Dr. Dabbles

You can google for cloudflare issues ranging from providing hosting for actual nazi sites to extorting customers by threatening the exact scenario se saw in this blog post. Feel free to google “cloudflare account suspended” to see many posts about people having not just DDoS mitigation disabled, but everything related to an account deleted and disabled. Many of those people had the audacity to, get this, rely on DDoS protection! The nerve, right?

Not just “this case”, there’s been countless cases like this with CF.

Not a huge surprise, they’ve got a long history of doing all kinds of scumbag shit. Nobody should be surprised when the leopard eats their face.

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve stayed at some bad jobs because of great bosses. As long as pay keeps increasing, promotions are an easy thing to not care about. But the second my boss sucks, or my value isn’t appreciated, I start looking for a new job. At my previous employer, I stuck around for 18 months to try to help guide a new management team that absolutely sucked. They didn’t figure it out, so I’m gone. But I had been with that company for 6 years through good and bad because previous leaders were fantastic.

I’m in my 40s and this for sure is not the best job market in the US in my lifetime. So I can’t imagine what it was like for my parents.

It’s not an awkward spot, it’s a spot where you now know your bargaining power and you’re going to make them pay literally for what they’ve put you through. They need the employees, so the employees can dictate their demands if they negotiate wisely. If these companies are willing to screw you over, then you should be willing to drill them for oil when you get the chance. Screw them. Hard.

Right, we should always ignore a problem because it doesn’t affect me personally. There’s never been an issue with that ever in history. I mean, no way they would do this for something like non-payment or excessive returns on your Amazon.com account, right? No way this system of turning off all of the expensive devices you’ve purchased from them could ever turn bad, right?

This family didn’t even do the thing that they were accused of, but everything was disabled immediately. That’s an acceptable policy to you? That’s a policy that makes sense? What if you had one of their shitty fire phones? Now your mobile phone doesn’t work because somebody thinks they overheard you say something on your camera?

I could understand suspending deliveries to keep drivers out of those situations as it’s investigated. But what the actual fuck is going on where they suspended the family devices? What an actual joke. First off, Alexa is dogshit, and now you advertise that you’ll just cut users off on every platform at a moment’s notice? Why would anybody use it going forward?

Now imagine paying for that crap…

It’s true, a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Then the audience sucked too, I guess

IMO the show was garbage from the first second of the first episode. I didn’t watch more than one or two over the whole span of its production.

Married With Children had a live studio audience rather than a laugh track. Your dignity is intact my friend!

Their depiction of “nerds” was also offensive and shitty in many of the same ways. But because that’s what the writers told you is nerd behavior and culture, it seemed more acceptable somehow.

British TV is, as a friend said to me once, dire. So it would make sense that it landed better there. I mean, clearly lots of Americans watched it, and I know a few that loved it. I just think less of them. 😁

Any show that needs a laugh track to tell you when it’s trying to be funny isn’t going to be funny. I actually heard a perfect description of why BBT wasn’t good (to me) a couple weeks ago from the Venture Bros creators. BBT was a show created by people outside nerd culture trying to tell nerds what nerd culture is. And IMO it entirely missed the mark.

I always suspected people saying being gay is a “phase” are gay or bi themselves. I don’t understand the thinking otherwise.

Big bang theory. It was absolute garbage.

“AI” is a continuation of the same broken culture that gave us broken CEOs spewing platitudes and truisms. Get rid of them both.

It’s unclear if the issue is a glitch with X’s advertising platform or a deliberate change intended to deceive consumers into believing some ads are regular posts from accounts they follow.

Is it? Is it unclear? To whom is it unclear? They’ve lost almost all their ad revenue by reputable companies, leaving the worst of the worst paying Twitter’s bills. It seems highly likely they’d exert pressure for those few precious dollars, get ads to be more scammy, get fewer content checks on ads, maybe get some injectable JavaScript to exploit end devices. None of that would surprise me even a little given how many ad networks we see doing exactly that.