I know you are joking but I can’t sleep so I will share.

I have seen two huge gasoline explosions and the aftermath of a gas pump explosion.

One was from a cigarette. I didn’t actually see that, but I was sitting in social studies class when the shockwave hit us. It felt like the ceiling pressed down on us. It blew out all the pane glass windows in downtown. This was in the early’80s. Someone who was cleaning a gasoline barge lit a cigarette out of habit. It was like a fuel air bomb going off.

I was a little kid in the early ‘70s when a gasoline truck driver accidentally set his truck on fire by the static from his nylon jacket. It was at night and the explosion woke me up. You could see the fire from everywhere in town.

In the late ‘70s these three dumbasses were stealing gasoline from the filling station where they worked. They were filling 55 gallon drums in a van. It was dark so one of these genuses lit his lighter.

The burned out van was still there in the middle town in the morning. Everyone in the small town drove by to look.

Every annoying safety rule has multiple stories like this behind them.

What app is this?

I spent many years traveling and visiting many different companies

I can confidently say that this is totally a function of the ownership/management

That is a good point.

In my case, I was trying to address the shortcomings of Apple Time Machine. I use a Mac mini as the server I work from on all my machines. Time Machine does the version Managment for me.

I just use Sync Thing through a VPN to keep an offsite backup of content files (not a complete OS restore) and to keep a copy of critical files on my laptop in case I am away from my home network and need to see a file.

I still need to implement a regular air gapped backup instead of the ad-hoc that I have now.

I dunno.

I am using it to keep a real time copy of documents on an offsite server.

Feels like a backup to me.

I use syncthing.

Is rsync better?

Syncthing works pretty well for me and my stable of Ubuntu, pi, Mac, and Windows

C’mon, it’s just fap

The Clovis people?

As a kid I was always fascinated how people thousands of years ago could otherwise know that the upper end of human life is 120 years.

I’m an old, and I keep waiting for modern medicine overcome Genesis 6.3.

There is an old maximum of leadership that is:

“If you want something done give it to your busiest person”

Some of them do it now. The problem is they are terrible at it. I just assume it’s because they are putting the paid ads first and so you end up getting routed 70 miles off route.

One that will tell you how far to the next rest stop

Sorry I’m an old. What is Tung tung tung tung

This was my 2nd computer (and the first one I paid for because my brother bought the Sinclair).

I wrote a kicking version Frogger that was compatible with the Atari 2600 joystick.

Maybe the best thing I ever wrote.

This was the very first time I wrote a software that’s only problem was the operating system couldn’t keep up.

I made a pong-like game!

Engineers don’t design cars. They enable the cars designed by designers who are employed by marketers.

Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/149

I’ve been to two of these recently.

Unfortunately, when you get to a certain age, you start attending funerals for your ex-coworkers.

A few of the people you would like to see show up there if they still live close.

I did a little checking and it all agrees with the reporting.

I asked ChatGPT is similar question earlier this week. This was the answer.

While Mozilla has not been found to sell user tracking data in the conventional sense, the introduction of features like PPA (Privacy-Preserving Attribution) and changes in privacy policy language have understandably caused concern among users. These developments suggest a shift towards balancing user privacy with the need to support advertising models. Users prioritizing privacy should stay informed about these changes and adjust their browser settings accordingly.