vrek
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- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 1 day ago:
Just like TI… They no longer make the famous calculator
- Comment on MDs please verify. 1 day ago:
Wholey shit only occurs if you do anal
- Comment on A secret cord 1 week ago:
Just use a normal power strip to power things in a natural disaster, or prepare proper and properly hook one up.
- Comment on A secret cord 1 week ago:
I had a cheap generator. I plugged in an extention cord through the window, into a powerstrip with the fridge, modem and 2 sockets to charge devices. Worked perfectly when I needed it but I also had a kerosene space heater so I wasn’t too concerned about freezing(bring all blankets into the living room, build a blanket fort atleast 6 feet away from the space heater and have everyone cuddle, calms people down, provides warmth and forms bonds.
- Comment on A secret cord 1 week ago:
Usually this are associated with Christmas lights… What’s the rush? Do it right this weekend instead of hoping you have time next weekend and you don’t burn down your house in the meantime
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah that makes sense
- Comment on Today In Computing History 1 week ago:
That is true. Lovelace and Margaret Hamilton are both great women in computing. Arguably up there with babage and turing but not nearly as well known.
- Comment on Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders 1 week ago:
Technically it’s Boston, it’s mid December, there is a high chance actual ice was there… /s
To take it to a new level they should put the message about LUCE on a bag of rock salt.
To be clear I am pro-immigrant and find all this ICE activity and the unmarked kidnappings disgusting. I just like dark humor. The cross section of ice vs ICE in Boston in winter is just funny.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What’s TBI?
- Comment on Today In Computing History 1 week ago:
Actually only two “witches” were burned, about 70% were acquitted and almost the rest were hanged. That’s atleast true in England, don’t know about the figures for the US.
As evidence of the computers comment here’s Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 1 week ago:
Long ago I think it was 2006, I worked in a computer store/corporate it support that used to also be a 56k dial up isp. When i first got hired it was supposed to be like a paid internship. 2 weeks in the guy “mentoring” me was fired. Only other employees was the owner was had a PhD in information technology from 1984 and never kept up and his wife who did the accounting.
Over the next year he hired and fired probably 15 people and then decided he liked me enough to make me full time. He had no idea what he was doing and neither did I. Basically I was responsible for 8 business networks(including a 150 employee credit union), any computers a customer brought in, and our own internal network.
One day it was slow so I was browsing various web comics. The owner comes on at 1030(we opened at 900) furious with me. He claimed I was “reading a page with black text on a white background” which meant I was reading how to operate a spam business. That was his proof, a page with black text and a white background which he could not find my history.
He had received a letter from his isp that we were sending 2.5 million emails a day, we had 72 hours to resolve the issue or we were to be cut off. I argued that I didn’t run a spam operation, he had no proof and there were simpler explanations. It got so heated I quit, keep in mind I was only employee.
Next day the credit union was having a server issue and he had no one to fix it. He called me asking for me to return, I negotiated a $1 hour raise, an official written letter of apology, pay for time the previous day and that day and told him I would be back the following day.
I went in, solved the server issue(eventually found out cleaning crew was unplugging the power strip to plug in their vaccum over night and the server was configured not to restart when power returned). Went back to the office and talked with the owner. He showed me the letter and it identified 2 ip addresses as being the source. Neither was my computer and I didn’t recognize them. There was a command you could send over the terminal to open the CD tray based on ip address. I ran the command and basically walked around looking for a computer with open CD trays.
Turns out there was 2 servers, outside of our firewall directly facing the internet and yes for the memes they were originally dns servers from the 56k isp days. They were running original nt4, completely unpatched, with no security software installed and permanent outside facing ip addresses. I ran a virus scanner on it, I stopped when it detected over 100k infected files. Disconnected the servers, waited 10 minutes, called isp and effectively all email had stopped (the boss and myself both sent 1 email to confirm it was still working).
- Comment on Today In Computing History 1 week ago:
The first computers were mostly women so… (originally being a computer was a profession which basically meant being paid to do calculations.)
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 1 week ago:
Depends… Wait if it involves depends that a whole other fetish.
- Comment on Still out there 1 week ago:
It would be horrible in real life but I thought a funny intro to a post apocalyptic movie would be a person giving a tour of a bio lab to college interns and…
“through our studies we have learned to increase the transmission rate and the death rate of the small pox virus. The downside is we had to mix it with rabies so the infected tend to get aggressive and lose there ability to rationalize their thoughts. Don’t worry though, there is only this one vial of it in the entire world… these gloves are quite slippery… Oops”
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Ah a fellow member of the old gaurd of the interwebs
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 1 week ago:
From the times when I was younger…
68 is you do me and I owe you one. 71 was 69 with 2 fingers in the ass. I guess 70 would just be training…
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Mushroom mushroom
- Comment on Nobel Price 1 week ago:
I got a Nobel prize… Now people have to knock on my door
- Comment on Sorry fellas, this absolute gem is taken 😭 2 weeks ago:
Personally I would prefer ham or bacon but I can deal with chicken…
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 2 weeks ago:
Fun… Well not really fun… Fact:
Giant tortoise didn’t get a scientific name for 300 years. They were so delicious no crew actually managed to get one back to England. They always ended up eating all the cargo.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually really cool…
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my previous employer had shutdowns on the week of July 4th and Christmas so the production operators on contract(aka not paid for holidays) could volunteer to help in the counts.
I was curious if libraries have a similar system…
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 2 weeks ago:
One time I was sick. I was stuck in the bathroom rotating between sitting and kneeling. I called my team lead and said I couldn’t come in and I was taking a sick day.
He responded by claiming I was lying and was not really sick. I responded with a picture of the toilet bowl after several rounds(unflushed).
He responded with “get well soon”
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity do you have a routine to periodically (annually, quarterly, I don’t know) to re-arrange books put back in the wrong place?
- Comment on Brazil President Bolsonaro has been arrested. Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting 11 years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 2 weeks ago:
Oh so Brazil actually has consequences for politicians…
- Comment on Brazil President Bolsonaro has been arrested. Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting 11 years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 2 weeks ago:
Asking out of ignorance, what exactly did he do?
To be clear I’m not saying he didn’t do anything wrong, or that there is a justification. I literally just don’t know what he was charged with.
- Comment on now kith 3 weeks ago:
You end up with a kid?
- Comment on How to test if the internet is working as expected.. 3 weeks ago:
I’m really trying to make a udp joke but you may not get it
- Comment on Ever go back to your old job just to visit friends and see THIS? 3 weeks ago:
I always thought about what it would be like to work at the unemployment office… Get fired… Next day you have to go back and be like “good morning Sheila, can I get a copy of form 2431-b please?”
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 3 weeks ago:
Damn accountants and health and safety destroying all our fun…