Disaster @ Disaster @sh.itjust.works

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At least we have Bitwig for music production now (if you can work out how to use it.. I still haven't had the time :-/ )

Ever since Nitter died I haven't paid any attention to anything on musks' little fiefdom at all.

I wish the political economics guys would move... I really miss Tim Sahay/70sbachchan & Mark Blyth.

It beggars belief that people still make the argument you responded to after the whole Clownstrike debacle.

reliability problems?

I dropped truenas, ran fedora server + zfs dkms module. It's been perfectly fine for a couple of years (even accounting for that nasty silent data corruption bug..)

And domain permissions work properly now. People have been asking Ix for proper support for IPA for over a decade, they aren't interested in solving it.

A Reichtangle, obviously.

That dude should not have put up with that.

80% of our machines were hit. We were working through 9pm on Friday night running around putting in bitlocker keys and running the fix. Our organization made it worse by hiding the bitlocker keys from local administrators.

Also gotta say... way the boot sequence works, combined with the nonsense with raid/nvme drivers on some machines really made it painful.

Really wish we'd get some nice, fast RISC-V base boards with a nice amount of flash memory paired with a cool round LCD display..keep patrolling CNX for the parts but they don't seem to be quite there yet.

The riots are coming.

Yeah, kinda funny how it's OK when there's a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?

Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC's bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.

"I paid for this traffic light, therefore I want to use all three bulbs at once"

"Today nothing happened, and everything is fine. (Fear it, fear it)"

CGnat is an abomination.

Respect and discipline AND infrastructure is the answer.

NYC's cyclists (of whom I know many) need to follow traffic laws.

Those laws are there because people need to act predictably on the street. When a red light becomes a mere suggestion for cyclists, motorists eventually start treating them as such as well. Monkey see, monkey do.

...and getting t-boned by some douchecanoe driving a car when you have the light is commonly fatal for a cyclist.

There was an uptick in utterly shitty driving from 2019 onwards in NYC, and the police stopped all enforcement actions even in egregious cases... then the roads became, and largely remain, a free-for-all. I've seen some attempts recently to start clearing the mess up, but too often NYPD are ignoring these dangerous road users... or hiding their license plates and being offenders themselves.

...and this is before you're fighting for space in a the bikelane with some drunk+stoned asshole on a moped.

I'm fully in favor of delivery professionals being required to have a license and display it at all times when on the clock. They should also be required to have specific insurance, and a highly visible personal identifier when working. They should also get automatic Union representation and a living wage.

Anything more powerful than a class-C e-bike should have a license plate, and if not it gets taken and destroyed, or auctioned to a more responsible owner. Sales of these vehicles without a registration needs to be illegal. Anything more powerful than a class-C e-bike found in a bike lane should be impounded on the spot. Running a stop sign or a red light should get you a ticket, regardless of what wheels you're on. Going the wrong way down a one way street should get you a ticket.

It doesn't help that NYC doesn't have the space and largely practices "maximum-conflict" street design... but that's just the slow, shitty entropic action of self-serving interests pushing communities around, and they react very slowly. It takes (usually multiple) fatalities for anyone to wake up and actually do anything about it.

Also wear a damned helmet.

I mean.. yeah layoff a whole bunch of people and start treating your employees like replaceable commodities.. then go ahead and arrogantly deploy technology you don't understand and :surprisepikachu: everything breaks.

But management get to do things without personal consequence, as they'll just lay off more workers to cover their absolute incompetence and things will continue to get worse.

Perhaps we should be replacing C-suite dipshits with AI's instead.

The DNC has literally argued, successfully, in court, that is has every right to rig its own primaries.

Voting in primaries is pointless unless that changes.

That has little to do with whatever political machinations are occurring and more to do with housing and necessities inflation driving labor pressure as a lagging inflation indicator.

Think of it as a tectonic/landscape thing rather than the stupid games people happen to be playing on the landscape.

Of course if any of them had their heads out of their own asses, or the asses of their owners, they might recognize this and start adapting...