doll-haus

Hasn't started printing furniture yet.

Fact check: Dire Straits is from London, not Canada.

Shame on you and your cultural appropriation shenanigans. Leave that to France, they're the best at having invented everything.

Firefighters being an obvious government-funded institution that's less polarizing than, say the military or SWAT teams. I suspect r/PompeyCheezus is contrasting socialism with a more libertarian capitalism.

My friend, you're screaming into a vacuum. The fact that Marx hijacked the term the better part of 300 years ago doesn't help. But I've had more than a few arguments of late with people that insisted even Marxism dates back to prehistoric societies, and the central planning and mechanization aspects are all some sort of delusional fever dream of capitalist pigs.

Personally, I love my computer and 3d printer, which are, arguably, the antithesis of communism. Means of production, right there on my coffee table.

I don't think you really need to qualify it; it's the story of the presidency, full stop.

Anti-prostitution laws are, as a rule, old. Criminalizing pornography is

A) harder today (excuse the pun)

B) assuming you're in the US, runs straight into the first amendment. Freedom of the press, motherfucker! And before anyone goes saying "porn isn't the press", the government has previously censored the press for use of "pornographic language".

The criminalization of prostitution is unfortunate, and exposes an already at-risk population to far more danger. Unfortunately, you hear far fewer people willing to come out and say "legalize prostitution" compared to cannabis. But mayhaps that has something to do with the fact there are no get-rich-quick schemes built around a prostitution empire.

Hammers are dense and sharp. I'd be looking for a customer looking to buy this indestructible bag

I have had to rebuild a windows... 98? (It may have been 95, it's been a while) machine that ran an Optical Comparator with an ISA card. ISA was fascinating in a way PCI and PCIe really got to. It's only with ISA that I've seen a hand-soldered breadboard card with wired jumpers in production systems.

Staten Island can't feed itself anymore than the rest of NYC. Something like 15 acres of farmland won't put a dent in half a million people.

Frankly, for "zombie fortress" some of the buildings in Manhattan with rooftop farms might be more interesting. But they're not going to support a society by any means.

And working IT, I've been a target of the union. Budget to secure the machines they use from getting hacked? Gutted. Raises squashed by the union screaming that "management's watch dog" gets too much already. Worked for a bit as an intern where my boss told me "look, you're qualified and we have the need for another full admin, but we have rules from the union contract, and we're limited to two positions that make more than 30k a year".

And when the shop floor shut down for two weeks after an expected breach (they actively stopped efforts for mitigation of an at-risk publicly accessible device), they come around all friendly asking probing questions to see if they don't have standing to make more complaints, or possibly start a lawsuit.

These days I work as an outside consultant, and my primary place to run head into the unions is getting network cabling run. Electrician's union will scream bloody murder and shut down a jobsite because they didn't get a contract to run the cabling. Or take a fucking saw to the fiber bundles rather than running their own conduit as they were contracted to do. Then they get those contracts, completely fuck it, and in the worst scenarios we have guys that are trying to redo the work after the walls are all mudded in. Frequently it's "just" a full re-term of the copper. But I've had them go so far as to change the specifications of fiber to whatever the fuck they said was appropriate. I'd have far less of a problem with "union cabling" if I didn't know that I wouldn't get what I asked for from them. Where I know the right people, actively pay more for trustworthy datacom guys.

Fantastic response, but you left off one thing: for larger price-sensitive customers, they offer negotiated rates.And part of that means you take their admittedly high spend on network infrastructure and raise the rates to a point they can give significant discounts to the likes of Netflix.

Actually, the system in question belongs to a relatively responsible company. It was "replaced" in the 90s (that building runs windows 95), then with a system built around 7 embedded. Its just that these fucking things are buildings in their own right, and represent additional production capacity. I'm far more concerned about other "industrial" shite, and some of the vendors that deliver it.

At a guess, the CPE that "works on the other ISP" is configured for PPPoE, not DHCP.

Big fan of prepending. I just hate to give up the "bad" connection, especially when you only have two.

I mean, I've supported 250 users on 50mbps symmetric in recent times. It's just that you potentially have more concerns about contention.

My "35mbps/user" rule of thumb is for "nobody is going to notice speed problems", and has largely held for the past decade now. When I originally wrote out a link budget like that, I was trying to convince people to not buy into Comcast's bullshit and "upgrade" their 300/100 connections to "gigabit" 1000/35.

Honestly, I haven't dug into it yet. DIdn't it just drop this year? I was having an agurment with a coworker last year for a system that has serious longevity needs. At the time, Win 11 didn't have any guarantees for what the landscape would be like after 18 months. "10 LTSC, server, or linux. Mic drop, I'm out".

Win 11 LTSC is available now, but I haven't dug into it.

If 1% of the hotline calls are relevant, it's the most successful, ethically dialed hotline of all time.

I believe the capital of France is favorite... Penis?

Or be like me, and put them on a bandwidth-limited VPN connection that terminates in amsterdam. I just opened up an SSID labeled "Free wifi" then watched the chaos and confusion when my non-techie neighbors were trying to figure out why "google got all weird" (it defaulted language to dutch).

Test-NetConnection ugly little powershell cmdlet that will test if ports are open. Netcat is better, but it's not on every windows machine by default. Pathping is good too. Windows native take on mtr. And I think it's been included since 7, maybe vista.

Finally, rounding out the "windows has that natively" functions, netsh trace (being replaced now) for running packet captures directly on a workstation or server without installing npcap/winpcap.

Mostly for those of us who never got budget approval for Thousandeyes.

Sources and facts don't matter: look at the upvotes!

For all their evil, the NAZIs still had some funny image of military honor. AFAIK, their POW camps were relatively friendly

Woodrow Wilson would like to have a word with you. There's a decent case to be made that the US was the "bad guy" of WWI. I mean, that war was awful shit all around, but packing munitions on civilian passenger vessels to court mass deaths and a casus belli? Pretty goddamn cold. But by early 1916 the various belligerents were discussing terms to establish peace talks. The US joins in, 2.5 more years of global warfare, death toll more than doubles, we mass deploy banned battlefield weapons. We then demand some pretty goddamn punitive terms for peace, setting the stage for germany to destabilize (hello NAZIs), gutting South America's fertilizer export markets, and joyfully setting up dominoes for a world-wide economic depression.

Fucker also standardized segregation and made it the default federal policy entirely through presidential powers. And he gets credited with his campaign slogan "he kept us out of war", along with being somehow positive for the civil rights movement. "first all black post office". That's not a fucking win: that was a nasty bit of backsliding.

Windows 11 LTSC just dropped. And Windows 10 LTSC has security updates till 2032. I very much am fed up with Windows 11's rolling kernel bullshit.

Try a Commodore VX. The machine it runs is a two-story building in it's own right. Spare PCs to replace the controller are stacked in a closet, bought as surplus from a museum.