future is terrible. One of the reasons we’ve been holding on to all our older and/or unused monitors is that we knew this was coming. And now it’s here. I wish I could personally kneecap anyone who had anything to do with this.
Gen X and older millennials are the only people who understand how computers function and can do anything at all to work with them at a more than the click-and-drool level. This is why it’s nearly impossible to recruit junior sysadmins and the like. The skills simply are not there.
As I said in an earlier post, most people don’t know anything about anything (often even their own jobs). If an end user actually knows the name of the application they’ve been using for 15 years, I’m both shocked and pleased. Most do not.
Most people rely on rote memorization to do absolutely everything. Anything more than that is completely beyond them. If it involves any thinking, it ain’t gonna happen. It’s amazing humans have achieved as much as we have given our severe limitations; most people simply are not very smart or (even worse) very contemplative.
I feel like I’m a pretty limited thinker, really. But because I think at all in a semi-concerted fashion about things I seem like a damn genius.
Despite the advantages this gives me, I do not like it much. We aren’t gonna conquer the galaxy like this.
Bah, how do you teach a sysadmin mindset?
I do not believe this is possible. In fact, I think most of the real sysadmins are aging out, never to be replaced. They (and I will always consider myself a sysadmin no matter my job title) were created in and by a particular set of conditions that will never be replicated. Those conditions, were, specifically, access to real non-drool-optimized computers, required bouts of deep and search-engine-free troubleshooting, and using those computers to their full capabilities from a young age.
Now, nearly all of this is irrelevant or impossible.
The generations coming up behind me aren’t even 1/100 as good as I was at their age; I have to painfully lead them through every little roadblock, and even then since they have no deeper understanding they don’t recall any of it and cannot recognize very similar problems when they occur again. And since Google and search is becoming increasingly unreliable, they aren’t able to fall back on that anymore.
One of my team recently called me “Human Google.” He was not the first to do so, but I appreciate that compliment. I’m better than Google, though, because my answers are right.
SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027.
Goddamn this is fucking idiotic. Creates a huge amount of hassle and work for absolutely zero increase in security for anyone anywhere ever. And many devices and components that use certs, updating cannot be automated.
Also, the advice of “just set up a private Certificate Authority then” is also tremendously clueless. I have done this and it’s very hard. It’s out of the realm of most tech people’s skills, even good ones. And it requires maintenance. It’s not a “for free” thing.
The whole tech industry is full of clownish losers.
I disagree with this pretty strongly. With a good enough sex robot the illusion of desire will be indistinguishable from actual desire. This is all that most people will require. To expand that a bit, once the uncanny valley is crossed — and it will be — most men and most women will be content with “someone” who is always insatiably attracted to them, interested in them, and shares their kinks and predilections.
This is just obvious if you know even a little bit about human nature.