Hot and humid, although slightly less of each than we’ve had recently. It was only 90F yesterday, and the humidity was lower than “drip off your eyelashes” sweaty.
Did a bunch of cleaning and some sorting yesterday, then had hours sucked away by my hobby website. Still messing around with that, but I think I made progress. I did stuff in any case.
Then I did a couple of pickups. Some parts for water purification, and stuff for one of the kids… and went grocery shopping. I was surprised to see canned veg back under a dollar a can. Pasta was still high, and meat was crazy. Vac sealed pork butt was $2.89 (goes on sale for $1, or even $2), low fat hamburger was almost $5, and premium hamburger was almost $6/ pound. There was one tray of choice beef tenderloin steaks and it was $20/pound. Even bulk chicken legs were $1.30, which is .30 more than they were a couple of years ago. There were very few sale items, and a lot of gaps on the shelves. Could just have been because I was there Friday afternoon– that’s not my normal shopping time. Or it could be more issues with supply, or staff.
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Out in the world, social media companies are shutting down firearms related content creators. The political divide has polarized even more. And people are openly advocating for violence against political opponents. It’s coming to a head. Can’t predict the timeline, but I’m more concerned than ever.
Get your ducks in a row, your stuff in the bag, and keep working on your situation.
Stack it up.
nick
It depends on what you want to do and how fast it needs to run.
I don’t understand the social media thing. Content creators should just create their own sites, and be free of pressure. We could find them.
SM (!) reminds me of how some people thought their AOL was the whole web.
Bandwidth for video content can get pricey, and the social media platforms make monetization (getting paid) easier provided that you don’t violate their rules.
Smell the hypocrisy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAkMorFLlY
Zuckerberg is just as beholden to Vanguard and Blackrock as the rest of the “mainstream” media.
If you want to do video online, and to have an audience, you really need to be on YouTube.
Google (remember “don’t be evil”, lads?) doesn’t like guns, and especially doesn’t like people making money from gub videos on their YT platform, so they are censoring and “demonetising” gub channel creators. I have also noticed recently that YT has been surreptitiously unsubscribing me from gub, hunting and shooting channels.
I hope this will bring the issue of “platform” vs. “publisher” to a head. If they are the former, they ought not to exercise control over content other than the bare minimum of disallowing whatever is anyway illegal.
There are other platforms that are gub-friendly, such as rumble.com or weaponsandwar.tv but they have nothing like the viewership of YT.
and YT’s recommendation engine really works to bring stuff to your attention. One channel I watch has resorted to doing a G rated version of their videos, and suggesting people join Patreon to access the “normal” version of their content. They must host it somewhere else…
Remember when there was a competitor to youtube? YT bought them. Now there isn’t really anyone with the scale.
YT won’t allow monetization of anything to do with tobacco, not even pipe making videos that never mention smoking.
It’s lucrative for the creators if they can convert views to Patreons, that ham guy I heard on the radio last week makes between $60K and $600K per year depending on how much his patreons are signed up for, and how many of his 600K subs are actually patreons…
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81F and sunny this morning at Casa De Nick . Or Chateau du Nic…
I think it’s gonna get hot.
There was some pretty heavy lightning to the north last night as I was dealing with the dog before bed, but I don’t think we got even a sprinkle.
n
Rumble.com exists, and they CLAIM to be pretty 1st and 2nd Amendment friendly, but no, they don’t have anywhere near the scale of YT. But they’re still growing.
It depends on what you want to do and how fast it needs to run.
Speed is always a consideration at some point in a software’s life cycle.
Then I did a couple of pickups. Some parts for water purification, and stuff for one of the kids… and went grocery shopping. I was surprised to see canned veg back under a dollar a can.
I opened a best by 2018 can of diced tomatoes Tuesday. It was now tomato soup and sour smelling. The wife was heck no. So I tossed the 8 pack and bought new cans at HEB for $1.36 each.
Stayed up until 3am talking to my Mom and my aunt. It was an unexpected pleasure to find my aunt spending a week with my parents. My aunt is Mom’s youngest sister and is only 12 years older than me. She is a neat person and beset with health issues at 76.
She got type 1 diabetes when she was 50 and fights to stay in control now with two insulin shots a day. She has had five heart surgeries for afib since she turned 65, all stopped working within a year. She now has a clot catcher in her chest and lives with afib.
diced tomatoes
– tomato products, pineapple, some other fruits… no bueno. They will eat the cans and the cans will fail. I just replace as needed, knowing they won’t last.
I haven’t tried freezing or refrigerating the tomato product sold in the UHT “juice” boxes. That might be a better option for the medium length timescale.
n
Hickock45 recently had his videos demonetized. YT is apparently playing games with gun channels. I hope he gets it worked out. His videos are informative and hilarious.
Has she asked her endocrinologist about an insulin pump? They are truly life changing devices.
This. If you want tomatos, you’ve got to grow them. You can makes and store products (like tomato sauce, ketchup, etc.) and they will keep until next year’s crop.
The new company to pay his retirement is called “Athene”. What? They asked Mike Tyson to say “Athena”? I called, they wanted a copy of the death certificate. I sent it the next day.
A couple of days I go I received a form letter dated the day I called them with the “sorry for your loss” line and an envelope to send a copy of the death certificate. Two and a half weeks. That’s all I’ve heard from them.
Frost sends e-mails about high withdrawals and electronic deposits. This morning I had a e-mail for a high withdrawal saying “BENEFIT PAYMENTS RECLAIM” $1102.xx. I looked online. Two of them. Nice, they left me $9 in checking. This would cover the June and July retirement payments. I suppose I’m done with them. If they wanted May’s payment OD protection would have covered that.
Perhaps they’ll send another form letter in a few weeks. I would call them today but they don’t work on the weekend.
My only problem with tomato products has been a few cans of tomato paste leaking at the side seam of the can.
No problem with pineapple. Fruit cocktail? Canned peaches? I no longer keep either in stock. Tiny pinholes spraying syrup from shelf to the front of the fridge three feet away make a mess. With the added benefit of not noticing the can has a leak.
I keep mayo, mustard, and ketchup in the spare fridge. BBQ sauce and taco shells, too. I had a bottle of ketchup get sketchy looking. I’ve had a couple of jars of mayo go a little bit “off” with a slight rancid taste. So, in the fridge.
I use canned tomatoes and sauce fast enough I haven’t had a problem. Growing tomatoes? I’ve had a couple of good years to have enough to can. I usually get about a dozen tomatoes from three plants.
Has she asked her endocrinologist about an insulin pump? They are truly life changing devices.
She has to be in control to get that level of treatment. I am not going to ask her as I do not want pry. The six heart surgeries over the last 10 years have really taken it out of her.
I’m going through three collection of ten movies each. Sci-Fi, Action, 1980s.
It’s easier to list the stinkers.
Atomic Blonde was boring. I made it over half way and decided going to bed was more important.
Last night’s movie was The Man With The Iron Fists. I’m not a big fan of Chinese Ninja movies to start with. But the sound track sounded like ghetto rap to me. I hit eject after ten minutes.
Dragnet lasted 15 minutes before I hit eject.
Not bad. Three stinkers out of 30 movies? I have six movies to go. They look ok by the descriptions.
I watch Serenity the other night. Nice movie. Clunky in a few spots but the spaceships and all that looked great. I watched some of “making of” trailers. I’ve never seen Firefly and can’t tell you what station or channel it was on. But it was good enough to base a movie on….
I really need to replace my keyboard. For ex, I know I typed “A couple of days ago” and not “A couple of days I go’
Seems be some kind of cross shorting on the circuit board. And the X key is just wonky…. press hard and wiggle.
If you liked Serenity, you’ll really like the Firefly series. I own more than one disc set. Heck, my MOM liked it.
The network screwed with the show, moving it, airing episodes out of order, all kinds of shenannigans. Then they canceled it. FANS brought in the money to make the Film and tie things up.
The good Baldwin (Jane) has some awesome lines in the series.
n
Windows 3.1 or Windows For Workgroups 3.11?
I can believe the latter.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/
Ha Ha!
n
So did this CrowdStrike ‘bug’ get deployed in production environments without the same change being deployed in a prod minus one test environment? Or am I missing something obvious?
Production environment. Microsoft probably assumed the vendor did appropriate testing.
CrowdStrike is done.
I watch Serenity the other night. Nice movie. Clunky in a few spots but the spaceships and all that looked great. I watched some of “making of” trailers. I’ve never seen Firefly and can’t tell you what station or channel it was on. But it was good enough to base a movie on….
Dude, stop everything and binge the Firefly tv series right now. Note that there is much controversy about the order if the episodes. I dont care, just binge the entire series. It will make the true horror that is Serenity much more understandable. After all, people do not really understand why the movie is called Serenity. Serenity is about drugging people to make a utopia and the horrified resultsof the experiment.
Watch them in the order of the DVD, not to AIR order. That was the Director and creator’s desire.
n
Production environment. Microsoft probably assumed the vendor did appropriate testing.
CrowdStrike is done.
Crowstrike lost their good name Friday. Nobody is going to trust them now. They are going to have to regain the industry trust, not an easy thing nowadays. I suspect the CEO will fall on his sword next week.
DEVELOPING: Israel Bombards Yemen’s Oil Depot in Retaliatory Strike Following Tel Aviv Suicide Drone Attack
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/developing-israel-bombards-yemens-oil-depot-retaliatory-strike/
“Early and unconfirmed reports claim that the IDF also struck one of the country’s largest oil refineries with around a dozen F-35 Raptors in a joint operation with US Forces. If this is true, this is a concerning escalation in regards to the United State’s involvement in the conflict.”
You gotta have stealth nowadays because everyone has great radars, courtesy of Russia. And yes, the world is watching.
https://ceoworld.biz/2024/05/21/revealed-countries-with-the-most-f-35-lightning-ii-stealth-fighter-jets/
Israel has 39 F-35A planes with 36 on order. The USA has 630 F-35A, B, and C planes with 1,855 on order. A = Air Force, B = Marines (vtol), C = Navy Carrier.
So I guess that you can send a dozen stealthy planes or a thousand non-stealthy planes.
I have watched the Firefly series four times. My wife has watched the Firefly series at least twice.
I forgot to mention that Lockheed is making 150 F-35s annually for $110 million to $140 million each depending on the model. They are made at the huge plant in Fort Worth, Texas that made B-17s in WWII and F-16s. There are over 1,000 on order outside the USA.
“Microsoft’s Outage Tip for Customers: Try Rebooting Your System 15 Times”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsofts-outage-tip-for-customers-try-rebooting-your-system-15-times
“It may sound ridiculous, but the multiple-reboot routine on Azure servers could send a signal to CrowdStrike to apply a fix. ‘Can solve itself after 3 reboots, could take 15 or more,’ one admin says.”
If it wasn’t for power outages, I’d never reboot my win8 desktop. It just runs.
n
The CrowdStrike device driver must communicate with a central authority in the network which forces a refresh of the interpreter and rule set running on the edge node if “bad” packets are not forwarded for further analysis within a certain number of reboots.
All networks have suspect packets. If you ever want to see this in action, run an ISO of Security Onion with the default rules. It will make you really paranoid.
The Windows install on a partiton of my 2012 MacBook Pro is Windows 8.1 because Windows 10 would require two licenses, one for the EFI boot directly on the hardware and another to use the same partition under VMware Fusion.
Every time I boot the partition, Redmond lets me know that the OS is not supported any longer. The notifications have grown more obnoxious.
I really need to boot the partition and check the Cygwin installed there. For now, Cygwin gets updates.
Quiet day here, and now I’m headed to bed.
Sleeping in tomorrow, but there is a good long post scheduled….
n
I have two computers with Win 2k installed. Although I don’t use them anymore, they are “hibernating” (suspended to disk.) I occasionally apply power to one just for nostalgia, and so far it runs fine – offline of course.
I also still have an intact Win 3.11 system. I wonder if it would start. I might have to apply some rotary acceleration to the hard disk to unstick it if it won’t spin up.
In addition, I have a few Linux computers sitting around. I actually used one to run a scanner until I got a more convenient scanner that works with Win 10.
I really need to do some house cleaning.
All this reminds me; I need to plan for my next generation of computers and an OS. I don’t like what I see. I am comfortable with what I have, but it never lasts forever.
@Paul: Firefly is worth watching. The show only existed for one season, but the characters were great and the character development really good. It was canceled for stupid reasons having nothing to do with the quality.
Being a techie, I’ve read a lot of takes. As near as I can summarize:
That last point is the one that deserves serious condemnation. What kind of idiot programmers don’t verify their inputs? What kind of idiot programmers don’t fail gracefully when they encounter a problem? Especially on something this critical and this widely deployed? Bet: development has largely been outsourced.
I caught that.