A lot of new "small cell" sites have been popping up around here. They all seem to be operated by CrownCastle and basically look like utility poles with a cylindrical antenna module on the top. There's also some on street lights and the like.
So they're definitely in-filling their coverage, most likely to get 5G going. It's a long process, though, so I don't expect solid coverage for a while yet.
Those things are not gone. It's just that the masses don't use them.
You can find lots of forums out there on the web. IRC is still jumping. All these things are still out there, but only a small number of people used them.
Truth is, only a small number of people EVER used them. Think of the users of those legacy services as a circle in a Venn diagram of all Internet users being another circle around them. The larger circle of all users has been growing continuously and has now dwarfed the circle representing IRC, forum, etc. users. Mass market sites are more accessible to, well, the mass market. That's why they use them. Us nerds still enjoy sites like Slashdot, IRC chat, etc.
....and it just links to my social media accounts.
Ahh, the irony.
But the truth is, I'm just tired of having to constantly update and maintain my website's software. If you don't do it, eventually security holes get around and the machine hosting it gets hacked. It doesn't matter which one you use, every CMS like Drupal, WordPress and so on need active system administration. I already do it for a living, and don't have much energy for it when I get home.
So the solution is to have just static pages and content on my own webserver, and link to my social media accounts for the day to day blab.
I know, I can do better. But I'm lazy, like most sysadmins.
Even if you're not going to contribute anything, you're forced to create an account to keep browsing. I wonder how many of those 100 million accounts are throwaways used to browse the site. I know mine is!
Websites shouldn't force read-only users to create accounts. Not only is it annoying, but it wastes resources on your servers and now you have more accounts to potentially get hacked.
There's no way to know if that prank app is only a prank app and doesn't have more code to do... interesting things.
Even back in the day some of those apps had viruses in them. There are limits to the amount of trust you have in some guy who wrote a cute little application that inverts your desktop or whatever.
When you compress air, the temperature goes up. This heat then dissipates into the environment. That is undoubtedly some of the energy used to compress the air, so you've lost some efficiency there.
We need higher density and more housing. The only way to solve this problem is to increase the supply; the ONLY reason this problem exists is because of lack of housing in places people want to live.
We need to rezone R-1 areas for multiple unit housing. R-1 zonings are a massively inefficient use of space and are part of the reason we have so much traffic and sprawl.
We need to give the NIMBY types the finger and BUILD MORE HOUSING. Especially in the Bay Area. It's the only thing that will solve this; even if you were to regulate prices, it'll just turn the problem into "nobody can FIND any housing."
That really depends on your office culture. In some offices people get annoyed at you for wearing headphones because they can't yell at you from across the room.
Hell, it goes back to the 1950s and 60s. I've seen photos of offices from the 50s and 60s, and everybody is working on one large room, on small desks like a classroom. And they're using typewriters; which are annoying and loud. Imagine what a horrible work environment that was.
Cubicles were invented for a reason. We wouldn't have them if open plans worked, because the logical progression is so try open plan first (since it's cheapest), learn that it doesn't work, then try cubicles.
He would have been more at home at Facebook. He was basically just trying to build another Facebook.
It's sad because it was so much wasted potential. The concept of circles for sharing your posts was excellent. You had a lot more control over your feed and content than Facebook got you. But they managed to screw it up.
The real-name policy is what drove many of the people I know off the platform.
The policy basically made G+ another Facebook; if that's the case, why not use use Facebook?
Some of us don't like using our real names online, for a variety of reasons. I think even my reason, that I just like using a different name, is perfectly valid. Anyone can find my real name if they really want to. But it was the principle. Others used pseudonyms because they didn't feel safe using their real names online. For those people, which included some of my friends, it was a big deal.
This is what killed G+ for me and my social group.
>the really old timers were fighting everyone else over the No Code license (MORSE not programming)
I remember this fight; it was absolutely absurd because the old timers were basically using morse code (which is a huge pain in the ass to learn) to gatekeep newer hams from getting their licenses. The truth is morse code was rarely used anymore and the code requirement was keeping a lot of otherwise very technically inclined people from bothering to join the hobby and get their licenses.
It's ironic because these days people complain that the hobby is dying because there's mostly only old timers left; the old timers basically dug their own grave because of their clique-ish nature over morse code requirements, especially during the golden age of ham radio in the 90s before the Internet made a lot of people lose interest in radio. I suspect there would be a LOT more middle aged hams in the hobby right now if it hadn't been for that bullshit, and they could be getting their kids into radio too.
A huge clusterfuck, it was. All because a bunch of old guys with an "I had to do it, so everyone should!" attitude.
This is true. However, why is the upgrade process even touching user files at all?
Even if the OS upgrade completely fucked up to hell and you end up with an unbootable system, there is NO REASON the process should have touched the user's files.
Even websites that have been around for decades experience it, because they change the structure of their site, breaking links to articles that might even still be available.
If you follow a CNN link from 15 years ago, it probably won't work.
It's a bit scary to think how much of our history we're losing to link rot and archive.org is doing their best to fight it. They are awesome people.
You just know people will file DMCA takedowns for their content archived on Wayback, breaking the links yet again.
Because people are petty and obsessed with controlling their content even though they're not making money from it anymore and they would have otherwise forgotten about it completely.
I think it's more about the fact that people are willingly putting their money into these shady cryptocurrency apps and betting schemes. It's absolutely no surprise that some of them end up losing their money.
Real banking and financial markets are regulated to protect against this sort of thing. People need to learn that when you play around on the grey or black markets, you're risking your money every time.
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Aluminum cans are easy to make from recycled cans, tend to get recycled more, and are more compact per volume of liquid than plastic bottles.
Hell, I'm seeing soda makers moving from cans to bottles more; this seems counterproductive. Just keep using aluminum cans!
My mother grew up in Havana, and being able to street-view around Cuba's capital would be such an extremely nostalgic experience for her.
A lot of new "small cell" sites have been popping up around here. They all seem to be operated by CrownCastle and basically look like utility poles with a cylindrical antenna module on the top. There's also some on street lights and the like.
So they're definitely in-filling their coverage, most likely to get 5G going. It's a long process, though, so I don't expect solid coverage for a while yet.
Those things are not gone. It's just that the masses don't use them.
You can find lots of forums out there on the web. IRC is still jumping. All these things are still out there, but only a small number of people used them.
Truth is, only a small number of people EVER used them. Think of the users of those legacy services as a circle in a Venn diagram of all Internet users being another circle around them. The larger circle of all users has been growing continuously and has now dwarfed the circle representing IRC, forum, etc. users. Mass market sites are more accessible to, well, the mass market. That's why they use them. Us nerds still enjoy sites like Slashdot, IRC chat, etc.
....and it just links to my social media accounts.
Ahh, the irony.
But the truth is, I'm just tired of having to constantly update and maintain my website's software. If you don't do it, eventually security holes get around and the machine hosting it gets hacked. It doesn't matter which one you use, every CMS like Drupal, WordPress and so on need active system administration. I already do it for a living, and don't have much energy for it when I get home.
So the solution is to have just static pages and content on my own webserver, and link to my social media accounts for the day to day blab.
I know, I can do better. But I'm lazy, like most sysadmins.
NO CARRIER
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Even if you're not going to contribute anything, you're forced to create an account to keep browsing. I wonder how many of those 100 million accounts are throwaways used to browse the site. I know mine is!
Websites shouldn't force read-only users to create accounts. Not only is it annoying, but it wastes resources on your servers and now you have more accounts to potentially get hacked.
There's no way to know if that prank app is only a prank app and doesn't have more code to do... interesting things.
Even back in the day some of those apps had viruses in them. There are limits to the amount of trust you have in some guy who wrote a cute little application that inverts your desktop or whatever.
If the helium concentration was high enough to affect phones this way, they're lucky it didn't displace too much oxygen and freaking kill people.
They really should have sensors to detect these conditions in places where large amounts of gas is used.
When you compress air, the temperature goes up. This heat then dissipates into the environment. That is undoubtedly some of the energy used to compress the air, so you've lost some efficiency there.
We need higher density and more housing. The only way to solve this problem is to increase the supply; the ONLY reason this problem exists is because of lack of housing in places people want to live.
We need to rezone R-1 areas for multiple unit housing. R-1 zonings are a massively inefficient use of space and are part of the reason we have so much traffic and sprawl.
We need to give the NIMBY types the finger and BUILD MORE HOUSING. Especially in the Bay Area. It's the only thing that will solve this; even if you were to regulate prices, it'll just turn the problem into "nobody can FIND any housing."
The little guys cheat a bit and get stomped on immediately.
Whereas the big bankers and wall street folks steal billions from us and get away scot free every day.
Just shows you how things are stacked. We need change.
Presumably the hookers have racks, right? :)
That really depends on your office culture. In some offices people get annoyed at you for wearing headphones because they can't yell at you from across the room.
Hell, it goes back to the 1950s and 60s. I've seen photos of offices from the 50s and 60s, and everybody is working on one large room, on small desks like a classroom. And they're using typewriters; which are annoying and loud. Imagine what a horrible work environment that was.
Cubicles were invented for a reason. We wouldn't have them if open plans worked, because the logical progression is so try open plan first (since it's cheapest), learn that it doesn't work, then try cubicles.
I guess that was a good run.
I should start my own YouTube. Anybody got a few spare racks in a colo I could borrow? :)
Second Life is still a thing because there is a steady user base that puts money into the system.
It's not really growing much anymore, but it's not shrinking either. It's stable, and Linden Labs is making a reliable profit.
The community is not that large, but it is very dedicated and many people live a decently large percentage of their lives in that virtual world.
I used to be a heavy user but haven't been lately. I still pop in from time to time, and I see a lot of the same names there. It's pretty fascinating.
> Vic Gundrota was a bad, bad hire.
He would have been more at home at Facebook. He was basically just trying to build another Facebook.
It's sad because it was so much wasted potential. The concept of circles for sharing your posts was excellent. You had a lot more control over your feed and content than Facebook got you. But they managed to screw it up.
The real-name policy is what drove many of the people I know off the platform.
The policy basically made G+ another Facebook; if that's the case, why not use use Facebook?
Some of us don't like using our real names online, for a variety of reasons. I think even my reason, that I just like using a different name, is perfectly valid. Anyone can find my real name if they really want to. But it was the principle. Others used pseudonyms because they didn't feel safe using their real names online. For those people, which included some of my friends, it was a big deal.
This is what killed G+ for me and my social group.
>the really old timers were fighting everyone else over the No Code license (MORSE not programming)
I remember this fight; it was absolutely absurd because the old timers were basically using morse code (which is a huge pain in the ass to learn) to gatekeep newer hams from getting their licenses. The truth is morse code was rarely used anymore and the code requirement was keeping a lot of otherwise very technically inclined people from bothering to join the hobby and get their licenses.
It's ironic because these days people complain that the hobby is dying because there's mostly only old timers left; the old timers basically dug their own grave because of their clique-ish nature over morse code requirements, especially during the golden age of ham radio in the 90s before the Internet made a lot of people lose interest in radio. I suspect there would be a LOT more middle aged hams in the hobby right now if it hadn't been for that bullshit, and they could be getting their kids into radio too.
A huge clusterfuck, it was. All because a bunch of old guys with an "I had to do it, so everyone should!" attitude.
This is true. However, why is the upgrade process even touching user files at all?
Even if the OS upgrade completely fucked up to hell and you end up with an unbootable system, there is NO REASON the process should have touched the user's files.
Link rot.
Even websites that have been around for decades experience it, because they change the structure of their site, breaking links to articles that might even still be available.
If you follow a CNN link from 15 years ago, it probably won't work.
It's a bit scary to think how much of our history we're losing to link rot and archive.org is doing their best to fight it. They are awesome people.
You just know people will file DMCA takedowns for their content archived on Wayback, breaking the links yet again.
Because people are petty and obsessed with controlling their content even though they're not making money from it anymore and they would have otherwise forgotten about it completely.
I think it's more about the fact that people are willingly putting their money into these shady cryptocurrency apps and betting schemes. It's absolutely no surprise that some of them end up losing their money.
Real banking and financial markets are regulated to protect against this sort of thing. People need to learn that when you play around on the grey or black markets, you're risking your money every time.
We need to stop posting these unless there is an actual product on the market.
There have been so many "battery breakthrough!!!!111oneone" posts that we never hear about again. Shouldn't we be a bit less naive by now?