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"Don't be a catgrepper"

- various HostGator employees, c. 2011

there have been a lot more issues than just that incident

they apparently like driving into floodwaters [1]

one vehicle got confused by construction barriers, entered opposing traffic, and halted [2]

in Dallas, a gas leak caused an explosion that leveled an apartment building, a Waymo unit blocked the scene, and first responders had to first reach into the car and try grasping the wheel, before the remote support agent agreed to kill the car and put it in neutral so they could push it out of their way [3]

I have a moderate fear for the safety of my children with these things on the road

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgplyxxl75o

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1tzszpx/waymo_stuck...

[3] https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-06-04/oak-cliff-apartment...

another tick in the "never ever have a partnership with Microsoft" column...

well, any accounts running outdated workloads (could be anything LAMP-flavored) could be attack vectors, with the entire shared machine possibly compromised by any weak account due to these latest LPEs

these cPanel machines frequently run 4- or low-5-figure quantities of customer accounts, each with potentially multiple domains or CMS deployments, and not always the most technically-engaged customer base, so that's a lot of surface area to account for: how diligent can hosts realistically be about every WordPress plugin, every Drupal or Magento module, and so on?

(nb I don't like shared hosting and am not defending it, just addressing the reality of the long tail)

FFXIV's level/stat sync system is also pretty cool for keeping the older stuff playable long past its original release, players get levels and stats and skills scaled down to the max level appropriate for the content

4-player dungeons still end up being a bit of a faceroll, but it's definitely possible to wipe on the 8-player bosses if mechanics are not observed

Hopefully, reaction is read as to the action, not some categorization of the actor

"hate the sin, love the sinner", or something

I'd consider this a lowball in Austin

at The Planet in Dallas c. 2002 the EPO button was exposed with no cover, and in very very close proximity to the "Exit" button for the doors...

one day, a colo customer hit the wrong button on the way out, and uhh, there was an outage

there used to be a lot more shared hosting in the world when Slashdot ruled the geek news roost

it'd be fine if it's one site on a dedicated machine, but these shared webhosts would routinely cram 500-1000 hosting accounts onto something like a single-core, HT-less 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with two gigs of RAM, running mpm_prefork on Apache 2.0, with single-node MySQL 5.x (maybe even 4.x!) on the same box... which was not terribly efficient as others observed

you carry about 20x the compute power of that machine in your pocket, even a Raspberry Pi 4 could triple the workload

well, for football and handegg anyway

NBA Live hasn't caught up to 2K for a long time and Sony still has MLB

https://archive.is/ofX2x

in the case of Azure, the users are the engineers tasked with implementing the infra

I'm not sure I've ever heard of a shop adopting Azure on pure engineering merit but my anecdata are hardly exhaustive. it tends to be forced for weird business reasons (retailers mistrusting Amazon, data residency requirements, sweetheart credit deal, CIO convinced by Azure rep over golf)

I always liked going to well-stocked stores and browsing for stuff. That was Fry's until they shot themselves in the foot.

Micro Center might not be optimal on price, but sometimes you just want to wander a store full of cool stuff and maybe walk out with something you didn't expect, instead of another anonymous box of schmutz from Amazon or wherever

The observed behaviour has been present in Screen versions since at least the year 2005.

and it's been an anti-pattern and covered by tools like rkhunter for around least that long, as well

but pretty sure screen was setuid root in the 90s too

DIN plugs are greatly preferred over the cursed 2.5mm TRS with a different polarity depending on which manufacturer one is addressing

Texas DPS was selling driver registration data to car warranty spammers as recently as 2022. This pearl-clutching from Abbott and Paxton is a bit amusing.

s/Texans/Houston-area customers of CenterPoint

And "action" has made the reverse transition...

"Could you action this ask from Bob in Finance?"

I had the same experience you describe with Pandora for years, has it improved recently?

If it was Borland's compiler suite it may or may not have been perfectly standards-compliant, hence the quotation marks. The Borland suite from the early 90s seemed to be pretty relaxed/forgiving about what was valid C/C++.

My school utilized Turbo C++ 3.0 for instruction (and later 4.5), which implemented some weird subset that was pre-C++98. Plenty of things that I was doing when targeting the Borland compiler barfed terribly when compiled with GCC (or G++).

I'd definitely consider what we were writing in those days "C" or "C++" but not anything that resembles modern software...

printers can’t flood your kitchen

I guess I'm supposed to be grateful they both died before I was 20?

It's possible to create parking space that isn't surface lots

A few years ago I received a VM from a spam caller, the content of which was a Twilio tutorial, verbatim ("You did not reveal yourself to be human. Goodbye!")

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/02/tracking-call-status-how...

This has been going on a while.

Legality of sale of products of reliable quality is unevenly distributed

That deal was announced in September 2017 and closed in November, so Rackspace was already in the clutches of Apollo by then.

The fact that I was able to continue feeding my family hot food in the freezing cold 72-hour blackout in Texas! Big plus.

Electric or induction will never win me over unless I somehow end up in a house with a Powerwall.

stoves

You'll pry my gas range from my cold, dead hands

That's a lot of open sockets for one host

That’s a lot of RAM for a 486! My first Pentium came with only 24mb :(