The main problem for me is that it’s so confident in it’s tone, like that idiot friend who just makes stuff up, but totally believes it. So there’s no clue (like you would get with a normal person) that the thing has no clue if what it just wrote is true or not. I could bear it more if it said “I’m not sure, but…” But then if did that then none of the idiot CEOs would buy it, so here we are…

Don’t learn out of work, learn in work. But… I’m retired now, got out just in time.

Surely it’s the death of anonymity for those who want to access stuff which would be age restricted in any other scenario (like a real shop). The rest of the population (most?) don’t care to access that stuff & don’t want it and can carry on being anonymous.

And yes that gives the likes of Facebook et al a problem because they’ll have to categorise their content, but the whole point of this current fad for governments to legislate to restrict stuff is that the big tech companies could have (made efforts to) fix it but chose not to because it’s (waves hands and wails) hard.

Unless you want to use Matter which (from my glancing at the docs) requires IPv6?

I drive through a new area near our home everyday (in UK). Some of the manhole covers make a loud “clonk” noise when I drive over them. I avoid them because it will otherwise annoy our new neighbours. I used to live off a main road into town. There was a loose manhole cover there which drove me crazy until I managed to get the council to fix it. Probably just had stones in it making it loose.

I remember WordPerfect when it was still a DOS program. The simplicity of “this format code affects all text after it” was elegant.

And then we got Word foisted on us, with “this format code (which you have no way of viewing) affects the block of text before it” so if you accidentally delete or move that format code then you screw up a seemingly random bunch of text. And here we are.

That was fantastic! 😊

As others have said, if your VMs are Linux, set up unattended_updates and forget about it.

If your VMs are windows, then Action1 is free up to 200 clients, it does need an agent installed, but that auto updates too.

I always loved reading Joel’s stuff, clear & well thought out. It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that’s kinda got buried now. Things come & things go…