Man, imagine if Musk could just tell his fleet of cars to accelerate into the nearest utility pole or off the nearest bridge. He could just push that patch down to anybody he wants. Probably completely untracked.

Eh, he most likely could do that. Reason#253 why I wouldn’t buy a Tesla.

Do you think the “richest country in the world” should have people dying of exposure or malnourishment? That they should end up that way because of a bad cosmic dice roll?

Check your privilege. Nobody is self-made in a vacuum.

This is USB over IP, not IP over USB.

The product you linked is for USB devices to be able I be used over a network. One common use-case is getting hardware license tokens (on a USB dongle) accessible to a virtual machine…especially when that VM can move dynamically between hosting servers for load-balancing or fail-over.

The closest I’ve seen is a cart intended for tablets or Chromebooks that gives 60W PD + Ethernet over one USB-C port. So something similar exists. I think with this though, you had to bring your own Ethernet switch.

I would love to see something like that, but with active cooling and 180-240W PD. And probably dual L6-30s, if not more, to power the damn thing.

The subscription service/pay-to-play being everywhere has to stop eventually, right?

Like, eventually enough consumers will realize that they are bent over the barrel by their services.

I was darkly joking that Microsoft is like an abuser in another post yesterday, but the more I thought about it, the more the metaphor stuck. They take and take, make decisions on your behalf, cut you off from outsiders and make it increasingly difficult to escape the longer you let them get away with it. And that’s not Microsoft’s fault…that’s capitalism, baby!

Well it’s a good show regardless.

Oh, well, you should. The comment about running a hotel reminded me of it. He was a big part of the inspiration for Psycho (and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and probably others), and there’s sidebar stories with Alfred Hitchcock and the actor from Psycho.

Op, I may be misunderstanding. Are you saying the blog owner used your quote in the article, or are you saying a botted comment used your name and content?

The former is fair use, the latter is outrageous.

There is of course a third possibility, and that is that you should check your Carbon Monoxide detectors.

We’ve had two kids.

The first one was in a major birthing hospital, huge building that pretty much did only maternal/ob&gyn/neonatal.

The second one was a small suburban network hospital.

Without a doubt, hands down, no questions, even if we were in the parking lot of the other when she went into labor…we would choose the second one.

The first one literally treated us like we were buying a car. Just, constantly upselling us everywhere. Talked her into an unnecessary C-section because he had a large head and shoulders. Treated us like bad parents when she struggled with breastfeeding (seriously, the breast-is-best folks, and the LLL, can all get fucked).

The second one…the kid was trending larger and they were incredibly supportive of a VBAC. Which went very well.

All this to say…I really do not get surprised when people get skeptical of the medical industrial complex. In this particular instance, they did it to themselves. And of course that has rippling effects in other healthcare (i.e. vaccination).

Bonus story, A year or so after the birth of our second, my wife met a woman with two little kids at a COVID playgroup (like, an outdoor playgroup during COVID…not like a pox party), the same age as ours.

Over time they (and our kids) became best friends. We come to realize and piece stories together…she was one of the overnight maternity nurses taking care of us with our second.

Part of me thinks that’s (a part of) why they were pushing the death penalty for him now.

Mine.

I should state that I’m not a programmer. I’m a network engineer.

I work for a space (among other things) contractor, and there are days I feel like I’m mission control for Apollo 13.

My racist FIL was quite proud of his little black figurine in a shot-glass.

Did you see the Netflix Ed Gein limited series?

You can’t make mini brains that way, the republicans get mad.

Plot twist, she really did like getting pissed on, and she knew it ahead of time. She was gaming you for that golden shower.

Using a RAM drive for swap?

Am I misunderstanding the point of swap?

Je suis Charlie.

Oh shit wrong Charlie.

From a networking perspective I’m impressed.

Yeah, high density APs that can handle a lot of clients exist, in theory…but in practice you can’t expect many devices to be simultaneously in-use. Having this many clients per square foot? SNR for those phones must be terrible. Amazing it works.

Climbing stairs for 40 days sounds like its own hell.

Mortal sin, straight to hell.

What kind of goose tries to avoid its bill?