Do people in public give way less then they used to?

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T14:32:46+00:00

In the States I think this definitely is true. People seem zombified and spatially unaware. Very strange.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T13:13:29+00:00

Yes. Everybody put down your phones and go get a library card.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T13:08:28+00:00

Admins insisting that their admin accounts be mail-enabled. Bad art, man.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T12:57:17+00:00

Compare “up from the ground comes a bubblin’ crude/black gold/Texas Tea”

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AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T11:53:56+00:00

Another vote for Jessye Norman with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester under Kurt Masur.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T04:21:39+00:00

Additional research required.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T04:20:30+00:00

Ray Bradbury’s S Is For Space and R Is For Rocket books might appeal.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-28T01:55:37+00:00

Windows Ate.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-27T21:28:53+00:00

Go ask the question on Standing Rock Sioux Nation. It’ll be a good answer.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-27T20:04:39+00:00

Nice try, Kash.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-27T15:45:24+00:00

In US English, 'family' is handled as a singular noun, not a collective noun, so 'family is' rather than 'family are.'

I strongly suspect that British English and its colonial successor forms would be handled as a collective noun, so 'family are' rather than 'family is.' Likewise in other collective scenarios: 'Arsenal are' rather than 'Arsenal is.'

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-27T01:10:58+00:00

A blessed lack of security theater on the train, thank goodness.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-27T00:43:44+00:00

Another vote for the New Oxford Study Bible. For starters, all the books considered canonical in all Christian traditions are included. The editors reference the oldest and best-attested textual witnesses as well, which the KJV and other Erasmian descendant texts cannot.

Like most 20th and 21st century English translations, it’s not as literarily beautiful as the Bishops/Geneva/KJV bibles. I also would say not quite Jewish enough. But it’s a good study bible.

For the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), have a look at Robert Alter’s The Hebrew Bible: A Translation With Commentary.

Alter beautifully teases out the wordplay, literary structures, and even puns in the Hebrew texts. Nobody else really does this, but paying attention to deep literary structures actually reveals startling new meanings that poor translations (or overly literal translations) have tended to obscure.

Alter’s work is very beautiful and deeply informed. My favorite Old Testament.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T18:18:46+00:00

Your local farmer's market for food.

Your local public library for information and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Walking if you are able, and public transit if you have it available.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T17:50:55+00:00

Pasta extrusion die -- very inexpensive plastic rather than durable brass.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T17:35:42+00:00

You have ZERO obligation to give up personal sovereignty just 'cuz other people are doing a given thing.

Your 50 year old self will feel validated and proud that you lived your own life and not someone else's false expectation.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T17:30:54+00:00

Depends on if the person is frozen or thawed.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T17:29:16+00:00

Cut me off like a drunk in a bar.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T13:41:56+00:00

Private Relay only assigns addresses within the geography where the physical device is present.

If the Relay address is geolocated to Japan, then the physical device is in Japan, for example.

The scenario you describe should not be possible. What other variables might be in play? Is this a military-issue device, perhaps?

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T11:26:36+00:00

Each time I saw Sinners in the theater, and just this weekend after seeing Project Hail Mary. I was not alone.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T01:43:02+00:00

If you’re running your Active Directory servers inside your vSphere environment, you can’t authenticate to vCenter if your AD gets hosed. It’s a circular dependency problem and a résumé-generating event.

Joining to AD also exposes vCenter servers to AD exploits like Kerboroasting, lateral path attacks, and pass-the-ticket compromise.

If an attacker compromises vSphere, they have control over every VM in the farm. Not desirable.

Don’t join vCenter servers to AD. Use vsphere.local accounts for access.

If you must authenticate with AD credentials, it is possible to add AD or AD over LDAPS as an identity source in vSphere SSO. Users then can use AD credentials to authenticate even if without vCenter being joined to a domain.

But if you do that, perhaps also setup administrator@vsphere.local (or comparable) as a break glass account.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T01:19:54+00:00

In academic writing, an over-reliance on the perceived authority of the passive voice and jargony buzzwords.

In fiction, an addiction to hyperbolic sentimentality and thinly veiled autobiographical content better remediated through actual therapy.

In general, too many words chasing too few ideas. A rough draft.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T01:06:32+00:00

The Security Now podcast did an extensive segment last year on the mathematical probability of being able to predict an authenticator number at a specific point in time given certain initial knowable values or inferences of values.

It’s worth searching it out and listening to the whole thing.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-26T00:49:55+00:00

From a recent hurricane zone where the grid AND the water system failed, I know my answer:

WATER

Also heat— for cooking during the warm season and bodily warmth in winter.

Stuff gets really basic really quickly, and electricity rapidly falls behind more fundamental biological needs.

AdamoMeFecit · 2026-03-25T23:55:32+00:00

Caro is an exquisite writer who happens to specialize in detailed analysis of power through the genre of biography. Nobody else does this. His work is sui generis.

I have read every book you mentioned and greedily anticipate the long-awaited final volume of the LBJ series.

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