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I don’t think it would.

Legalizing drugs would come at the cost of governments and cities taxing it and putting it above what price is on the street for cartel product. The cartels can easily undercut on price because they don’t pay any taxes.

Did anyone bother to go down the thread? The image has been debunked as an image from a wind turbine being de-iced in Sweden in 2014.

Ten years ago I was interested in buying Bose noise cancelling headphones. Someone warned me that they had read somewhere on the internet that noise cancelling creates problems with your hearing.

At the time I couldn’t find anything on Google about this, but I still bought the headphones anyway.

Using the headphones the lingering thought of that statement bothered me. Using the headphones something didn’t feel right.

Flash forward to now, people are talking about this so I can’t find relevant info on this without the well (Google) being poisoned by armchair doctors.

I still feel noise cancelling is not healthy for ears.

For context a realtor friend I know lived right in that area. It’s overrun with homeless and drug dealers.

Hayes Valley used to be the place people wanted to move to because it had good food and local merchants. This was ten years ago. Now it’s just as bad as the b8ta owner makes it out to be.

City politics is to blame for this because they spin up programs to help, but it doesn’t fix the systemic problem long term. Most of the people who are homeless or need help don’t want to abide by the rules for a free place to stay or get the help they need. They’d rather stay on the streets and live life how they see fit. This isn’t a political opinion either. It’s a reality of failed policies of the city.

If anyone from Homebrew is lurking on here. Thank you. I’m working with my management team to send a donation your way. We’ve been using it for IT and Engineering deployment builds for years and it’s something we feel we owe as a sign of gratitude and to keep the project running.

Thank you again!

So what happens if people start flagging Google chat products as abusive? Will Google pull its own apps? Probably a big fat no.

I was so close to proposing moving off of Slack and onto something like Element/Matrix. Unfortunately this will be a harder sell to my management considering Google or Apple can just shut down any chat client businesses use.

This is ridiculous.

If people are wondering what other options there out there to protect WSB and other groups from obnoxious band like this, might I suggest Mastodon? You can self host and be a part of the network. The tricky part to replicate the user capacity for WSB would probably require a lot of build out and probably someplace the servers can’t be killed by the ISP or data center (Russia?).

I along with a few other friends have messaged the moderators and a few other notable figures on Reddit about this. Nobody has responded for obvious reasons.

Would like to see them continue doing what they’re doing outside the grasp of the money strings controlling politics and the economy.

Stuck at home for Covid and was looking for projects to make my home network better. Sold my Ubiquiti security appliance and put an Opnsense router in its place. Aside from services that aren’t well documented, I’ve been able to set it up enough that I’d consider dumping my Cisco equipment in the office in favor of this as our firewall.

I looked at pfsense and got a weird vibe from their site.

I bought a Microsoft Surface laptop 13” for work to test builds with. That laptop has a headphone port, USB-A, USB-C and a proprietary Microsoft port the power adapter plugs into. Don’t have that adapter handy while traveling? You can still charge it via the USB-C port with another charger. I can see Apple copying another facet of Microsoft’s Surface line. The other being the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro.

Of course Ive pushed the design this way. He also designed the Apple Watch to be a design centric device and didn’t want it to be about health.

I wonder if any of these design choices are what led to him leaving. I’m almost confident a consensus was around one of these major changes he bet on and leadership heard all the nasty feedback across the web. Maybe Ive took it personally and just decided his time was over.

Where I work yes. Small and scrappy devs who when asked to move knowledge into a Confluence or wiki page, argue that’s it’s too much work to find everything they need. They can just type in the channel they want to search in with a term and get the conversation they need.

My response is if it’s important long term, it needs to be somewhere visible and exportable should the platform change. As it is now, Slack exports are horrible and large.

So am I reading this right? Run all your user traffic to a self hosted DoH server and forward those requests to another DoH? To protect my users from the bad guys hiding their traffic in DoH, how would I detect the bad guys passing DoH traffic on my server?

I’m asking because I’m looking to do this for my users whenever we get back to the office.

Dropbox has not evolved over the last ten years. They’ve bolted on features, but as an admin the service is horrible to manage.

Case in point, the admin console is not user friendly. It’s so bad I can’t search for a file in someone’s personal shared folder. I have to rely on the APIs or a third party like BetterCloud to find what I need. When I talked to Dropbox about renewal for my company, we could pay an additional $20k-$30k to get a limited version of BetterCloud to get the admin features I want.

I’m also bitter because I interviewed there in their early days and they used my experience to get answers to problems they were facing on their team. My interview was free support for them and I knew afterwards the path they walked me down was intentional to get ideas on what problems they had.

Bought a brand new OLED off of Amazon. Arrived and set it up. A week later the picture goes out. I register the TV with manufacturer and open a ticket for repair. Meanwhile since it’s the holidays I see what Amazon offers for support.

I chat with someone who helps me out. They are arranging a freight pickup courier to return the TV. I tell the agent I threw the box out to the TV. They said well without the box to ship it back I’d have to get one and it’s costly. So the agent refunded me the OLED TV with my word I’d e-waste the TV. Not even a week old. So I’m still waiting to see if the manufacturer will warranty repair the TV.

I’m wondering if I got lucky because of Covid or the holidays?

I’ve seen the Georgia video with the black containers placed under a table. After all the poll watchers were asked to leave, the table is moved out of the way and ballots were pulled out of the containers. Nobody has explained that from what I’ve read and it doesn’t really make any sense why it was hidden and why was it pulled out after all the witnesses were asked to leave at the end of the night?

Well, there goes the credibility one team has in arguing that Slack makes a great knowledge repository.

I remember reading about this object on alternative news outlets and sites were saying the same thing. It doesn’t seem that natural looking emphasizing it was likely alien. Then news outlets said it was just an oblong shaped asteroid.

I ore-ordered the book in the article and will read into it further.

I envy you. I can’t find content that interests me. I just purged 20 channels I added over 2020 that I no longer have interest in.

I’m stuck with some theme park and cooking content channels.

- Learn MDM for macOS or Windows. JAMF, SimpleMDM, or Munki for the Mac. Intune and Autopilot for Windows.

- Go to a site like Hibid.com and find auctions to buy used working (9/10 times) equipment. You can get 5 year old Dell servers for <$200. Buy a couple of laptops (Mac and Windows) for <$300. I’ve bought equipment through there and have a nice home lab for learning for less than <$1k.

- Buy or reuse commodity hardware and build an Opnsense firewall for your home network. I did this during the start of pandemic and used it as an opportunity to learn and sharpen network skills I didn’t have in 2020.

- If you do acquire server hardware, you can run VMware ESXi and teach yourself that component of virtualization. When you have that server built you can spin up virtual servers to learn Windows Server or *nix server setups.

I personally feel if you have time to invest in buying equipment and setting it up, you can build a functional home lab to learn what you want. Start simple but have hardware in front of you to make the commitment.

20 years ago I didn’t have Google. Everything I learned was self taught. But over the years I gradually relied on Google to give me the answers. This is what scares or dissuades new IT folks from taking the plunge. Where do I get resources to become an It person? Personally if you have the home lab it forces you to tinker and research Google on how to grow your lab and automate it. From there you get IT chops.

The other thing I highly recommend is having good people skills. I’ll hire someone with light IT experience and good customer service background over someone with certifications left and right but no customer service background. You can learn the IT stuff on the job (with the right team and company), but people skills are a must because you have to deal with unruly people.

IT is just like going to the doctor. Nobody comes to IT when things are working. The only difference between IT and the doctor is the doctor doesn’t get pissed off patients. Having a way to diffuse and smooth over angry customers is what’s vital to your IT success. The skills come later.

This sounds like the same reason we have a death tax. Those that can’t afford to setup the right paperwork are essentially screwed and have to pay their fair share. Meanwhile those with teams of lawyers have the ability to skirt paying their fair share. Great.

What works for me as a manager overseeing a few direct reports:

- Stand ups for 15-30 minutes in the morning.

- I screen share a Google form I made that asks three questions and I fill out for the team to see what each response is.

- What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? Anything blocking you?

- The answers get put into a spreadsheet that myself or upper management can review progress on performance and services.

- If I’m unavailable to hold the daily check in, my team fills out the form on their own. If they don’t fill it out for the day, there’s a record they didn’t spend the five minutes to fill it out.

- I have weekly 1 to 1 meetings with the individuals to check in on how they’re doing with work, career development, anything they want to talk about, and how personal life is going.

It’s working out well for me. I also schedule a once a week meeting on Jira tickets to see where status is at on any lingering issues the team can’t address.

Overall I put enough in front of my team that I can track progress and ensure they’re doing their part while working from home. This way I avoid needing to be on zoom all day. I do leave the option open for my team to Zoom me if they urgently need me to help.

I worked for Apple retail in San Francisco. Being an early retail employee in the Bay Area, we had very close ties to Cupertino. I worked when Steve was still alive.

* Retail management in my store ruled by fear. I heard from other stores across the US this was the same as well. * Promotions were handed out to those who kissed ass the hardest. Even if they were unqualified or cheated on promotion exams, if they brown nosed enough they got promoted. * The goal for every retail employee was to eventually make it to Cupertino and work for the corporate side of things. Either Genius support or logistics in Elk Grove. * Those who I knew who made it to Cupertino shared similar experience to the author’s post.

Apple comes off as a happy family friendly company, when in reality behind the scenes it’s a rule by fear culture.

In N Out sued one of the delivery services. I forgot which one. Essentially they didn’t want their brand to be ruined by shoddy drivers delivering cold and soggy food. I agree that this is needed.

Would be nice if it was like Calendly. I’d like to see that integrate with O365 or Google for availability.

I read about facial paralysis on four people who took this. Big nope from me until more is done to test these.

I remember reading somewhere that if you’re willing to put up with feeling like you’re on the edge to falling into hell for a few days, you can remedy yourself out of depression. I wonder if this puts some weight behind that assumption people have been talking about.

I’m going to date how old I am. I remember when LeMond was the spokesperson for Taco Bell at the height of his career. It’s weird hearing his name again and that memory being triggered in me.

You can still buy Intel MacBook Pros. Apple will likely support it for a couple of more years before they won’t.

I think there are more devs invested in the macOS ecosystem with hardware during this transition than the last, so it would make sense for Apple to let those Intel hold outs still keep up with the latest macOS version.

I would say two or three cycles of macOS upgrades before they EOL Intel support.

As many of my HR friends have said (I’m sure most of you have heard this too, HR is in the business of protecting the company and not the employees.

I’ve been at plenty of startups and have witnessed people doing the right thing or rocking the boat and being let go. I myself have been in that boat for reporting sexual harassment on behalf of a friend/peer at work who was too afraid to report the manager. I caught the heat from it and was let go over that.

This is going to be an interesting who said what and what really happened in the next few days.

I remember a story from someone at the time (or maybe I had read somewhere), that their bandwidth bills were so high in the early days, they were asking employees to open up credit cards and use those personal cards to help keep things running.