Vibe Resuscitation

(Commenting more on the "everyone should use AI for everything" bit...)

I fucking HATE this timeline. I want to be put in suspended animation until this AI bullshit hype has played itself out, and then woken up. Pretty please?

Maybe self-hosted is not everyone's future... but it's my future---and present, for that matter.

A cloud service as a regulated and public utility is a good idea. But I'm still gonna hang on to my self-hosted setup (and maybe use the cloud service as a backup.)

AI-savvy employees would tell executives exactly what kind of bullshit hype AI is. Is that really what executives want?

I think an advanced Western economy and democracy won't go the way of the Soviet Union.

If people are generally happy, why should they "strive to achieve things"?

Anyway, I think there will always be people who "strive to achieve things" in any society, but it's not as if that's necessarily the peak of morality.

So Norwegians score low on productivity and take a lot of vacation days. Who the fuck cares? If Norwegians are happy (and the data indicates that they are) and have a satisfying lifestyle, good luck to them. Don't fetishize growth and productivity.

Yes, the closing lyrics from Clementine are sublime...

"That I missed her depressed her
Young sister named Esther.
This mister to pester she'd try.

Now a pestering sister's
A festering blister
'Tis best to resist her say I.

The mister resisted; the sister persisted;
I kissed her; all loyalty slipped.
When she said I could have her
Her sister's cadaver
Must surely have turned in its crypt!"

The song.

So many great songs. The Elements. New Math. Masochism Tango. Even his take on "Oh my Darling, Clementine" in different musical styles.

I first heard Tom Lehrer when I was about 12 years old and immediately loved his work. He was a complete lyrical and musical genius.

When he made his work available royalty-free, I mirrored his entire web site and introduced his work to my singing teacher (who, inexplicably, had never heard of him!) I've had great joy in learning to sing a few of his songs: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park; Oedipus Rex; The MLF Lullabye; Vatican Rag; Pollution... all masterpieces.

RIP, Mr. Lehrer.

There's a big difference between lack of DNSSEC and an actual DNSSEC failure. The former is not a spam indicator; the latter is a red flag and most resolvers can (and should) be configured to refuse to resolve a domain with a DNSSEC failure.

I don't use IoT devices for that very reason. Since DoH simply uses HTTPS, it's hard to effectively block DoH without blocking HTTPS too (though I guess you could block based on the destination IP address.)

I understand the need for DoH and the desire not to have your ISP monkey with your DNS traffic, but sometimes it's the client devices that are not completely trustworthy and it's I who wants to monkey with the DNS traffic.

Haha, OK... then: "Within a factor of 1.4"

DNSSEC doesn't encrypt queries or responses. It just proves that responses haven't been tampered with (to the extent that a valid digital signature "proves" anything.)

To be honest, I didn't think adoption was as high as 34%. To me, that's a success, around the same order of magnitude as IPv6 adoption.

I enabled DNSSEC on my domains a while back. And I host my own DNS; I don't use Google or Cloudflare or whatever. The setup process was mildly annoying, but there were plenty of online resources, and I only had to do it once. Modern versions of BIND make it much easier than the ancient version I started with.