BradRubenstein

@BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bananas.
🦥🏳️‍🌈:donor:

Tech Project Therapist (moderately retired)
#ProjectManagement #FinTech #OrganizationalBehavior #Finance

My friend Adam and I wrote a contrarian how-to book, Risk Up Front, distilling decades of our experience running projects and project teams (link in profile).

Also:
#theater toots, bad #puns, #language hacks.
Disclaimers:
Boosts ≠ endorsement. Toots ≠ truths.

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wslack, to random

The world is confusing. At work, people say that you shouldn't send a meeting invite without checking in first on available times. I don't like that - I have an open calendar, just book!

In personal life, people seem to prefer me suggesting a time/place without seeing their cal - and I don't like that either, it makes the other person have to say "no" because they are busy.

BradRubenstein,

If I don't have your calendar, and I know I'm not spamming you, then it's always:

"Here's a meeting invite for time 1, I'm also available at time 2 or time 3. Let me know which you prefer, or tell me what works best for you."

Seems to work pretty well...

@wslack

BradRubenstein,

The key is to send an actual invite with the message - the "invite" itself is the nudge for one option. The simplest thing is to click accept (if the given option is acceptable) while admitting one is open to alternatives.

@wslack

ricci, to random
@ricci@discuss.systems avatar

Spending Monday night drinking Scotch and partitioning drives, as one does

BradRubenstein,

glenfiddisk?

@ricci

seldo, to random

PSA it's a "sneak peek" not a "sneak peak".

BradRubenstein,

If we'd just settle on "snork pork" this wouldn't be a problem.

@seldo

iinavpov, to random French
@iinavpov@mastodon.online avatar

It seems to me, weirdly, that the theocratic right has actually understood the strategy of evolution, unlike the left...

Say you want to get somewhere. And the process is long, complicated and fraught. And more than a bit random.

A robust (as in, it will get there, inexorably) strategy is to always favour what's inching towards your goal. No if, buts.

Demanding purity against that guarantees you'll lose. Always.

BradRubenstein,

A robust (as in, it will get there, inexorably) strategy is to always favour what's inching towards your goal.

Always inching toward your goal is not guaranteed to get you to your goal. It may very well leave you at a suboptimal local maximum.

Sometimes you have to go down in order to go up. Especially when the terrain is rough.

@iinavpov

wendynather, to random

Best line from the team presentations at the competition this past weekend, explaining a proposed action to be taken in response to a serious cyberattack: “Maybe Congress will come together …”

And the whole auditorium laughed and laughed.

BradRubenstein,

@wendynather

BradRubenstein, to random

It is often noted that one cannot rationally frame the finances of a nation state (that has the power to print money and to levy taxes, and the monopoly on violence) like those of a household.

What is less often noted is that the finances of a billionaire are those of the nation state, not those of the household.

For individuals, money is a resource to be spent.

For billionaires (large corporations, nation states), money is power to be wielded. It is catalytic: it creates change without being consumed.

BradRubenstein, (edited ) to random

All this talk about "fixing" U.S. tax filing. Why can't we just give individuals the option of filling out a single field form that says "I warrant the information you've received from employers and banks is correct and complete, and I agree that your calculation of my tax liability of $X for tax year 20XX is correct." Tax ID and signature.

Every unit of data that I enter into a tax form that the IRS already holds (name? Email? W2/1099 particulars? All the elections I made that are unchanged from last year's filing?) is a waste of individual and national time and resources.

1/2

BradRubenstein, (edited )

Wait until you hear about her healthcare and childcare.

@matt

BradRubenstein,

It shouldn't be so strange. We do this already, routinely, for state sales tax. We deputize companies (those from whom we buy stuff) to calculate and file sales tax returns, so that we as individuals don't have to (mostly).

We already require that companies do the same work for income taxes, but we just don't take advantage of it.

2/2

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

GDPR is what Europe has instead of God

BradRubenstein,

Ref: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/book-of-mormon?lang=eng

@SwiftOnSecurity

kir5ty, to random

For fucks sake January pack your things and go

BradRubenstein,

Brrr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSvTRhAJxg

@kir5ty

BradRubenstein, to random

New fugue drops.

(Amazing channel brought to us by the cello nut in Sweden).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlV0k-rC-00

wdormann, to random

Apparently the Intel Wi-Fi driver for Linux isn't terribly reliable.
Which makes me wonder... what's the go-to Wi-Fi 6E adapter that people use in the Linux world these days?
Or has the Linux world not quite embraced Wi-Fi yet, and reliable requires wired?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215635

BradRubenstein,

Well I just broke down and submitted the patch to get wifi working on my 2012 Macbook Pro running Rocky 9.

So I guess my take is it's a work in progress.

@wdormann

bodhipaksa, to random
@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot avatar

I gave my dad an old iPhone and set it up for him. He's even texting! And he signs his texts, "Dad." And you know what, I'm going to let him.

BradRubenstein,

I'm not 91 (yet), but I sign all my toots and texts.

  • Brad

@bodhipaksa @KFvMalssen @courtcan

BradRubenstein, to random

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

I'm shouldn't be one to talk, given my own computers cooling problems, but I think if you need this much cooling for your m.2 drive, something has gone very wrong with your PC build and just adding this much of a radiator to your drive isn't going to fix it

BradRubenstein,

A veritable fan club.

@foone

BradRubenstein, to random

So today we learned:

  1. If you create a post on a stock Mastodon server that contains Markdown, the raw Markdown (plain text) gets saved and federated. It will only display as formatted text on clients that know how to render Markdown (e.g. Elk, but neither stock nor glitch-soc Mastodon).
  2. If you create a Mastodon post that contains Markdown formatting on a glitch-soc Mastodon server, the server translates the Markdown to (sanitized) HTML before saving and federating the post. Every client that can render HTML post content (all?) will display formatted text to the reader.
  3. When Elk presents to the reader a formatted post that was created against a glitch-soc server, it presents the formatted post based on the received HTML. When Elk presents a Markdown post created against a stock server, it is interpolating Markdown (if any) that it sees in the retrieved post. The post appears formatted either way, but the underlying mechanics differ.
  4. On a glitch-soc server, Markdown is only interpreted at the time the post is created, not when it is presented. So you may see both raw and formatted Markdown in your feed, depending on where the toot came from.

thomasbosboom, to random

Rats in Rotterdam are out of control !

BradRubenstein,

Better than Otters in Ratterdam...

@thomasbosboom

0xabad1dea, to random

to re-translate this hottest post from the 4th century BC in a way that conveys the jingle:

steal a rubber band and you're a thief, steal an entire land and you have a fief 😌​

BradRubenstein,

Steal a bauble and die alone,
Steal a country and take its throne.

@0xabad1dea

BradRubenstein, to random

4/6
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https://games.oec.world/en/tradle

coffeegeek, to random
@coffeegeek@flipboard.social avatar

Hey! Everyone on the @Flipboard Instance of Mastodon, at https://flipboard.social - the admins have boosted the character limit by 10x on new posts here! Very nice!

They are also at least looking into increasing the amount of photos you can post, from 4 up to... something. Just looking into it for now, considering it! (apparently it is a lot more involved than the character change).

Thanks Flipboard!

BradRubenstein, (edited )

Whether you can create posts that include bold, italic, or the ability to inline URLs depends on if you're using an instance that supports markdown tooting (e.g. elk, glitch-soc).

@coffeegeek

BradRubenstein,

I believe most clients (including stock Mastodon) allow you to see the formatted text. The rarer clients allows you to create formatted text.

@steve @coffeegeek @phanpy

Lana, to random
@Lana@beige.party avatar

What's a show you remember from your childhood that you're pretty sure is some sort of fever dream that couldn't have actually existed. I'll go first.

BradRubenstein,

No question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUNj09oN4U

@Lana

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Kattle :ablobcatwobpatted:

cat playing with a kettle

BradRubenstein,

purrcolator

@stux

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