Here they're pushing the "must be within 60 miles from the office" trope; I bet they'd say to drive in if it's after hours.

My favorite exchange on ChatGPT (back in March):

**You**
Tell me a dad joke.

**ChatGPT**
Why did the tomato turn red?

Because it saw the salad dressing!

**You**
Can you explain to me why that joke is funny?

**ChatGPT**
Sure, I'd be happy to explain why that joke is considered funny!

The humor in this joke comes from a play on words and a bit of misdirection. The first part of the joke sets up an expectation that there will be a serious or logical explanation for why the tomato turned red. However, the punchline delivers a silly and unexpected answer that has nothing to do with the actual reason for the tomato's color change.

The play on words is in the phrase "saw the salad dressing." The word "saw" can be interpreted in two ways: as the past tense of "see" (as in, the tomato observed the dressing) or as a cutting tool (as in, the tomato was physically sliced by the dressing). This creates a bit of confusion and a humorous mental image, which is why the joke is often considered amusing. Additionally, the idea of a tomato being aware of salad dressing is absurd and adds to the silliness of the joke.

We went on a bit further with me pointing out that their murder take was distasteful, and it responded that humor is subjective.

Maybe they 'won', but I don't count a pyrrhic victory as winning. It will take years to recover.

I loved Reddit until I realized they were just going to do whatever they wanted and the community, apart from creating free content and work, didn't matter. But the lying about discussions with the app creator was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Suddenly they weren't just a bully, but they were a proven lying, dishonest bully. Everything that they say going forward will be suspect, so I decided to walk away. Who knows what they're doing with my data/content. I know what they're telling me. I don't know what's true.

I deleted most of my posts from my nearly 14-year history except for a handful that I think need to stay up and a couple of others that I'm testing something on. I log in every once in a while to leave any groups that might have unlocked since I was last there and delete those posts too.

I don't hate them. But they've lost my trust, and I don't see any way to regain it.

There could have been other, better solutions. The biggest problem right now is that the only tool in Steve Huffman's toolbox is a hammer.

My worst feeling is "I tried that two years ago but couldn't get enough people interested, so I dropped it..."

I thought this was an article about the X Windows system based on the preview for the article. Boy are those two similar-looking.

Open in a new window/tab.

Thank you. I hadn't considered the payment part. The cloud system that I manage is in education, so everyone pays in advance.

This makes sense, and I'll start with a lower number and ask it to go up later. It will take a couple of months to migrate everything from Linode anyhow, so I don't need them all at once.

We had fiber at our previous house for about six years, and it was great. The prices were lower, the speeds were greater, there were no limits... It's kind of funny, because it was a college town of about 200K people in the middle of nothing else.

Now I'm up in the suburbs of Chicago where a single town can have a 200K population, but fiber is nowhere on the horizon. Instead we get terrible service that's constantly showing packet loss with slow transfer rates. We do still have unlimited, but with these transfer rates it doesn't really matter. :)

As far as monitoring traffic goes, I guess it depends on how you're doing things. If your DNS requests are still hitting your ISP or aren't encrypted, then yeah, they might know. I don't know if they'll care, but of course not all illegal content is treated the same.

So basically a non-answer to your question, along with me saying I liked having fiber.

Dvorak keyboard mode enabled.

I told them everything that I wrote here in my original request -- I need 25 now, but would like a quota of 50 to maintain elasticity, testing, etc.

They followed up with the request for actual resources needed.

I haven't answered since then.

My identity infrastructure alone uses a whole bunch of servers.

There are the three Kerberos servers, the two clusters of multiple LDAP servers behind HAProxy, the rabbitmq servers to pass requests around, the web servers also balanced/HA behind HAProxy... For me, service reliability and security are two of the biggest factors, so I isolate services and use HA when available.

Probably like the peanut butter, because I wouldn't want it to be confused with my gorilla with the name spelled the same way, but pronounced with a hard 'g' sound.

It's already been done, and will soon be revealed...

In the middle of his cage match with Mark Zuckerberg, Musk will say "No, I am your father." After Zuck yells "Noooo!" he'll follow up with, "Well, just the AI parts."

Battlefield Earth was my favorite book as a young teenager. Ignoring everything else about the author (which I didn't know at the time), I thought the book was brilliant (especially the first half). It touched my imagination in a way no other book had before, and I must have read it about a dozen times.

I seem to recall the book cover saying that a major motion picture was coming out soon, but I guess time is relative. For me it was about eighteen years (which was more than half my life at the time) before the movie actually came out, and that seemed like an eternity.

I wish I could say it was worth the wait. The movie was horrible -- it had bad acting, a bad script, and couldn't carry the book in only two hours.

It currently has a 3% tomatometer score at Rotten Tomatoes and a 2.5/10 at IMDB. The movie also won Worst Picture of the Decade at the 2010 Razzie Awards.

I wish it was database agnostic. And I'm slightly concerned about the version three rewrite.

It does look awesome, and I'll revisit it to see where things are in six months.

I loved QuickBASIC. I'd write Assembly Language routines in Turbo Assembler and call them from QuickBASIC.

I wrote a DeskMate clone for fun and it was actually pretty decent; TASM gave it decent performance.

I thought you were going to say you liked lint (the source code checker).

I started back with kernel 0.12 and called it Line-ucks. I still do and people look at me funny, but it's an old habit and I'm an old dog.

When Linux released his audio file it was already etched into my brain the other way. I do remember being joking that I'm glad his name wasn't Pinus (like the genus for pine trees) after hearing him say it.

I had this too, but mine went further. Eventually became burning, terrible pain down my arm -- worst pain I've ever experienced. I spent six weeks on steroids, oxycodone, and gabapentin until I could finally get steroid injections directly into my spine.

Be careful, and get checked out for cervical spinal stenosis. You might be able to do some proactive stuff at this point.

Now my neck always hurts, I can't feel my fingertips (especially on the right hand), and my right forearm sometimes feels like it's on fire.

I'm a big fan of netdata; it's part of my standard deployment. I put in some custom configs depending on what services are running on what servers. If there's an issue it sends me an email and posts into a slack channel.

Next step is an influxdb backend to keep more history.

I also use monit to restart certain services in certain situations.

I kept my account, but deleted most of my posts/comments from the past thirteen years unless I felt it was super important to leave them. Some I'm leaving while watching to see what happens with the subreddit.

I'm done with Reddit though. I didn't care so much about the API, but when they started lying about talks with the developer and then running roughshod over everything it became clear that they can't be trusted. How do I know that I'm even being presented with an accurate view of the world -- are the moderators hand-picked by Reddit to push an agenda? Can a corporation/government/political campaign buy moderators brokered through Reddit now?

Too many questions with no good answers. So I'm glad I'm gone.

Yup! Since 1993... Started Linux on my desktop and haven't looked back.

It depends. For a movie, it probably doesn't matter to me unless there was a really egregious transgression.

If i'm buying a painting to hang on my wall, am I going to think about the artist more than the piece when I see it? If so, that would ruin it for me and I wouldn't enjoy the piece, so I wouldn't buy it.

Of course, sometimes the controversy behind a work is the reason it's appreciated -- not the quality of the work.

Exactly!

I was a manager, and another guy was a more senior manager in another division. We both did IT. For some reason he didn't like me and/or was trying to get our services moved to him, so he went to our director every week for over a year to tell him made-up stories about me.

He eventually left after a lot of people realized he was a highly manipulative, but I still hear things that he told people as part of an explanation about why I was passed up "for this" or why I wasn't right "for that." It cost me a lot of raises, especially in cases where things were gossiped to other people and the source was lost. Now I'm only a manager in title, but my management responsibilities were taken away.

Unfortunately, I'm caught in a ticking trap -- another 1.5 years and I retire with a full pension for the rest of my life. Losing that by leaving isn't worth it (assuming I live long enough afterwards).

I have one set up as an irrigation controller. I was going to build an OpenStack cluster to test configuration settings on (I run a production cluster at work), but gave up when the supply chain problems happened and prices skyrocketed.

I still use Perl for most things -- it's my go-to language when I have to get something done quickly. And quickly doesn't have to mean small one-liner scripts.

My biggest reason for using it is that mod_perl is still blazingly fast.

I have a problem with Amazon Drive going away for non-photos on December 31st.

For a while, they had unlimited storage and you could use a Linux API to access it -- I stored 8TB of data.

Then they set a quota, but for those over quota it was read-only. Oh, and Linux access no longer works.

Now they've set a deadline to have everything off by December 31st, but the Windows app still doesn't work (constantly crashing) and I see no way to get my files.

Same here. The most I get out of might be a pointer to a module that could be a better approach, but the code I get from ChatGPT is usually worthless.

I treat it as my water cooler talk, and maybe I'll come away with a few new ideas.