“Lets use Oracle DB for that.”

Statements made by the utterly deranged.

No. But there are a number of advantages of using PostgreSQL over the others.

Thankfully that was a long time ago. I’ve had a chance to heal and I learned a lot from that experience, especially about myself. I’m doing good now. I appreciate the good vibes though.

Same for my ex wife! Except I would never send her this message because I never want to see her miserable face again for as long as I live.

I hate places that drop ship from Amazon.

My electric bill last month would have been $1,700 at that rate. We would just have to freeze to death.

What’s funny is their attempts to rebrand Office have just fallen completely flat. Kind of reminds me of when Willis Group bought the naming rights to Sears Tower and all the Chicagoan’s were just collectively like, “Yeah, No. We’re still going to call it ‘Sears Tower’.” Hell, nobody that I know of calls it “Willis Tower.” Nobody calls Microsoft Office “Office 365”. Nobody is going to call it “Microsoft 365 Copilot.” This is just a huge waste of effort by a tech firm that has long since run out of ways to be innovative.

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Salesforce needs no help ruining their own image. Their software is just a giant smoldering pile of shit.

CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.

Not that I know of. The shift to Bittorrent after Limewire’s demise pretty much killed new Gnutella client development. There are a few desktop clients still under “active maintenance” but most of them haven’t been updated in ages.

Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.

You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.

In some ways, yes. At 36, I have a wife and kids whom I love and enjoy. I’m a very lucky man in that respect. During my 20’s and my first (God awful) marriage, I resigned myself to the idea that I would never have a family.

My job is not particularly fulfilling. In fact, when asked in interviews which parts of my career I’ve enjoyed most my answer is, without hesitation, “the jobs I didn’t get paid for.” Volunteering for things that had a meaningful impact on people’s lives has always been very satisfying. Sadly, I haven’t had time to do much of that in recent years. In my experience, there is a lot of truth in the statement, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” I hope to get back to doing more volunteer work when my younger kids are a little bigger.

I often VPN to my home network while on the go. The overall web experience is so much worse without DNS level ad blocking.

Voluptuous Lauren Delivers Lettuce

“Why is your fridge full of lettuce?”

“I’m trying to eat healthier.”

Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream…

Joseph: “Holy mother of God!!”

Angel: “Yeah, funny you should say that…”

Those Protectli Vaults are neat little devices.

It definitely makes it more difficult to switch endpoints manually. I have multiple VPN connections with different exit nodes configured for failover in case one (or more) of them is unreachable. I don’t run into geoblocking issues very often but I also don’t route all my WAN traffic over VPN. Just some of it.

What you can automate depends on your routers capabilities. Mine is a Mikrotik which does have fairly extensive support for custom scripts. However, detecting Geoblocking is probably going to involve parsing HTTP responses which is beyond the capabilities of almost all consumer grade routers. You would have to effectively do a MITM attack (aka deep packet inspection) in order to accomplish that on something other than the client device.

TLDR: I manually change routes to a different VPN if needed but I very rarely run into Geoblocking issues.