I recently randomed across ‘Spawn Wave’ on youtube.

Well there’s your problem. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Years back he did some decent teardowns of hardware, but at some point he switched to doing 20 minute daily(?) videos about mostly nothing, just regurgitating news blurbs and random-ass speculation. Not worth anyone’s time.

Excel is the database. Excel is the status console. Excel is the web scraper. Excel is the data analyzer.

All hail the mighty Spreadsheet, let us VBA. 🙏

…I feel seen.

If he spends every second between now and 2028 on a golf course, that would be a best case scenario.

I would have gone with “rotting on a pike in front of Trump Tower,” but you do you.

Believe it or not, straight to death.

Brings a new perspective to Barclay’s dalliances.

“I showed you my Jeffries tubes, pls respond”

Visibility is a good thing.

This highlights one of the things that I saw as a benefit when I started on kbin: being able to see who the downvote fairies were. I know the discussion has been done to death on the Lemmy side, but as a user I found it interesting to be able to see this kind of info. For example, instead of just block/reporting the spammer, I could block their sock puppets that upvoted as well. (And did kbin.social have a lot of that towards the end. Oof.)

Thanks for digging into this.

No, give it to me, I’ll put it somewhere safe. You’ll never see it again, but it’ll be safe.

Just like the screws I need to reassemble my weed whacker.

There’s a kind of learned helplessness with some developers and tests. It’s weird.

I got handed the keys to the network monitoring suite many moons ago. I immediately started editing the default alert actions to display relevant information, and in some outlier cases escalation procedures.

Most times, it was ignored. Other times, it was skimmed and half-followed. A few people outright refused to do anything differently than they had before (kick it up the ladder).

Glad to be rid of that place.

And the grifters sell earthing pads that you can plug into the wall socket and put your bare feet on.

So this was a thing long before the AI boom.

Some c suite dullard at my old job got dinged for not having proper redundancy for a datacenter at one of the companies they binge-ingested. So the “solution” was to build an offsite hot swap replica at another location that was pretty much at capacity for power delivery (and distribution: they let UPS systems run at 90+ capacity for years because “it’s not 100%”, only for there to be a mad scramble once that final straw got reached and the failures started). The power company said it was a minimum 6 month lead time for an additional transformer to be installed with no guarantees.

I can believe that it’s only gotten worse since then.

Just the thought “I should’ve been able to do this better”

That, or “there’s twenty other things that still need to be done.” Or, ya know, both. No feelings of progress, no satisfaction, just another step forward on the hamster wheel.

For anyone out there that can’t relate to this, I’m glad. I hope it stays that way.

I did my part. I (re-)bought TOS, TAS, TNG, and all of the movies on Blu-ray when they came out. Can’t say I’m pleased with DS9 etc being in upscale limbo forever.

Ain’t it grand how everyone wants to zero in on the aspect that they know best and try to treat just that, pretending that everything else will magically fall into place if only we can get x under control?

Best of luck to you, truly.

I’m convinced at this point that it’s kept around at least in part because it’s disruptive and disorienting.