jbloggs777

joined 1 year ago

Battery-licking good!

I bet those avocado toast eating whippersnappers feel stupid.

They could have had their own one wall by now!

Your advice on ISPs is jurisdiction specific. As an example, in Germany and some other countries, you have private law firms involved, tracking down people with the help of the courts, shaking people down with threats of civil lawsuits. VPNs good, though.

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=jeYa__ATQDc for adding virtual instruments (VST, LV2, CLAP). I recommend Surge XT as a great free synth. Windows VSTs need something like yabridge to wrap wine and the plugin.

Not sure about your bug, but try using pipewire & the jack interface with reaper. Ping me if you need more assistance.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a good chance that there are A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.

It mostly runs. An Azure-optimized HyperV build is the primary hypervisor I think, but I'd wager that most customer VMs on Azure are running Linux. However, if you want to run Windows in the cloud, it's a decent option.

My experience with Azure has been less than stellar. They have good API documentation, but tooling & core compute is a bit janky. The web UI is also a throwback to a past era, but you can't really avoid it when debugging issues which you have to do often during development. Then the developers want to forget all about it ... which is a problem when something inevitably breaks.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

Hah.. I like it. tweets are now x-cretions.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Oh I don't know... twitter was probably seen as good tool for more pump & dump and other financial scams, not to mention the opportunity to influence worldwide politics.

Then there's the wish to turn it into an everything app with micro transactions at every step of the way. Such a beast wouldn't get far in the EU, and probably not the US either.

Ouch.

The Kubernetes ecosystem is full of tools and addons to help solve particular problems (often utilizing the dynamic nature of K8s), but each of these brings additional complexity, which add up over time until it's very hard to intuitively reason about the consequences of change.

I personally prefer my IaaC with a manual review & approval step. Once you get more automated, the testing complexity & cost (and need for additional dev/test environments), and of course risk increases.

It's a shame that the backup/restore testing didn't work in this case, though. These kind of TIFUs are better with a happy-ish end.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alcohol does have an effect, as everyone will attest, but there is also an effect to arriving home, cracking open a cold drink, and relaxing for a while. It may not work for all, of course.

I have a NA beer that tastes almost identical to its alcoholic brother, and there are definitely similar results from a single beer..

The good thing with the NA version is that I sleep better and can snap myself out of the relaxed state if needed. It also makes it possible to mix & match at social events, so that I don't over-do it.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I honestly couldn't understand how people had any praise for him in years past. He always came across as (yet another) embarrassing forever teenager, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and little sympathy for or understanding of others.

This is in vast contrast to Bill Gates who (despite my loathing of Microsoft's business practices, especially in the 90's and early 00's) continued to grow and earned some respect with his philanthropic endeavours and just generally acting like an educated adult.

Still, I'd rather have fewer rich jetsetters and more competent Governments and international institutions, effectively working to better mankind.

Except it's often not your ISP going after you, and https does not protect against everything. A few years ago there was a scandal in Germany when a moneygrubbing law firm took out ads on a porn site to get user IPs and the referer header, then sent demands to users for illegally downloading copyrighted material.

A court initially rubber-stamped the requests for IP info from the law firm.

A better judge/court clarified the law (streaming is fine in Germany) in that case and there were hopefully consequences for the law firm and the lawyers involved, but some suckers paid hush money first.

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