We burned a lot of midnight oil on that company. It was a early data analytics type venture that was fun, but had a lot of long nights. We had an ethical spin from the ground up which, in hindsight, is not really the direction the Internet wanted to take.
It was a great bunch of folks though. We keep in touch now and then.
Haha! Yeah we sure did.
It was a small startup in, gosh, 1999-2000 when the net was a new frontier. Lessons were learned. It’s since been acquired and folded into other businesses. The domain is still in my name with a very basic static page.
We had no intention of making/hosting a website with the trademark. The company was in agreement.
After we got it, the bossman comes to me and says “so we can make this email addresses now, right?”
Like, duuude… It’s not his expertise, I know, but he thought web pages and email was totally separate systems.
Anyway, that was almost 25 years ago. All water under the bridge.
That’s kinda how cybersquatting laws work.
Someone registered an available domain hours after I searched for it when I received our trademark. The domain was immediately put up for sale. I spent almost a year getting my ducks in a row to sue and reclaim the domain (I even had screenshots of the availability. The scammer was watching registration queries) but they let the domain expire for lack of interest. I scooped it up after that.
I logged unique broadcasting Bluetooth devices for fun for a few months and I was amazed at how many hundreds if not thousands of devices it found.
And that logger was stationary. Unless you know and filter the Bluetooth address ranges of what you are looking for, you will be swamped with irrelevant data.
Side note: those Bluetooth beacons tracking people in stores are absolutely gobbling data.
Nothing wrong if you have the drivers, but if you find yourself in a pinch, they aren’t prevalent like Philips or standard screwdrivers. A socket set is part of our emergency kit now.
My SO’s car is a Ford (pretty reliable actually) and the first fix-it we did needed torx bits. Ugh, go out and get a set of those… come back and start again. I look around and they are everywhere. It might deter some, but to us it was a waste of time and a F-you to those of us who can fix our piles.
Oh, and a special F-you to whomever designed the absolute useless (not making it up; it’s a 4 inch hollow chunk or metal welded to the frame nothing bolts to, hides inside, or protects) protrusion blocking a wrench from the oil drain bolt. A pox on thee!
Don’t disagree with your post, I’ve gone that route too, but I have had a couple RAIDs crash over the decades and dashing to a computer store and slapping drives from a dead box to a new one got me back up and running the quickest.
I can totally build a server with my spare parts lying around, but my system doesn’t care when I have free time to tinker; assume it will fail at the worst possible time like the day you leave on vacation.
But yeah, if you’re pinching pennies, build something fun and learn along the way. Frustration is the key to memory permanence. 😁
On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.
I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.
“Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.
I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.
I’m totally in the same boat. Haveibeenpwned is useless to me since the change.
Bookmarked the thread for future reference.
I lost a beloved cat a few months ago that ran into the road. My security camera caught the whole thing.
“What if?” Is its own torment for us, but analytically, she simply wasn’t visible and there was nothing the driver could/should have done to prevent the horrible outcome.
There are in life no-win situations. It hurts, but it’s an adult realization. Cats go under cars to hide - to avoid being seen - and can’t grasp danger the same as humans.
I trust others math more. Comment removed.
Normally I would agree, but this administrations actions over the year entrenched police/military protections from citizens from the get-go and strategically targeted cities to incite retaliation. It is clear conflict with American citizens in some form is a desirable outcome.
Attacking SNAP was a calculated move, but outcome turned unfavorable so they are backtracking. Polish the turd with spin, and try something else.
If blaming Democrats actually stuck, they wouldn’t do shit. This is nothing more than a move to cover their own ass and broadcast their PR spin.
As much as I hate the man touching our landmarks and his horrendous “aesthetics”…
… are we jumping on the green tile bandwagon?!?
That’s a rough one to defend; right up there with carpeted bathrooms. Oof.
Edit 1 day later: Just saw a picture of the marble version. The images didn’t load when I read the article yesterday. Yikes. Green tile FTW.
I’ve been self hosting since 1998. My first non-website service was a VCR hooked to a firewire capture card running QuickTime server so I could watch TV in the computer lab at school.
Your internet radio thing was neat. Mine was called Green Frog Radio. No, it didn’t go anywhere. Definitely not licensed whatsoever.
I bought an Onkyo NetTunes amp that had Internet streaming built in, but it sucked and didn’t have any of the cool stations I liked. I got together with other nerds and we wrote a simple NetTunes proxy running mono that inserted our list of stations into the NetTunes server response. I hosted that for a while. All users had to do was configure their IP settings to add my address. It was a fun little project. Actually, I guess that was my first open source collaboration. Haha.
Sexwork aside, (not my thing) that sounds like a really nice vacation actually.
Every year for decades I take me time to unplug and get away from the grind. No digital devices, no cell service are major pluses.
Gave my family that tip before they went out. Some phones were left behind because they still track location when turned off.
They said there were lots of cameras out there, but of note was one car driving by with pricy equipment and government plates. Definitely cover faces.
Oh no! A struggling utility! I wonder where excess money is flowing? What could possibly fund these upgrades? -[insert generalized doom & gloom] -
https://energyandpolicy.org/as-customers-struggled-utility-ceos-pay-spiked-last-year/