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Former Coworker quit because "I'm the wall guy! I should be building walls!"
Since then I've been building only walls, with little or no oversight or detailed plans.
Sucks to be him!
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We see you are currently not having any oversight...
Good morning, FaWtL!
Today's Assignments: Freehold, have a better day.
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Good morning, FaWtL!
Today's Assignments: Freehold, have a better day.
I am at work. Staff is also at work. Slated to have not one, nor two, but three successful groups today. Got good parking. Am preparing to hand in what paperwork I can, early, before going to jury duty on Monday. Am paying bills as we speak while enjoying snacks i shouldn't be enjoying.
It could be a lot worse.
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I swear, I won't go all "generational idiocy" today, but the "nanny corporate state" incenses me every time I encounter it.
Managing someone is easy:
(1) Do they turn in their assigned work on time?
(2) Is said work of good quality?
(3) Are they available during business hours in case you need to contact them?
Otherwise, I fundamentally don't care where, how, or when they're working. If they want to do their job while riding a unicycle in a speedo on the center of Market Street in San Francisco, if they're getting their work done, I don't see it as any of my business.
This message brought to you by Slack, which has taken to marking me as "away from desk" any time I don't send or receive a Slack message for 10 minutes.
You are not my job, Slack. You're a communication tool. Don't get uppity with me for not using you when I'm heads-down doing something else!
I swear, I won't go all "generational idiocy" today, but the "nanny corporate state" incenses me every time I encounter it.
Managing someone is easy:
(1) Do they turn in their assigned work on time?
(2) Is said work of good quality?
(3) Are they available during business hours in case you need to contact them?Otherwise, I fundamentally don't care where, how, or when they're working. If they want to do their job while riding a unicycle in a speedo on the center of Market Street in San Francisco, if they're getting their work done, I don't see it as any of my business.
This message brought to you by Slack, which has taken to marking me as "away from desk" any time I don't send or receive a Slack message for 10 minutes.
You are not my job, Slack. You're a communication tool. Don't get uppity with me for not using you when I'm heads-down doing something else!
At this point I'm glad AI doesn't have physical bodies, we would find ourselves in the matrix pretty quickly.
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This message brought to you by Slack, which has taken to marking me as "away from desk" any time I don't send or receive a Slack message for 10 minutes.
You are not my job, Slack. You're a communication tool. Don't get uppity with me for not using you when I'm heads-down doing something else!
Well, it's Slack, it expects you to be slacking.
Can you change the description on your status like you could in older messengers and (I think) discord? Maybe you need to set it to "I am doing actual work instead of idling on Slack at the moment."?
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At this point I'm glad AI doesn't have physical bodies, we would find ourselves in the matrix pretty quickly.I swear, I won't go all "generational idiocy" today, but the "nanny corporate state" incenses me every time I encounter it.
Managing someone is easy:
(1) Do they turn in their assigned work on time?
(2) Is said work of good quality?
(3) Are they available during business hours in case you need to contact them?Otherwise, I fundamentally don't care where, how, or when they're working. If they want to do their job while riding a unicycle in a speedo on the center of Market Street in San Francisco, if they're getting their work done, I don't see it as any of my business.
This message brought to you by Slack, which has taken to marking me as "away from desk" any time I don't send or receive a Slack message for 10 minutes.
You are not my job, Slack. You're a communication tool. Don't get uppity with me for not using you when I'm heads-down doing something else!
Honestly, AI doesn't need a physical body to replace me at the work right now...
I am only here because someone still needs to copy-paste the texts and then review the output for abnormalities...
At this point I'm glad AI doesn't have physical bodies, we would find ourselves in the matrix pretty quickly.
I won't go TOO deep down this rabbit hole, but whoever thought, "We'll train our AIs on the wealth of information available on the internet," was an abject moron.
You can't build guardrails big enough to protect against that swamp.
What I do can't be replicated with artificial intelligence.
Same, but for a different reason, namely they can't yet make it stupid enough to replicate what I get up to.
Unfortunately that's still only a draft and not finalized yet.
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I am watching video of two experts speaking about what is wrong with James Bond's pee-pee in Dr. No...is this some variation of Lewis Black's "sign of doomsday" double-Starbucks streetcorner example?
that's not even a first-world problem. it's a less-than-zeroth-world problem.
It was a video of two gun experts talking about (mislabeled) guns used in Dr. No: James receives what we are told is Walther PPK, and in reality it was Walther PP, so they kept saying pee-pee a lot in that video when they comment on various scenes and switches between guns.
So yeah, complaining about accurate portrayal of gun in an old movie is a sort of not even a first world problem, twice removed, but Ian can be entertaining and informative and they were doing it to promote the other guy's book about James Bond's guns in general.
Oh, hey, I subscribe to that channel... Ian McCollum is pretty great.
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Good news for Nobody, Vany, and anyone else who hates corporate password rules.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.htmlNew password rules from NIST
** spoiler omitted **Of note:
Verifiers and CSPs SHALL require passwords to be a minimum of eight characters in length and SHOULD require passwords to be a minimum of 15 characters in length.Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require users to change passwords periodically.
Also
Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD accept all printing ASCII [RFC20] characters and the space character in passwords.Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD accept Unicode [ISO/ISC 10646] characters in passwords. Each Unicode code point SHALL be counted as a single character when evaluating password length.
SUCH happiness! When the NIST says, "You were right all along!"
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And OMG, I was about to put this in as a tirade they'd missed, but they DIDN'T:
Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.
If a private investigator can find it out in under 10 minutes, it's not secure. Unsurprisingly, the credit bureaus do a great job of this:
BAD: "What was your high school mascot?"GOOD: "What is the current balance on your xxx card?"
But in general, I refuse to answer KBAs on principle and use nonsense strings. Even worse, whenever I have an issue and they ask me for a KBA and I can't give it, they give me a way to bypass it.
And OMG, I was about to put this in as a tirade they'd missed, but they DIDN'T:Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.If a private investigator can find it out in under 10 minutes, it's not secure. Unsurprisingly, the credit bureaus do a great job of this:
BAD: "What was your high school mascot?"
GOOD: "What is the current balance on your xxx card?"
But in general, I refuse to answer KBAs on principle and use nonsense strings. Even worse, whenever I have an issue and they ask me for a KBA and I can't give it, they give me a way to bypass it.
All of my answers are based on TV shows I've watched.
I've watched A LOT of TV shows.
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We had our wedding reception/celebration today, several months after the wedding. It went very well, except when the pick-up band we put together attempted to play C Jam Blues, and nobody troubled to play anything remotely resembling a blues in the key of C.
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We had our wedding reception/celebration today, several months after the wedding. It went very well, except when the pick-up band we put together attempted to play C Jam Blues, and nobody troubled to play anything remotely resembling a blues in the key of C.
CONGRATULATIONS
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Cruel guardians of the dead forests.
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Cruel guardians of the dead forests.
This is one of my favorites.
Either our back yard neighbors got lead poisoning, or they moved out and have been replaced by appallingly stupid, obnoxious neighbors.
(1) There's now a an adult male living there. As with everyone else, he goes into the back yard to talk loudly on the phone, because as I've repeated ad nauseam, we get a barely-there cell signal and cell phones will still try to use it instead of WiFi. Trouble is, this guy loudly asks questions, and is then either too stupid or too obnoxious to understand why you would have the nerve to answer him.
Neighbor: Did you just see a big orange cat?
NobodysHome: Yeah, it just ran through our yard.
Neighbor: Who's there? Is somebody talking? Honey, I just saw a big orange cat. Did you see one?
(2) Today, a woman's voice, "Oh, it's OK, honey. You can just pee in the yard. Pee wherever you want to."
I came up with a simple "softball rule": If someone wants to pee in your back yard, hand them a softball and put them in the dead center of your yard. If they can throw the ball over a fence and into a neighbor's yard, then either they're too big or your yard is too small for them to be running around peeing in it. This was an 8-year-old boy in a 15'x20' yard. Unless he's incredibly feeble, a violation of the softball rule has occurred.
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How else is everything going to know the backyard is mine?
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I've hit an all-time record at Global Megacorporation:
(1) Current "urgent" video #1: Blocked because the PM won't respond.
(2) Current video #2: Blocked because the product behavior doesn't match what's documented.
(3) Obsolete video #1: Functionality is being retired entirely next release, so why spend days updating something that's obsolete?
(4) Obsolete video #2: App is broken.
(5) Obsolete video #3: App is broken.
(6) Research project: Blocked because manager doesn't want me working on it until she gets clarity as to what's being asked for.
I've never been blocked on six different projects before...
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Most depressing AI statement I've heard yet:
"You can now use our AI assistant to humanize your messages."
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And OMG, I was about to put this in as a tirade they'd missed, but they DIDN'T:Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.If a private investigator can find it out in under 10 minutes, it's not secure.I've always treated those questions as memory prompts, not literal questions that need literal answers.
"What was the name of your first pet?" becomes a prompt for the pet name our family called my cousin after a spectacular prank failure when he was a kid.
There are some silences from the other end of the phone when I give the correct answer, but really, the only thing that "verifies" me is the fact that what I say matches the text string on the other person's screen.
I absolutely tried exactly that, but my memory is so flighty that what triggers one memory one year might trigger a different one five years later when I actually need the prompt because I haven't used their site in that long.
So,
(1) I never have to answer those prompts except when it's been years since I tried to access a site using that method, and
(2) my memory changes.
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Most depressing AI statement I've heard yet:
"You can now use our AI assistant to humanize your messages."
Next generation of "I am not a robot" tests will involve doing something so stupid and weird that only an actual human would try it.
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Yep. Our crows are nut snobs. Unsalted peanuts and almonds? Why bother? Unsalted Costco mixed nuts, mainly cashews and walnuts? There is nothing better!
The cat food now remains untouched all day while the nut bowl is empty before lunch.
Aaand, almost a full day of debugging but I managed to unblock myself because no one else would.
*SIGH*
"Gee, NobodysHome, why have you gone and become a subject matter expert on everything you've ever worked on?"
<Glare>
Huh. Apparently Valheim board game is being published.
Looks nice, but it must cost a small fortune.
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Next generation of "I am not a robot" tests will involve doing something so stupid and weird that only an actual human would try it.Most depressing AI statement I've heard yet:
"You can now use our AI assistant to humanize your messages."
I intentionally fail those tests. Sure, I might not be able to interact with 98% of internet content, but we'll see who's laughing when the robot overlords rise up and use their little list of all those of you who successfully passed CAPTCHA as a "round 'em up" database!
*wanders off scavenging material to build a faraday cage*
Huh. Apparently Valheim board game is being published.
say on.
I just submitted what might have been the cruelest survey I've ever completed.
Our entire company mandate is all about making our customers say, "Wow!"
The survey: "What did you think of our new global compensation statement?"
My answer: "I don't even recall getting one. But I checked my browser history and apparently I went to your site 3 weeks ago so I must have seen it, but it obviously contained no information that I considered useful because I promptly deleted it and forgot about it."
My favorite revelation about those CAPTCHA tests is that they have nothing whatsoever to do with recognizing bicycles or crosswalks, and everything with how easy it is to distinguish human-generated mouse cursor movements from computer-generated ones.
Click whatever the heck you like. As long as your mouse is behaving in a human-like manner, it'll pass you.
My favorite revelation about those CAPTCHA tests is that they have nothing whatsoever to do with recognizing bicycles or crosswalks, and everything with how easy it is to distinguish human-generated mouse cursor movements from computer-generated ones.
Click whatever the heck you like. As long as your mouse is behaving in a human-like manner, it'll pass you.
That might explain why I fail about a... half? maybe a third of attempts.
Newest Humble Choice has Remnant II. Yay! Even more grindy struggle against monstrous enemies!
Booo! Some of the best weapons from the first game will be gated behind finishing this game! (yes, I know, I have been checking the game wiki while playing/after finishing the first one).
80 GB to install...
"You haven't finished Darksiders 3 yet!"
Hush you!
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"The people of Salem used their religious ways to condom witches."
I need to go home.
"The people of Salem used their religious ways to condom witches."
I need to go home.
To engage in some witchcraft?
To play Zelda and not think about these damn essays.
What's it like having an obsessive-compulsive managing your windows, doors, and curtains?
The Good: It's 99°F outside and 73°F inside on a poorly-insulated house with no air conditioning.
The Bad: The obsessive-compulsive won't shut up about how it's 99°F outside and 73°F inside on a poorly-insulated house with no air conditioning.
EDIT: Our official local weather station just hit 100°F, which is a rare occurrence around here. I checked our history and our last 100° day was September 6, 2022. So one one hundred degree day per 2-3 years seems about right.
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80 GB to install...
Aaaaannnnddd....
B+%$~!*+.
When started it notes that it needs DirectX 12... (EDIT: and immediately stops)
This surprised me, because it is a new computer so surely it is capable of running DirectX 12? After some checking (dxdiag, haven't seen you in a while), I found I am right, DirectX 12 is there.
Some more checking on Steam forums implies that the creators are simply lying bastards who misleadingly say that you need DirectX 12, when what they actually mean is that the graphics card lacks some functions to run the game...
Bad devs, bad!
Hour and a half of downloading wasted.
It will need to wait until the next year, when I might have enough money for gfx card.
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Hour and a half of downloading wasted.
It will need to wait until the next year, when I might have enough money for gfx card.
Yeah, we're reaping the massive benefits of, "Build your own desktops and replace the graphics cards as needed" ourselves.
Impus Minor's 6-year-old computer wouldn't run any games any more. $400 for a graphics card and an SSD drive and it's running games better than most of the newer computers. GothBard saw that and did the same. And $400 every 5-6 years is a LOT cheaper than a new gaming laptop every 2-3 years.
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80 GB to install...Aaaaannnnddd....
B+$&#$+~.
When started it notes that it needs DirectX 12...
This surprised me, because it is a new computer so surely it is capable of running DirectX 12? After some checking (dxdiag, haven't seen you in a while), I found I am right, DirectX 12 is there.
Some more checking on Steam forums implies that the creators are simply lying bastards who misleadingly say that you need DirectX 12, when what they actually mean is that the graphics card lacks some functions to run the game...
Bad devs, bad!
Don't. Get. Me. Started. On bad error messages.
Don't. Get. Me. Started. On bad error messages.80 GB to install...Aaaaannnnddd....
B%@@%!&@.
When started it notes that it needs DirectX 12...
This surprised me, because it is a new computer so surely it is capable of running DirectX 12? After some checking (dxdiag, haven't seen you in a while), I found I am right, DirectX 12 is there.
Some more checking on Steam forums implies that the creators are simply lying bastards who misleadingly say that you need DirectX 12, when what they actually mean is that the graphics card lacks some functions to run the game...
Bad devs, bad!
Let the Dark Side flow through you, unleash your wrath, you know you want to!
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My favorite revelation about those CAPTCHA tests is that they have nothing whatsoever to do with recognizing bicycles or crosswalks, and everything with how easy it is to distinguish human-generated mouse cursor movements from computer-generated ones.
Click whatever the heck you like. As long as your mouse is behaving in a human-like manner, it'll pass you.
fumbles with paws.
....this explains so. so much....