Complaints for the most part.
As of late we’ve gotten two or three spam comments that have made it past our filters… And the vibe on them is decidedly different than the usual.
These ones are antagonizing and rude, clearly seeking to get a rise out of you.
Yet another thing to watch out for.
That’s ominous, but more importantly Pinboard is a one person show and that person is no longer responding to support emails. Maciej is no longer active on social media that I know of. His Pinboard.in support forum has been quiescent for years. I’ll be researching my micro blog options and I’ll write about what I come up with on tech.kateva.org.
Source: Gordon’s Notes: The End Times have come for the Pinboard.in bookmarking service
So much for the man gloating about buying out del.icio.us. He doesn’t even need to sell the service. He can be “the founder” with just one or two full-time people working under him to make the service viable for the next 10 years and beyond.
On the linked Hacker News thread there are some alternatives worth looking into, most of them self-hosted.
The question is :
Horrible things happening around here. We’re lying on the couch and there is no peace.
bistroBoss posted our job on craigslist and really thought we wouldn’t notice HAHAHA
He’s such a fucken moron, my gods.
So much stuff happens at bistroJerb that I think it’ll just be better for my long-term memory if we dump it on here instead of attempting to remember it all.
In the past week:
Every single day the schedule went through multiple changes cos bistroBoss doesn’t know how to use 7shifts. He’s still intent on having a hospitality charge instead of tipping and our guests absolutely hate it.
We have the day off today and we’re being productive, which makes for a nice change. See y’all next week in this post series lmao.
Where to even fucken start, ugh. These past few months have been a whirlwind. And when the wind hits you try your best to keep your head down.
Except we’re too fucken good (and proud of it!) to keep our head down. This has the unfortunate effect of leaving our neck exposed.
But if our head rolls, so will the owner of the restaurant we work at.
We’re the sharp end of the stick. We’re the one cancelling the apocalypse on a regular basis.
The cynical observation is that people pay a lot of money to register as operators for new gTLDs, and who is going to turn down that money? The operators may not make much money (but maybe they do, from some spammers), but the people who approve new gTLDs and get money for them sure do.
An interesting report on newly used domain names and their usage in spam – Chris Siebenmann
We just watched the Fallout TV series and the cynical observer in us can’t help but think it’s Vault-Tec taking a dollar from us humans to pay RobCo, which in turn takes a dollar from us to pay ArmCo, which in turn takes a dollar from us to pay Big Mt, and so on and so on.
gTLD miners know they are basically unbound by law. They’re going to keep digging into the English dictionary and when they run out, start on other languages.
Google’s instructions will only work if everything goes smoothly, and as someone with hundreds of hours in ADB from testing various Android versions, I will guess that it will probably not go smoothly.
Source: Google’s Pixel storage issue fix requires developer tools and a terminal | Ars Technica
People forget google hates the fact they exist, which means you’re a sweaty, dirty, bloody meaty thing handling their perfect hardware and their perfect software.
It’s not even End of Day in January 2nd, 2024 in the year of the Lard, and the IT team at helpdeskJerb are already making everyone’s life hell.
WHY
WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS
Puras pinches perdidas con estas gentes.
If a blog post has a “Conclusion” section at the end of it, you can ignore the blog post and carry on with your day.
A TL;DR at the start is fine.
Schwalb’s DC lawsuit cites a former “high-ranking manager” at Greystar Management Services, one of the RealPage customers named in the suit, as confirming that landlords used rent management software to collude and raise prices. “He responded that of course they did—it’s the entire reason landlords used the software,” according to the complaint.
Source: 14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says | Ars Technica
Say, what are the chances there are other cartels in other cities that are also artificially inflating prices through the use of software? We get that landbastards want to make it easy for themselves to maximize profits as we all live in a capitalist society, but this is egregious. There is a difference between profiting and profiteering.
There is a high likelihood there’s a cartel here in Minneapolis given how city government feels safe in fucking life up for everyone within city limits.
We hope they all get fucked.
Google Maps already provides the user with the option to avoid motorways and tolls. Perhaps Google Maps should also allow the user to avoid wars?
Source: Please Don’t Kill Me, Google Maps
Nah, the big goog says “fuck you”. If you have to die to make some asshole VP look good on the term sheet, you’ll fucken die.
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
Insert smart chips & building blocks in your Google Doc
Insert smart chips in your Google Doc to include information about:Other users with Gmail or Workspace email addresses
Other Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides files
Dates or Google Calendar events
Places and map directionsWhere there’s a smart chip in your document, you and other users can hover or click on a chip to get more information.
If you are dealing with confidential information you should stop using Google Sheets immediately.
This is particularly important if you’re dealing with FERPA or HIPAA data. Switch to excel, which is what you should’ve done from the beginning.
In the space of a month:
I’m fucken tired.
Well, now he’s truly done it. The melon husk bought twitter.
The writings were quick to arrive, particularly after the husk fired the A-levels first thing, and then dissolving the board of directors. Pretty sure all of that will result in lawsuits. Rich people don’t like not getting their golden parachutes.
The Verge posted:
What I mean is that you are now the King of Twitter, and people think that you, personally, are responsible for everything that happens on Twitter now. It also turns out that absolute monarchs usually get murdered when shit goes sideways.
The Intercept wrote:
This could have been the mission statement of pre-Musk Twitter. But now there’s one big difference: When the content moderation of Twitter remains largely the same, the sense of betrayal among Musk’s super-fans will explode with the force of a supernova. And they will scream at Musk about it nonstop — on Twitter.
By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Has Created His Own Hilarious Nightmare.
The chaos started immediately, with the husk firing a lot of people willy-nilly all over the company, and the world. Then it started asking people to come back. The company is now also on the hook for breaking California labor laws, with a looming lawsuit and employment attorneys commenting on this.
Nine days on from the purchase, the chaos continues:
Scoop: all of Musk’s companies use MS Teams for comms, where new channels are private by default.
When software engineers from Tesla, Boring and SpaceX came in to Twitter a week ago, they created Slack channels to communicate amongst themselves.
Several channels were public
Twitter Co also has zero potential advertisement income coming in, due to the husk’s erratic management style and general assholery. Also, someone please tell @Jack to shut the hell up.
Ourselves don’t plan on switching platforms until they shut the servers off… but then again we came from IRC, which has greatly reduced in size and influence; we keep a foothold on a couple networks but we don’t see any kind of substitute for the glorious chaos of an open timeline. But we’ll see.
Dril predicted all this, by the way. A true prophet of our age.
It really is that simple: No one trusts Google. It has exhibited such poor understanding of what people want, need and will pay for that at this point, people are wary of investing in even its more popular products.
Source: Stadia died because no one trusts Google | TechCrunch
The wake-up call was when google killed google reader, but it was ignored by a lot of people cos it was a free service.
Then there was G Suite (Legacy Free). They got a lot of people to rely on google services and then proceeded to straight up betray them. People still didn’t care cos it was also “free service”.
But now with Stadia people will care cos the cost of this cancellation won’t be paid by google— they already wrote off the money. The cost will be borne by developers who trusted google with their games.
I’m somewhat safe as I do pay for some google services but I am looking for alternatives now. Microsoft is not a particularly viable option.
This is a bit of a rant— mostly cos in the past few weeks we’ve seen some of the streamers we follow get hit with Internet issues and they’ll usually blame their ISP. Yeah comcast and charter/spectrum fucken suck but the vast majority of the time they’re not going to be the entity at fault. If you are a “professional” streamer, i.e. you have income from your streams, you owe it to yourself to ensure your Internet connection is actually functional at all times. So this here is for you. Why? Cos all the time we see people spend thousands of dollars on computer hardware (their gaming/streaming rig plus accessories, monitors, lighting, camera, microphone/headset, etc etc) and yet… they still connect their computer to the Internet via wifi.
Then they wonder why they’re lagging in fucken fortnite or why the audio is running half a second behind video on twitch. Bitch pls.
Particularly egregious when it’s people who know better but they just choose not to do it for whatever reason, chief among them that “landlord won’t allow it”. Run that Ethernet cable with command hooks if your have to, gawdamn, but do something.
We’re not a streamer but we do work in IT. A proper, trouble-free setup would replicate what we have right now here at home.
You plug the wifi access points into the switch (they get power via Ethernet), then the switch into the “router”. Turn everything on, then follow the instructions for setting up pfsense. If you’ve ever installed Windows on a computer this all works at the same level of tech skill.
With everything set up (and it isn’t that hard if you’re even somewhat technically inclined and you follow a youtube tutorial like this one) you now have a better network setup that most small businesses out there. Speaking of business… most places do know they need constant Internet connectivity to actually stay open and yet they still choose to have a $25 USD wifi router that reached end-of-life back in 2016 run their stuff, and then they wonder why their Internet fucken sucks.
Feeling fancy and want to take it easy? Go with a Ubiquiti Unifi setup. It’s nice and slick and they also have decent tech support if you have no idea what you’re fucken doing. It will cost you a pretty penny… but their setup is basically flawless and will last you a long time without having issues. If and when you have issues the system itself will tell you what’s wrong. Slick, like we said.
Once all of the things are connected and working, then you connect your computers and phones and streaming boxes and tables to that new network equipment. If you’re a streamer it is very likely there are one or two technically-inclined people who watch your streams and would help out if you ask. But that’s the thing, you have to ask.
If you’re making more than $1000 USD a month from streaming you can certainly afford to pay someone to do this for you. Hire someone, get them on retainer, and now when somethin breaks right before an important stream they’ll be able to help you figure out what the fuck is going on.
Well guess what, here’s an actual blog post. For the past few years we’ve been putting stuff on twitter cos it’s easier to get stuff off the cuff, y’know? But we’ve realize that for a lot of things we want to do a bit more thought. Hence the following.
We’d noticed over the past couple weeks a coworker was downright hostile to us. Earlier we finally got the chance to ask her:
“Hey, is there anything we did to make you angry or annoyed?”
Yes
You don’t listen to anyone
You do whatever you feel like
And you drink too much at work
Which, fair.
Now, we only found out cos we asked. She wasn’t going to let us know she had a problem, and she sure as hell wasn’t going to let management know there was a problem cos then they’ll look at her work performance.
(Management loves us, by the way. They can find no fault with our work, which is how we like it.)
But it is annoying. When they say that it’s hard to make friends in Minnesota they didn’t say anything about people who can’t deal with their own emotions in a healthy way.
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you’re into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I’ve come to terms with it. It’s fine. It’ll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit of a history lesson. Back in iTunes Good
Source: Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs?
Honestly if you’re using the Electron framework for anything you’re not a software developer. You’re a piece of shit who writes shit code and is out to make the world a shittier place.
At the heart of the problem is that the SELinux policies themselves are sort of magical. The policies have probably been provided by the maintainers of your Linux distribution, e.g., Fedora Linux. There’s nowhere on the system where you can view the policies and look up why something might or might not work. The policies also change over time, without any warning.
Source: SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
Red Hat has made it clear the best way to manage SELinux is for you to outsource it to someone, preferably them. I get it, security of this sort is complex, but having to trust random internet postings for instructions on how to do a small task is how we ended up with github readmes saying “just curl this into bash as root”.