Brewchin

Is this is legendary mothgirl prophecy?

Le petit mort , ahem, comes in many forms…

What?! Think of the shareholder value! /s

My take on ads is this: I’ve been using the internet since 1989 - before search engines, advertising, SLIP/PPP/ADSL, etc.

When ads began to appear on websites in the late 90s, I was OK with it. A banner ad here, etc. Then they started to move. And flash. And make noise. And then popups, and pop-unders.

At that point I started to BLOCK THEM ALL. If your business model is a game of distraction from the site I’m visiting, then fuck you, your family, and anyone you’ve ever met.

Moving on to UI web-based stuff, the demise of excellent sites like AltaVista (with its superior search syntax) and the growth of Goooooooogle (with its astonishingly and intentionally shit search syntax), the progress and intention was obvious.

There was a brief period where Google, etc, provided what people wanted. But that time has passed. Now it’s all in on GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.

tl;dr: Once advertisers started to behave like gambling sites, they were yeeted to the hell in which they belong.

Odd, it must be the Docker image I’m using, then. Thanks for clarifying.

I run AdGuard Home, WireGuard and a couple of other things on my 4B, all in Docker.

I used to run HomeAssistant on our for a while, but they stopped supporting that architecture (armhf?). Also used to run Unbound on it.

Inevitable, really. And zero surprise it’s coming out of China.

Reads more like an advertorial. Low on detail, high on “passkeys are the future”, and plenty of typos.

Agreed.

I didn’t mention that I also spend time after every meeting I host putting together a summary of what was discussed along with a bullet point list of deliverables, who agreed to work on them, and due dates and then send it to all attendees, invitees, and stakeholders.

It deals with the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme problem and “magnanimous work dodgers” - those who promise the world in meetings but then seemingly disappear off the planet.

It probably should be noted that many of the meetings I host are recurring, often weekly or fortnightly, so it’s easy to find a rhythm (and identify the problem children).

Nice! This is MangoHud levels of useful.

The last time I checked Steam’s performance overlay stuff it was… minimal.

When I started my career I quickly became convinced that meetings are the opposite of work. Now a large part of my career is hosting meetings. 😬

My biggest piece of advice to junior staff is: if you’re not provided an agenda prior to a meeting, your attendance is not required. RSVP with Yes if it sounds interesting/beneficial and you have the time, otherwise Nope (or Tentative) your way out of it.

The obvious caveat is if that meeting is called by someone with role power over you. In which case: as they clearly don’t respect your time, it’s on you to (politely) ask them to provide an agenda. It may also indirectly train them to be less shit.

Standard in Australia. And common in the UK (it’s traditionally a dot, but slash is more common now).

But I’m team ISO-8601 when there’s a chance of an international audience. At least where locale information can’t be used.

“Muh freedums profit” outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.

As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.

It begins. More of this from media and other organisations, please!