Couple of years ago I worked as a full stack web dev for a electronics distributor.
At that time we had a couple of DB problems, it would get overwhelmed, shit itself and our page would show an error. I found some time and, instead of fixing the error (duh ;P), I downloaded around 20-30 funny cat gifs, assigned each a funny caption and modified the error page so that each would show randomly.
Next time the DB shit itself, the error page showed up and the cats wrought refresh chaos upon Apache but it took it in stride since the error page was mostly static.
Everyone was delighted but after around 15 minutes I got a call from sales asking my to take the cats down. „It’s not very businessy, take it down!”. „The site is down either way, would you rather our clients stare at a dry message or something funny?”. „Dry message! Take it down”. „No” and I hung up. So proud of myself that I stood up to them. I think the cats are still up to this day ;)
The point of this story is that http.cat made me think of those cat pages, thanks!
Isn’t it (ChatControl) also „marketed” as „safe and secure”? If they (politicians) don’t have their comms backdoored and still get their data stolen, then why would I trust them to secure (read „safely snoop on”) mine or even know what they’re talking about?
Same here. I recently started thinking about upgrading my Synology NAS to something newer they offered. When I read about the hard drive restrictions I thought no-one would be _that_ stupid. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be 100% true. I mean, what the fuck?
So, I started to look around and landed on Ugreen. They offered a NAS with more RAM (and the ability to upgrade), better connectivity (2.5GbE + 10 GbE), faster CPU, ability to install custom OSes (like TrueNAS), the OS resides on a separate, user-replaceable M.2 NVMe drive. All that for less money. Plus, since I control the OS, there's no way they can push some garbage it's-for-your-own-good-wink-wink update down my throat.
Bought it, didn't even start their OS and put TrueNAS Scale on it and I've never been happier. The caveat here is that I use my NAS as a NAS - no apps, no docker, no photos app. All that is on a separate box in the rack.
For me to ever trust Synology again I'd have to see some punitive action towards the idiots there that thought that whole HDD restrictions mess was a good idea. Even then, now that I've had a look around what else is available, I'm pretty sure I'll stay clear for a couple of years.
Huh. I've checked by purchase history on the Play Store and there's a 2016 May charge for SwiftScan Plus, no active subscriptions. I've got the iOS version on the iPad, fully unlocked, also no subscriptions.
I guess they eliminated the one-time purchase option. Bastards. No way I'd pay £36 for this yearly. Netflix doesn't cost that much more!
Oh, I did. It looked real nice but I'm not there yet. Sticking to Sublime Text for the time being but if I were to switch to something right now, I'd be Obsidian.
I've switched to SwiftScan with automatic upload to Dropbox. It does decent-ish OCR on documents so that you more or less can select text in scanned PDFs. I rarely search inside scanned docs, most of the search is by filename which I manually set a couple of times a week. For file search VoidTools Everything is great.
It's nice but it's slow. Would love to have a solution that combined Notion's capabilities with Sublime Text's speed and maybe JetBrains's ability to work with keyboard shortcuts.
At that time we had a couple of DB problems, it would get overwhelmed, shit itself and our page would show an error. I found some time and, instead of fixing the error (duh ;P), I downloaded around 20-30 funny cat gifs, assigned each a funny caption and modified the error page so that each would show randomly.
Next time the DB shit itself, the error page showed up and the cats wrought refresh chaos upon Apache but it took it in stride since the error page was mostly static.
Everyone was delighted but after around 15 minutes I got a call from sales asking my to take the cats down. „It’s not very businessy, take it down!”. „The site is down either way, would you rather our clients stare at a dry message or something funny?”. „Dry message! Take it down”. „No” and I hung up. So proud of myself that I stood up to them. I think the cats are still up to this day ;)
The point of this story is that http.cat made me think of those cat pages, thanks!