Not an American either, but imagine a group of Disney adults just got their photo taken with Micky in front of that plastic castle at Disneyland. The camera clicks and immediately they all turn to each other and laugh and slap each others backs. What fun! Basically they did that in front of a monument to dead soldiers. What fun!

You mean to tell me running sfc /scannow and DISM.exe didn’t fix the problem?

defrag c: /f /v

So, this is fucking wild, but I actually got an email from GCHQ today, telling me my server was vulnerable to this attack and how to fix it. Gratifying, but bizarre.

Different subnets, similar to how you describe. It would be really tricky to have them on the same subnet, especially if you want a firewall between them.

FWIW, I use the VLAN approach. I have a VLAN (101) specifically for IoT shit. The firewall allows devices on other VLANs - general purpose (104), infrastructure (102) and servers (103) to connect in to 101, but nothing can reach out. Works seamlessly. The only issue you might bump into is that some devices use UPnP/mDNS for discovery, but OpenWRT has a proxy module you can install to facilitate that.

You may be wondering why the tags I use for my VLANs are so odd. I also wonder that sometimes.

You also need to use the real remote to block GB News (or FOX, etc).

There’s no road user more entitled than a British driver of a Land Rover Discovery towing a caravan. I live very close to one of these routes and they are a fucking nightmare.

Usually running on slick summer tyres and with no clue how to approach turns or inclines (but it’s okay! - the engine is powerful enough for them not to care and they pressed the little “inclines” button which magically fixes everything), they’re convinced they’re invincible, absolutely will not wait their turn or give way, will insist they everyone else get off their road, all the time outraged that we’d dare to exist in their presence. That five hundred year old wall they just knocked over? It came out of nowhere! And, besides it shouldn’t have been there anyway - the countryside should have taken them into account.

People talk about the legacy of the floppy disk (mid-eighties to mid-aughts) being used as a save icon, but drive letters are even more extreme - and absurd - than that.

CP/M came out in 1974 and introduced drive letters A: and B: for floppy drives, and Microsoft copied that for DOS and the early DOS-based versions of Windows. Microsoft finally killed off the DOS lineage with Windows Me in 2000, so that was 26 years of drive letters actually being part of the OS’ architecture.

Windows NT came out in 1993 - 19 years after CP/M - and didn’t use drive letters but for the sake of backwards compatibility and familiarity it would emulate them. All versions of Windows since 2000 are based on NT. So we had 26 years of drive letters being needed, and 33 years of faking it for consistency.

Yeah, like how it’s dumb for kids to not know about dialling rotary phones, manually tuning in a TV with a knob, being afraid of burning themselves of the incandescent bulb in their bedside lamp or rewinding a VHS tape before ejecting it from the VCR.

If you can’t build your own kernel, store-bought is fine.

I like to imagine the buyer lives next door to the warehouse, so no matter how they send it - on the back on a tortoise, or fired out of a railgun - it’ll arrive same day.

OpenWRT is great and the built-in web interface, LUCI, makes it as easy to configure as any serious network kit. What I will say, though, is that OpenWRT is a real network OS, more akin to enterprise grade tools like Cisco or SonicWall than anything sold in a big box store. Again, LUCI makes it easy and hides a lot of complexity so there’s nothing to fear, but you quickly come to realise the power of OpenWRT isn’t that it turns your Wifi Thing into a better WiFi Thing, but that it turns your Wifi Thing into a WiFi, routing, firewalls, bridging, VLAN, mesh, PPP, VPN, and a thousand other things Thing.

I like you.

Perhaps she’ll d- EVERYONE IN DPRK IS WELL AND HAS ACCESS TO EXCELLENT HEALTHCARE

Reminds me of an episode of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law which lists the benefits of the workplace. I couldn’t find the clip, but from memory:

• Toilet paper allowance
• Chairs (for earners)
• Subsidized pens
• Air (for earners)
• Unrestricted internal phone calls
• Remnants of meeting muffins
• Stairs
• A mostly pest-free environment
• Complimentary tickets to already free events
• Bikram Filing
• Take your mistress to work day
• Emergency Exits (senior staff only)

I feel conflicted about even upvoting this repost. It’s nice to know I still have some scruples left.

☝️🤓 ACKSHUALLY

EVs aren’t automatic, either. They just have a single, fixed gear like those hipster bikes from a few years back.

Broke: Inception is the sequel to Titanic

Woke: All Leonardo DiCaprio films take place in a single, internally consistent Dicapriverse.

Honestly when I first encountered one I hadn’t heard of the regulatory reasons for it and I just thought, “oh, neat”. I wonder how many people who complain about them were prevented from forming their own opinions by being told to hate it first.

What’s an AI photobooth? I’m just imagining a booth where you have your photo taken and it prints a totally unrelated AI-generated photo. Like, you go for a passport photo and get a picture of Marie Curie and the Hulk windsurfing on the Moon.