C.When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?
Captain ButtonStupid Forbes. Those are #HectoBillionaires. A #CentiBillionaire is someone with $10,000,000 to $99,999,999.
GreglyNow, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.
More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.
And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.
So I have this recently-bought router from TP-Link which replaced an old Asus router that wasn’t cutting it anymore. Anyways, it has the ability to create a separate “IoT Network” for connected appliances/devices.
But it isn’t a separate network. It’s just another SSID with potentially weaker security. Devices can still access both the internet and your local machines. It is totally useless security theater.
Oh, and if I want to isolate any of my “smart” devices from the wider internet while still letting things on the LAN connect to them? I can’t! There is literally no way to do this within the router, except via a really hacky workaround where I add a device as one of my “children” and then use parental controls to restrict Internet usage to one minute per day. (Zero minutes per day is not allowed.)
Not that it matters, because my smart TV locked up if on a network but not on the internet. So I lobotomized it via factory reset. As a dumb TV it works great.
Jack 👾I kinda want to create a blog series that explains the stuff we were never taught, or were so academic it was unappealing. Like Money, Faith, Race, Politics, geopolitics, persuasion, etc from an objective non magical thinking perspective. Like a tl;dr for life.
Daniel PrietoSalí hace un rato de un concierto que me hace unirme a la arenga y extenderla: Del mismo modo que el ecologismo sin compromiso político es apreciación de la jardinería, el arte sin reto estético o conceptual no pasa de ser decoración.
Esto es más relevante y crítico si la obra dice hablar de ecología y se presenta como arte.
AnthonyWhat's with the scaremongering AI shilling here, @[email protected]?
Also, "generational gap"? Are you going to tell us next that millennials eat too much avocado toast?
#AI #AIHype #AIShill #OldManYellsAtCloud
Also, "generational gap"? Are you going to tell us next that millennials eat too much avocado toast?
#AI #AIHype #AIShill #OldManYellsAtCloud
Is there a way to set Mastodon to filter out anything with a link that doesn't show what the link is?
Far too many people link dump "This is so cool!" and a link that doesn't show anything, making the one line over it meaningless.
Scooter 
I am feeling about as useless as a man can feel right now. I'm going out in fifteen minute intervals trying to chip my car out - and it's "chip", not "shovel". I'm just literally bludgeoning the ice with my shovel and scooping up the bits I chip off. I'm only doing a bit at a time so I don't end up in the hospital, and in the meantime the cold I had last week has boomeranged and now after breathing in all the cold air out there, my throat is sore and my voice has gotten hoarse again.
I need to go across town and get my other wife's car out as well [ #PolyProblems ] And I have an online show tonight and a show tomorrow and on Thursday, all of which will require me being able to speak.
Good morning, blue Tuesday. #grouse #kvetch #OldManYellsAtCloud
I need to go across town and get my other wife's car out as well [ #PolyProblems ] And I have an online show tonight and a show tomorrow and on Thursday, all of which will require me being able to speak.
Good morning, blue Tuesday. #grouse #kvetch #OldManYellsAtCloud
leyrerSoooo looking forward to her gig in cologne.
(Also: this is why vertical videos suck #oldmanyellsatcloud)
RAYE – Skin and Bones LIVE | Łódź, Poland 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKSs2zaIdM8
#leyrerplaylist
