I started watching CEE out of curiosity, but damn, it’s a good channel. Our host is just low-key charismatic, and wastes no time getting into laying out the problem, customer requirements, and how we’re going to fix things. Then the big machines are put to work, which is just a treat to watch. Wrap it all up with a brisk but informative narrative style, and an adorable tank of a dog that helps break up the content, and it really is a good watch. Dare I say a comfy watch at that.
This old Tony is also a gateway drug into machining YT:
Not exactly a farm-able loot table, but here’s what taking down a warp core gets you:
Warp core also deals 5,000,000 damage in a 10km radius, upon death. So you get to enjoy those spoils for about a femtosecond.
Not this flavor, no.
That would explain the use of 2x12 (2x10 maybe?) lumber and how it kinda disappears into the house past the siding. Still, I wouldn’t want that lumber exposed to the elements like that - it’s like asking for moisture to penetrate the structure.
Also: no ledger board on the house side of that deck. Even with proper post support, it’s still a widowmaker.
I’m in both camps on IPv6, although much more to the hate than love side of things.
Pros: More addresses for everyone. Should solve IP exhaustion for a lot of folks, even those of us that live off the LAN most of the time. A lot of the globe uses it these days, so in some ways, it’s always a good time to migrate.
Cons: It is NOT a drop-in replacement for IPv4. ICMPv6 is necessary for this to really tick. You cannot simply turn it off since it’s way more than ping packets this time around. It brings with it a beefy attack surface, and you must be able to handle a range of message types correctly. Hardening requires use of SEND and other tech, making it a more expensive proposition over all.
Rant:
Also, it’s really easy to just put your entire home LAN on the /56 or whatever range your ISP gives you. This might be a mistake, as an error in your firewall config could just put everything on the open internet. Meanwhile, the humble IPv4 NAT, that ships standard in every ISP router/switch they give you, fails closed by default - stock and bad configurations hide everything from the internet instead.
Really, all anyone wanted was IPv4 with a bigger address space. This could have been an extension header for IPv4, ICMP, ARP, some clever address management on the part of ICANN, and we would have called it a day.
This is just barely in the 1990’s, but The Conversatron comes to mind.
There was quite the cottage industry around Quake in the 1990’s. From GameSpy for finding matches/servers, to news and modding sites for which I can’t quite recall the names.
There’s also countless companies and startups that either went bust or were eaten by other companies.
Meanwhile, there’s stuff still online from then that has no right to be. SpaceJam comes to mind.
Yes. This has been theorized, but with the obvious limitation of building anything big enough to attenuate the sun’s output to a visible degree.
Right now we look for periodic dimming of distant stars, in order to ID exoplanets as they orbit and block light. We also look for any wobble from the gravitational pull of a large orbiting body, like Jupiter-sized things.
As for artificial dimming, that more or less falls under the concept of a “Dyson Swarm/Sphere”, and is something we’re keeping an eye out for too. Your signal concept would be carefully orchestrated windows in that swarm, as it orbits. But the energy and sheer mass requirements (measured in substantial fractions of whole planets) are at a level of civilization well beyond anything we can do at present. So there may be something out there, but we’re in no position to do the same.
*x = dereference or “point to”. Treats the variable x as containing a pointer value. Evaluates to a variable existing at the address in x.
&x = reference or “get address of”. Evaluates to the address of x.
They’re complimentary operators, so *(&x) cancels out and is equvalent to just x.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Former helldesk employee from the mid 1990’s here. Thank you for serving.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
I had one that did this. Dude bought 10 years worth of dial-up access in 1995.
Weather?
Oh! You mean outside.
Yeah, we don’t do that here.
I work in IT. Some days are better than others. Framing seems to be key to keeping my psyche intact.
I constantly wrestle with the environmental impact of this field. More so now than ever. Everything that goes into consumer and professional electronics generates a lot of waste, and as a professional, I’ve had my hands on more systems than the average home user.
I also do not work at any FANG company, nor for anyone in surveillance like Palantir or Flock. Besides, I don’t get invited to those parties.
Everyone in IT has contributed to both negative social and environmental impacts in some way. Some, much more than others. AI has thrown gasoline on the fire, but we still have the same problems as before: pointless commutes, e-waste, planned obsolescence, power-hungry software, enriching the rich, and so on.
Meanwhile, (without doxxing myself) I work at a company that helps their customers do good things.
I think that’s where I keep my conscience clear for the most part: I’ve made decisions that place me in a relatively better place, with some sense of karmic balance that tips towards better than it is bad. Telling oneself “it could be worse” certainly seems fragile - and it is - but it is what it is.
I’ll add that, in a capitalist system, even the concept of employment is coercive and not 100% voluntary. Also, the way companies proceed in this environment exploits the built-in demand for employment, while exploiting and extracting all kinds of things, both real and virtual. IMO, this puts the most (if not all) of economy on trial for ethical concerns, so we’re only left “how (non)ethical is your workplace?”
You’re gonna give me a small crisis with that one.
I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out how anyone could be so culturally and politically regressive when the world is chock full of stuff that didn’t exist a decade or two ago. And then your post shows a very plausible anecdote that kind of explains it. To think that anyone would observe the outside world and see a fixed and solved existence with no forward trajectory, despite recent history clearly illustrating the opposite, just baffles me. Yet, that really happens.
Yup. You can’t say “the one leaning to the left” because, and trust me on this, there’s a number of ways a person can screw that up.
FWIW, this used to work better when “cascade windows” was a standard thing.
Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.
Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.
Also, don’t get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.
Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can’t get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It’s been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it’s still a shitshow.
What I love about this video is not that he pulled it off (more or less), but that it helps illustrate just how hard it is to use atmospheric carbon for just about anything.