Looks like he forgot to give out fashion advice before wearing that outfit.

Comedy is a team effort.

OMG we need to crowdfund a DS9 Christmas special.

Garak: So, let me get this straight, Doctor. This “Santa Claus” operates a vast, real-time information gathering regime, collects data to judge everyone on the planet, and categorizes them into the beautifully binary groups of “naughty” and “nice” for the purpose of facilitating later actions based upon membership of one or the other group?

Bashir: I don’t think that’s quite the moral of the story here, Garak, but yes, that is…accurate.

Garak: And to whom does this “Santa Claus” report?

Bashir: No one, as far as I’m aware, anyway.

Garak: Fascinating. I say, dear Doctor, there may be hope for your species yet.

No. A thousand times “no”. Just seems like a complete waste of resources federating intentional gibberish and more shit for users to block by default.

Instead, I recommend pushing your instance admins to run something like Nepenthes so that bot traffic is automatically served gibberish in the background instead of actual content. I’ve been doing this for a couple weeks now, and multiple bots are constantly thrashing around in the tarpit.

This is why everyone is posting corn.

Post title works as-is, at least IMO. You can always edit it if you want.

Yes, what you’re describing is what’s called “willful ignorance” here.

“Ignorance” is used to mean simply “lack of knowledge” in most cases in English. It doesn’t carry the negative connotation by itself.

There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant. It just means there’s opportunity for learning.

There’s everything wrong with being willfully ignorant.

– Me

Please, no US news and politics please

FTFY

How was the satellite

This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent for the time at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.

You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.

Irrelevant, I think? Whether we have enough or not, they’re going to just take it. See: the “AI” boom and how SSD and memory costs are skyrocketing and general availability declining as well as GPU costs/availability since Buttcoin.

I’m not too worried now, but at some point, there’s going to be a breakthrough and “quantum” is going to be the new bubble. “Quantum datacenters” and/or “quantum AI” or whatever marketing horseshit they come up with.

It’s from Pluribus

When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.

I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL – I lived out in the boonies).

Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.

In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.

Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?!

I appreciate your enthusiasm for the corn, but…

That corn looks like it’s voiced by Jack McBrayer