Here’s hoping for actual dino nugget.

As long as they’re dinosaur shaped, I’m in.

Yuuuup. I think it’s well past time to let Temu Uncle Fester go.

Personally, I’m just kind of surprised that there was a motorcade in the damn thing to begin with. Nobody even puts boats in that, let alone cars.

I think we cracked the code. This “diet” is just bulimia with extra steps.

I’m in both camps on IPv6, although much more to the hate than love side of things.

Pros: More addresses for everyone. Should solve IP exhaustion for a lot of folks, even those of us that live off the LAN most of the time. A lot of the globe uses it these days, so in some ways, it’s always a good time to migrate.

Cons: It is NOT a drop-in replacement for IPv4. ICMPv6 is necessary for this to really tick. You cannot simply turn it off since it’s way more than ping packets this time around. It brings with it a beefy attack surface, and you must be able to handle a range of message types correctly. Hardening requires use of SEND and other tech, making it a more expensive proposition over all.

• https://www.systemshardening.com/articles/network/icmp-security-tunnelling/#icmpv6:-what-you-cannot-block
• https://netseccloud.com/ipv6-neighbor-discovery

Rant:

Also, it’s really easy to just put your entire home LAN on the /56 or whatever range your ISP gives you. This might be a mistake, as an error in your firewall config could just put everything on the open internet. Meanwhile, the humble IPv4 NAT, that ships standard in every ISP router/switch they give you, fails closed by default - stock and bad configurations hide everything from the internet instead.

Really, all anyone wanted was IPv4 with a bigger address space. This could have been an extension header for IPv4, ICMP, ARP, some clever address management on the part of ICANN, and we would have called it a day.

Don’t worry. You and everyone you know is chain-smoking cigarettes all the time. Nobody will notice.

I hate that I even know what you’re talking about. May this upvote be mentally cleansing for us both.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I had no idea this has been going on for this long, even though all this stuff was in plain sight the whole time.

More likely: Erik installed some NexusMods stuff that he’d probably rather not talk about.

I completely missed something with this whole trend. I get wanting to go metal (or glass) to avoid microplastics, but is it all just conspicuous consumption after that, or am I missing something more fundamental?

Meanwhile, I’m only using a steel flask on hiking trips; a freebie from a previous job at that. A coffee cup or glass does the job for me at the office.

so responsibility part was skipped.

The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.

My head-canon here is that time in the Star Wars universe is measured by something smaller than human (earthling) scale. Like if Coruscant has a 90-day year, or some short-lived species had an outsized influence on measuring time and/or standardized the galaxy’s calendar. Or maybe humans are one of the most long-lived species around. So, one or two human generations works out to be “a long time ago.”

I got this a lot when I was an actual boss. It was always done in a brotherly, jokingly left-handed, kind of way. This fits perfectly with my management style. It was nice.

because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.

Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.

Of course the real problem is when someone in the change swaps out from a benevolent manager to dick :)

Had this happen with a VP seat. The resignations that followed made the office look like ground-zero for an extinction-level event.

In summary, they‘ve developed incredible killing machines that are able to act autonomously, which is very good for them right now but probably not very good for humanity in the long run.

It’s possible that this becomes the new “mutually assured destruction” we had back in the 20th. Basically, a cold war brought on by drones instead of nukes. It could mean a near-future of peace, however uneasy. I can’t say that living with the looming propagandized threat of the USSR was good, but I think it was a far sight better than being in an active shooting war with them.

Nice.

bird pussy

The judges would also have accepted “giraffe balls” and “a kite”.

Most companies are politically fiefdoms of a sort. This is by design. You’re completely dependent on the benevolence of the management chain above you. This also explains why decadent or malicious management is nearly impossible to overcome without resorting to involving lawyers.

Agreed. Stop the bleeding first, then triage based on wounds and prognosis.

Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.

I’m fully prepared to not live long enough to see that repaired. Not that it’s hopeless, but it really will take a lifetime.

There’s a few that come close. This situation is about as bad as the more milquetoast vault outcomes: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_known_Vaults