This is the classic example of americans insisting they can have guns, and butter, at an equal rate. Schrodingers China has existed in this country for forty years now. Its simultaneously a valued and trusted trade partner in american consumer capitalism, and the scourge of modern capitalism in its communist defiance of the almighty dollar.
Nikita Khrushchev once said: "Communism will dance on the grave of the capitalist and we will sell you the rope you use to hang yourself." These days China has become more of a capitalist dictatorship. It still goes through the party motions of communism and allegiance but the unions are meaningless banners and the equality is a dream long since dead by the sino soviet split. American recognizes this, but its political apparatus after decades of deregulation and acuiescence to powerful multinational businesses like AT&T --which owe no allegiance to a single nation anymore-- is toothless to do anything more than sternly plead with the company to alter its course of business.
the $1.99 "911/emergency service" fee your cell company charges is mandated by state law, and was originally set up to fund 911 call centers. they largely came about after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to help modernize radio systems. after the 2008 housing collapse and recession, most states just redirected the 911 fee to the general fund out of sheer desparation to keep the wheels on the late-stage capitalism bus fueled by the fumes of corporate tax dodging and globalist outsourcing.
Damores article essentially attempts to justify centuries old gender bias with "science." Most people in the scientific community, including myself, were reaching for the popcorn and fascinated to see just how deep he would go trying to prove a pretty tenuous point. https://www.wired.com/story/th...
Damore makes a pretty sophomoric error several times, conflating gender and sex, but if that controversy isnt enough he starts flogging nature vs nurture. I myself being an evolutionary biologist nearly joked from laughter on my jiffy pop.
Im sure google would win this in court, however its cheaper and easier to settle out of court with the usual no-fault, no-deny and a litany of contractual boilerplate that keeps anyone from speaking of this ever again. Expect this guy to tour Fox news a few times and write a book in a few years, but the idea that he will ever face summary execution in front of a jury of actual scientists is unfortunately not going to happen.
The Always Connected PC is just another toll of the death knell of ownership.
corporations dont care about home owners and will gladly label them 'enthusiasts' in order to focus more on their own product channels. you can still build it yourself.
You will lease all software, because a one-time cost does not satisfy Corporate Greed, who wants you to pay per month forever.
the cathedral and the bazaar also applies here. companies are sick of being told theyre wasting money on charging for software, and now that apple has transitioned from tech to brand, others are doing the same. The question is can MS get away with the same rates apple charges? likely no.
You already lease cell phones.
speak for yourself. lineageOS means i can keep buying used, refurbished, or brand new (old stock) HTC m8 phones, loading my own OS and doing whatever I want one the screen wears out or the battery bloats up. either way, i kinda decide when i want a new one and what its going to be, thanks to open source.
This is our future. Unfortunately, the mindless masses don't give a shit enough to change the way we're headed.
as an open source developer and avid community member, i think youll find the millions of linux and bsd developers around the world both OS and program alike will prove this certainly is not our future. If anyone saw this model coming, it was RMS, and he nipped it in the bud in 1989. Now, will you please join us?:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
confirmed! Logan I'm sorry for the judgement. This decision should have gotten much, much more press than it has. Sourceforge is back!!:D
would i use sourceforge. These are the guys who decided to bundle Gimp with adware under the guise that it was "abandoned" and so that somehow made it okay.
...and thats where I stopped reading. Lineage is a stable, excellent fork of cyanogen that already supports everything Duval wants. fdroid provides floss apps and adblocking, and even access to Edward Snowdens Guardian repositories for things like secure browsers and newsreaders. As far as web services go, you choose to use them. there are decentralized alternatives to Facebook and Twitter already supported on smartphones tablets and PC. It sounds like this guy is too lazy to look for alternatives. https://mastodon.social/about for open source twitter https://joindiaspora.com/ for open source facebook https://prism-break.org/en/ for secure floss alternatives https://duckduckgo.com/ for a search that doesnt track
im seeing a lot of suspicious attempts at character assassination in the comments and theyre fairly easy to debunk, so here goes.
Even worse, I believe he was a sharepoint admin...
check wikipedia or the guardian project to figure out what this man actually did and who he worked for. He was a BAH contractor. Just because your employer is too daft to assign you anything but a menial job shoveling the sharepoint shit, doesnt mean you're too stupid to do real work.
I'm sure that after requiring full access to all your phone's sensors, the app would never share that data with Russian hackers.
except that Haven is open source you tit. It has 5 developers and currently 1 asshole from slashdot trying to torpedo it https://github.com/guardianpro...
Did you get paid to ship this? If so, your privacy explanation is the purest bullshit since ajit pai claimed net neutrality repeal helped promote internet freedom.
stop trying to reinvent the wheel and catch up with the rest of us. I've been using Verizon's "wet string" tier for years now and as soon as they repeal Net Neutrality ill upgrade to the 'haggard burro" tier where they feed a flash drive to an old donkey and drive it mercilessly across the Oregon trail. Some people think this tier is too expensive but honestly, Exhuming a 256 megabyte plastic USB stick from the carcass of a deceased beast of burden is obviously the superior method to view Netflix.
Reminder: Aaron Schwartz was looking at 35 years in prison for nothing more than a clever wget script. Chelsea Manning was looking at 60 years in prison from Government prosecutors. Julian Assange would certainly see a life sentence, and Edward Snowden would likely be rotting in Guantanamo until death.
Russia might not have the most open and free system of legal justice, but the US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, including North Korea. You might want to roll the dice and see if Russia will at least attempt to be reasonable
In light of this tremendous achievement by Chairman Pai, I and many other Slashdotters will now begin the efficient and productive streamlining of our internet traffic so as to prioritize content and improve the internet experience. These improvements include:
1: null-routing all known advertisement servers. 2: implementing our own caching DNS to avoid SRVFAIL redirection. 3: Installation of noscript, adblock, ssl everywhere and other script and advertising element blocking extensions to our browsers. 4: implementing open source VPN technology in our home networks 5: returning our wireless routers -- which are used by many providers to advertise public SSID's for other network subscribers to use -- and implementing secured open-source solutions.
so lets see just how long "unreasonable" encryption goes. The fact of the matter is plain and simple. In any of these shootings, the ability to read the killers instagram posts and grindr chats isnt going to magically re-animate the dead. beating the motive horse for a killer just helps draw attention away from the real issues like competent gun control and healthcare reform in the US that isnt hinged on Reagan era de-institutionalization.
1. project managers that graduated from the school of flagellation. the ones that think assigning a firm date to every goal is the only way to ensure it gets completed, and are willing to waterboard you for not adhering to the holy calendar. some of what we do in systems engineering -- like deprecating old systems or rolling out your cloud provided buzzgasm solution -- is highly technical. if you're not willing to draw diagrams or at least document how and why we arrived at some of these goals, youre just another manager.
2. project managers that ignore dependencies. sometimes other teams need to get involved to accomplish a given task or objective and if youre not willing to make the call, then who is? securing time from the beleaguered network guy, the storage zombies, or the NOC is technically under your purvey. if we make it all the way to the calendars release date and you havent done the needful when it comes to taking to other teams and understanding the business structure, then we can hardly be blamed.
3. companies that insist on contract-based project managers. they arent around long enough to learn the business or the systems in place, so they have very little incentive to participate fully in the project lifecycle. these shitlords get away with floating from company to company and doing very little at all.
fusion drive a hard disk drive with a NAND flash storage. this has been around for nearly a decade and exists in MAC as a cost savings measure at the expense of performance and is best suited toward mac customers as the moniker is far more critical to them than any demonstrable value.
its been said before that AI and devops and the internet of things will all someday obsolete jobs like system administration and software development, but thats only if youre too myopic to see what all this crap really is. In 10 years ill still be a linux sysadmin because most of the office is incapable of interacting with technology at an academic level anymore. despite countless code camps and STEM horse-whipping, the average user will remain. Users dont want cloud SAAS, they dont want to learn PHP, they dont care about systemd. We're talking about the average jane doe or joe, face down in their cellphone in traffic, incapable of using a turn signal, and powerless to do so much as set the clock on the microwave. They want windows to update automatically but cant understand why it has to interrupt their facebook. And most importantly, theyre all perfectly content to log into facebook, post all their pictures, share all their personal preferences, and spend the day barking into a pastic talking tube they call "artificial intelligence."
all the while,/.ers and engineers will have the same work we always have. We will be tasked with keeping up appearances as it were. we'll still be "the cloud" and "AI" for the user because its cheaper than spending 60 years undoing user culture and challenging right-to-repair/DMCA. Sure, we'll get TV shows about hackers like mr robot and ncis, but we'll always have things like big bang to quietly remind us that society, average society, truly has no concept of any of the work we do.
The juicer was nothing more than a cpu and a stepper motor that wrung out a sack of pre shredded vegetables into a glass. Investors immediately called this out, which is likely why juicero isnt around anymore. Not to mention the device was only compatible with DRM juice bags pre-purchased at $40 per week.
complete hardware teardown available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oracle Linux: you squandered solaris, one of the great operating systems of our time, and did everything you could to make it a complete pain in the ass to own. Now you expect to slap an Oracle sticker on RedHat Linux/CentOS and ancicipate people will care? You do know that all the well-defined chicanery in the oracle unbreakable linux distro is easily recreated in any distribution a customer could desire, right? and that these distributions dwarf your kernel contributions and community? if customers choose to do 'oracle' in say, Arch or centos, they not only get to skip the 5 hours on the phone with your tech support, but they get to skip the outrageous quarterly fees for the privilege. MySQL: Shes dead, jim. All your best and brightest jumped ship a long long time ago to projects like Maria and Percona and now the only people who still use mysql are the ones that havent migrated off redhat 5 yet. In short, the customers that are either transitioning to windows or hired someone to move them to something else. zfs: now this ones a bit of a controversy but stick with me here. What sun did to ZFS was great, but its licensing was crippled intentionally. You've had every opportunity as its owner to do something about that and you havent. There isnt much indication you will, so why not GPL or BSD it fully and concentrate on what you do best: shaking down customers for license fees. In the absence of competent licensing ZFS has been attacked on all sides from Redhats LFS and resurgent life support commits to the XFS tree, as well as BTRFS, which already handles disk pools, dedup, and cow and in a few months will handle multi device raid. So if you take any interest in ZFS stop hobbling the community. oracle cloud: no one has heard of this, its hardly advertised, and is dwarfed by ec3 and other more competitive providers. just...stop.
border agent: we need to scan your phone and its SDcard for national security /.er: of course. wouldnt want the terrorists to win! ...weeks LATER... Border patrol captain: so let me get this straight. the reason everything from the phones to the cameras and the gates are running at a crawl is because one citizens phone contained 400gb of individual zip bombs marked "terrorist_plot.zip" so you guys just went from machine to machine trying to unzip them? where is he now? border agent: oh he left days ago.
"The Mummy" This will be the fifth or sixth movie with the same plot, but different cast. we skipped the FX budget and hoped no one would notice, which did a great job exposing our shoddy subplot and writing. "Baywatch": this show ran for 12 years as a surrogate for softcore porn on basic cable/rabbit ears. in 2017 the plot and dialogue of this had better be great, otherwise the internets vast troves of adult content have crushed it before its even left the gate. the characters are, at best, totally untranslatable to millennials saddled with debt and ramen noodles. "The Dark Tower": What was this even about? character development died in the first 3 minutes (remember suicide squad?) but the whole movie worked tirelessly to complete the vision of a parking lot full of squirrels. This was a stephen king novel that was an excellent example of story telling but was, surprise, butchered by hacks to fit 90 minutes. "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.": I know ill probably get crucified for saying this on slashdot but this died because it only related to white people who walk into a nation themed restaraunt and start quoting the noble percentage of "heritage" from which they draw themselves. Black heimdal, black spiderman, hispanic blue beetle, see a trend? its called reading the demographic properly. This film was basically lifted from the Disney ride by a baby boomer exec at a studio trying desperately to purge him from the ranks. "Alien," "Transformers" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" this is the sixth alien, the sixth transformers, and the fifth in the pirates series. Hollywood needs to learn that the cash cow for millennial audiences dies after #1 for films written at the 4th grade comprehension level. Watching Mark Wahlburg cash another check for something that looks scripted on the toilet, or Johnny Depp show up in another $pirate_film because he either picked up the phone or has poor retirement planning is something boomers do.
tl;dr: the largest demographic youre trying to attract expects a little diversity, better scripting, and higher quality for an $11 ticket they could just skip and watch whenever it shows up on netflix when we're too stoned or bored to play steam games.
Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count. They did not, because from the get go this fight has been a test to see exactly how magnificently a handful of promoters and media moguls can fleece the average customer. You'll likely never see a refund for your 'online ticket.' as of right now, the fightpass servers are barely online with much of the page content timing out or flat out not connecting at all.
Now, from experience, when my fightpass connection glitched out after the second round I was angry enough to put my laptop through a fucking wall. But after some diligent searching I found pirate streams that were just as good, if not better quality, than the $100 show I paid to see. These streams remained consistently reliable throughout the entire fight, and im sure the torrents of the fight are going to be consistently high quality as well.
the industry needs to learn from this. the 'customers as an endless cash cow' model of Hollywood media is exactly what drove cable, CD music, and the theater movie experience into the fucking ground. Screw these streams up badly enough, screw over paying customers frequently enough, and the internet will quit caring about your streaming content entirely.
systems administrator: write scripts, config management, handle infra. gotcha.
DevOps engineer do neither. Write code in a shitty open floorplan office, get hounded for using noise cancelling headphones and working from home, endure nerf fights and microbrew on a tuesday because the CEO decided the devs were too gloomy for his investors to look at, and the burndown didnt matter anyway. Break incessantly from your coding job to go play sysadmin poorly. get overbooked to ops meetings, burn out and quit.
seriously, devops is a cancer. it only makes to @botchagalupe who uses it as a vehicle to pay the mortgage. It pisses off sysadmins by turning shit like NTP into a fragile 'microservice' of hypervisors and poorly documented ruby layers. it pisses off devs by making them take an oncall shift for an OS theyve only ever deployed to.
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This is the classic example of americans insisting they can have guns, and butter, at an equal rate. Schrodingers China has existed in this country for forty years now. Its simultaneously a valued and trusted trade partner in american consumer capitalism, and the scourge of modern capitalism in its communist defiance of the almighty dollar.
Nikita Khrushchev once said: "Communism will dance on the grave of the capitalist and we will sell you the rope you use to hang yourself." These days China has become more of a capitalist dictatorship. It still goes through the party motions of communism and allegiance but the unions are meaningless banners and the equality is a dream long since dead by the sino soviet split. American recognizes this, but its political apparatus after decades of deregulation and acuiescence to powerful multinational businesses like AT&T --which owe no allegiance to a single nation anymore-- is toothless to do anything more than sternly plead with the company to alter its course of business.
the $1.99 "911/emergency service" fee your cell company charges is mandated by state law, and was originally set up to fund 911 call centers. they largely came about after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to help modernize radio systems. after the 2008 housing collapse and recession, most states just redirected the 911 fee to the general fund out of sheer desparation to keep the wheels on the late-stage capitalism bus fueled by the fumes of corporate tax dodging and globalist outsourcing.
Damores article essentially attempts to justify centuries old gender bias with "science." Most people in the scientific community, including myself, were reaching for the popcorn and fascinated to see just how deep he would go trying to prove a pretty tenuous point.
https://www.wired.com/story/th...
Damore makes a pretty sophomoric error several times, conflating gender and sex, but if that controversy isnt enough he starts flogging nature vs nurture. I myself being an evolutionary biologist nearly joked from laughter on my jiffy pop.
Im sure google would win this in court, however its cheaper and easier to settle out of court with the usual no-fault, no-deny and a litany of contractual boilerplate that keeps anyone from speaking of this ever again. Expect this guy to tour Fox news a few times and write a book in a few years, but the idea that he will ever face summary execution in front of a jury of actual scientists is unfortunately not going to happen.
The Always Connected PC is just another toll of the death knell of ownership.
corporations dont care about home owners and will gladly label them 'enthusiasts' in order to focus more on their own product channels. you can still build it yourself.
You will lease all software, because a one-time cost does not satisfy Corporate Greed, who wants you to pay per month forever.
the cathedral and the bazaar also applies here. companies are sick of being told theyre wasting money on charging for software, and now that apple has transitioned from tech to brand, others are doing the same. The question is can MS get away with the same rates apple charges? likely no.
You already lease cell phones.
speak for yourself. lineageOS means i can keep buying used, refurbished, or brand new (old stock) HTC m8 phones, loading my own OS and doing whatever I want one the screen wears out or the battery bloats up. either way, i kinda decide when i want a new one and what its going to be, thanks to open source.
This is our future. Unfortunately, the mindless masses don't give a shit enough to change the way we're headed.
as an open source developer and avid community member, i think youll find the millions of linux and bsd developers around the world both OS and program alike will prove this certainly is not our future. If anyone saw this model coming, it was RMS, and he nipped it in the bud in 1989. Now, will you please join us? :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... confirmed! Logan I'm sorry for the judgement. This decision should have gotten much, much more press than it has. Sourceforge is back!! :D
would i use sourceforge. These are the guys who decided to bundle Gimp with adware under the guise that it was "abandoned" and so that somehow made it okay.
eelo is going to be forked from LineageOS
...and thats where I stopped reading. Lineage is a stable, excellent fork of cyanogen that already supports everything Duval wants. fdroid provides floss apps and adblocking, and even access to Edward Snowdens Guardian repositories for things like secure browsers and newsreaders. As far as web services go, you choose to use them. there are decentralized alternatives to Facebook and Twitter already supported on smartphones tablets and PC. It sounds like this guy is too lazy to look for alternatives.
https://mastodon.social/about for open source twitter
https://joindiaspora.com/ for open source facebook
https://prism-break.org/en/ for secure floss alternatives
https://duckduckgo.com/ for a search that doesnt track
im seeing a lot of suspicious attempts at character assassination in the comments and theyre fairly easy to debunk, so here goes.
Even worse, I believe he was a sharepoint admin...
check wikipedia or the guardian project to figure out what this man actually did and who he worked for. He was a BAH contractor. Just because your employer is too daft to assign you anything but a menial job shoveling the sharepoint shit, doesnt mean you're too stupid to do real work.
I'm sure that after requiring full access to all your phone's sensors, the app would never share that data with Russian hackers.
except that Haven is open source you tit. It has 5 developers and currently 1 asshole from slashdot trying to torpedo it
https://github.com/guardianpro...
Did you get paid to ship this? If so, your privacy explanation is the purest bullshit since ajit pai claimed net neutrality repeal helped promote internet freedom.
stop trying to reinvent the wheel and catch up with the rest of us. I've been using Verizon's "wet string" tier for years now and as soon as they repeal Net Neutrality ill upgrade to the 'haggard burro" tier where they feed a flash drive to an old donkey and drive it mercilessly across the Oregon trail. Some people think this tier is too expensive but honestly, Exhuming a 256 megabyte plastic USB stick from the carcass of a deceased beast of burden is obviously the superior method to view Netflix.
Reminder: Aaron Schwartz was looking at 35 years in prison for nothing more than a clever wget script. Chelsea Manning was looking at 60 years in prison from Government prosecutors. Julian Assange would certainly see a life sentence, and Edward Snowden would likely be rotting in Guantanamo until death.
Russia might not have the most open and free system of legal justice, but the US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, including North Korea. You might want to roll the dice and see if Russia will at least attempt to be reasonable
Yes, it can
In light of this tremendous achievement by Chairman Pai, I and many other Slashdotters will now begin the efficient and productive streamlining of our internet traffic so as to prioritize content and improve the internet experience.
These improvements include:
1: null-routing all known advertisement servers.
2: implementing our own caching DNS to avoid SRVFAIL redirection.
3: Installation of noscript, adblock, ssl everywhere and other script and advertising element blocking extensions to our browsers.
4: implementing open source VPN technology in our home networks
5: returning our wireless routers -- which are used by many providers to advertise public SSID's for other network subscribers to use -- and implementing secured open-source solutions.
"Responsible" encryption lasted about 3 days before it was crucified by the EFF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
so lets see just how long "unreasonable" encryption goes. The fact of the matter is plain and simple. In any of these shootings, the ability to read the killers instagram posts and grindr chats isnt going to magically re-animate the dead. beating the motive horse for a killer just helps draw attention away from the real issues like competent gun control and healthcare reform in the US that isnt hinged on Reagan era de-institutionalization.
Downtown Los Angeles air quality (PM2.5) is only 54 currently. 600 is practically thick enough to stand on.
1. project managers that graduated from the school of flagellation. the ones that think assigning a firm date to every goal is the only way to ensure it gets completed, and are willing to waterboard you for not adhering to the holy calendar. some of what we do in systems engineering -- like deprecating old systems or rolling out your cloud provided buzzgasm solution -- is highly technical. if you're not willing to draw diagrams or at least document how and why we arrived at some of these goals, youre just another manager.
2. project managers that ignore dependencies. sometimes other teams need to get involved to accomplish a given task or objective and if youre not willing to make the call, then who is? securing time from the beleaguered network guy, the storage zombies, or the NOC is technically under your purvey. if we make it all the way to the calendars release date and you havent done the needful when it comes to taking to other teams and understanding the business structure, then we can hardly be blamed.
3. companies that insist on contract-based project managers. they arent around long enough to learn the business or the systems in place, so they have very little incentive to participate fully in the project lifecycle. these shitlords get away with floating from company to company and doing very little at all.
John McAfee is like the nerd version of Charlie Sheen.
fusion drive a hard disk drive with a NAND flash storage. this has been around for nearly a decade and exists in MAC as a cost savings measure at the expense of performance and is best suited toward mac customers as the moniker is far more critical to them than any demonstrable value.
its been said before that AI and devops and the internet of things will all someday obsolete jobs like system administration and software development, but thats only if youre too myopic to see what all this crap really is. In 10 years ill still be a linux sysadmin because most of the office is incapable of interacting with technology at an academic level anymore. despite countless code camps and STEM horse-whipping, the average user will remain. Users dont want cloud SAAS, they dont want to learn PHP, they dont care about systemd. We're talking about the average jane doe or joe, face down in their cellphone in traffic, incapable of using a turn signal, and powerless to do so much as set the clock on the microwave. They want windows to update automatically but cant understand why it has to interrupt their facebook. And most importantly, theyre all perfectly content to log into facebook, post all their pictures, share all their personal preferences, and spend the day barking into a pastic talking tube they call "artificial intelligence."
/.ers and engineers will have the same work we always have. We will be tasked with keeping up appearances as it were. we'll still be "the cloud" and "AI" for the user because its cheaper than spending 60 years undoing user culture and challenging right-to-repair/DMCA. Sure, we'll get TV shows about hackers like mr robot and ncis, but we'll always have things like big bang to quietly remind us that society, average society, truly has no concept of any of the work we do.
all the while,
The juicer was nothing more than a cpu and a stepper motor that wrung out a sack of pre shredded vegetables into a glass. Investors immediately called this out, which is likely why juicero isnt around anymore. Not to mention the device was only compatible with DRM juice bags pre-purchased at $40 per week.
complete hardware teardown available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oracle Linux: you squandered solaris, one of the great operating systems of our time, and did everything you could to make it a complete pain in the ass to own. Now you expect to slap an Oracle sticker on RedHat Linux/CentOS and ancicipate people will care? You do know that all the well-defined chicanery in the oracle unbreakable linux distro is easily recreated in any distribution a customer could desire, right? and that these distributions dwarf your kernel contributions and community? if customers choose to do 'oracle' in say, Arch or centos, they not only get to skip the 5 hours on the phone with your tech support, but they get to skip the outrageous quarterly fees for the privilege.
MySQL: Shes dead, jim. All your best and brightest jumped ship a long long time ago to projects like Maria and Percona and now the only people who still use mysql are the ones that havent migrated off redhat 5 yet. In short, the customers that are either transitioning to windows or hired someone to move them to something else.
zfs: now this ones a bit of a controversy but stick with me here. What sun did to ZFS was great, but its licensing was crippled intentionally. You've had every opportunity as its owner to do something about that and you havent. There isnt much indication you will, so why not GPL or BSD it fully and concentrate on what you do best: shaking down customers for license fees. In the absence of competent licensing ZFS has been attacked on all sides from Redhats LFS and resurgent life support commits to the XFS tree, as well as BTRFS, which already handles disk pools, dedup, and cow and in a few months will handle multi device raid. So if you take any interest in ZFS stop hobbling the community.
oracle cloud: no one has heard of this, its hardly advertised, and is dwarfed by ec3 and other more competitive providers. just...stop.
border agent: we need to scan your phone and its SDcard for national security
/.er: of course. wouldnt want the terrorists to win!
...weeks LATER...
Border patrol captain: so let me get this straight. the reason everything from the phones to the cameras and the gates are running at a crawl is because one citizens phone contained 400gb of individual zip bombs marked "terrorist_plot.zip" so you guys just went from machine to machine trying to unzip them? where is he now?
border agent: oh he left days ago.
"The Mummy" This will be the fifth or sixth movie with the same plot, but different cast. we skipped the FX budget and hoped no one would notice, which did a great job exposing our shoddy subplot and writing.
"Baywatch": this show ran for 12 years as a surrogate for softcore porn on basic cable/rabbit ears. in 2017 the plot and dialogue of this had better be great, otherwise the internets vast troves of adult content have crushed it before its even left the gate. the characters are, at best, totally untranslatable to millennials saddled with debt and ramen noodles.
"The Dark Tower": What was this even about? character development died in the first 3 minutes (remember suicide squad?) but the whole movie worked tirelessly to complete the vision of a parking lot full of squirrels. This was a stephen king novel that was an excellent example of story telling but was, surprise, butchered by hacks to fit 90 minutes.
"King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.": I know ill probably get crucified for saying this on slashdot but this died because it only related to white people who walk into a nation themed restaraunt and start quoting the noble percentage of "heritage" from which they draw themselves. Black heimdal, black spiderman, hispanic blue beetle, see a trend? its called reading the demographic properly. This film was basically lifted from the Disney ride by a baby boomer exec at a studio trying desperately to purge him from the ranks.
"Alien," "Transformers" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" this is the sixth alien, the sixth transformers, and the fifth in the pirates series. Hollywood needs to learn that the cash cow for millennial audiences dies after #1 for films written at the 4th grade comprehension level. Watching Mark Wahlburg cash another check for something that looks scripted on the toilet, or Johnny Depp show up in another $pirate_film because he either picked up the phone or has poor retirement planning is something boomers do.
tl;dr: the largest demographic youre trying to attract expects a little diversity, better scripting, and higher quality for an $11 ticket they could just skip and watch whenever it shows up on netflix when we're too stoned or bored to play steam games.
Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count. They did not, because from the get go this fight has been a test to see exactly how magnificently a handful of promoters and media moguls can fleece the average customer. You'll likely never see a refund for your 'online ticket.' as of right now, the fightpass servers are barely online with much of the page content timing out or flat out not connecting at all.
Now, from experience, when my fightpass connection glitched out after the second round I was angry enough to put my laptop through a fucking wall. But after some diligent searching I found pirate streams that were just as good, if not better quality, than the $100 show I paid to see. These streams remained consistently reliable throughout the entire fight, and im sure the torrents of the fight are going to be consistently high quality as well.
the industry needs to learn from this. the 'customers as an endless cash cow' model of Hollywood media is exactly what drove cable, CD music, and the theater movie experience into the fucking ground. Screw these streams up badly enough, screw over paying customers frequently enough, and the internet will quit caring about your streaming content entirely.
developer: write code. gotcha.
systems administrator: write scripts, config management, handle infra. gotcha.
DevOps engineer do neither. Write code in a shitty open floorplan office, get hounded for using noise cancelling headphones and working from home, endure nerf fights and microbrew on a tuesday because the CEO decided the devs were too gloomy for his investors to look at, and the burndown didnt matter anyway. Break incessantly from your coding job to go play sysadmin poorly. get overbooked to ops meetings, burn out and quit.
seriously, devops is a cancer. it only makes to @botchagalupe who uses it as a vehicle to pay the mortgage. It pisses off sysadmins by turning shit like NTP into a fragile 'microservice' of hypervisors and poorly documented ruby layers. it pisses off devs by making them take an oncall shift for an OS theyve only ever deployed to.