Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.

Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.

I always think of this when someone tells me to water my plants regularly and not always let them dry out and subsequently overwater the shit out of them to compensate.

No, motherfucker, we live in uncertain times.

Ross, if our lives ever go sideways and you find yourself needing a roommate, I think we would get along just fine.

They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

They could have just not had the monkeys. They added nothing to the story and were the most egregiously bad CGI.

Oh my god it’s real. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/05/spanish-soldiers-change-gender-benefits-for-women/

Similar stories run from all the usual deplorable papers. New York Post, Daily Mail, you name it.

Why don’t they teach this shit in school?!?!

If you need some historical context, look up the recording industry anti-piracy panic that began when cassette recorders came onto the consumer market (early 80s?). Similarly the VHS panic when video could suddenly be recorded.

I haven’t kept any sources, but I recall a few studies over the years that showed the industry concerns were comically overblown and didn’t impact their bottom lines.

Well, I can’t remember exactly where but I know it’s in there somewhere.

These fucking guys. They think their tip should be worth the effort they put in, and I’m looking at my ice cold order that looks like it’s been banging around in a clothes dryer for an hour. I appreciate the effort but, fuck, I wouldn’t have ordered anything if I knew it was going to be this way.

You can appeal a total loss settlement. They’re supposed to take into account the cost to replace the car at local rates, so unless that 16k model you’re looking at is in dramatically better condition or has way way less mileage on it, they need to justify that.

Deep down underneath it all I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar, on my desk.

• Robert Bloch

I set up Syncthing using the docker image from the Unraid “store” and it works great.

I’m not in love with the clients (especially Windows) but it seems to work pretty well once your setup is stable.

White cables also transmit slower in the dark. As soon as the cabinet is closed the data is going to slow way down with only the dim glow of the LEDs of the equipment acting to accelerate packets.

Of course he can read a map. That’s how he knows how to correct inconvenient data with a Sharpie.

This reminds me of the red graffiti saga

I wonder what ICD code they used for billing…

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/the-16-most-absurd-icd-10-codes/285737/

I used to work at a company that made software related to this and we always had fun finding ridiculous codes for testing internally. I think there was an actual code defined for someone being hit in the head by a turtle.

The thing I hate most about rsync is that I always fumble to get the right syntax and flags.

This is a problem because once it’s working I never have to touch it ever again because it just works and keeping working. There’s not enough time to memorize the usage.

I can’t imagine spending so much time and money on games and always looking completely fucking miserable the entire time. They all have the same expression.

My favourite bit of trivia from that movie was that Stephen King watched it and was furious by the ending because he wished he’d thought of such a grim ending when he wrote the book.