Something that has been passed down between generations in our family are home wireless network SSIDs.

if ByteDance divests they should do so into 8 smaller companies called BitDance

you ever wonder how many hours of your life you spend just copying firmware to microsd cards and uploading it to things

Plans are already underway to aggravate my conservative mother in law on Christmas Day by suggesting people are 3D printing woke drones.

“Sir, we seem to be alarming the public - perhaps we shut the program down temporarily until things are calmer?”

“No, this program continues until we here at Dominos deliver the first pizza by drone!”

Please do not, under any circumstances, give Experian or any other credit reporting bureau or whatever fancy title they use for themselves, access to your bank account so they can monitor your spend and “save you money”.

@foone can you RDP into the desktop from the RDP session into the VM?

The two young software engineers clinked their espresso martini glasses together.

“Cheers! Here’s to self hosting our own implantation of an open source enterprise observability tool to save us a ton of money!!”

“Cheers!!”

They each took a sip, but their celebration was short lived. They noticed a darkened figure at the end of the bar. They couldn’t see the figure’s face, but it appeared they had a hunched over back and a dark jacket.

The figure spoke up, with a deep voice that had been fine tuned by a thousand cigarettes.

“You folks would do well to not self host anything, unless you work at Google,” the voice said, before taking a swig of drink to stifle a cough.

The two young software engineers looked at one another before one answered.

“Oh yeah? What’s it to you? Who are you anyway?”

The figure leaned in from the darkness. It was an older man. He had a beard and incredibly large bags under both eyes.

“Let’s just say,” he began, “I was you once, and then I decided to self host an ELK stack, and things, well, things changed.”

The other developer, although slightly taken aback, was quick to laugh it off.

“Ha! When was that, 1983? Things are different now old man!”

The man stood up. He slid a folded note across the bar, and walked towards the exit, but not before stopping for one final word. He put his nicotine stained hand on the shoulder of the developer who’d just called him an old man.

“It was six months ago.”

He left without another word.

Crazy how a president of a country did a really bad thing for democracy and the democratic system in that country was able to withstand it because everyone entrusted to enforce that democratic system was like “wait this is like really bad for democracy”, rather than, you know, being all like “whelp, guess we have a dictator now, glad I said nice things about his steaks.”

Marketing: "we need to put something on the website about our security, could we do something about military grade security?"

Security: "No, other security people will ridicule us."

Marketing: "ok fine we'll come up with something."

“We are taking action to ban an entity that collects huge swaths of information about US citizens without their consent, has a demonstrated history of not protecting that information once collected, and as such represents a significant national security risk.”

“Good, it’s about time someone did something about these credit reporting agencies.”