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  • So we have the EU and their bullshit (which also has global scope), we have credit card processors and their bullshit, now we have Canada and some.of their own bullshit.

    On one hand, we have been talking about the potential for full surveillance across the internet for a while, so this is hardly a surprise, but everyone all at once? What the hell is behind this new massive push?

    It seems that the response to this will be a lot of services moving to countries that dont give a shit about us/EU laws and a rise in cryptocurrencies. It will take a while before the common folks to get pissed enough to figure it out, but all things have limits.

    I presume there will be a patchwork of country-level blocks put into place, VPN blocks, tor filtering etc. This feels like the end of the open internet as we know it. It has been a greed fueled mess for a long time now, but this round of government invasion feels like the final knife in the chest.

    It will suck for users, it will be expensive for any company to maintain compliance, it will be horribly complex from a technology perspective if any of these layers break and it will be a goddamn nightmare to secure. Organized crime hackers are going to have a field day once they get access to all the stuff being monitored and logged. Encryption backdoors will take it to a whole new level.




  • I’m going against the majority.

    It can be made into a weird situation, but the act itself is pragmatic and likely comes from a caring place.

    Every parent with a son knows that theyre buffing the helmet any chance they get as teenagers. They’re gonna make messes, ruin washcloths, use all the hand lotion, etc. Any parent who thinks their son ain’t beating their meat like it owes them money is delusional. Long before your kids get to masturbation age, the parent(s) should have talked about it. If you wait until they get to the age of shame, that is going to be an uncomfortable and unproductive conversation. If you have had an ongoing and open dialog about sex, masturbation, their bodies and other topics, talking about some of the details later will not be a taboo topic. Thusly if the parent offers a masturbatory device to the child, it won’t be weird unless someone wants to make it that way. If the conversations have not taken place and you still want to get your kid a sex toy, you could just order something online and leave it for them without saying anything. You could also get them a gift card to the sex store so they can get something for themself. While I presume most teenage boys dont want to share their private acts of self - gratification with their parent, there is no reason why there cannot be practical honesty about them. Get your kid a sex toy, leave it in his room, and unless he wants to talk about it, assume that he will get many hours of satisfaction from it.










  • I never understand places that dont have some sort of work management methodology.

    In technology, we often use agile. Its complicated, but one key part is that the individuals determine what needs to be done to get an overall effort completed, creates the individual tasks in an application, schedules them for completion and makes notes about status as they go.

    Its a little micro, but it ends all questions of “is this person working”. Either theyre getting stuff done or they aren’t. We have regular sessions to check progress and reports are generated on an ongoing basis. If someone is dicking around it shows up real fast.

    I can’t imagine that places still just raw-dog all the work. What is Joe doing. No clue. When is he going to finish? Dunno. How is the project going? Beats me. Are we staffed appropriately? Good question.




  • My wife is very protective of me for some odd reason. She likes to joke about how I should watch out for nets (I’m a fish?). If I don’t turn up somewhere she’ll call me in less than an hour. We both work from home (when I’m employed that is) so we’re always around each other. It’s rare that I go anywhere unless I have to travel for work, and that has typically not been a lot.

    I also have a home automation platform where I do location tracking and plot us on a map. If I were to fall off, it’d be pretty noticeable.

    I’m guessing if anyone were to snatch me, they’d get an hour head start before wifey started chasing them down with a shotgun. Kinda nice to think that someone is looking out for me. I guess all that box chowing has paid off.



  • Shit like this is published only to set the bar even lower than it is today. It has no other purpose as they know most intelligent people will not read anything but the headline. They just inject this dogshit into the collective consciousness so that they can normalize a type of work that is a little better than indentured servitude.




  • Back in grad school, but in NYC for some reason. Doing a shitty job, fucking up assignments that are 3rd grader level math. I’m doing it all on paper which I never did and then lost my entire brief bag when it somehow fell off a bus I was riding. Called wife to tell her that I couldn’t do it anymore, lost all my notes, papers, assignments and would not be able to recover it all to pass semester.

    Grad school was more than 15 years ago. I was in NYC somewhat recently and did go to the wrong address for a meeting and was late as a consequence.

    Nfi.