Oh no, you!
Valid. There’s no practical way of implementing a blanket ban on VPN. Hell, I’ve set up a VPN tunnel to the UK that I use for work. I wish them the best of luck, while I grab my popcorn.
If a ban were to be implemented, there would be no way of enforcing it.
Python should be even further down - this list doesn’t account for the fact that you have to rewrite everything because “That’s not pythonic”.
Perl should be higher up because it let’s you just do the things with some weird smileys without jumping through hoops.
Government mandated enshitification, yay
“Have you tried using MS Excel instead?”
*Looks at industrial robotics with a proprietary TPU that needs a firmware update.*
“Yes”
My previous employer was bought by a huge company. I liked it in the small company, because I had freedom to do what was needed without much questions, and I was trusted to make the relevant decisions and purchases. Kind of a “Costs be damned, get it done in a reasonable amount of time” kind of arrangement.
When we came under the big corpo, we got an email instructing us to list all the software we used/needed, so that it could be added to the whitelist that big corpo worked with. Anything not in the whitelist simply couldn’t run.
I gave them the list, but spoke to my on-shore It guy that out in the field we often needed to install something that we didn’t need before on short notice, and waiting for a ticket to be resolved for an administrative matter had the potential to stop production.
They found it easier just to make an exception for my work PC. I just had to promise not to VPN in to the office while running “weird” stuff, otherwise the higher ups would get upset.
That’s fine. I had my own VPN for only the stuff I needed anyway. I VPNed into offshore production systems on a daily basis. I needed to VPN I to the office once or twice. Plus in my book, the “main” VPN client is what I consider weird software. My shit was basically a wrapper around openvpn.
EDIT: To be fair, the huge corpo employer wasn’t unreasonable. It was just so large with so many employees that strct security implementations were needed for IT to have some sort of control. I was technically also IT, but I only dealt with field equipment, so that IT could focus on “normal” stuff. They trusted me to handle my end, they handled theirs, and we usually cooperated fairly well when our systems “met”.
I feel that this can only be properly answered through tests wherein the lab rats sewed and put on the pants themselves.
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Most budget airlines IMHO. I fly more than most, and practically never on budget airlines for a reason.
That fatso could have joined in CJ building his empire, but he sold out for hamberders.
I wouldn’t go that far myself, but I can understand why some do. I was never really an LB fan, but I like a few of their songs, and Wes Borland is an awesome guitarist. I just consider Fred Durst to be a proto-incel who tries too hard.
Unpopular opinion: Limp Bizkits version is OK. You just have to ignore the fact that it’s sung by the biggest douche in the world being mopey about being a douche.
Musically it’s fine, and by any other band of the era it wouldn’t have been so… icky.
And it’s a lost opportunity - I’m sure Wes would’ve loved rocking out during the solo-section if he was still in the band at that point. But since he wasn’t, they used some boring synth pads instead.
It’s a decorative version of the real lemons professionals use to practice their media-face.
Niemann CertifiedTM
Just got home from holiday a couple of days ago, and while the plan was to open up my laptop and continue my Kerbal Space Program game, it’s simply too hot here these days to enjoy anything for fun. So I mostly just do “nothing” while playing chess.
Looking forward to colder temperatures next week.
If chemistry was spearheaded by goats
Using Grok to develop Grok… This sounds like Model Collapse with extra steps.
Can confirm.
Source: I have a beegfs storage cluster at home.
Years ago, my mate and I stole one, took it into the forest, and used it as a grill during the summer. Which alignment does that make us?
Back in 2009 I was working nightshift onboard a ship in Nigerian waters. I was stuck where I was, operating the machinery, so I radioed in if someone could please bring me a coffee, because I was sure I just saw a flying dog.
“Oh, those are fruit bats, you’ll see more of them” they replied from inside, knowing exactly what I was talking about without needing more details.
And yes, I did see more of them over time; they liked hanging from the back deck work crane when it was not in use. Awesome creatures, and pretty large too.