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Satisfyingly nostalgic. Thanks.

This is awesome, and I'm really happy that someone is trying this. Recreational spaces are severely lacking in so many places now: while I love digital things, it can't fully replace actual group activities in meat space, but I guess it's just not as profitable since it doesn't scale.

I would totally be a patron with my family at your bowling center, and would love to read a blog or something about your journey.

This resonates: the Internet was such an interesting place to grow up in, though my experience may be a little before the author’s.

I miss the niche bespoke websites and forum communities of the years past, but there’s nothing holding us back from creating and maintaining spaces like that these days, aside from spam and AI slop. Some are still out there.

The shift is mainly attributable to lowering the bar to access as cellphones with browsers came on: it became such a valuable consumer platform, rather than a place for creators, hobbyists, and those with a nerdy curiosity to congregate.

I hope the pendulum swings back the other way someday, but I fear ‘dead internet theory’ may be the current endpoint of least resistance.

Found this installed automatically on my Windows system with no notice with the screenshot stuff automatically enabled: guess they’re taking an opt-out vs opt-in approach here.

Can’t say I’m a big fan.

This is bang on. I am shocked by how poor UX really is these days in most modern applications.

I worked at an old grocery store running the front office as a teenager through college maaaany years ago, and everything was a keyboard shortcut, non-touchscreen driven interface from probably the early 90’s. It took some time to get used to and train others on, but I could fly through those interfaces in a way a modern UX simply does not allow by focusing on the lowest common denominator for usability instead of any attempt to cater to ‘experts’: aka the people who have to use those interfaces day in and day out.

Sure, the modern interfaces look great (usually) and in the ideal state anyone can pick it up and use it without much instruction. But there’s no attempt to focus on the poor soul who has to use it in their day to day and just wants to get it done as quickly as possible.

No disagreements there: I was just lamenting the short term negative impacts it will have.

Further concentration of capital’s power in the tech space is a significant issue, IMO, and painful in its own right to back out of. It will be interesting to see how we deal with this problem in the future… if we address it at all.

For basically my entire adult life, at the macro level capital investments have basically been free for corporations.

While I have an idea of will happen based on historical data, it will certainly be ‘interesting’ to experience it first hand. :/

I knew this was going to be Explosions & Fire before I clicked. This guy is completely insane and I love it.

Sales taxes are regressive and affect the poorest the most. Income taxes (can be) progressive.

Progressive taxation benefits society at large.

Probably a stupid question, but are the version #'s mentioned here ( "From version 2.4.17 (Oct 9, 2015) to version 2.4.38 (Apr 1, 2019), Apache HTTP suffers from a local root privilege escalation vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds array access leading to an arbitrary function call." ) the only ones affected, or is it possible earlier versions are affected as well?

Also, I just want to throw out there that the name of this one is great:

"Why the name ? CARPE: stands for CVE-2019-0211 Apache Root Privilege Escalation DIEM: the exploit triggers once a day

I had to."

Unfortunately I think these types of restrictions are fairly common in large organizations, even non-financial.

Speaking as someone in a Fortune 500, sometimes the bureaucratic hoops one must jump through to develop in a VM or with docker on ones own machine isn't even worth it.

I've been looking for something like this--podcast discovery is severely lacking right now(or I don't know where to look!). Excited to try this out--thanks!

I'll be sure to get to send you some feedback once I've used it for a while. :)

I'm pretty surprised by the long wait times between "updates" from support... that's pretty rough. I understand it can be hard to get a good signal to noise ratio with support, but when so many other people are reporting issues, perhaps it's time to take it a bit more seriously?

This thread is a great example of why support is so hard.

The grenade launchers are M79's, and can be used for tear gas and other non-lethal rounds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M79_grenade_launcher#Ammunition

Now about the quantity some PD's ordered... that's a different story.