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So, it's been a slow steady decline of the past few years, but I am on my last nerve with spiceworks.
There are several factors to my frustration, for example people asking for PCI compliance help because they are getting fined and "IT Experts" respond with statements like "You can't get fined for not being PCI compliant." It seems like the intelligence level of the active community has been greatly reduced over the last 5 years.
Another thing that is putting the last nail in the coffin for me, is the shitty censorship. That David guy, the community mod, is the worst mod I have ever seen, not only in SW, but like ever. He deletes/censors posts arbitrarily. It's obvious there are some posters that can say anything they want, and not have their post removed. They can refer to people who get offended by anything as a "safe space pansy," but if you say they seem "triggered," then your post will be removed.

I am done with it, glad there is this place where I can still rant once a year or two and not have it censored.

@jmoore said in SW rant time:

Can we implement something like the daily challenge here as well?

That would be bad ass, but we would need competent people to review the entries.

What about using:

Get-Partition -DriveLetter F | Set-Partition -NewDriveLetter E

@Addie is this the "hey hey" of the "who's who?" =D

I spit up my diet dr pepper when I saw it was spiceworks...

https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/comments/79uwu6/why_bother_viewing_posts_one_at_a_time_when_you/

@Nic WHAT UP?

Oh man, I can't stand classicshell. I am a big Iobit start menu 8 fan myself.

@tim_g said in Resume Critique:

because "freelance" doesn't.

That's not really a good argument.

I am going to have to agree with Scott on this, I would much rather see Consultant than Freelance. To me, freelance sounds like that guy who fixed his friends computer in the late 90s. The term just doesn't come across as professional sounding to me.

I just started watching the TV show Westworld, so far so good.

Tell google that. . .

So mangolassi.it isn't accessible in Spain?

If it is, then you can be forced to comply with the laws of that country. Period.

I don't think it works that way.....

Isn't this how the piratebay worked for so many years? It kept moving it's data to countries where there were no pirating laws or where laws were lax?

Robinhood is now letting you buy cryptos commision free. Just a friendly FYI to my fellow HODL'rs.

@momurda said in Crypto Predictions:

Crypto currency peddlers are like TOR users. Generally bad people doing gernerally bad things to other people. Sex traffickers, child porn peddlers, other people who want to do bad things with fake money anonymously.

That is probably THE dumbest thing I have heard anyone say this month.

@guyinpv said in Crypto Predictions:

My knowledge of crypto is out of date by about 10 years. I used to mine when it pretty much only BTC, then I got into LiteCoin and DoggCoin etc.

When my wallet became like a full gigabyte and I wanted a little processing power for myself, I kinda fell out of it.

Now there are 1700 crypto coins and I don't have a clue what makes one "better" or "worse" than another. They are all just blockchain right? Or wallet services? Or fancy programs and apps that surround it?

Why are there 1700 cryptocoins? What is still being discovered that makes one or another better? A cuter mascot?

How are they solving some of the inherent problems with it? For example theft or wallets being lost or stolen? Those coins are just gone forever, never to be back in the market? This seems to me like a currency with an absolute max number of coins (and ability to lose them is not uncommon), available coins will simply dwindle over time.

Is the problem of humongous wallets and processing power needed, solved? I don't want to lug around 10GB of the world's daily transactions on my computer all the time, or forget to open an app and have to wait 3 days for it to catch up with updates.

With a decentralized nature of these systems, who do you complain to about bad transactions? Is there a refund system like credit cards have chargebacks? If someone steals from you can you complain to someone and get it back? Didn't used to be able to.

Like I said, my knowledge is about 10 years old. I need a refresher and understand why so many, what are the real differences, what makes one better than another, how are wallets and security handled now?

And I'm supposed to be a nerd and I can't keep on top of this. What are the chances the general public are ever going to care to learn or use it or anything else? Why I get change back from a store, I get dimes and nickles and dollars. I don't get a choice of 82 different currency variations with all different exchange rates.
I don't see adoption happening until people can say, here, THIS one is "cryptocurrency". Try it. Not 862 variations, no doubt created by people hoping to win the lottery, take a bunch of coins early, hope it goes well so they can cash out later. I don't know.

I stopped reading after you said your knowledge of crypto was 10 years outdated and when you said doggcoin.

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@irj said in Crypto Predictions:

@computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

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@scottalanmiller said in Crypto Predictions:

@rojoloco said in Crypto Predictions:

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@computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

@guyinpv said in Crypto Predictions:

My knowledge of crypto is out of date by about 10 years. I used to mine when it pretty much only BTC, then I got into LiteCoin and DoggCoin etc.

When my wallet became like a full gigabyte and I wanted a little processing power for myself, I kinda fell out of it.

Now there are 1700 crypto coins and I don't have a clue what makes one "better" or "worse" than another. They are all just blockchain right? Or wallet services? Or fancy programs and apps that surround it?

Why are there 1700 cryptocoins? What is still being discovered that makes one or another better? A cuter mascot?

How are they solving some of the inherent problems with it? For example theft or wallets being lost or stolen? Those coins are just gone forever, never to be back in the market? This seems to me like a currency with an absolute max number of coins (and ability to lose them is not uncommon), available coins will simply dwindle over time.

Is the problem of humongous wallets and processing power needed, solved? I don't want to lug around 10GB of the world's daily transactions on my computer all the time, or forget to open an app and have to wait 3 days for it to catch up with updates.

With a decentralized nature of these systems, who do you complain to about bad transactions? Is there a refund system like credit cards have chargebacks? If someone steals from you can you complain to someone and get it back? Didn't used to be able to.

Like I said, my knowledge is about 10 years old. I need a refresher and understand why so many, what are the real differences, what makes one better than another, how are wallets and security handled now?

And I'm supposed to be a nerd and I can't keep on top of this. What are the chances the general public are ever going to care to learn or use it or anything else? Why I get change back from a store, I get dimes and nickles and dollars. I don't get a choice of 82 different currency variations with all different exchange rates.
I don't see adoption happening until people can say, here, THIS one is "cryptocurrency". Try it. Not 862 variations, no doubt created by people hoping to win the lottery, take a bunch of coins early, hope it goes well so they can cash out later. I don't know.

I stopped reading after you said your knowledge of crypto was 10 years outdated and when you said doggcoin.

bahaha!

Can you send me some doggcoin?

Is that Snoop's cryptocurrency?

That's wha tthey use in Bogata, Romania

Dogecoin is actually a really nice coin for small transactions. The fees are very minimal even compared to litecoin.

I was able to put the down payment on our new house last year because of an investment in Dogecoin.

But dogecoin/bitcoin is fake money....

TIL I used fake money to put a large down payment on a new house. :money-mouth_face: :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

@momurda said in Crypto Predictions:

Looks like I am not the only one.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/bill-gates-says-cryptocurrencies-have-caused-deaths-in-a-fairly-direct-way/

So yes, crypto is more anonymous than cash. I don't see how the death or kidnapping really plays into it? Has there been research done showing a significant increase in those directly attributed to cryptos?

What about the number of crypto related deaths vs the number of malnutrition related deaths?

I mean I really don't see the correlation.

I also don't subscribe to the notion that "because Gates said it" makes it the holy world of tech or crypto.

So where this MangoLassi currency at Scott? We can use it to tip people for helping with our IT issues.

Have you ever disabled HA to destroy a failed server? If so, how long did it take for the process to complete for disabling?

I can't stand any product relating to O365. It has been garbage since day 1 imo.

@stuartjordan said in SW rant time:

Don't hardly ever post over there since I joined here, not a fan of the new thread layout either.

I won't be posting over there either, I will probably keep doing the daily challenge, but that's it.