User: buffcleb

He's 18...

On: Teen Who Defied Anti-Vax Mom Says She Got False Information From One Source: Facebook (washingtonpost.com)

You get your kids initial vaccinations when they're babies... Facebook wasn't around when she made this decision... and in it's early years it wasn't really a place where people got their news from...

Luckily I will be retired by then....

On: Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 (phoronix.com)

only 12 years left... not that I'm counting...

Re:Deploy their own Paging system

On: The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com)

I'm assuming they could piggy back on their EMS / Fire / Police systems... I'm a Vol. FireFighter in the states and we have our own private radio network in the town that is backed up by a neighboring town and the county... beyond that we can transmit directly from the Hall if things went really sideways...

Re:Why in hell allow *any* analytics?

On: Is It Time To Ditch Google Analytics? (fastcompany.com)

we've been running piwik/matomo for over ten years. We use it to track low usage periods for upgrades and to track specific links in our sites. Our traffic is very cyclical so identifying low periods of activity allows us to better plan maintenance while impacting the fewest number of users...

Re:Is that all that it takes?

On: London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com)

that test was at 238mph while most take-off and approach speeds are around 150-180mph (based on google - I'm not a pilot)... wouldn't the test have made more sense at 180mph?

Now we need an AI to

On: 20 Top Lawyers Were Beaten By Legal AI (hackernoon.com)

re-write all the lawyer jokes...