Husband, Father, IT Pro, service.

I ask a lot of questions to try to understand how people think.

  • 2 Posts
  • 85 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 11th, 2024

help-circle

  • Yeah, I’m hoping though it progresses to the point that we can reasonably reduce vehicle related incidents.

    Between drunk driving, texting, and generally not paying attention, I’d love more people using automated driving if it became statistically safer.

    Some people are scared to fly even thought it’s statistically safer. They don’t want to be the rare happening. Unless Boeing, then check your doors…

    Edit, I also agree you can’t easily track or correlate things that didn’t happen with all the factors here.



  • For all information workers who can do our job anywhere, I thoroughly enjoy watching companies go to shit after they pull RTO. So, I definitely enjoy seeing studies that back this up with metrics, performance data, financials, etc.

    Some people are stuck with these employers, due to some life circumstances. I am sorry to anyone who either lost their new found freedom and the work/life balanced they probably always wanted, but didn’t know they could have.

    Some people are lucky and can move on, and every time someone does, it reenforces the idea that people won’t tolerate having a boot on their neck, or maybe they care less about greed and stuff and more about balance. To each their own.







  • I suggest you frame the issue incorrectly as well.

    First, I dont disagree with the notion that cellular networks are now critical infrastructure, and need extra regulation. They have some, but indeed they are still a for profit entity. There will always be motivation for making money in bad ways when culture pushes that the only thing that matters is investment returns and bottom lines.

    Second, trying to tie government competency to political parties is ridiculous. I’ll accept shenanigans and policy, sure. I have worked in a form of government for twenty plus years. There’s all political types and all competency. There are some really good ones, and a lot of super shitty ones. Why a lot? Because they’d absolutely be fired for underperforming in the real world.

    There is zero incentive to do anything well, fast, thorough, efficient, etc in government. We buy worse products, more expensive because of trying to support disabled small businesses as an example. You can’t buy things you need if you didn’t get it all at once, do with out. We waste money if there is any extra because of use or loose budgets. People spend millions of dollars on contracts where it was the wrong product or the right product that was missing a feature because the contracting office doesn’t know shit about what you need, and they overlooked a line item. They will never be fired. They are hard core whatever party you are. I’m assuming more D since you’ve been clear about shittimg on R.

    Anyone who asserts government can do better has never worked in government. It can however ensure things are done, shitty or not, like Medicare/Medicare. The fraudulent claims are mostly uncaught because the people working there are also overworked, under paid, under resourced, and constrainted by policies, and political shenanigans.

    Third, I don’t like greed either, but not every instance of something’s wrong can be solved by shitting on a political party. I hate both, but I don’t feel the need to tie everything to one of them.

    Also, you might check this conversation: https://lemmy.world/post/12163117








  • Executives used to be stewards of the company. They took care of brand, and people.

    Then we switched to a bottom line focus. Now, profit, stock prices are the only thing that matters.

    Shortcuts, layoffs, benefit cuts, etc are the only way to offset not making continuous market growth, and still rack ridiculous profits.

    Also, great deal of Americans started not giving a shit about where the product comes from or who makes it. We want the cheapest thing, fast. Just has been our personal priorities.

    There’s not much incentive for a company to consider it’s corporate image, contributions to community and public, etc.

    I’d say that’s when.


  • I’m going to be lame here, but I used to just install it as a package on my media computer. It was old school, but super stable and no complaints.

    I’m not familiar with that VPN solution, sorry.

    I also just created static DNS entry for the media server. Used app on phone. Didn’t have to fuss with it. I like Emby now, but used Plex for a while.

    For the media server OS, I use Rocky Linux. But it requires you can do Linux, instead of a simple install with gui.

    If that’s an Intel Mac, you could look at TrueNAS, but that’s got caveats you need to learn.



  • Yeah, I agree with not liking people having that info, but ISPs do, unless you use VPN, and then the VPN does.

    We just usually don’t hear of that getting leaked from VPN providers since their reputation is on the line.

    Data breach would also be a bummer. If a criminal group takes the time to breach a government database, I think it would be wasted effort to try black mailing people over porn access. Unless you’re a priest. Then uh oh.

    The way you get positive ID that can’t be skirted is with government issues ID card with PKI. All US federal employees have ID cards issued by their department. It has certs that let you sign into computers, sign documents, etc. It’s 2FA, card and a PIN.

    Every driver in the US is supposed to have a driver’s license. They just need to add PKI to them. Then you sign into a website with your DL and PIN. You’d never need a million accounts anymore. Caveats apply.