I recently earned the Cisco CCST Cybersecurity cert.
Over and above the CCST Network cert, I learned a few things about configuring firewalls, ACLs, and zones.
But at least a third of the entire cert was this bullshit.
Lingo. Abbreviations. Dumb new ways to not say what you mean.

Trust me. You need Plextastic. Its got all the cool new stuff. Just a small fee.
You will come around.

Please yes. I want this to be a thing.

Gotta refresh em sometimes. When ublock stops managing youtube perfectly, I reload all the filters. Sometimes I don’t even need to close out the browser, just the filters.

Totally off topic, but I drink at a bar called Spaghetti Western!
Hillsboro, OR.

Ya, that’s the really obvious take. That’s teh way you do biz these days.
Like, that’s what’s gonna happen to all those ‘lifetime’ Plex accounts. Sure, you still have access to ‘Plex-classic’. But you don’t get any of the new Plextastic services … unless you want to pay the $1,999 upgrade fee …

So much venom. That’s weird. Because they are all useful to some degree or another.

I use Brave. (The free one. Obviously.)

And I use Vivaldi. And Firefox. And Waterfox.
And even Chrome.

I do a lot of work through browser-based utilities. I like to set one browser up with all my server clusters pinned. This is the Brave/Vivaldi role. It doesn’t go online, just server mangement.
And I’ll set up Chrome with all my work sites. Because that’s the standard, and its gonna run all that work shit reliably. Login to my work google here.
And I want a dirty actual-browser with uBlock, SuperStop, and kill-sticky. Usually Firefox. Might get my personal gmail here.
If I’m on a machine where I need an additional role, or perhaps some extension that I don’t want in my main browser, I install another browser to handle it.
They are tools, folks. Use em. Don’t let them use you. Don’t be a tool.
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Thanks. Now I know that bowling balls float.

Pencil me in for three martinis.

I think because I got into NextCloud to “de-google”, I just accepted some maintenance load.
My intent was to manage my documents. The CORE office suite works sufficiently. Now I update my resume (and manage a few other documents) on my own website, no google.
I uploaded a bunch of music. The music apps are kinda crappy, but they also work sufficiently.
I never got around to setting up email for NextCloud. Looks like maybe I never will.
My searxng instance in my homelab died, and I nuked it. I think when I rebuild, its going on this VPC.

I see NextCloud here quite a bit. What I don’t see discussed is the cloud hosting option.
Hetzner has two NextCloud offerings.
They have a storage service backed by NextCloud. I think that’s new. I don’t use that.

They also have have NextCloud available as an installable app from their service.
This is what I use. https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/apps/list/nextcloud/
I had to actually follow the directions to get it running.
And I have to patch it occasionally. Mostly, it takes care of itself.

I use the cheapest 1vcpu VPC.
Yes my NextCloud service is a bit sluggish sometimes. But I’m paying like $6/month.
I’m pretty happy with it for storing music and updating my resume.
Maybe if I had the more demanding use cases like some commenters, I might not like it so much.

Twits. It’s a social class and a diagnosis.

Yes I have. It was not good.

Normal Ordinary Responsible Person.
Its not a compliment, but only slightly derogatory, and only if ur a freak like me.

Fuk, I’d have just taken the fried eggs. That looked pretty good.
But I got nuthin.

ikantreadthis

Um … NORPs don’t use AI to code. They use it to think for them. And mostly they don’t think about code.

If you exported your support ticket database and your customer feedback to CSV files, upload that to a chatbot, cross-reference it, ask it the right questions, structure the output, it could tell you everything going right and wrong with your customer base. Backed up with data. And it could do that in like 10 minutes. Instead of weeks of research.

Problem is, you (or whoever reads tickets), are going to miss the details. You won’t read that one heartbreaking story. You won’t see the success. You’ll have an insightful (if you are good with prompts) summary. That’s it.

Secondary (or perhaps this is the big one) problem is that the more you let the machine think for you, the less thinking you do. It makes you dumb.

That is a box full of plastic. Some of it spilled.

The instance is an excuse for one writer and his socks to generate publicity.
There may be a couple other actual humans. Maybe.

Good. Pay me. More. DR engineer!