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Outside of work, I haven’t relied on email in years. I have one account for my bank and stuff, but rarely look at it.

Not sure if your society still revolves around email, but I recommend doing the same thing if you can.

Wellp, time to get a new job.

I don’t think so. No one higher up quite understood the severity, even after the ransom event. I kind of established the impression that not-for-profit c-suites are full of the leftovers. If they were any good, they’d be elsewhere earning much more.

Nah, there’s an apocalyptic phase that goes on for a long time and chances of ultimate survival are quite positive. Six billion could perish, making life much easier for the remaining, though there’d be hard times for a few generations during recovery.

Always look on the bright side of life 😙🎵

Or, ya know, astroid… Whatever it is, it beats dying of dysentery at age 34.

I remember when I was this ironic.

The book states ‘no one knows when’ several times; even in Revelations, the book literally about end times.

And there are many times in modern human history that people were sure it had kicked off. But it didn’t and things just got better again. It’s like our thing to almost wipe ourselves out but miserably kick on for another day.

We only just appeared here anyway so we’ll likely disappear just as recently as well and some other living thing will have its turn, and so on, and so on, until the sun takes out the atmosphere and then the planet. And fin.

It was always going to end. And I’d rather be there for it than be born in some other boring and eventless time. Unfortunately, as exciting as times are, I think there’s still quite a while to go and we won’t be around for it. But you can still enjoy all that’s happening now; sure is a lot!

Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.

Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII…

I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts “randomly” after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.

So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.

There are small phones. There’s more small phones than big phones. And I have big thumbs so stop whinging about the minority.

Edit: Omg I just lost to clickbait. FUCK.

This happened to me as a very young kid (6 maybe?) in the early 90s. All my school friends got sick from the party. Apart from the itching and sore throat, I remember just playing with Lego for a few days instead of going to school and it was great.

One of the dads (neighbour) got it and had to stay at the hospital for a few days.

I think this a lot.

But, quite ironically, I think it’ll be what kills us all so it never really went away.

“They’re getting fourth jobs now? Oh, good!” raises.costs to match

Odd spelling of “whenever”

Oh, that’s good.

I have added Elon to my block keywords, but lately the circlejerk had somehow seeped its way out onto my feed.

Could anyone share other blocked terms they find effective?

Yeah. A wagon.

Depends. While compressing the video, it will create repetition,.artificial motion blur, etc. Either through software or directly on the device itself with its own software—GoPros are notoriously bad for this, for example.

Then when uploading to YT, it has its.own compression—because billions of petabytes—which will introduce your classic.nearest neighbour type compression problems. Colour spots, blurring, flat contrasts,.etc. All in an effort to keep bitrate and thus the file size down.

But as I said, it’s unusual to have content on YT of this quality where bitrate “ruins” the experience. There’s much worse problems at the forefront in amateur and/or.fast content video.

Nah. The planet has had way worse and will have way worse. We’re just an annoying itch you may never had known existed in just a few short tens of thousands of years; mere moments in Earth’s timeline.

I don’t notice it on a 75" TV.

But when 99% of the content on YouTube is struggling to just get focusing right, pursuing higher quality bitrates is a useless priority. It’s all trash amateur TV. Resolution is not a factor here.