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drwho

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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I think the only printer I had that wasn’t evil was my Commodore MPS-1200.

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Unless the OC says anything, I’m not assuming there was any sarcasm. I knew too many people back home who honestly believed such things.

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Atlassian, too.

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They don’t seem to teach it in school in a lot of places.

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Don’t forget successfully making editorial demands of publishers:

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"Free speech absolutist" allegedly fires employee for raising security concerns.

Apparently Elon's version of free speech doesn't extend to employees who raise concerns about information security:

"Alan Rosa, who was Twitter’s global head of information security, filed the lawsuit late on Tuesday in New Jersey federal court, alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination and retaliation, among other claims. X Corp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"Rosa claims that late last year, after Musk acquired the company, he was told to cut his department’s budget for physical security by 50%...

"Rosa says he objected because the cuts would put Twitter at risk of violating a $150m settlement it entered into earlier in 2022 with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which claimed Twitter had misused users’ personal information. The agreement required Twitter to implement privacy and information security controls to protect confidential data.

"He was fired days after raising those concerns, according to the lawsuit. Rosa is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and legal fees."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/06/elon-musk-fires-twitter-executive-security-concerns

@technology #X

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Looks like Elon’s taking it back to the late 90’s/early 2000’s.

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I’m surprised they don’t want to scan something else.

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I guess there aren’t enough “salt of the earth” voters alive anymore for saying they have working class backgrounds to work these days.

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When you think about it, that’s pretty much the history of boy bands, going all the way back to the Monkees. The faces were carefully chosen for demographic reasons, the songs were written by the labels and targeted for specific demographics, the faces’ histories were largely constructed fictions (and published through “unauthorized” fan magazines and books that were ghostwritten by the labels and laundered through other publishing companies). The only real difference is that now software is being used for it rather than marketing teams.

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Same. It’s kind of a shame that folks forgot the word “vaporware” and what it means.

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Vaporware historically includes stuff that never gets released officially, or was cancelled during the development process but was already advertised. One example of this was the Hellraiser game for the NES that would have pushed the capabilities of the console well beyond what it was ordinarily capable of because the cart included a Z80 CPU as a coprocessor. The Action Gamemaster (by Active Enterprises) in 1994. The Amiga Walker in 1996. Apple Interactive, which was a set-top box that ran OS 7, but it never went past the test type stage.

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The Atari 2700.

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (apnews.com)

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....

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Wow. That’s certainly a creative take on things.

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I don’t use Bluetooth a whole lot on my Linux box (Arch Linux 20231128, MATE Desktop Environment, bluetoothd, pulseaudio). That said, I have blueman-manager in my system tray all the time, and it seems to do a decent job of managing two pairs of headphones (they’re there, and I use them occasionally, just not often). The thing that seems to work for me is to use pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) to set the parameters of the Bluetooth headphones while they’re active and associated, and those settings are stored for later. That way, when I’m wearing a pair of those headphones my laptop’s speakers are automatically muted, the Bluetooth headphones go back to where I had them before, and whatever I happen to be playing back through (Firefox, vlc, whatever) automatically cut over to them and away from the (now muted) speakers).

I guess I just did it one step at a time - get bluetooth turned on, get a pair of headphones associated with them, then turn off speakers, then… I iterated on it until I had something that worked.

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MFF is happening right now, so we’ll see if they go silent for a while. :)

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Unskippable modal.

Nah. I don’t care that much.

Light, interesting reading? Link me your favorite articles.

I find myself needing to read things that don’t have emotional weight for me. I have noticed that most of the articles and sites I frequent when I’m bored, even the previously neutral-feeling ones, are bringing up Tough Feelings for me lately. I need less triggering stuff to waste time looking at, when I’m too tired for...

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orionsarm.com

How do you prevent burnout at work?

I have a friend with ADHD who is struggling with burnout at work right now, and I realized the same thing has happened to me (autism) at pretty much every job I’ve had before my current one. After a while (a few months to a few years) the workplace politics becomes unbearable, or culture becomes too toxic, or managers straight...

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I hate to say it, but I don’t think there is a way. At least, there isn’t a way that works for me.

If I don’t get laid off I tend to switch jobs every three or four years out of burnout. I try to get into a field that I haven’t worked in before, and usually which has something to do with whatever I’ve been teaching myself in my spare time (aerospace, finance, whatever). As long as it pays the bills and has decent benefits (which is a lower and lower bar every year) I have a chance to recover. I resigned myself long ago to this being the cycle of my life, because the only things I’ve found that don’t result in eventual burnout are sleeping and reading.

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As long as you follow the instructions you should be okay.

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Of course it will. 702 is the best weapon they’ve ever had, and they’re not going to give it up come hell or high water.

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Who else would have the money to build Skynet?

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That movie inspired a lot of folks back home to go into this very line of work. They completely took the wrong lesson from it.

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It seems like they’re preparing for a war with anyone and everyone. It’s not like the US has the greatest reputation across the planet, and there’s no shortage of dust-ups around the world that might get pointed in the direction of North America at some point.

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Even then, not so much. I’ve been tugging on those particular wires, and the overall response seems to be, send a reply once, then ghost you until you’ve forgotten that you asked them. They do nothing during that time, and will probably continue to do nothing well after we forget.

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It’s only a matter of time before those records (and my mental health records too) get involved in a breach.

This does not leave me sleeping well at night.

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Birbsite.

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Yup, pretty normal.

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Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.

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I’m okay if Xorg dies off. I just hope that the stuff I use everyday works reliably with Wayland before it does.

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Because they enjoy it. That it screws over a stranger means much less chance of facing any blowback for it.

Don’t think police procedural villain, think school bully that never grew up and their actions make more sense.

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eBay.

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Does the number have to accept an SMS for verification, or can it be, say, a phone call?

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I agree. Some of the Linux servers I used to run at work in the early 00’s were 12 to 16 core monsters (for the time) and the kernel didn’t even blink.

Pop Star Pink to Give Away Banned Books at Florida Tour Stops (www.rollingstone.com)

The three-time Grammy-winning singer announced her collaboration with the national free speech organization PEN America during an Instagram Live with Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in the U.S. Pink will also work with bookseller Books & Books to distribute four books from PEN America’s Index of Banned Books: Todd...

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“As a famous person once said, ‘You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’ And as I - another more famous person - once said, if you don’t teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like.” –Max Headroom

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

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The question is, is it going to suck more or less than NetworkManager?

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I know, that wasn’t the question I asked.

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And how many respins of Ubuntu are out there that just have their own repos? Quite a few, as I recall.

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You (and I) are unfortunately part of the small fraction of a percentage point that think and are inclined to act this way.

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Minimal risk for them. The state of monitoring as a whole is such that they can use such an 0-day for a couple of years before anybody notices it. It’s far more likely that the vulnerability is noticed and patched without anyone even realizing that it’s been actively exploited.

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Interesting explanation about what really went wrong with Optus last week.

The short version: it looks like Optus doesn't control its own core network. Its parent company Singapore Telecom does. Optus just resells it.

Which is why Optis' CEO was so vague about what the issue actually was: she was protecting her bosses in Singapore.

https://www.channelnews.com.au/excluseoptus-services-failure-was-on-a-netork-operated-by-singtel-claim-insiders/

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They still put that in employment contracts?

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OpenBSD got a grant from the DoD, and then Theo posted his opinions of the post-9/11 US government, and they put a stop on the check before it even crossed the border. He pissed a lot of folks inside the Beltway off that day.

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About as much as having a single functional eye in a country where everybody is blind makes you king.

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Have you ever tried programming in straight x86 assembly? :P

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Could also have to do with running a gauntlet of lawyers to be allowed to open some code you wrote.

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You’d rather not know that someone you might find yourself working with could turn on you in the blink of an eye for a reason you’re not even aware of?

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Stupidly wealthy people are sinking millions of dollars into building out-of-the-way places to hide in the event the torches and pitchforks come out. A fraction of that to go suborbital may as well be a long weekend.

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I think you’ve got the makings of a retro pulp webcomic right there. :)

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Something I’ve often wondered: Comparing the size of the group that uses self-hosted and F/OSS stuff like Gitea to the size of the group that uses Github, et al. I wonder how we stack up as a measure of success.

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