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. 

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

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!

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. 

"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 

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

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.

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.

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?

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.