I believe some of that is because TikTok doesn’t allow certain words / subjects (like suicide), and so people have to make up / use other words to try to avoid having their posts removed. At least that’s what I heard regarding the origin of “unaliving”…

There’s a lot of denial where I live too. The very popular conservative right-wing party has gone from comically absurd denial to “sure, it’s real, but it’s not that bad, and in any case the important thing is to not waste any money so we must think long and hard about what to do about it” (meaning they will do nothing and defend it as being “financially healthy politics” or some bullshit like that).

Many other politicians (center/left) seem to have shifted their talking points from “we must do something about it” to “we must adapt to the climate changes” (in other words, between the lines they say “there’s nothing we can do about it, except learn to live with it”). Only the green party still tries, but they’re not very big.

At my job we get like half of a pizza FOR FREE maybe once or twice a year. It’s not a personal pizza, but still. Pretty crazy bonus.

The same with podcasts, especially geolocated ads or what they’re called. Here in Norway I always get the same fucking ads on every damn podcast, and they are horrible, like getting raped in the ears. At least I learn which companies to avoid…

I’ve seen the term “lumberjill” (because Jack and Jill, I guess), but don’t know if it’s common or even in use.

Yes! I did this so many times as a t(w)een! Good times.

(Tech worker here, hoping to move to the countryside next year.)

Absolutely. I probably wouldn’t be doing any farming, except grow some vegetables for my own needs. But I would definitely build my own awesome local infrastructure with a server room and network cables in the walls and all that good stuff. When I retire and don’t have to spend 8-10 hours a day in front of a computer at work, it’ll probably be enjoyable and satisfying again to work on and maintain my own computers and stuff. Currently I rarely have the motivation or energy to do that.

And if the house is large enough I’d also make certain areas/rooms completely tech free. Like maybe a small library with only books and comfy chairs, and no wifi signal.

It’s attributed to George Orwell, but when I googled it it seems that it wasn’t actually him who said it… So who knows

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies”

I’m a big fan of GoHuFont

Protip: Don’t watch the documentary “Praying for Armageddon”…

Not where I work. My thinkpad is managed by the understaffed IT department, and is severely crippled by clownstrike and other garbage and bloatware. Linux is not allowed, only windows.

But my colleagues who chose a MacBook don’t have all that crap because said IT department haven’t figured out how to remotely manage Macs yet…

https://techstory.in/proton-mail-faces-backlash-over-claims-of-political-neutrality-amid-ceos-praise-for-republican-party/

Both of these “parents” were arrested and convicted for child abuse.

DaddyOFive was horrible, and straight up abuse. I was there when it was exposed by some big youtuber and then the story took off on reddit. It was very disturbing, and even more so to know that hundreds of thousands of people subscribed to the channel and thought it was funny entertainment… Thankfully the parents were arrested, and the children got help, but my faith in humanity got permanently damaged during those days.

From skimming the description on Wikipedia I’m glad I’ve never seen anything from that other channel.

https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

No, it’s a concentration ranch! Totally different.

It should be possible to download the audio files directly from archive.org, using a browser.

You should also say/yell “I do not consent!”, because it’s illegal to search or arrest someone without their consent. It was a popular spell a few years ago, but I don’t see it being used much anymore, so it’s possible that the cops have found a counterspell. 😉

Not an expert, but the only thing I can imagine is that it’s related to certificates or keypairs used for encrypted communication / authentication. Afaik ssl certificates can be issued to a given company, for example, and might become invalid when that company no longer exists. Or it becomes impossible to issue new ones.

Something in that vein, maybe.

Had a similar thing at work not long ago.

A newly deployed version of a component in our system was only partially working, and the failures seemed to be random. It’s a distributed system, so the error could be in many places. After reading the logs for a while I realized that only some messages were coming through (via a message queue) to this component, which made no sense. The old version (on a different server) had been stopped, I had verified it myself days earlier.

Turns out that the server with the old version had been rebooted in the meantime, therefore the old component had started running again, and was listening to the same message queue! So it was fairly random which one actually received each message in the queue 😂

Problem solved by stopping the old container again and removing it completely so it wouldn’t start again at the next boot.