jubilationtcornpone

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jubilationtcornpone ,

You gotta remember that some of these people are the same ones who complained that their Southern Baptist pastors were preaching "liberal talking points" (aka, things Jesus said). If teachers actually started reading the Bible in class, these same people would probably start calling it "liberal propaganda" and trying to ban it.

I'm just saying, the irony is so thick that you'd need a rock drill and some dynamite to cut it in half.

jubilationtcornpone ,

They could even provide an electronic box (for a nominal fee, or course) that shows me a menu of all the shows and movies that are available and what times they are going to play. That way I wouldn't have to search through a bunch of streaming services. It could all just be in one place.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Didn't some cable companies get all butthurt that you could fast forward through the recorded commercials?

jubilationtcornpone ,

What kind of bullshit numbers are these? I live Arkansas. If you make $40,928 and live here, you are poor. Not even close to "middle class."

jubilationtcornpone ,

I have a recording of interviews I did with all my living grandparents for a school project when I was a kid. One thing that stood out was the level of abject poverty they experienced. They were teenagers during the great depression and it definitely had a major impact on all of them.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I had a client years ago who was in his late 80's. He grew up on a farm in Indiana and I remember him telling me a story about threshing grain. He was just a kid in the 1920's, shoveling coal into the firebox on a big Case steam engine that they took from farm to farm. He said they would try to stay near a creek whenever they could so they had a water source for the engine. It was hard, hot work. He said there was a "big German fella" who worked on their crew who never drank anything but hot black coffee, something which fascinated him as kid.

It was an interesting story to listen to. Such a mundane activity but the fact that it's no longer a thing and only existed in the memory of someone who remembered doing it made it kind of fascinating

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jubilationtcornpone ,

Presbyterians don't have canonized saints, the way Catholics do. But if they did, Fred Rogers would probably be at the top of the list.

jubilationtcornpone ,

There's a reason Allstate is the most frequently sued auto insurance provider. They will give you the run around all day long until you lawyer up and then it's, "Oh! Ha ha! Sowwy! We bunch of dum dums who no can read and no use kumputers good. We no know what happened! Here big check for you go away now."

But for every person who lawyers up, there are probably 20 more who don't. Fuck Allstate.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Yesterday, I asked it to help me create a DAX measure for an Excel pivot table. The answers it gave were completely wrong. Each time, I would tell it the error that Excel was displaying and it would respond with "Sorry about that. You can't use that function there for [x] reasons."

So it knows the reason why a combination of DAX functions won't work but recommends them anyways.
That's real fucking useful.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I read an interview in the Democrat-Gazette with the daughter of Ms. Taylor, one of the victims. There are no words to describe how awful it must be to have one of your friends or family members just minding their own business only to be shot to death while checking out at the grocery store.

Ms. Taylor's daughter expressed frustrations that she wasn't there because she thought she could have done something, implying that she would have shot the assailant.
In her defense, the woman's grieving and people who are in that state tend to think and say all kinds of stuff.

But here's the thing, the "good guy with a gun" mantra is idealistic at best. Even if you are a "good guy" with a gun, odds are that by the time you can even respond, the "bad guy" has already killed someone.
Not to mention that in that very panic filled moment, there's a much higher chance that you might accidentally shoot another bystander.

"Good guy with a gun" is not a solution to "bad guy with a gun" because no amount of bullets fired by "good guys" will bring back the people who are already dead.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

During WWII the United States government rounded up tens of thousands of people, including many US citizens, and put them in internment camps because they looked sort of similar to the people who bombed pearl harbor. Why? Because fear is a powerful drug and when people are afraid, logic tends to go out the window, if there was any logic to begin with. If you pay attention to conservative rhetoric, you'll notice that much of it is intended to stoke fear, while inserting themselves as the solution. They do it because it works.

Way out in the Arkansas Delta, in a soybean field 50 miles from anywhere, there is a memorial where one of these internment camps stood. If you aren't looking for it, you'd probably drive right by it unnoticed. All around the camp there are these little voice boxes that you push a button on and it explains what you're looking at. The voice providing the narration is none other than George Takei who was held there with his family as a child.
Spend a little time at a place like this and it will quickly disabuse you of the notion that America has always rejected fanaticism.

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jubilationtcornpone ,

almost never

So you're saying there's a chance?

jubilationtcornpone ,

"I'm going to get so much done today." or "If I clean the house, it's going to stay that way for more than ten minutes." are just some of the lies I tell myself to help me stay motivated

jubilationtcornpone ,

Just a matter of time before they add a higher deductible specifically for space junk. 😒

jubilationtcornpone ,

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jubilationtcornpone ,

My first "real" job was in retail. One of the assistant store managers was an old Vietnam vet named John. John spent his whole [civilian] career, 40 something years, working there at a job he absolutely hated. He was notoriously grumpy, rough around the edges, and smoked like a freight train. But, John did two things for me that I will never forget.

First thing: One day a customer was looking for something in a department that I wasn't familiar with. I tried (and failed) to help him find what he was looking for. There wasn't anyone staffing that area so I called John for help. The customer was an asshole. He was being a complete jerk from the start and when John showed up, he proceeded to tell John just exactly how incompetent he thought I was, while I was standing there.

John just glared at him and very politely but sternly said, "Sir, I'm going to have to stop you right there. jubilationtcornpone is one of our finest employees and I'm sure he tried to help you as best he could. I would appreciate it if you wouldn't talk about him like that." The guy wasn't happy but that did shut him up.

Second thing: John and I are talking one evening and he just kind of puts his hand on my shoulder and says, "JubilationTCornpone, You need to get the hell out of here and go make something of yourself. You don't want to be here when you're my age. Don't waste your life."

16 year old me didn't particularly like John. He was a hard boss. Also, did I mention he was perpetually grumpy? But, he earned my respect. He stood up for me and wasn't going to just stand by and let someone else treat me badly. Even if that meant losing a customer. If you're an executive or manager and you force your people to just sit there and take it while they're being bullied or harassed, then you're an enabler.

Nobody deserves to be treated like that. People get upset. Sometimes for legitimate reasons. i get that. That doesn't give them the right to treat others like they're less than human. Even if it's someone that they'll never meet face to face.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Retail is definitely OK. I think it was more to the point of, "Don't build a career that you're going to look back on with regret."

jubilationtcornpone ,

A flea in a box, inside of another box that you've mailed to yourself?

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

Jobs that offer daily pay seem to be lower wage jobs
This is not a coincidence. This means that the employer has decided it's cheaper to incur whatever costs associated with processing daily payroll than it is to pay wages high enough that their employees don't care or have to care about getting paid every day.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Well you see, in the United States, the way some politicians, specifically ones belonging to a certain very authoritarian political party manage to get elected is by making sure people don't or can't vote.

This is often coupled with throwing a huge hissy fit about "voter fraud" which doesn't actually exist on any remotely meaningful level.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Set up a VPS. Create a VPN tunnel from you local network to the VPS. Use the VPS as the edge router by opening ports on the VPS firewall and routing incoming traffic on those ports through the VPN tunnel to servers on your local network.

I used to do this to get around CGNAT. I ran RouterOS in a Digital Ocean droplet and setting up a wire guard tunnel between it and my local Mikrotik router.

It will obscure your local WAN IP and give you a static IP but that's about the only benefit. And you have to be pretty network savvy to configure it correctly.

It does not make you immune to DDoS attacks and is honestly more headache to maintain (albeit just a small headache).

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

They do maintain an x86 build. I haven't used pfSense but I have used OpnSense so that's that closest thing I have to compare it to. I think the upside and downside to RouterOS/Mikrotik is the same thing: it allows very granular control over almost everything. Maybe to a fault. It's probably overkill for most home networks.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

"I hate Illinois Nazis."

jubilationtcornpone ,

"Made in USA" is well on it's way from being a symbol of quality to implying a lack of. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big proponent of domestic manufacturing. But there are an outsized number of executives who don't seem to get that when you make shitty products, you will alienate all your customers who will then no longer buy your shitty products. That kind of reputational damage is incredibly hard to recover from. Especially when you make airplanes that have a tendency to fall out of the sky which is sort of a deal breaker for people who want to buy an airplane. Hope it was worth jacking up their stock price for five minutes.

jubilationtcornpone ,

There was an era in home building, decades ago, when overhead lighting in living rooms wasn't really a thing. They had table and floor lamps. That was good enough. Some fucker along the way thought he was being smart by adding an overhead light in the living room.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I left Reddit because of their shenanigans. The Tiktok crowd deciding Reddit was cool was what guaranteed I would never go back. Now if anyone asks me if I use social media, I just say "No".

jubilationtcornpone ,

Intimidated is good in this case but a table saw is not really any more dangerous than a radial arm saw. You also don't have to worry about the blade riding up and grabbing the material. A good (cabinet saw or high end contractor) table saw is a very accurate and vesatile tool.

A solid low cost option is a Craftsman 113 series which, with the right model (10 inch belt drive) and upgrades, is an excellent saw.
There's still a whole lot of them sitting around in garages collecting dust, ready to be picked up for less than a couple hundred bucks.

jubilationtcornpone ,

No. Not that I know of anyway. I actually have a "landline" still, although it's technically voip. It costs next to nothing, it's handy in emergencies, and I don't necessarily want everyone to have my cell number.

jubilationtcornpone ,

You could probably replace several senior executives with Excel and it would probably do the job better

jubilationtcornpone ,

We all need someone to look up to. Eventually YOU become the person that people look up to, especially if you have kids. I think about that often and it's sobering because it's a huge responsibility.

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

If those are the right boots, what do you do differently to keep them from leaking?

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It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...

jubilationtcornpone ,

The strategy is to strip the company to the bones. Anything that can be sold will be sold (Buildings, furniture, IP). And if the company needs it to operate it will be leased back at a monthly rate. All cash this generates is pulled from the company to the PE firm. If they can they will saddle the company with a debt for the purchase of itself, so they can have the company not only pay that back, but with interest (a leveraged buyout). Some of these assets sold off can easily go to other subsidiaries of the same PE firm.. such as real estate. Assuring their long term profitability.

Add in "cry to any reporter that will listen that your business is 'failing'" and you have the Eddie Lampert (Sears/Kmart) strategy.

jubilationtcornpone ,

An ideas guy with all kinds of ideas.

...most of which are complete shit.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Conservatives: "They're trying to cram gAy AgEnDa down our throats."

My Gay Friend: Works in an office. Pretty good with Excel. Plays golf on Saturdays. Likes cats. Has a boyfriend but still trying to decide if he's ready for a serious commitment. Just wants to be treated like a regular human being.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Nice to see they're still chugging the AI Koolaid after completely blundering their test rollout of AI search results.

jubilationtcornpone ,

James 5:1-6

1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.
2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.
4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

Sorry, I suppose I should have clarified that. The right side is the "gap". Both flues are lined with clay tiles. The left flue is not visible in the picture.

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

I hadn't thought of it that way. I suppose the decorative brick could be just considered a chase. I haven't been able to find any similar examples so I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at.

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

From what I can tell it goes all the way down.

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

That makes me feel better. There was no crown initially. The flue tiles terminated flush with the brick inside the chimney cap. The old cap made cleaning and inspecting the flues difficult. It also had a fair bit of water damage.

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What would I use as a base for the new crown?

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

This is great! Thanks so much for the advice.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Oh, I wouldn't if I could avoid it. The "fun" of tinkering with IT stuff in my very limited spare time vaporized many years ago. If I could pay for services that did exactly what I wanted, respected my privacy, and valued my business while charging a fair price, I would stop self-hosting tomorrow. But that's not usually how it works.

Self hosting isn't super high maintenance once you get everything set up but it still takes up probably 10-12 hours per month on average and I would not mind having that time back.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Mail servers are the one thing I refuse to self host. Years of managing enterprise email taught me that I don't need that kind of negativity in my life

jubilationtcornpone ,

Lack of pizza parties. No foosball table collecting dust in the corner.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

This is a pretty good summary. In enterprise networking, it's common to have the 'DMZ', the network for servers exposed to the internet, firewalled off from the rest of the system.

If you have a webserver, you would need two sets of ports open, often on two separate firewalls. On the WAN firewall, you would open ports 80/443 pointing to the webserver. On the system firewall, between the DMZ and LAN, you would open specific ports between the webserver and whatever internal resources it needs; a database server for example.

This helps limit the damage if a malicious actor hacks into your webserver by making sure they don't also have unrestricted access to other parts of your system. It's called a layered security approach.

However, someone self hosting may not have the expertise or even the hardware to set up their system like this. A VPS for public facing services, as long as it's configured properly, can be a good alternative. It also helps if you have a dynamic WAN IP address and/or are behind CG-NAT.

Edit: maybe good to mention that securing your local network behind a VPN, even one hosted on your local network, is more secure than allowing public facing services. Yes, it means you still have to open a port. But that's useless to a malicious actor without the encryption keys. Whereas, if you have a webserver exposed publicly, malicious actors already have some level of access to your system. More than they would if that service didn't exist anyway. That's not inherently bad. It comes with the territory when you're hosting public services. It is more more risky though. And, if the exposed server is compromised, it can potentially open up the rest of your system to compromise as well. Like the original commenter said, it's about managing risk and different network configurations have different levels of risk.

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