Dead on perspective.

I’ve worked for that company, it was all “we can react in a moments notice on our smart phones” and other BS.

Then we got a real customer, the first thing out of their mouth was "what happens if a bad player gets access to one of those “smart” phones?

*crickets

I was there for sales support. aka a data center monkey (engineer), I was there to answer “can we do that?” from sales.

So blank stares follow from sales, sales looks at me to answer. I have been bitching that this is YUGE security hole for the last 2 years and I can’t answer w/o making the company look bad.

Then I realize why I’m there, I’m the escape goat (scapegoat). I sputter we are all patched up to the latest, we follow the tech bulletins (aka we are reactionary NOT proactive, no TQL another thing I bitched about). I’m trying to defend the undefendable, I wanted a walled system. You have to VPN in to see anything, no smart devices, not “lets everyone have access system” party.

The sale tanked, I got blamed, I said GFY and quit. Got another gig but played dumb as it was easier day to day to let another chump like me learn a lesson. Take the pay check and go home.

Now I live by: “Not my monkeys, not my circus”

And don’t get me going on Grafana… Let “church” up and make pretty data w/ another layer of M&C I have to set parameters too for the bosses to “oh ahh” over for some stuff shirt middle manager in a corn blue tie…

So you can see why I hate “smart” anything.

My big issue is a legally owned machine gun, yeah it happens. I never expected to buy it, the price was right. Now its ATF paperwork and the fucking furniture.

This is one of those moments, like buying a new car that all the “bells"and whistles” in the end work against you.

“The things you own end up owning you.”

-T Durden

I’m going thru this right now. I spent most of my life being able to move in 24 hours. Now I have to plan, I have to check local laws, I feel a slave to things I “own”. Point is the same w/ this. Your unnecessary web enabled device “own” them too.

Why do you need a web enabled fridge/freezer? I want a SNMP/Trap (one way, exit only) alarm when temp is getting near outside the “safe zone”. One way, I set the numbers local, can’t be changed otherwise.

Its simple (as am I), why does it need to be on the “cloud”??? AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?

Its wild how many parts of the world outlaw motorcycles. As a rider too I feel for the locals…

And that cat it too dang cure, all tuckered out guarding the store :) Too dang cute!!!

Not since Xi showed up, from what I heard China has really cracked down on the shenanigans plus they put up bollards to prevent it.

Funny I’m not “seeing” this in the PM’s markets. In fact silver right now is about the lowest I have seen in ages, fighting off the idea of buying some Au/Ag.

EDIT:

But in the spirit of what I think the AI boom is going to do:

Pop Goes The Weasel

Guangzhou, China takes the cake. I was there for a few weeks. Wrong side of the road, wrong way on one way streets, ON THE FUCKING SIDEWALKS w/ ped traffic. It was insane!

Dominican Republic is a distant second, there was order to the chaos I could see after a few weeks… China it was pure entropy at its finest!

Tell me you have never been oversea’s (let alone drove there) without telling me you have never been overseas.

Everywhere in the world people drive like ass hats. It part of the human condition.

I have a suggestion:

https://youtu.be/yYFM66TC4nI

/s and NSFW

1. Japan
2. Costa Rica
3. Argentina
4. Thailand
5. Poland

Roger Roger…

https://youtu.be/NfDUkR3DOFw

Well not lost, I have one of those jobs I can game at work. But I did play a lot.

I’ll check ut the video of the other game to see if its my cup of tea :)

Never heard of that game, but Factorio I have lost months or more of my life too! Great game

Welp know one is swiping my lighter ever again…

Also there is a veiled threat of “cement shoes” if you do steal your lighter.

Finally an Apple product I would buy…

Screw that I miss old school spiders/crawlers. If you knew how to search them correctly you could find “pass dumps” and all kinds of weird shit you can’t find now days.

Now every search is ranked bullshit and ads. Dead internet is here and only going to get worse…

Caacaa Doodoo

teehee.

Oh this is gonna be sweet, my photo is of a 1970’s pr0nstar.