Salesforce is a brand name, for executives that care about style over substance. Smart teams have been moving away from it for a while now, there are even open-source alternatives now, or commercial options that don’t require a dedicated database administrator at your company and special training to use. It’s a behemoth that will thunder when it falls.
And the pro tech nerds who told everyone to use local-only, non proprietary smart devices so they can still have a secure, ad-free smarthome laugh as we walk through the house without ever touching light switches.
I do well believe if Schumer finally decided a shutdown was worth it, then he’s got good polling saying the public is blaming Republicans increasingly. If this goes on until Thanksgiving, Christmas, it’ll have major impacts across the country and will actually start taking full points off our economic growth rate. The GOP seems to want to double down with thousands of layoffs. I do not think this will end well for them.
Any time I see one of these “MAGA revolts” stories, AND/OR an article from rawstory.com, I know I can ignore it.
Unlike a number of other schools, some of which (Berkeley) are downright pathetic.
My SO worked overnights in an ER. Someone came in with a tight ankle monitoring cuff, which apparently has titanium cables inside, and their foot wound up swelling up because of an accident that damaged the cuff. He was hours from losing his foot entirely, they had to operate but the cuff was in the way. They managed to wake up someone at the manufacturer at 1am, who then located a jeweler back in our city with saws that could cut it, and emailed over diagrams showing exactly where to cut. The fire department, indeed, came and went unable to do anything because it was too close to the skin to use any of their grinders.
I was a little shocked that they used Project 2025 so thoroughly, I though they’d just pull a few key things and try them out at first. Instead they do like half of it in 6 months. It’s astonishing for people on both sides, it’s definitely not what we’re used to. Obama had 8 years and tons of political capital and only got a couple signature initiatives done, nothing like Trump’s dozens and dozens.
Echo chamber memes. We should be honest about this stuff. It doesn’t really help anyone to get smug and self righteous, it won’t help us deal with situation. Just further divides and obliterates our perspective to keep huffing the fumes, no one is getting saved.
They all assumed immigrants were 98% dangerous street criminals, 2% hardworking field and hotel workers, which is the observable part for them. They never considered it’s the observable part because they’re the backbone of several industries.
You can make a hole with your fingers and see the patterns of very bright lights above you, stadium lights etc. It’s just a vertical camera obscura. I remember the 90s solar partial eclipse really well because I was riding home from school, the leaves and even the spokes on my bike projected moons everywhere, it was completely magical.
Zero trust framework actually no longer calls for routine password changes, it’s considered an ITIL best practice not to now, because it encourages people to write them down. Instead solid MFA for password situations and, properly, getting rid of passwords in the next few years.
But a lot of places are still outdated in this.
Nest bricked my security system (after magically installing Assistant on it [oh by the way it has an undocumented microphone]), at least they gave you $100… in gift cards to the fucking google store. Logitech isn’t even that smart.
Blaming consumers for the behavior of corporations is a fallacy of capitalism… consumers act in their best interests, not necessary in everyone’s best interests, so we all suffer if everyone does that.
Hell I run the hot tap as well just to speed things along, takes 5 seconds instead of 10.
I wish I had one of those recirculators for instant, but it’d probably destroy me in gas bills cause I have a tankless.
He’s demented.
So I’m getting our nonprofit ready for Pride, which is in October here.
One of my board member’s sister apparently makes the best “cream pies” ever, and they wanted to know if we could fundraise on them.
Of course we can’t sell them without a food handling license, so we’d have to give them away.
Which is how “Queer Men Give Out Free Creampies to The First 50 People” came to be.
But the average American is tech dumb, and will happily fuck up their own devices. I work at a university, the number of students who think “restart your PC” means “hold down the power button until it dies” is sad. Some of them can’t figure out the exam software we use, like the “reset password” link. They have a mixture of Avast and Kaspersky that was preinstalled on their devices, long expired, which is the only barrier against them getting malware from the random shit they install. Browser hijacks are super common. They don’t know how to fix those, sometimes they just buy a new laptop.
So I’m not convinced the average American SHOULD have a device that’s complex and requires a lot of understanding. iOS is incredibly popular for a reason - you don’t have to be a genius, old people and children can use it, and it’s not going to leak your saved credit card info because you installed some random “app” from an ad, which is actually of course malware.
This site is full of people who think the average American is just a RTFM away from being as tech literate as them… please go out and do some end-user support to see what they’re really like. Simple, easy, secure should be what people expect.
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Setting it up for a client I was immediately dead-ended by report fields that couldn’t be filtered or searched in a way that made sense, so there I am apologizing for the software on day 3.