Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

Actual Bitcoin mining is a lot like sifting through a trash heap

The cathedral and the bazaar yet again

Cute that you think they give a damn about the constitution

This was likely at the time of switching to OS X, which is based on FreeBSD

Fuck it, I’ll only buy a Jeep that was used in D Day

I’ll buy a jeep but it will have to be at least 20 years old.

Yet another reason not to by a Chrysler Fiat “Stellantis” car

Time to dust off this old chestnut

Based on my experience if we say it needs done in a decade it will never be done.

See also: All the unemployment systems running on FORTRAN

Anyone who complies with the NIST standards is in a good place.

The problem is that a lot of places are not in compliance with NIST standards.

I know, I’ve helped patch them.

I stuck with Roku because it works if I block their ads on my pihole, and I can pay or steal everything else

It would be awesome if ordering systems had a standard API, so I could order delivery directly from any app

The Hogner Party

The Hogentinian Soccer Team

Sadly I have Roku TVs

I use delivery services because restaurants have terrible phone service. It’s always their cousin Mumbles who answers the phone, surrounded by people banging on pots and pans. He doesn’t read my order back to me to make sure it’s correct. He doesn’t tell me how much it’s going to be. He doesn’t tell me how long it’s going to take. So I have no idea if I’m going to get the right food, if it will be the right temperature, and if I have enough cash to pay the driver.

And there’s no way I’m going to give out my credit card info to some guy I don’t know.

As someone two standard deviations above the mean height, the tyranny of the average is real

There’s a line from (I think) a Tyler Perry movie that goes “The only thing reparations will do is make Cadillac the best selling car in the country.”

Sadly I haven’t found a tool that works on smart TVs, so I just pay for it

I had to help the SSA implement SAML authentication once and they weren’t even allowed to share their screen so I could see what they were doing. Totally agree that it’s a massive chore.

little script kiddies running around

Yeah, they’re running around the Treasury Dept right now.

It’s been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security

Having worked with government agencies and a lot of large private organizations the thing that keeps them mostly secure is the amount of red tape involved with things. Patching a production system requires a teleconference with at least five different people and no one person knows everything.

The idiots without any security experience coming in to “streamline” things will just make the systems even more fragile and insecure.