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@me@social.taupehat.com

Technologist, dad, author, ally if you want one. Writing site used to update weekly.

"The limits of what you are willing to imagine are an epitaph you wrote for your own freedom." --ohnoitstbskyen

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me, to sysadmin
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Utterly classic typo (is typo the right word?)
"Create Jira tasks off everything in this table:wq"

me,
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@ai6yr using speech-to-text, have occasionally sent text messages like "I will be there before the after goddammit fucking google what the fuck"

me, to random
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So the running-with-scissors wing of the has left our government in disarray just in time for a major crisis. Who could have possibly predicted this outcome?

ai6yr, to worldwithoutus

Extremely high resolution mapping of Antarctica, 25m resolution available. https://asf.alaska.edu/data-sets/derived-data-sets/radarsat-antarctic-mapping-project-ramp/

me,
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@ai6yr heh, I wonder how you'd do geolocating a random spot on that continent.

ai6yr, to random

Ah, that was not a new squeaky toy the dog found in the bushes tonight. 😬 (ps. apparently dying rats sound exactly like dog squeaky toys)

me,
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@ai6yr from the standpoint of the dog, it was a new squeaky toy.

me, to infosec
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The same company that got a lot of companies pwned when they left gaping holes in their MOVEit software is back at it, this time with a completely exploitable ftp server.

The only solution here is for this company's customers to sue it out of existence. They clearly don't know what they're doing.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/active-attacks-exploiting-ws_ftp-pose-a-grave-threat-to-the-internet/

me, to sysadmin
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"I personally just encourage people to switch to [Debian].

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of [Ubuntu] is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use [Ubuntu], because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

Please, just tell people to use [Debian]." -- Linus Torvalds, sort of

me, to random
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So let's see here... the man whose potentially business empire-ending is before a judge asking (looks at notes) his attorney forgot to check the box on the response form labeled "jury trial demanded" has been keeping busy by publicly and angrily criticizing the judge who will soon determine his financial fate.

To me, this seems strikingly inadvisable. To his followers/cult members, it's 4-D chess.

I do not think his followers are right on this one...

me,
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@ai6yr absolutely. It also betrays a lack of understanding of his current situation. He might be able to bully his way through a lot of other situations but he's being met with a brick wall now. Long overdue.

me, to infosec
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Today at work we received an email directing us to complete mandatory annual anti-phishing training. As I pointed out to the director of IT, the email:

  • Was unsolicited and unannounced
  • Contained an immediate and mandatory call to action
  • That link is external to the org and requests auth
  • The email was sent from outside the company using a forged "From" header to make it appear that it came from within

In other words, it was literally the exact thing people should be looking out for when dealing with phish attacks. This third-party company running the training is faking it, not making it.

ai6yr, (edited ) to climate

New "climate vulnerability index" tool. (Update: spot check and I believe this tool is so flawed as to be unusable) https://climatevulnerabilityindex.org/

me,
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@ai6yr lol I can look out my back window and see individual branches of trees that partially burned a few years ago. No climate risk here!

thomasfuchs, to random
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The level of enshittification of the Internet from LLMs is truly spectacular.

Search for anything (in my case my ice maker doesn’t produce ice correctly) is now an exercise in futility.

Wonder if we can ever dig ourselves out of this level of shit.

Thanks, tech bros. Really super awesome stuff.

me,
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@thomasfuchs the truth of this is so painful. Every search engine out there is now utterly pwned by bullshit auto content generators. "Let me tell you about [search query]. First of all, [search query] means [definition]. Here are some examples. Here are also some ads..."

me, to Dog
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Today I got my an "Indestructables" brand chew toy and not only has he not shredded it yet but he's also proved that the squeakers can handle a lot of punishment. Sadly for everyone in the house, as well as the dog when it gets taken away from him at bedtime, the squeakers are of the rubber-chicken variety.

Milo, a year-old black lab mix, is having a great time chewing on his very noisy chew toy.

me,
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@amyfou I feel like I should have you sign a waiver promising not to sue over lost sleep, but I'm going to hope for the best:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CQARAA

djlink, to random
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"c++ is hard, let's use blueprints."
The blueprint: 🙃

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

image/png

me,
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@djlink oh wow, I recognize that. The graph on the left is our microservice API dependency map and the graph on the right is the wiring diagram for one of our distribution switch racks.

Honestly it's easier to keep the former in your head and map the latter by wiggling the cable you're interested in.

ai6yr, to chess

Ah, let's look and see at the status of the staid, intellectual game of .... Nevermind.

me,
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@ai6yr not my kink but hey if it is, there are way worse things to geek out on, right? Fortunately for my friends and family, all the stuff I like to geek out on is safe for work lol.

BakerRL75, to climate
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Gift Link from the Washington Post: One of the most intense El Niños ever observed could be forming

https://wapo.st/3Pu0bT7

me,
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@ai6yr @BakerRL75 don't forget the air horn flourish.

ai6yr, to random

Cancellation again from on my appt. Apparently they still have a supply chain snafu, as things were available, then not, then available again, then not.

me,
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@mjausson @ai6yr @MsMerope say that like it's a bad thing lol

cosmicallyf, to random

Is it acceptable to use the N-word when referring to Clarence Thomas?

me,
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@cosmicallyf no

ai6yr, to random

is now a

me,
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@ai6yr and also a trilobite, apparently.

ai6yr, to Halifax

currently putting Lee as a hurricane near next week. Also, also a possible impact area. Hoping not, but watching the models - time for early hurricane prep on the East Coast, before any rush.

me,
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@ai6yr dafuq?

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me,
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@ai6yr looking at that track brings to mind this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA

ai6yr, to BurningMan

Listened to the radio the last few hours (because, I like learning lessons from ). in between Abba tracks, it was basically "weather report... didn't change... worry about lack of places to poo... weather report... someone's trailer/RV stuck because they used all their spares... telling people not to poo..." 😬

me,
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@ai6yr I'm starting to think that this really will top the year everyone got chlamydia.

ai6yr, to BurningMan

"Do not poo" special message on the radio station. Porta potty conditions "can't be mentioned on the air".

me,
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@ai6yr oh dear.

paul, (edited ) to random
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So far, I am really liking for my s3 hosting for my Mastodon instance.

FLEXIFY.IO made moving from AWS to BackBlaze a breeze, and although I could have moved everything manually with rclone, etc, it only costed $1.18 to have it moved. (FLEXIFY.IO gave me a $20 credit.) It was fast, too.

After a year, AWS S3 pricing got out of hand for my few accounts selfhosted instance now that my free trial is over

Edit:Fixed flexify.io name typo

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041059194-Quickstart-Guide-for-Flexify-IO-to-Transfer-Data-from-Amazon-S3-to-B2

me,
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@paul they're the greatest. I'm using them for backups and the bill is almost hilariously small.

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