Decades of speed increases in hardware, yet software is slower than ever because we’re wasting it on JavaScript.

But colored folders!

Centralized storage of pirated content is a problem. You want p2p to continue, otherwise it’s suddenly very easy to deprive all of those streaming sites of content.

I’m so sad that the meme deteriorated. The original Hooty McOwlface was more complex, but the hivemind made it stupid. Boaty McBoatface should have been e. g. Horny McBoatface.

That’s how you recognize bullshit. If there was a kernel of truth worth protecting the offending posts would be removed.

The internet archive archive. Takes snapshots of the entire archive. It’s unfathomably huge.

Come to think of it, I only know two .su domains and they’re pretty great…

I do the same, but it’s very clear that when people talk about “a VPN” they’re referring to a commercial cloud hosted product.

idk what to tell you, calls have no sound.

I’ll try again, though.

Teams calls for example :( I have chromium on my Debian only for teams.

Yeah I agree.

I see potential in a chat bot that can explain concepts and answer questions, supported by illustrations.

Infrastructure maintenance is management, security and day to day business, while software engineering is mostly concerned with itself. They use distinct tools and generally have nothing to do with each other (except maybe integration).

We need new terms, IT means “works with computers, but more than Word and Excel” for too many people. In Switzerland they split the apprenticeship names to ‘platform engineer’ and ‘application engineer’, which I think is fitting.

All of that is fine, and they mentioned the management perspective, which I get. It was a field test and our original choice of 4001 - which is what other serial to TCP servers like us use, also in their network - was unavailable.

What irks me is the “technical impossibility” of raw TCP and “I must be wrong” when filling out their firewall change form.

They’ve since given us a different port “close to others that we use”, for whatever reason that matters, and based their choice on some list of common protocols outside the reserved range. But not 4001.

That by itself is just one thing and I wouldn’t give it a second thought, but it’s all part of a larger picture of ineptitude. They opened a ticket because an arrow at the border of our UI vanished when they screen shared on Teams. Because of the red border. And they blamed our application for it.

They didn’t set up their PKI correctly and opening our webpage on specific hosts gave the typical “go back” warning. But it was our fault somehow, even though the certificate was the one they supplied us and it was valid.

When trying to request a firewall change IT told me “ports between 1 and 1024 are reserved and can’t be used for anything else” so I couldn’t be using it for a pure TCP connection, and besides, there would have to be a protocol on top of TCP, just TCP as protocol is obviously wrong. I was using port 20 because it was already open…

Where’s the “CALL ME THE MEME LORD” meme

The problem is non-savvy people classifying connecting a Bluetooth or wifi as complicated.

A friend of a friend found that exporting to csv and importing is the fastest route. Honestly crazy, but I recreated a test and it’s actually a little faster (when dumping and recreating the whole table, ymmv when inserting).

I’m not 100% sure if it was MSSQL, though.

No, it’s boating related. Four days in a sail.

Also it’s just broken. Try to add an IP without gateway and it won’t let you.