That makes me happy. :)

A while back I worked for a company that liked to pull the “lets lay people off right before earnings reports to make the stockholders happy” and then call them back after the shareholders meetings…

They found, after a few cycles of this, that when they did that, the top 30% of employees laid off would have already found other jobs by the time they were recalled… They also found that a few cycles of culling the top 30% means after a while your entire workforce is largely worthless, add to the fact that now you have to hire new people and train them…it ended up costing more money than it made them… (but they didn’t care, because the share value boost was all they wanted, so they could personally sell high after the bump and enrich themselves…

I work for a company now that values and celebrates employees with long tenures… They see it as a sign of health in the company (which it is) and celebrate the number of 10+ year veterans employed by them…

I got lucky finding this place. :)

Oh I wouldn’t even entertain a contract position…

I had this while back…I was working for company doing DR/Replication scripting…I was about 2/3 way through the job and they decided that “they could finish the job themselves” and graciously released me from my contract…

They called me back about 2 weeks later, at which point I quoted them 400% of my original rate, payable in advance, to finish the work. ;-) They were fucking LIVID…

Of course, they didn’t re-book me, but the rumor mill told me that they brought it in about a year behind schedule and at about 2x the budget they had allocated…

Helpful hint - do documentation LAST. If they fire you before it’s done, they get SQUAT. I didn’t even have passwords written down for them.

If I were offered that deal I’d politely tell them to go fuck themselves with a cactus.

I haven’t had to report to an office for more than a pizza party since 2011, I have no intention of starting now.

Sadly the latency involved in transmitting and receiving from orbit makes many terrestrial applications fail… The speed of light is a fixed constant.

When gaming, we can always see the idiots running on starlink…the lag is visible and makes them sitting ducks… ;-)

If a company lays someone off in favor of AI, employees should ask for at LEAST a 20% bump to come back… make it fucking painful for them.

No. Next fucking question. I’d rather data centers have brown-outs than schools.

LOL…my ADHD has gotten much worse with age… “Focus” is a fond memory. ;-}

I literally just got the notifiation from Verizon today that IPV6 was now supported by their network… Ubiquiti asked me if I wanted to enable it, my response is basically not until I understand it…

Then again, it took me 20 years to really understand IPv4, so it’s likely I’m going to be decaying before I get v6. ;-)

County with 37 datacenters can go fuck itself with a cactus.

here come the brownouts motherfuckers…

Probably true…but I just don’t see it taking off…

Oi…well that sucks ass. A good idea, badly conceptualized I guess.

it would obviously involve code updates for compability, and I don’t pretend to know how it would work long term, but it makes the most sense… By prepending the zeros, you expand the number of networks dramatically.

I would guess that no matter what, everything gets an upgrade… But I think this might make it more seamless.

True, good point. AN RFC…

To be fair, I never got IPV6… was too confusing. I’ve always been able to rattle off IPv4 addresses in my sleep. IPV6 just wasn’t as natural.

I saw the rfc for IPV8 recently… It makes so much more sense than ipv6…and is backward compatible with ipv4…

Basically they’re proposing prefacing 4 more octets into an IP address, so 172.16.5.1 would become 0.0.0.0.172.16.5.1

Any existing IPs would just assume the 0.0.0.0 in front of them…

Again…solves the problem on much the same way.

My middle son, who is non-technical but anti-microsoft, runs Fedora 44 (same as I do actually)

He actually really prefers it… :)

I actually would prefer windows people stay on windows…becuase I don’t want my favorite operating system dumbed down…

You might be able to. You might not. At this point, 50/50 chance. ;-)

TLD’s aren’t the limitation… Public IPs are… If it wasn’t for Cloudflared, I couldn’t run half the shit I run.

All they have to to is tax AI use the way they tax workers… Companies will quickly figure out that Humans are better in every way…