Annoying

Hours Matter

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

Also, as most of you reading this are not familiar, at the true enterprise level hardware support simply cannot be that shoddy as what Synology is offering. Since that higher tier is what they are attempting to move to, having a drive show up “lol, whenever” is simply not any sort of acceptable answer.

I worked at a hosting provider a while ago. We had very large HP 3PAR SANs (60+ drives in each). When a drive failed in those we often had a replacement in two hours. Yep, two hours. Someone from HP literally drove from the distribution center with the drive or drives, showed up at our datacenter, put the drive in and verified it worked. We were by contract guaranteed a new drive within four hours but almost always received it much sooner. And we paid dearly for that, by the way.

Until Synology can offer something close to that, they ain’t enterprise shit. They’re just playing pretend; hoping to capture the margin but not providing what’s required by the true enterprise market.

Shelved

Chill Annoying, Political Economy

Store shelves will start being empty in 3-5 weeks, depending on how much hoarding there is when people realize what’s happening.

Luckily most food that Americans consume is grown and packed in the US, so food shortages won’t be particularly bad. But everything else…well, that all comes from China. And it ain’t comin’ no more.

We’ve already prepped and are ready. Hope you all did too.

Free Work

Chill Annoying

Got tricked into developing a full client website during “interview test,” found it live a week later.

This is getting more and more common. I already refuse to do any free work for interviews, but in the future I will certainly accept the request and then deliver something that looks innocuous but is actively dangerous to deploy to production or to use in any way.

Good luck holding me accountable for that. I don’t even work there!

These companies deserve what they get. And I’m willing to give it to them for free, good and hard. Heh.

Sectorized

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Political Economy

The private sector isn’t efficient. It’s just better at marketing the illusion.

Dead on. The efficiency of private sector companies is a libertarian fucking myth. I was in the army for five years and yeah there were inefficiencies (mostly foisted on us by others), but we did far more with far less than any private sector company I worked for after that.

And that’s pretty typical. There’s just so, so much waste, corruption, graft and utter clownishness in private sector corps. It’s absurd to think most of them are at all efficient. It is simply false.

Split Skulls

Chill Annoying

If I see one more clown refer to a switch as an “Ethernet splitter,” I’m gonna have to go ape up in here.

A switch does not “split” anything. That is fundamentally not how it works. At all, at all.

There is a thing that is an actual Ethernet splitter that you should never probably use. And this is it.

In tech correct terminology is paramount because you often get exactly what you ask for. Ask for something stupid, you’ll get it. GIGO.

Pol Incon

Chill Annoying, Clowns

It’s so fucking oddball all the clownish “scientists” who insist human sex is not essentially binary, with some very rare exceptions. It shows that even the supposedly truth-seeking really don’t care all that much about the facts when it’s politically inconvenient.

Unforumed

Chill Annoying

Why did we replace forums with Discord?

Discord is so terrible. I refuse to use that turd; it is a blight.

The short answer for why forums disappeared is that they were difficult to monetize, and that sealed their doom. Monetization and the drive to it became all that mattered as the vulture capitalists took over and extinguished all that could not be IPOed.

And that is most of the answer. But truly, fuck Discord.

Inefficient

Chill Annoying

Roughly 90% of the security meetings and consultations I have with customers are completely useless. All the questions have already been answered in provided documents and diagrams, and often also in follow-up responses. The meetings are pointless nearly all of the time.

And I have been in hundreds of those meetings, often with 30+ people on the other side1. Thirty-one people in a an hour-long meeting discussing already-provided information equals a whole lot of wasted time.

But that’s life in “efficient” corporate America!

  1. That’s the “fun” part of being a small company and dealing with Fortune 500 corps.

Room With a G

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Modern feminists are so damn brain-damaged. Unlike them, I prefer to presume women have agency. If you posit something else then you are simply not a feminist.

I’m in my 40s. I’m fit and have money. And the vast, vast majority of women who express any interest in me are in their 20s. A few in their 30s. Almost zero in my own age group. Are those twenty-three-year-olds grooming me? 😉 It’s so funny how far reality diverges from what feminists want us to believe is happening in the world.

And no, I am not doing anything about it. I love my partner, I’m tired, and I want to read my books. But if I were on the market it’d be vastly easier for me to be with a girl in her twenties than someone my own age. They are the ones who show up1!

  1. And yes, I’d gladly date a woman that age if we were compatible. Despite what you’ve read that’s what actually matters in a relationship.