It’s all just distraction. Keeps your mind off the fact that the billionaire class are destroying the world and enslaving us all.

I am sorry Dave, I cannot do that.

Happy birthday!

We have a customer, a big international corporation, that has very specific rules for their intranet passwords:

• Must contain letters
• Must contain numbers
• Must contain special characters
• No repeats
• Passwords must be changed every two months
• Not the same password as any of the last seven
• PASSWORDS MUST BE EXACTLY EIGHT CHARACTERS LONG

I can only assume that whoever came up with these rules is either an especially demented BofH, or they have some really really weird legacy infrastructure to deal with.

All of that is unholy because the Coca Cola company is pure shit.

France.

Was there on business, visiting a factory of a large vehicle manufacturer, down in the south east. My god these people were nice. There was a guy who made sure we had everything we needed to get our work done, who would literally jump and run if we needed anything. There were people bringing us mini choco croissants for meetings. They always invited us for lunch and paid for it. There was always coffee for us if we needed it. We had desks to work on, which is a rarity in a factory environment, but they made it possible.

The best part was when we were standing at the line with a special piece of equipment that we had brought, and a guy stopped and said “hey, that looks interesting, what’s it for?” - and then we chatted about that for five minutes, eventually realizing it was time for a meeting. For both of us. Five minutes later, it turns out the guy who casually talked to us tech people was actually the head of their corporate IT. You wouldn’t have been able to tell that he was some higher up because he was so down to earth and friendly and casual. They all were. It was a mighty pleasure working with them.

When he’s done, that bill will be as worthless as he is.

My guess is that the speed with which new device types are supported is too slow to make it truly revolutionary. It was a good idea, it just does not happen fast enough to become dominant.

Well, there was Andrew Tanenbaum, who AFAIR claimed that Linux was not a proper operating system, because it does not sport a microkernel or some such.

Actually, you see, it is not the original bits, yeah? They get compressed, and that removes bits, and then they are uncompressed, and bits are added. Those are RE-CONS-TI-TUTED bits. It’s like reconstituted tomato juice, the taste of the original water is gone forever! And you can hear that. With music, I mean, not with the tomato juice. Like, who says it’s even the same kind of bits, the same quality? You can so hear the difference. You want a double blind study? Well that’s just silly, if it’s double blind, it means its not blind, because the two blinds cancel each others out. Basic science, duh!

We need guillotines, not nukes.

“Our” leaders start wars, and the common people suffer. We are never asked if they want that shit, but are forced to participate and kill or be killed. Fuck that. Fuck those leaders. Let’s united against bad leaders and off with their heads!

English letters? Really? So basically no a-z, only Æ, Þ, Ƿ, Ð?

Disney animatronics!

… and they’ll never go back to voting CDU.

These are people that actually believe in a secret cabal of lizard people.