Idk I’ve met some pretty frustrating administrators who understandably hate Microsoft but they then go and refuse to learn anything else, refuse to use anything other than some variant of Windows for anything that needs an operating system then complain when their hacks to make windows do stuff it was never designed to do (or stuff it once was designed to do but hasn’t been supported since Server 2003) get broken.

As an administrator part of your job is to identify the right tool for the job. I am most comfortable in Linux, I find the general architecture to make far more sense than Windows. I fully recognize that for most businesses Windows is the best bet on many cases. But there are also situations where windows should be your last possible choice. These admins setting up IIS Server and windows-based SCSI targets, using HyperV instead of a better hypervisor for more than a handful of VMs, they frustrate me to no end and I have to suspect they just have given up on learning anything new with these choices

Writing even more sternly worded letters?

I’ll have to try out those Gemini links later. Who knows, maybe I’ll get super into it and submit updated links for the official getting started guide

My daughter has become obsessed with watching videos about the game Wobbly Life. There’s one YouTuber who seems to post extremely frequently and advertises in every video for a subscription mod platform. She is now always asking about that mod platform, and the best way we can explain it to her (because she’s 5 and simply too young to understand what mods even are, has zero room for any nuance on her world views etc.) is we just give her a hard-line “we do not pay for mods”

Web Monetization is a proposed standard in W3C, so an open standard

With Google fingerprint tracking, advertisers are selling hyper-targeted ads so a company buys only ads to show to the right 10,000 people over and over. It’s a literal dream for advertisers. But it’s a fucking dystopian nightmare for us.

The hilarious thing is if you turn off your adblocker (or use a service/device that doesn’t support it) and pay attention to what is being advertised to you, a lot of it is wildly irrelevant. They’d probably have better targeting by following the old TV Ad model than whatever the heck is happening with targeted web ads nowadays. My wife watches a lot of livestreams on twitch and any ads that aren’t for a game just consistently seem to be wildly irrelevant despite being “targeted” or it’s even worse when she’s listening to Spotify and the ads are so consistently for products or services we would never have a desire to use

Malvertising has become pervasive enough that adblocking is starting to become a necessity from an IT perspective

Zombie internet!

Okay I checked out Gemini. I love the vibes, but the amount of dead links just in the quick start guide makes it hard for me to even try to get into it

Or just a protocol like Web Monetization where you put an amount of money you choose into a pot on your browser and it’s handed out to sites you visit based on how much time you spend on a given site, with options to denylist sites from payment as needed

This is an enterprise drive, so it’s useful for any usecase where a business needs to store a lot of lightly used data, like historical records that might be accessed infrequently for reporting and therefore shouldn’t get be transfered to cold storage.

For a real world example, the business I’m currently contracting at is legally required to retain safety documentation for every machine in every plant they work in. Since the company does contract work in other people’s plants that’s hundreds of PDFs (many of which are 50+ page scans of paper forms) per plant and hundreds of plants. It all adds up very quickly. We also have a daily log processes where our field workers will log with photographs all of their work every single workday for the customer. Some of these logs contain hundreds of photographs depending on the customer’s requirements. These logs are generated every day at every plant so again it adds up to a lot of data being created each month