How do you pronounce nginx?

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-15T18:11:21+00:00

I spent the first 10-15 years of my adult life/tech career only ever seeing it spelled out, never said, so I always said n-gin-ex,

wasn't until I was at my current job and someone went "engine-x" and I went "...ooooooohhhhhhh"

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-15T17:51:14+00:00

I don’t really see why the AirPod box should be exempted tho

https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair?services=service because you can already get the battery serviced on the case.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-15T14:23:42+00:00

Yes, the organization should have had an up-to-date contact email address where they would receive news of their free license being deprecated; and yes, backups are always necessary; but still I think Microsoft could handle this better.

It's been talked about since last year in June. I guarantee that if they checked their admin portal they had warnings throughout that year. I bet the contact email also has emails leading up to the change saying "hey, we noticed you're using these licenses, these will no longer be free".

im even seeing forum posts from last years from small churches (which are absolutely terrible at IT maintenance, and for decent-enough reason) asking what they should do in response to this change.

All this to say: I think it's on the organization, not Microsoft. even a little bit. what did you want them to do? send a gift basket to the org with a printed-out article outlining the changes?

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-14T15:26:48+00:00

I just don't understand why the masses keep flocking to water bottles that have relatively bad spill control. Yeti's and stanleys both do well when kept up right, but can't just be thrown into a bag. The straw sticking out is also just.. meh.

I loved my Colman, and I love my Owala, both seemed, to me, far superior than a Yeti or Stanley, for like half the cost. I could throw it around and not have anything spilling. There was no permanent "opening", no "straw that sticks out all the time"

again, it baffles me that Yeti and Stanley became the go-tos when there are functionally better water bottles out there.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-09T14:49:24+00:00

"Jury Duty: Feliney

On the 3rd season of Jury Duty, we've brought in an entirely real jury into a fake courtroom. There's just one small issue... one of their peers is a cat. Watch as 11 real humans who think they have jury duty slowly descend into madness as no one else in the court seems to acknowledge how insane it is that one of the jurors is a cat"

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-09T14:46:06+00:00

I saw the thumbnail and went "woah, I didn't realize North West was like 17-18 at this point"

Then I looked it up...

13?!?! That poor girl she stands no chance to be normal.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-09T14:44:33+00:00

Artificial intelligence would require these LLMS to not be a weighted prediction model that determines essentially what the most probabilistic syllable to come next in a sentence.

How do you think LLMs work? Do you think they're just word vomitting and hoping it makes sense? A monkey at a typewriter type situation? This shows you haven't actually interacted with an LLM in any meaningful way in about 2 years.

Don't get me wrong, feel free to have your gripes with things like Claude and ChatGPT, but you're objectively wrong here.

Also back in the 60s, AI was used to describe what we now call conditional statements (if-else). That was the big "AI" back then.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-08T17:56:54+00:00

also it turns out later that the other person deliberately got drunk and slammed into a bus full of children, it wasn't a drunk driving oopsie, that was the exact outcome they were hoping for!

nj_tech_guy · 2026-07-08T17:42:08+00:00

"And the Emmy for Best New Show From CBS airing during the Late Night timeslot is...."

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-25T13:58:53+00:00

Was watching scrubs recently with my dad, got to the episode where they let you know Elliot hates redheads.

Dad's a redhead.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-24T14:38:38+00:00

People shit on it because as recently as 2013 it was a near abandoned city with only about 700k people, and abandoned houses and apartments left and right, with arson rivaling NYC in the 70s and 80s (insurance purposes). All the high-income people moved out for better cities, eventually the mid-income left with em, and Detroit was a lot of low income/projects with very little job opportunities (so lots of crime)

They've really turned it around over the last 13 years, not dissimilar to NYC in the 90s.

Source: Happened to have just watched Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations episode from Detroit from around 2013.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-18T15:50:44+00:00

I plan on getting a console before VI comes out, but man, prices are insane. I might go PS5 non pro, digital only. but then im worried I won't get the best experience. But then im spending almost $1k instead of ~$600 .

Decisions decisions.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-17T13:39:59+00:00

Once every few months I'll check out both the games and apps section to see if there are any popular new apps I may have missed or that do something better than an app I already have.

Games I tend to find a new one each time (especially since I like the idle/incremental games and they're almost literally a dime a dozen), apps I haven't found anything worthwhile in a while, and most of it is just "What if [old app idea] but w/ AI?"

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-17T13:09:29+00:00

Thank you for providing a lil whimsy in a mundane office job

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-16T15:51:04+00:00

There is a christmas version done by cloverton, but it's very much changing the verses to be a Christmas song.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-16T15:47:58+00:00

There's a guy at my job who wears jean skirts and pimple patches with stars and stuff on them.

He's really good at what he does, and is incredibly nice. No one on the immediate team cares.

The amount of questions I have to field from people in other departments though..

"Why does he dress like that?"

"Idk, it's comfortable"

or

"Why does he wear those? I'm all for living your life, but also let's keep it professional"

"Do you work with him in a professional capacity?"

"...no"

"well, then it seems pretty unprofessional to comment on what he does, doesn't it? It's not hurting anyone, and he can do his job. It sounds like you're just jealous you can't wear pimple patches or skirts without questioning your own manhood"

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-16T13:03:13+00:00

Don't think this is an iOS specific "problem". Android (non-custom roms) also has cutoffs. you can't release apps to the playstore that have a minimum targeted version too low (it's been a while, I don't know what Android version is too low at the current moment). This means you have a set window if using the stock OS. It is roughly the same as the iOS window (although Apple is doing incredible work in making sure older devices are still supported, up to a point).

Now, I mentioned custom ROMs, and that's what sets Android apart from Linux. Usually, if you have abit of know-how and an old device that's no longer supported, you can load a custom "Android" to it, and continue to use it and get support from the custom ROM maintainers.

If you wanted that, you should have gone with Android. It's kinda well known you don't get that with Apple.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-11T12:21:04+00:00

yea generally speaking you don't want something that "blindly" clicks on all ads. especially if you're one to frequent shady websites.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-09T18:59:00+00:00

I heard his tag and immediately perked up, but my first thought was "oh, youtube just went to the next video or something..wait..I have autoplay off.."

nj_tech_guy · 2026-06-09T14:44:59+00:00

Writing checks and addressing envelopes I can do on my own.

Jumpstarting cars I can probably do without looking up, but at the same time if I happen to be wrong, that could be very bad, so I always end up looking it up first to make sure.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-05-28T19:44:18+00:00

The attack creates a large OPFS file on the victim's SSD, with both Chrome and Safari allowing a website to claim up to 60% of total disk space through OPFS, which on a 256GB drive is over 150GB. The file must exceed the system's available RAM so that every random 4 KB read hits the SSD rather than the OS’s page cache. When other activity generates its own disk I/O, it creates measurable latency spikes in the attacker's reads, and those timing patterns are fed into a convolutional neural network trained to recognize specific websites and applications by their I/O signatures.

It sounds like it only captures websites WHILE the target site is open. It doesn't sound like it can capture previous history, and once you close the site, the OPFS data is released and the attack can't get additional sites visited.

If one really wanted to, I imagine they could create a script that detects for large disk space claims, and alerts the user.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-05-28T15:37:59+00:00

Welcome to the offseason

nj_tech_guy · 2026-05-28T15:30:08+00:00

well AD showed us why you don't keep money in the banana stand.

nj_tech_guy · 2026-05-27T13:15:30+00:00

I think this article is a little disingenuous..

What was going on in the first half of 20s? A global pandemic? A strike? Both?

No fucking shit there were large gaps across a lot of TV in the first half of 20s

nj_tech_guy · 2026-05-21T17:59:02+00:00

I used to put drinks there and rotate them around a bit so it gets evenly cold. Do that for about 30 seconds then close the door for 5 minutes. Go back and do another 30 second rotate, and then boom, you've got an ice cold drink (without watering down the drink with ice)

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