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@georgetakei And how many children of the rich will suddenly develop bone spurs?
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mastodon 4.7.3Worked for 44 years on multiple systems. Comfortable with ZOS, Z/VSE, windows, UNIX, Chrome and Linux. Worked as developer and support, team lead and business analyst. COBOL, ASSEMBLER, BASIC, C, learning RUST & PYTHON. Developer and DBA using IDMS based applications, dev & support for DB2 based systems. I'm still learning and a semi-cranky senior!
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@arstechnica@mastodon.social Red flag. What does he want to hide?
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@dangoodin And I use it due to the fact that those 'ads' are running very intrusive scripts. Not a problem showing me ads. Show me ads, just not those scripts siphoning off information about my machine and location.
Also, how do they know I am running adblockers unless they are running extremely intrusive scripts to detect what I am running?
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@arstechnica@mastodon.social he will look at it as the cost of doing business.
Upcoming Linux tasks.
Downloaded and made a bootable USB with the latest #mxlinux. Old laptop backed up and ready to convert.
I have to try out the new version and then how well WINE works and for one of the online games I play. If it all goes well the laptop will be upgraded from Windows 10 to #mxlinux
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@nixCraft and for professional writers to clean up the documentation. Then the architects, testers and project management.
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@rbreich@masto.ai Should be in my not-so-humble -opinion that there be a minimum tax rate, no matter what deductions. It should not be less than the average rate paid by a taxpayer. Fixed for five years and then reviewed (and not by politicians). Same goes for those who make more than $1 billion a year (before any deductions and allowances... gross income). Treat loans guaranteed by shares as income.
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@hacks4pancakes When there are cats to be petted you are NEVER late!
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us and when the banks have problems to whom do they turn to for a bailout? That's right, taxpayers money.
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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social How about he goes undergo genetic testing to see if he is even human with a working brain.
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@sparrowsion@meow.social I have it and I don't use it.
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@amydiehl WTF? They were chosen by their peers!
WTF? Shouldn't the women be front and center and the focal point?
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Another thing that was drilled into me decades ago, repeatedly! I say the same thing to every new member of our team...
THERE ARE NO DUMB QUESTIONS.
If you don't know or are unsure, ASK!
Do not assume, ASK!
Another semi-regular whine... Google, my profile is complete! NO I DON'T WANT TO SHARE MY LOCATION so stop nagging.
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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social how long before he threatens them with nukes? His dementia is getting worse.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social forwarded to my boss with a note that maybe we should be looking at this.
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@rikviergever@mastodon.social bookmarked.
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@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place i remember doing scripts in EXEC, EXEC2 and REXX in college and MetLife. Mostly tools to help Devs and support do their jobs.
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@GlobalNews@flipboard.com @canada-GlobalNews What is being hidden?
Baking last night for Easter dinner dessert. Three chocolate pies. Later today I will make the whipped cream for topping.
I guess my work laptop will need to have a catastrophic failure before it will be replaced. Request for replacement was denied. It was supposed to be a new machine, when I arrived 'sorry, your laptop was assigned to someone else. Here is a refurbished model almost at end of life'.
Multiple black screens. Cannot connect two monitors, keyboard, mouse and headset without it complaining about resources in the USB-C hub. Monitors won't show full resolution. Headset microphone doesn't work most of the time. Headset works on other machines and if I unplug and plug multiple times it might work. Boot up to workable desktop is 10 minutes.
I have old laptops that work with the above, zero issues and runs faster.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social growing up we were lucky enough to have a set at home. When my parents passed I inherited them.
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How annoyed my suggestion to boss and team...
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Hell YES! And hold senior management at NO Transpo accountable.
Yesterday... leave work. Bus at 15:20, arrive home 16:30. Should have arrived at home by 15:45. One missing bus, second full and waited for the 3rd.
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@osnews@mstdn.social hell no. They want control of our machines and what we see and do.
I will be so glad when the members are back from leave and we get the new person up-to-speed. Multiple Impact Assessments for several Change Requests and Request For Change. Regular on-call tasks. Forty-eight (and count) security requests. Multiple questions on several subjects for the system.
I AM NOT APOLOGIZING to anyone about the speed I am working at after ten hours of work (and at least four more to go). I have a triage list and if you are not in the top sixteen items on the list you will have to wait until everything is done or the boss of my boss changes my priorities. One body doing the work of what should be done by four and was originally done by seven.
I automated as much as we can, but there is a limit on how much we can do there.
One half a bottle of whisky left and may have to make a quick run for more if the workload stays the same.
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@CTVNews@flipboard.com @ottawa-CTVNews sad. I like their beer.
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@GlobalNews@flipboard.com @canada-GlobalNews Elon, go F yourself.
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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social the supply chain risk is TACO and his toadies.
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@AssociatedPress@flipboard.com @politics-AssociatedPress where members go for learning is up to them.
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@PCMag@mastodon.social A huge nope for me. I want a 'dumb' TV.
I am hoping that the mythical course at work starts soon. Too many people have been voluntold they are doing a special job and maybe (rarely) their replacement trains them and hands over the SOPs.
Several times a week we hold informal one-on-one 30 minute classes on how to do the job and provide SOPs and cheat sheets at the end of the session.
Last year I handed over a copy of the SOPs and cheat sheets along with our internal security SOP for them to start building a course. We keep hearing it is being developed then ... [crickets chirping].
Sounds about right. In the morning the bus going downtown is packed and trying to disembark at my transfer point is difficult as it is packed. They used to run an articulated bus, but since January it is a regular bus and much too small.
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I love the 'stability' of WIN11. Machine locked again and won't respond to [CTRL][ALT][DEL]. I don't know if it is because this is an older laptop or WIN11, but it is annoying when it happens a few times a month.
No kidding! For me it is nausea and diarrhea at least twice a month. Can't complain the meds works at helping controlling my blood sugar and I don't have to go over to insulin.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/thousands-are-sharing-side-effects-of-weight-loss-drugs-doctors-may-miss-study-suggests/
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@AssociatedPress@flipboard.com @politics-AssociatedPress He has a different definition of 'inexpensive' that the rest of the world.
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@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com @news-thenewsdesk didn't watch as I had more important things to do. Did a module for my French training, made muffins for my wife, housecleaning and reading a book.
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social now for FB to do the same.
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@jaykuo@universeodon.com I will believe it after the midterm elections.
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@CTVNews@flipboard.com @calgary-CTVNews you work fully public or fully private.
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They are ugly and it doesn't matter the colour. I have seen garbage dumpsters that look better.
Well, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and a bit of time to see what he does with our transit system.
https://ottawasun.com/news/ottawa-oc-transpo-rick-leary
Sigh. FB changed my settings again. Turned on sound and autoplay videos. What part of NO don't you like? Same goes for your regular nag about notifications.
WHEN. I. SAY. NO. IT. IS NO!
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@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com @technology-thenewsdesk if it goes through then how long before GameStop files for bankruptcy?
Bullshit.
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Oh joy, great start to my work week.
Sole person for the week doing all tasks. I started at 05:15 and zero issues. Around 08:20 it went into the electronic septic tank. Ten to fifteen minute response time for anything that needed the network.
I did what I know we would be asked. I rebooted the system. Didn't work, and I let the team know through our chat that they may have issues too. Called helpdesk and it took ten minutes for them to remote to my machine. Determined it is a major network outage (no kidding, I knew that) and opened a ticket. Since Outlook depends on the network drive nothing has shown up.
Just watching my email and zero emails and I know the tsunami will hit eventually. I am not looking forward to that as I am the sole person on the team this week and will get flooded by system access requests, messages about the network, the oncall person and in the middle of prep work for an upcoming code release.
I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WHISKEY to handle today and on the third large mug of coffee.
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@fortune@flipboard.com @personal-finance-fortune what he calls noise is a sanity break for me.