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[#] Wed Nov 09 2022 13:29:26 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Twitter is a cesspool still. 

But it is one where you can increasingly fire back without a moderator shutting you down when you destroy their narrative. 

And that is a movement in the right direction. 

 



[#] Mon Nov 14 2022 18:20:15 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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We'll see about that. I'm still perma-banned and had an appeal denied that I submitted the day after Elon took over. I've submitted another one but I'll probably have to keep doing so until they fire enought purple-haired twats and soy boys.

[#] Tue Nov 15 2022 09:00:13 EST from nonservator

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The latest way to tell people you're literally worse than Hitler: Tell them you don't have any social media accounts.



[#] Tue Nov 29 2022 14:06:21 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I guess since we pick on Facebook here we can pick on Amazon as well. I'm at AWS re:Invent this week, and it's a bit overstimulating. When I see the size and scale of everything, all I can think of is ... this company is way too big and needs to be broken up into a hundred Baby Bezos.

Not my speed!

[#] Tue Nov 29 2022 15:06:14 EST from Nurb432

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It makes the inevitable crash even more fun to watch.

Tue Nov 29 2022 02:06:21 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar
I guess since we pick on Facebook here we can pick on Amazon as well. I'm at AWS re:Invent this week, and it's a bit overstimulating. When I see the size and scale of everything, all I can think of is ... this company is way too big and needs to be broken up into a hundred Baby Bezos.

Not my speed!

 



[#] Tue Nov 29 2022 19:59:43 EST from fandarel

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I was tasked at one point to figure out why our AWS bill is so high. Part of it was relatively straightforward - I get virtual machines, I understand $x for so many bytes out, etc. That was probably the 10% I figured out. The rest was a deployment of a containerized application for a multitude of customers. But of course not just containers. There's orchestration, elastic load balancer gizmo, block storage, Route53, this gizmo, that tweak, some weird ass billing for MongoDB. The application is a simple self-serve kiosk thing. It has about 3 functions. But golly it takes a lot of huff to make it puff. The only good news is that revenue > AWS bill. For now, at least.
It left me feeling that the world was better off when we just bought a dang mainframe and there it was.

[#] Wed Nov 30 2022 07:22:09 EST from Nurb432

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Cloud has its place. But its not a solution for everything.

Personally, i think its good for disaster recovery/availability and having some room for temporary on the fly expansion of resources in case of emergency.  But not a lot more.

I would have it ready to use, but be mostly shut down.   Of course shared storage, that is a bit hard not to have copy 'up three in case of local data center vanishing' , but that is just the cost of insurance. 



[#] Wed Nov 30 2022 21:00:38 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Look into private cloud (and if you think it'd work for you, pm me because I work for a company that does them). Public cloud makes sense when you're just starting out and don't have the budget for infrastructure. It makes sense when you're big and have huge spikes and dips in usage. For everyone in between, it's overpriced.

Remember "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs"? Now it's "Amazon and the 7,000 Dwarfs."

[#] Mon Dec 19 2022 14:05:05 EST from Nurb432

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"your package will arrive by 10pm. never mind, by tomorrow noon. ok just kidding it will be by 2.. ok um, lol, now 2:30."

 

I guess i should not have bought ice cream from amazon 



[#] Mon Dec 19 2022 14:08:46 EST from darknetuser

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2022-12-19 14:05 from Nurb432
"your package will arrive by 10pm. never mind, by tomorrow noon. ok
just kidding it will be by 2.. ok um, lol, now 2:30."

 

I guess i should not have bought ice cream from amazon 


You deserve what you get.

I ordered a gift for my family and the delivery guy just abbandonned it at the front door for everybody to grab. It is a miracle no wild human or animal
ran away with it. I am tempted to contact the store in a couple of weeks and tell them I never got the package...

[#] Mon Dec 19 2022 15:42:51 EST from Nurb432

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I was joking about ice cream of course.

Was just some cables for my solar panels. Nothing important, just was funny how it kept sliding..  finally came around 3pm



[#] Thu Jan 12 2023 12:48:15 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I ordered a gift for my family and the delivery guy just abbandonned

it at the front door for everybody to grab. It is a miracle no wild

If the package was shipped without a signature requirement ... there is a bit of fat built into the price for them to handle theft claims.

My pet peeve for those deliveries is when they leave a package out in the rain to potentially get ruined.

[#] Wed Jan 18 2023 17:41:34 EST from LadySerenaKitty

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That actually happened with one of my mom's orders ... water-soluble stabilizer.  Left in rain.  It was half-dissolved by the time we got to it.  RIP

 

Thu Jan 12 2023 12:48:15 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
If the package was shipped without a signature requirement ... there is a bit of fat built into the price for them to handle theft claims.

My pet peeve for those deliveries is when they leave a package out in the rain to potentially get ruined.

 



[#] Thu Jan 19 2023 12:14:03 EST from darknetuser

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2023-01-12 12:48 from IGnatius T Foobar
I ordered a gift for my family and the delivery guy just abbandonned


it at the front door for everybody to grab. It is a miracle no wild



If the package was shipped without a signature requirement ... there

is a bit of fat built into the price for them to handle theft claims.


My pet peeve for those deliveries is when they leave a package out in

the rain to potentially get ruined.



In this place, every single agency which does not belong to socialized mail post corporations requires a signature.

I actually told the store I haven't received the package, because I am tired of being treated like shit by this delivery service. The store opened a ticket with the agency and - surprise - the agency cannot prove the package was delivered, so their insurance is paying the store for the lost merchandise.

[#] Wed Feb 15 2023 09:25:09 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Kind of ironically, I had the opposite problem a few weeks ago. A delivery requiring a signature (license plates for my son's car) was on the way. Usually they try for a couple of days before giving up. I was home all day but somehow missed the delivery. The guy must have just looked at the doorbell and when it didn't ring on its own decided to give up. No second attempt. He stuck a note on the door telling me to pick up the package at a dropoff location two towns over. Thanks a lot.

[#] Wed Feb 15 2023 09:43:44 EST from Nurb432

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Last package like that i got, they never knocked. On the camera i saw her walk up from the truck with the form already filled out in her hand.  My guess is she sat on the corner down the street, wrote out forms for all the packages..  didnt feel like carrying anything that day. ( mine was about the size of 2 packs of cigarettes, and about same weight so was not a "problem package" )

Wed Feb 15 2023 09:25:09 AM EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Kind of ironically, I had the opposite problem a few weeks ago. A delivery requiring a signature (license plates for my son's car) was on the way. Usually they try for a couple of days before giving up. I was home all day but somehow missed the delivery. The guy must have just looked at the doorbell and when it didn't ring on its own decided to give up. No second attempt. He stuck a note on the door telling me to pick up the package at a dropoff location two towns over. Thanks a lot.

 



[#] Sun Mar 12 2023 09:55:39 EDT from Nurb432

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Spam has been pretty low last couple of days ( not just for me )

Some data center get shut down for fraud or something? Weather take out some 3rd world country last week?

 



[#] Sun Mar 12 2023 19:17:25 EDT from zelgomer

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Don't know, but now that you mention it, just 6 months ago I was regularly getting multiple robo calls a day, and now I don't even remember the last time I received one. Maybe some law enforcement body finally raided the right Indian call center.

[#] Sat Mar 25 2023 14:09:36 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Sometimes I turn on my office phone (which is a softphone; when the desk set broke I declined a replacement) but not often, because I don't really do outside calls anymore, and internally we use Teams. I usually regret it, because the only calls that come through are either robocalls or actual telehasslers.

The ones I really hate are the ones who know my name and title, and are calling "on behalf of" [some big company, like IBM or such] and want my permission for them to send me spam. "So I have your address as <ig.foobar@employer.com>, is that the correct address for you?" hoping to make the person they are calling think past the sale. It is my pleasure to be rude to them and make it absolutely clear that I am declining "I AM NOT GIVING YOU PERMISSION TO SEND ME SPAM, THANK YOU"

And that is why on most days I don't even bother to start up my softphone.

[#] Sat Mar 25 2023 14:33:28 EDT from Nurb432

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Our phone numbers were ported to teams a while ago.   Used to have VoIP devices + jabber ( Cisco's corrupted version ) so we could go either way.

I refuse to put teams on my phone, so i just have it forward to my cell phone, and i dont answer unless its clearly from my team or the after hours support team.. ( if my stuff goes down at night, they are screwed )

Sat Mar 25 2023 02:09:36 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Sometimes I turn on my office phone (which is a softphone; when the desk set broke I declined a replacement) but not often, because I don't really do outside calls anymore, and internally we use Teams. I usually regret it, because the only calls that come through are either robocalls or actual telehasslers.

The ones I really hate are the ones who know my name and title, and are calling "on behalf of" [some big company, like IBM or such] and want my permission for them to send me spam. "So I have your address as <ig.foobar@employer.com>, is that the correct address for you?" hoping to make the person they are calling think past the sale. It is my pleasure to be rude to them and make it absolutely clear that I am declining "I AM NOT GIVING YOU PERMISSION TO SEND ME SPAM, THANK YOU"

And that is why on most days I don't even bother to start up my softphone.

 



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