There was a recent article somewhere with a title something like "What if all we just didn't do creepy advertising? Maybe you read it. Yeah, why the creepy ads? Advertising worked great for over 100 years without the creepy laser beam targeting we have today. Can't we just go back to that?
Sadly the genius is out of the box by now.
Oh well, maybe we restart clean after WW III .
Or WW IV if not enough. 😎
Oh well, maybe we restart clean after WW III .
Or WW IV if not enough. 😎
"the big bright Texaco star.”
I knew I should have looked it up, before writing it down. Now even the "good" memory cells need to be double checked ;')
I knew I should have looked it up, before writing it down. Now even the "good" memory cells need to be double checked ;')
Someone else said this, and someone here has probably quoted it before.
That's what the US of A is now: marketing, consumption, sales. It's a whole lot different now than it was when we were younger.
I always hated marketing and advertising. I always thought those marketing eggheads were duplicitous aholes. I was focused on technology. I cared about what was under the hood.
I'm a big dummy in this new world. I feel very long in tooth.
I have often half joked that future historians will trace the downfall of modern civilization to the day we started giving marketing degrees in our universities. It's been down hill ever since.
Anyone remember the TV cartoon version of Dilbert? The episode where an idyllic company decided to introduce a “marketing department”, and the results were apocalyptic?
Anyone who thinks Dilbert is anything other than a documentary has never worked for a major corporation. The TV cartoon may have been a bit over the top, like Klingon folklore often is, but the original *comic strip* was right on the money about everything.
Anyone who thinks Dilbert is anything other than a documentary has never worked for a major corporation. The TV cartoon may have been a bit over the top, like Klingon folklore often is, but the original *comic strip* was right on the money about everything.
Didn't even know there was a TV version - I don't think it ever screened here. I still read the comic strip though - many a true word, etc!
The earlier Dilberts were the best though.
The earlier Dilberts were the best though.
A few of my fav Dilberts went something like:
"I've no actual skills or talent. So my job is raising issues. "The sales people havent been trained for the new product!!!" To which Dilbert replies "I can actually feel the Oxygen in the room being wasted"
"I'm going on Sabbatical, so I'm handing off the power supply project. So far, I put a nail in a piece of wood". "I'll leave you the files and drawings on my desk before I go".
"The IT department always gives me the opposite of what I want. So I told them I didnt want anything..." "Here, watch my launch the Space Shuttle".
I once printed and gave one of the more jovial IT guys that last one. He taped it up on his bench 😀
"I've no actual skills or talent. So my job is raising issues. "The sales people havent been trained for the new product!!!" To which Dilbert replies "I can actually feel the Oxygen in the room being wasted"
"I'm going on Sabbatical, so I'm handing off the power supply project. So far, I put a nail in a piece of wood". "I'll leave you the files and drawings on my desk before I go".
"The IT department always gives me the opposite of what I want. So I told them I didnt want anything..." "Here, watch my launch the Space Shuttle".
I once printed and gave one of the more jovial IT guys that last one. He taped it up on his bench 😀
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Till now, I assume, that is the case. But it will change when there is enough processing power to emulate evolution. Instead of random changes to the DNA, executables would be subjected to minute code changes. Those which crash, the majority, and those which misbehave, a smaller percentage, would be rejected as happens to life forms with non-viable mutations, the rest, which would be a very small percentage, would be further inspected for new features. This process would be repeated many times until an executable has achieved the target objectives.
Not for Astronauts
So I have this Acer laptop, with a 64 bit Atom CPU in it. Graphic performance is dismal at best with either W10 or Linux. I tried to sell it for $75 on ebay, being honest about it being essentially useless. No one wanted it through the Xmas season...
I noticed PiHole has an X86 version, that runs on Ubuntu LTS. Apparently - graphics not being an issue - the little Atom is a hot enough performer to handle my home network DNS lookups as a server my cable router is now pointed to. rPI4 for $100? Forget it - junk laptop for $25 from the thrift store will serve the function.
I notice on line people using i5 systems for this...that's like putting a Hemi on a go-cart. Probably most any Intel proc will do, which means most any old x86 system can be easily inverted to do the pi-hole job.
One problem I see is the text screen burns at full brightness - and the system suspends when you close the lid. Of course, no option in BIOS to change what happens when you close the lid. There's a wire inside that laptop that my diagonals will be looking for...unless there's a utility that runs under Ubuntu LTS to turn off a laptop screen illumination - Ha! Fat Chance.
I noticed PiHole has an X86 version, that runs on Ubuntu LTS. Apparently - graphics not being an issue - the little Atom is a hot enough performer to handle my home network DNS lookups as a server my cable router is now pointed to. rPI4 for $100? Forget it - junk laptop for $25 from the thrift store will serve the function.
I notice on line people using i5 systems for this...that's like putting a Hemi on a go-cart. Probably most any Intel proc will do, which means most any old x86 system can be easily inverted to do the pi-hole job.
One problem I see is the text screen burns at full brightness - and the system suspends when you close the lid. Of course, no option in BIOS to change what happens when you close the lid. There's a wire inside that laptop that my diagonals will be looking for...unless there's a utility that runs under Ubuntu LTS to turn off a laptop screen illumination - Ha! Fat Chance.
Hmmmm.... I've run laptops in closed lid mode plenty over the years for signage and smaller severs and such. Both Windoze and Mac. I hadn't thought about the lid down option being part of the OS, but of course it has to be. Never tried it in Linux, might have to.
Your solution is here How to Change Lid Close Behavior in Ubuntu 20.04 | UbuntuHandbook
Use the "ignore" option, not "suspend".
You may also need to configure " HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore " (right under the highlighted example in the instructions).
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I actually was able to fix that - UNBELIEVABLE!
/etc/systemd/logind.conf and need to change the parameters on HandleLidSwitch and HandleLidSwitchDocked
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
Everything in /etc/systemd/logind.conf was commented with a #. I changed HandleLidSwitc to ignore, uncommented it and saved the file, rebooted. Now when I close the lid, it stays running AND the backlight goes out. Well, shiver-me-timbers!
/etc/systemd/logind.conf and need to change the parameters on HandleLidSwitch and HandleLidSwitchDocked
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
Everything in /etc/systemd/logind.conf was commented with a #. I changed HandleLidSwitc to ignore, uncommented it and saved the file, rebooted. Now when I close the lid, it stays running AND the backlight goes out. Well, shiver-me-timbers!
My pleasure, Joe.
Your post inspired me to fix this on the laptop that I use as my main music source running Volumio. It always bugged me that I had to keep the lid open but I was too lazy (!) to take the 30 seconds to look it up and the few minutes to make the change and reboot. Until today, that is. So now we can both shut our laptop lids and get the desired results. 🙂
Happy New Year!
Your post inspired me to fix this on the laptop that I use as my main music source running Volumio. It always bugged me that I had to keep the lid open but I was too lazy (!) to take the 30 seconds to look it up and the few minutes to make the change and reboot. Until today, that is. So now we can both shut our laptop lids and get the desired results. 🙂
Happy New Year!
@cogitech
Happy new year to you too!
What a wormhole this pihole thing is... I mean, if you need something to do with rest of your time here on Planet Earth.
1. Wife's "wenxuecity" detects the adblock and wont play. So I have to straighten out that somehow. I have two routers; she suggests having one blocked and one not...
2. The most upstream router has provisions for DNS#1, DNS#2 IPs. One would think it'd use the #1, then if fail go to #2; of course, nope. Can use any IP entered for any request at any time. So forget an easy fallback for when you shutdown the pihole system - gotta first go into the router and change the DNS IP...
3. Ran some DNS leak test. Comes back with a slew of 20 servers; "Your DNS Servers"
IP Address : ISP : Location :
66.185.115.242 WoodyNet United States, Seattle
66.185.115.243 WoodyNet United States, Seattle
66.185.115.244 WoodyNet United States, Seattle
74.63.16.242 WoodyNet United States, Palo Alto...
But I thought the whole point of the pihole was that IT was now the DNS server. Oh well, seems to work - I dont see the trap-door pajama advert on the right of the main page anymore...
Happy new year to you too!
What a wormhole this pihole thing is... I mean, if you need something to do with rest of your time here on Planet Earth.
1. Wife's "wenxuecity" detects the adblock and wont play. So I have to straighten out that somehow. I have two routers; she suggests having one blocked and one not...
2. The most upstream router has provisions for DNS#1, DNS#2 IPs. One would think it'd use the #1, then if fail go to #2; of course, nope. Can use any IP entered for any request at any time. So forget an easy fallback for when you shutdown the pihole system - gotta first go into the router and change the DNS IP...
3. Ran some DNS leak test. Comes back with a slew of 20 servers; "Your DNS Servers"
IP Address : ISP : Location :
66.185.115.242 WoodyNet United States, Seattle
66.185.115.243 WoodyNet United States, Seattle
66.185.115.244 WoodyNet United States, Seattle
74.63.16.242 WoodyNet United States, Palo Alto...
But I thought the whole point of the pihole was that IT was now the DNS server. Oh well, seems to work - I dont see the trap-door pajama advert on the right of the main page anymore...
Those two videos nicely explain the basics.
How Machines Learn - YouTube
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But anyway, while we toil, the robots dance.
Do You Love Me? - YouTube]%[/footnote]
Maybe in 5 years they'll be affordable enough to get some for the home.
Happy 2021!
If this year somehow manages to be worse than the previous one I will be completely shocked.
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