LordMayor

There’s nothing wrong with using a spreadsheet for that purpose.

Sure, use a database if you think it’s going to grow very big, need complicated queries or will be the backend of a service. Or, you just want to learn about databases.

Libre Office will work with native flat files or other db backend. SQLite with a gui app is good for learning SQL.

Craigslist though? Do any for sale search and you spam about motorcycles. Then there’s duplicate listings and irrelevant results.

I hope there’s Signal channels where these fired generals are discussing theoretical contingency plans. You know, just as an academic exercise…

Interesting that Russia can’t muster defenses for this refinery even after it’s been hit multiple times.

There’s lots of free Internet radio—some commercial, some public/community—that are good for that. For example:

• SomaFM
• AccuRadio

Sometimes, in video games, there will be a feature that’s really useful but I always think of how unrealistic it would be.

This looks just like it would be one of those features. Crazy.

If you can scam your parents, you can scam anyone. That’s how you know you’re cut out for sales.

Last year, I set up an IG account to just view a family member’s posts. It required a photo of me. At first I was said, “fuck no”, but, just to see what would happen, I uploaded an image of some random face. I think it might have even been from a cartoon. It worked.

My friend has a VPN and runs them on his desktop Mac. He’s considering running on an old laptop or some other dedicated device

• VPN is a must.
• qbittorrent bound to the VPNs virtual network device.
• Prowlarr is enough to get started. Add some public trackers.

Then, Sonarr and Radarr for show and movie automation. Once you’re hooked, you’ll figure out the rest.

https://jmail.world/wiki

The Verge sucks. Ignore the article, go straight to the site.

How man dads are going to have to go to jail for beating the smartglasses guy ogling his kid before these things become socially toxic.

New sunscreen: UV 50, IR 100

Yes, servers are located in places with big Internet connections.

Those aren’t even the same person.

“Sorry for not being a part of your childhood but welcome to the shallow, insecure, masochistic hell I’ve created for myself. At least, you didn’t arrive naked.”

Why present this in such a convoluted way?

There are more exceptions than just games. I know someone who made a good career writing statistical forecasting software. It was just himself and he had some large corporations as clients.

There a niches of expertise for which most businesses don’t need dedicated employees or even software licenses. But, you’re not going to write the software with AI because it takes domain experience and expertise that AI can’t emulate.

America is now the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B.

You’re right, parody is a better description than mockery.

Has Star Trek jumped the shark?

ToS and TNG were always a bit cheesy but at heart they were morality plays and social commentary. I couldn’t get into much after TNG. I’ve been watching Strange New Worlds and it’s all right but the musical episode and some other bits were a bit too… campy?

But, a comedy? Is it becoming Galaxy Quest? The movie that mocked it?