This is the hell that is America today: It took us a week to get a legitimate COVID-19 test for my daughter. Strep and flu tests were done at the same time; she tested positive for the flu. Hopefully, things are on the upswing there.
Just when that turned around for good, I went for a walk to take a break from the stressors of day to day life. Then out of nowhere, Sunny and I were attacked by an irresponsible neighbor’s dog. Immediately taking down the attacking dog resulted in me skinning and bruising my left knee. Then the neighbors didn’t want to take responsibility because we walked up the sidewalk. Can’t I walk up the sidewalk now? I don’t have time for stupid. I’ve never seen this dog before. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for three years. A neighbor that witnessed the whole thing confided in me that the same dog attacked his dog a while back and put it in the hospital.
Sunny luckily got off unscathed (defending her as a human shield was second nature). I got the cops involved, though, which is something I hate doing. But, the lack of responsibility taken and the fact this isn’t a first forced my hand.
My mental health needs a break. I need an average week for once.
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Computer science is not software engineering
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US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden’s $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings
And people wonder why the only thing I fear is the US government.
U.S. expected to sue Google next week as DOJ seeks support from states
“The U.S. Justice Department is expected to sue Alphabet’s Google as soon as next week, and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit, according to three sources familiar with the process.” See previous statement.
Need to know technologies for junior sysadmins
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This article brought out some feelings in folks.
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“In reality, Hacktoberfest is a corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community.”
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Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron
“Analog computing with neuron-like devices could efficiently solve problems traditional computers struggle with”
VMware to Acquire SaltStack for Advanced Multicloud Automation
What’s interesting is that Puppet is the only configuration management tool that hasn’t been acquired yet. That should tell you something.
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kitty
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RabbitMQ Monitoring on Kubernetes
“In this article, I will show you how to use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the key metrics of RabbitMQ. Of course, we will build the applications that send and receive messages. We will use Kubernetes as a target platform for our system. In the last step, we are going to enable the tracing plugin. It helps us in collecting the list of incoming messages.”
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