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backupbear

@backupbear@aus.social

Enterprise tech worker focused on ethical advancement of the industry. Heavily into #DataProtection – of the storage/availability kind (particular emphasis on #backup and #recovery). Blog and publish books on it, just for ongoing nerdery on the topic.

Also a huge #PowerPlate fan & user.
Posts are my own, unassociated with any employer. Links at https://linktr.ee/backupbear

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backupbear, to random
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Me: "I finally achieved Inbox Nero."
Them: "Don't you mean Inbox Zero?"
Me: "No, I played some music while I burnt it all down."
Them: "That sounds way better. How do I sign on?"

backupbear, to random
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Social Media tip:

The people who tell you "don't block" are mostly gonna be the people wanting to troll you or people of privilege. Maybe - just maybe they might be people who think you can politely debate people who aren't interested in debate.

BUT, believe them when they say "Don't behave on social media like you wouldn't in real life". But they're saying it to try to guilt you into doing the opposite. You gonna stand in the street and politely engage when a total stranger walks up to you and starts harassing you or abusing you? No, do what you'd do in real life: get out of that situation as quickly as possible for your physical and mental health.

Block and block frequently. You have better things to do in your life than try to be accountable to strangers who hold you in contempt.

backupbear, to random
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: Don't let a lazy decision in your last few days of work in 2023 become a hassle of consequences for you at the start of 2024.

backupbear, to random
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It’s gonna be truly wild when the admins for the hard-core kink federated instances start receiving complaints from Threads users when third party people re-post users from those instances.

backupbear, to melbourne
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One thing I’ll miss about inner suburb living in when I move to is the partially bluestone cobbled laneways in rain.

backupbear, to IT
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This festive season, spare a thought for the hard-working long-suffering workers who are randomly required by family members to help setup new tablets, phones, printers, desktops, laptops, anti-virus software, SaaS subscriptions, auto-scaling kubernetes clusters or anything that looks “computer-y” that was purchased/gifted against their explicit advice, no matter what their day job is.

backupbear, to random
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It’s ironic and hilarious these days that the vegetable my husband and I eat most is 🍆.

backupbear, to random
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LOL, . “Who’s Sarah Conner?”, someone asks the guy that played the morphic terminator in . “I don’t give a shit” he responds. Brilliant.

backupbear, to random
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Them: “You’ve heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for…”
Me: <lunging forward> “A punch in the face!”

Yes, over the freaking elf shite.

backupbear, to random
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Just past 8pm and the temp has finally dropped under 30º. Guess that’s another aircon night for bed.

backupbear, to random
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Is it VMcom now or Broadware?

backupbear, to DoctorWho
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OMG the third special was brilliant. I especially liked the part when the USS Discovery spore-drive-jumped in and destroyed the Goa’uld mothership when it was about to destroy the renegade Cylon Basestar, only to have the Asgard beam in and save everyone from the Stormtroopers.

Also, not sure whether those mushrooms I ate with dinner were normal.

backupbear, to marketing
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I shouldn’t have to say this to people, who should be hyper-aware of the potential for terms being twisted into euphemisms, but creating a portmanteau of “tech” and “experts” of “techsperts” is a really bad idea.

backupbear, to random
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People who talk about dismissing prompts for cookies, opting out of newsletters, etc., as being the modern browser experience forget about the other side of it:

  1. Scroll to where text starts on page. Start reading.
  2. Page elements above you load & move content.
  3. Scroll back to where you were trying to read. Start reading again.
  4. Page elements above you load & move content.
  5. Scroll back to where you were trying to read. Start reading again.
  6. Page elements above you load & move comment.
  7. Give up and close browser tab.
backupbear, to random
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Well sometimes something nice comes in at the end of an otherwise exceptionally frustrating day. Hello, 5th Child.

backupbear, to random
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Y’all, listening to one side of a remote-boomer-IT-support conversation that’s centring around “no you can’t complain to the management of the site and get them to waive the password complexity rules for you” is wild.

backupbear, to climate
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People saying that protestors disrupting sporting events is counter-productive are absolutely wild, you know. Like, have you heard of this thing in history called the Suffragette movement?

backupbear, to climate
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People briefly interrupting access to artwork to protest inaction? Great stuff.

People interrupting traffic to protest inaction? Nice!

People disrupting annual general meetings to protest inaction? Excellent.

People briefly halting sporting events to protest inaction? Awesome.

People heckling politicians in parliaments and on the street to protest inaction? Fucking awesome.

If you think any of these things are disruptive or too much of an inconvenience for you, wait until disruptions caused by climate change start really hitting you. Then you’ll find yourself reminiscing about that simpler time when Olivia and Randal glued themselves to a pedestrian crossing and delayed you getting to work by almost half an hour.

backupbear, to random
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Them: “How was our delivery service?”
Me: “You sent me the on-board for delivery email, on-board for delivery SMS, driver arriving soon email, and driver arriving soon SMS all simultaneously. Your driver then texted me and within 5 seconds called me because the notion of walking down a shared driveway was far too complex to comprehend, then I got a delivery email, delivery SMS, thanks for helping the driver email, thanks for helping the driver SMS, package delivered email, package delivered SMS, thanks for using your service email, thanks for using your service SMS, request to rate your delivery service email and request to rate your delivery service SMS simultaneously. Do you really want a fucking rating?”

backupbear, to random
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According to our builder, our home build is now at 30% complete.

backupbear, to random
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Just for shits and giggles, someone should convince Elon that he needs to buy Oracle and give it the same treatment as Twitter.

backupbear, to OpenAI
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What if the shenanigans were just a cunning method of training an LLM in how to emulate a completely dysfunctional board and leadership so that THEY can be replaced by and the regular workers left alone, thereby trimming the largest salary costs from an org?

backupbear, to ai
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: "Let's invent that can replace untold millions of people in their jobs."
Also, Capitalism: "People who are unemployed are a burden on society and should learn to live in the wilderness eating grass."

backupbear, to random
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The final straw with notifications has been the recent spamming behaviour of notifying me multiple times today that (paraphrasing), "This person who is not in your professional network made a post. Maybe you'd like to read it."

backupbear, to random
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The longer I work in IT and the more I look across the entire industry, the more the term “performative security” sits in the front of my mind.

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