"...Although I am unable to go into specifics, we had to evaluate our priorities and had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the service."
"Sensors detect Microsoft OneDrive contract, Captain..."
Narrator: "It was not, in fact, cheaper to host their files in The Cloud."
Someone smart with an RPi and a bit of code can intercept NNTP queries.
"Um, Actually..."
You meant NTP, the Network Time Protocol. NNTP is Network News Transfer Protocol, used to pass around USENET posts.
You'd have to take in a fair bit of formaldehyde for it to be a problem.
Define "fair bit."
Does the outgassing from petrochemical foam, force-fed through your nasal cavities and into your lungs for eight hours every night, constitute a "fair bit?"
I still manage my finances with Quicken 2006, now with 18 years of data. It is at least 3x as fast as the latest Quicken. Click from a checking account to a savings account, and Quicken 2006 switches instantaneously, while the latest Quicken takes 3 excruciating seconds.
Q2006 has a few bugs, but I know what they are and can work around them. For the latest market data, I hit the API from https://site.financialmodeling... and import the data as CSV files.
I'll probably never upgrade. (Anyway, the new Quicken can't import the old data reliably, according to the company.)
Incidentally, a circle with a radius of 60 miles centered around the VMWare campus in Palo Alto includes: Monterey, most of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Salinas, Hollister, Manteca, a fair chunk of Stockton, Fairfield, Rocktram (Napa just barely escapes), Novato, Point Reyes Station, and the Farallon Islands.
"Tell me you don't live around here, without saying you don't live around here..."
On December 1, there was a story on SFGate -- the online component to the San Francisco Chronicle -- covering an email Broadcom management sent to all employees announcing:
Said Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, "Remote work does not exist at Broadcom," but then clarified that sales workers and employees living more than 60 miles away from a Broadcom office would be able to stay remote. "Any other exception, you better learn how to walk on water, I'm serious."
The mandatory return-to-office reportedly went in to effect December 4. Now it seems his latest Genius Plan is to squeeze his customers, thinking he's got them over a barrel.
You'll forgive me if I'm not the least bit motivated to apply to work for the guy.
Earlier this year, I saw a string-based pin setter for the first time (Lucky Strike, San Francisco), and was appalled such a thing existed. Based on what I could see from my end, I initially thought the design's appeal was that it consumed less physical depth than free-standing pin setters -- a potentially desirable characteristic where square footage is at premium prices. It does make sense that it would consume less electricity, as there's no pin lifter that has to run continuously, but it never occurred to me that maintenance costs were lower (although I'd like to see numbers on this).
Yes, European bowling alleys have used string-based setters for a long time, but bear in mind that most European bowling is of the nine-pin variety, which uses much smaller balls and pins. Ten-pin alleys in Europe still use the free-standing pin setters.
And yes, the pin action is very different. The movement of the tethers against each other can pull down pins that otherwise would have been left standing. I witnessed this at least twice. And I can't imagine anyone picking up a 7-10 split with one of these things.
And maybe it's just me (and it probably is), but there seems a certain inauthenticity -- a certain chintziness -- to a string-based pin setter, like I'm playing with a cheap replica for kids rather than the real thing for grown-ups. ("Hey! Are you calling European nine-pins chintzy?" No, just... Unfamiliar. I'm sure there are whole schools of thought on how best to use the tethers to your advantage, and which tether materials are "better" than others. It clearly works for them.)
Anyway, point is, we had ads in our free content for about 50 years, and that's what paid for the content. We wished there were not ads, but it was part of life. And it was fine. [
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It was not fine. Everyone put up with it, because there was no other real choice, but it was not fine.
Even at the time, people correctly complained that the ad block model made certain kinds of shows impossible. Do you think a televised production of Death of a Salesman would have the same emotional impact if it got interrupted every 10 minutes to sell beer?
Ads infuriated me as a child, and the intervening decades have done nothing to improve my opinion of them. Indeed, I regard them as vandalism, litter, pollution -- unnecessary, unwanted, and destructive by their very nature. I hate them so much that.... I pay for YouTube Premium. I visit YouTube exclusively with Firefox, I have never witnessed this reported start delay, and I never am troubled with ads.
<cough> AirTags <cough cough>
People don't "maintain their personality." (See the classic work of Hazel Markus on multiple selves.)
Most people I know aren't the same person with their kids, their lover, their boss, and the IRS.
There is a very primitive Rust utility called btop that is clearly little more than a proof of concept at this stage.
Nevertheless, thanks for the link -- btop looks quite cool.
Google authenticator worked as intended [
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"NOTABUG: Working as designed."
Yeah, we know, Sparky... The design is fucking idiotic!
It seems clear that one of the OTP codes got them into the rube's account -- the second OTP code allowed them to copy out his Google Authenticator database. If that copy hadn't existed -- and indeed did not exist until Google decided to make copies for itself -- then they would have had to keep pumping him for OTP codes, and the damage would likely have been more limited.
The first compromise can be laid at the feet of the dopey employee. Google bears partial responsibility for all subsequent compromises -- for making and keeping a copy of a sensitive database that the entire security community told them at the time was a STUPID FUCKING IDEA!
To be fair, AirBNB isn't a hotel chain, they're a booking facilitator [
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"Well, actually..." Let me summarize their so-called argument:
"We are Craigslist. We only list one kind of thing: Rooms for short-term rental. Like items listed on Craigslist, any transaction between rentee and renter is completely private, and any difficulties that may arise are exclusively between them -- we are nothing more than a listing agent and payment processor, and take a small cut of the transaction as our listing fee."
Same "reasoning" with Oober and Lypht, except they only list ride shares.
Looks like all the employees on LI use stock photos:
Gee, it's a real shame that LinkedIn doesn't have the resources of a true software giant, who could dispatch a couple of interns to kluge together a few functions that would compare uploaded profile photos to images available on stock photo sites, and flag them if they find a match...
Yes... Truly a shame that is, evidently, far beyond their capabilities...
What's your favorite tech innovation?
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
