TheUniverseandNetworks

The main problem for me is that it's so confident in it's tone, like that idiot friend who just makes stuff up, but totally believes it. So there's no clue (like you would get with a normal person) that the thing has no clue if what it just wrote is true or not. I could bear it more if it said "I'm not sure, but..." But then if did that then none of the idiot CEOs would buy it, so here we are...

Don't learn out of work, learn in work. But... I'm retired now, got out just in time.

Actually they might (in my experience) be interested enough to listen if you can dumb it down enough: e.g. I found this thing that wasn't very well written and I re-wrote it and now it runs 1,000 times faster. You probably need to ELI5 to manglement anyway, so why not for the family too? Hopefully they'll respond to your enthusiasm if nothing else.

Your dynamic is perhaps different, but you do have the empathy (or whatever) to know that it's different.

Surely it's the death of anonymity for those who want to access stuff which would be age restricted in any other scenario (like a real shop). The rest of the population (most?) don't care to access that stuff & don't want it and can carry on being anonymous.

And yes that gives the likes of Facebook et al a problem because they'll have to categorise their content, but the whole point of this current fad for governments to legislate to restrict stuff is that the big tech companies could have (made efforts to) fix it but chose not to because it's (waves hands and wails) hard.

Unless you want to use Matter which (from my glancing at the docs) requires IPv6?

I drive through a new area near our home everyday (in UK). Some of the manhole covers make a loud "clonk" noise when I drive over them. I avoid them because it will otherwise annoy our new neighbours. I used to live off a main road into town. There was a loose manhole cover there which drove me crazy until I managed to get the council to fix it. Probably just had stones in it making it loose.

I remember WordPerfect when it was still a DOS program. The simplicity of "this format code affects all text after it" was elegant.

And then we got Word foisted on us, with "this format code (which you have no way of viewing) affects the block of text before it" so if you accidentally delete or move that format code then you screw up a seemingly random bunch of text. And here we are.

That was fantastic! 😊

That's often the case, or for a smaller garage they will do (if you ask for it) a pre-inspection/service & then take it somewhere else to be tested. AFAIK It's allowed to be driven on the road without a valid MOT if it's on the way to or from an appointment at a testing centre, and a retest is free.

As others have said, if your VMs are Linux, set up unattended_updates and forget about it.

If your VMs are windows, then Action1 is free up to 200 clients, it does need an agent installed, but that auto updates too.

That's only true if someone guessing your pass phrase knows that it's made up of words and not random characters.

The idea behind pass phrases is that these things are easy for your human brain to remember, but long enough to be hard to guess by typing random characters (or even combinations of words) by an attacker or a computer (or even a LLM)

I always loved reading Joel's stuff, clear & well thought out. It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that's kinda got buried now. Things come & things go...