As part of my continuing, and ongoing unemployment, I'm looking at doing a few "estate" related things. One of these is figuring out who gets our crap once our cogs have sufficiently popped. It's an interesting question, because we don't have kids of our own, although there are nieces that could certainly use a bit of help, so that's probably going to be the plan.

I should probably note a few other things.

My parents have a lot of stuff. Not "Hoarder Level" amounts (although there's a distressing tendency in the family toward that) but a bunch of Things of Value that we've been repeatedly informed are Valuable. These are mostly decorative items acquired over lifetimes and held with high regard. It's going to be a massive pain to deal with those once the become my problem.

I do not have many of those. I mean, I have things I like, but they're not high value and to be honest, they're deeply personal. I am absolutely positive that they will probably become part of a recycling program (well, unless the memory and GPU market fail to crack in which case, they may become the most valuable things I have).

Still, I'm not one to acquire Things of Great Value. If I buy art, it's because I like it. If I buy a car, it's because I need it. Stuff is either purely functional or purely aesthetic and I'm absolutely OK with that. I don't really "get" the idea of buying things as an investment, because the level of prediction in order to do that well is far out of my expertise. I'll be honest, even the Things of Great Value that my parents have probably are not as valuable as they believe them to be. There's probably a museum that might enjoy having one or two things, but other than that, they're essentially boomer beanie babies and some generations POGs.

I'm sure that there are folk that treasure Great-Great-Gran'ma's collection of destination teaspoons, or Gran-Gran-Gran-Uncle's assortment of gas station pens, but I am not really one of those. I'd be the worst guest on Antiques Road Show, and I'm very much OK with that.

Heh, like I said before, I like to leave the campsite a bit better than how I found it, so perhaps not leaving behind a big pile of crap is part of that, but it does leave me with a pretty funny thought.

"And Mr. Conlin left you his complete library of 1600 albums and nearly 600 books" Slides a 1TB hard drive across the table

Do Not Take Less than 20% over your previous rate.

Make it hurt.

https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/117005159685124497

I will remind you that OpenAI is worth nearly $1,000,000,000,000.
The going rate for an engineer that knows how to secure a website is $166,000/year.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116992249572361932

Debates creating a doorstop bot that says things like "Hooray! I'm holding a door open!" and "The door is now closed. My existence is meaningless", only I know it'd get more followers than I have.

So, yeah, here are some super Fun Facts for folk to consider:

The first order of business for any new regime is to oust the prior one.
The average tenure for many folk in tech is four years (Some departments, like marketing and executive roles have far shorter tenure.)
People hate history because they are smarter and know better, and any historical proof otherwise should be ignored since it’s wrong.
The more churn, the less a company stays consistent with any particular guideline or principle (unless the founder is the CEO or something, but that is incredibly rare).
Your worth as a customer is often measured by how much the next gig pays. This is also true for any new feature added.

Yay!

I'm starting to think that blocking bots is not the best approach.

Instead we should detect them, and then return a 402 Payment Required error, with instructions on where payment can be made, and how the site will provide the content.

https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116914972317423299

So, uh, yeah...

I am leaving mozilla

It was the best place I ever worked, along with some of the smartest, kindest people who I will miss dearly, but there comes a time when you have to leave.

Current status:

Oh, right! If you use Firefox on Android, the AI kill switch is available.

If you've set it on Sync, it should carry over, but it's still a good idea to check and flip it on any version that isn't connected to your sync profile.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls-firefox-mobile/

Still somewhat amazed that people don't know that Firefox has an AI kill switch. One of the first things I flipped when it became available.