With Miss Piggy as Skyler, Fozzie Bear as Hank, and Sam the Eagle as Gus Fring.

Can we get Samuel L. Jackson to read it for those with vision impairment?

Should have been 42. That would have taken milliseconds more to crack.

First the oil refineries, then the data centers. What’s next?

Not to mention where the hell does the car land, and how does it guarantee it won’t land on another car, a pedestrian, etc.

I bought my Tesla in 2022. After 4 years with it, the lack of real buttons and burying controls under touchscreen menus is the primary reason why I’ll never buy another Tesla. When I do replace my Tesla it will be with another EV, but not a Tesla EV.

I love my Pihole. It blocks ads on my PCs, my iPads, our streaming devices, etc. It also blocks telemetry gathering by other device manufacturers.

Many years ago I had to try to debug a memory manager written by a really talented software engineer, with an interesting take on naming things…

• He referred to blocks of memory as “cookies”.

• He had a temporary variable named “handy” because it was handy to have around.

• He had a second temporary variable that referenced the first one that he called “son_of_handy”.

• If corruption was detected in a block of memory then it would set the flag “shit_cookie_corrupt”.

• If too many cookies were corrupt then the system would halt by calling the function “oh_shit_oh_shit_oh_shit”.

I’m shocked that the data center required retinal scans but that the employee with access could then just hold the door and let him and others in.

I used to work at a data center with lots of security. To get into the area with the servers you had to go through a man trap. It was a room a little larger than a telephone booth with automatic doors on both sides. To open the first door you needed a physical card key. Once inside the door closed, then to open the inner door you needed to both enter a PIN and have your hand scanned in a biometric scanner. Only after all that could you get inside. The booth also weighed you, and if your weight was off by a certain amount after your last pass through then it wouldn’t let you in. That was to prevent somebody from piggybacking with you.

Latest FDA guidance: Take vitamin A, wash it down with raw milk, and attend virus spreading parties to build natural immunity.

I’m a DevOps engineer and my employer runs a lot of Linux instances in AWS. I’d love for these politicians to explain to me how age verification of Linux web servers should work for auto-scaling environments where instances are spun up and terminated automatically based on traffic volume. I’d also like to know if I should be using the age of our CEO, the age of our company (thanks to Citizens United), or something else.

The kid that was killed didn’t want to be there. He was terrified. He only went because rich daddy insisted & paid for him to come along. That’s tragic.

Put them both in soundproof booths and only turn on their microphones when it’s their turn to actually respond to a question.

The BBB is the pre-internet version of Yelp…

“That’s a really nice business you have there. It’d be a pity if you started getting a lot of negative reviews. Why not pay us to ensure that doesn’t happen?”

Trump was in the Oval Office? I seem to recall mostly seeing photos of him at his various golf courses when he was president….

I have a nephew that worked at Tesla as a software engineer for a couple years (he left about a year ago). I gave him the VIN to my Tesla and the amount of data he shared with me was crazy. He warned me that one of my brake lights was regularly logging errors. If their telemetry includes that sort of information then clearly they are logging a LOT of data.

Fun fact: Back in the early 2000’s Ask Jeeves seriously considered getting into adult/porn searches. They went so far as to create a companion character to the Jeeves butler that was their brand back then. It was a blonde in a skimpy French maid outfit that they called Mimi, and they even went so far as to register domains like askmimi.com and asksex.com before they scrapped the whole project.

Source: I worked for them for a good part of the 2000’s.

That’s an optional software upgrade. It’ll cost you $12.95 a month.