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Currently working my third overnight shift this week, in what is normally a “regular business hours” job. So… Somewhere between 1, 4, and 8.

Well for starters, teachers have had to start telling students that .gov websites are no longer considered credible sources for research.

Yeah, it’s surprisingly small when it’s compressed if you exclude things like images and media. It’s just text, after all. But the high level of compression requires special software to actually read without uncompressing the entire archive. There are dedicated devices you can get, which pretty much only do that. Like there are literal Wikipedia readers, where you just give it an archive file and it’ll allow you to search for and read articles.

The etymology is from a racist street racing term. In the street racing scene, the garishly over-done modifications (often combined with anime wraps) were popular in parts of Asia. So those styles of cars were referred to as “rice burners” when Asian drivers inevitably ended up at car meets. And modifying the car in such a way was called “ricing” it. As in, Asians eat a lot of rice, and it looks like an Asian modified that car.

That’s pretty much it. That’s the etymology. Some people will try to claim that “RICE” is actually an acronym. But that’s a common lie, to allow those people to continue using the racist term without feeling guilty. The term “rice burner” existed long before the backronym did. And somehow, the term eventually found its way into the Linux world. And Linux fanboys will screech about how it’s not a racist term, but it is.

Digg has been working on rebranding recently, to try and capture some of the fleeing Reddit refugees.

This is honestly so hilarious. What kind of petty do you need to be to try and hound people for engaging with the community as intended? If you don’t want downvotes, go to an instance that disables them.

Every single day, I find myself thanking the Voyager dev for user tags. With such a small community, I end up running across the same commenters all the time. And many of them are repeat trolls.

This reads like you’ve only ever had to deal with mid-tier bosses, so your reference for a “bad” boss is pretty skewed.

I know one dude whose boss demanded he climb through a full dumpster to retrieve something the boss had thrown away earlier that day. The boss also required him to be clocked out for it, because he was already capped on hours for the week. The dumpster was shared by a seafood restaurant and a frozen yogurt place, so it was full of rotting fish and spoiled dairy.

Boss said he was fired if he refused. He refused, and was fired. Every single sentence in the previous paragraph violated existing labor laws. But sure, “just do as you’re told with a smile, whether you like it or not.”

The broad definition for “app stores” was likely intended specifically to block loopholes where people just spin up their own sites and say “it’s just my website, not an app store.”

At least on Apple, that wouldn’t help; Native apps (like the App Store) have GPS and cellular location access. You’d need to spoof your GPS and cellular location, which is a lot harder than simply connecting to a different VPN server.

Lots of people found that out when they deleted TikTok during the “ban”. TikTok continued to function in the US, but it was removed from the App Store so you couldn’t re-download it after deleting it. And simply changing your VPN to an international server didn’t help, because the App Store was loading available apps based on your cell location.

Yeah, they did the same for Win7 for a long time. Win7 was so widely used (and people were so hesitant to upgrade after the awful 8/8.1 mess) that like 25-30% of all the computers in the world were still using it several years after support officially ended. It forced MS to continue issuing critical vulnerability patches for Win7, long after support officially ended. Because they didn’t want to be responsible for creating a massive “literally a quarter of all PCs in the world” botnet when they stopped patching things.

Did you even read the comment? MS already patched it in Win10.

Nope, 0-day means it was exploited in the wild before the company knew about it. Basically, the company had to rush to patch it because it was already being exploited. It means black-hat hackers found it and exploited it before the white/grey-hat hackers reported it. If white-hat hackers found it first, they’d have already alerted the company and given time to patch it before they announced the vulnerability. But since the black-hat hackers found it first, it was a 0-day.

0-day patches are often a bodge, at best. They often consist of “just disable the vulnerable component entirely” to give the company time to work on a more long-term solution. And that’s exactly what happened here. MS didn’t take time to actually fix the driver; They just ripped it out and said “sucks if you needed it. It’s gone now.”

Further, there’s companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.

Yeah, some extremely expensive equipment at my job runs on Adobe Flash. Modern machines won’t even allow Flash to run because it’s so insecure. We just updated the control PC for that equipment last year; It’s a computer that is dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows XP. It boots into WinXP by default, to be able to run Flash. Then if you ever need to update it, you can swap over to Win11 to be able to connect to the internet.

There literally aren’t any agents in SF right now. Trump has threatened to send them, but hasn’t taken any action yet. This was the DA going “if you send them, we will charge them when they break the law.” But there’s nothing to do until after he sends them.

The “experts” part felt condescending to me. In a very “I know better than you, but you have the title so I have to defer to you” way.

And editing. A good editor will have a huge impact on the end result for a book. But the reader never considers that, because they only see the author’s name on the cover.

My parents house had a door that sticks. It had been like that for like 15-20 years. I just recently went over to their place for dinner, happened to have my tools in the trunk of my car, and decided to fix it after dinner. It only took like 10 minutes of “pop this hinge off, give it a little bend, and try again” to get it hanging perfectly square. Watching them suddenly have to fight +15 years of “I need to lift this door to close it” muscle memory was funny.

I mean, it’s definitely condescending, but it’s also dripping with “I was directly told to do this by someone who has the authority and the attitude to fire my entire department on a whim. I don’t think this will help, but I’m doing this specifically as CYA so I can get back to what I actually need to be doing instead.”