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elfin

@elfin@mstdn.social

I make things, I fix things, and quite often break things. A Silicon Valley refugee living in the Pacific North West.

Three decades in the world of computers and most of it developing the Internet (largely as a Web Thing, but not really).

#Carbs #Salt #Sugar #Caffeine #SysAdmin #Dogs #Outdoors #Food #WestCoast #Seattle #SiliconValley #SantaCruz #UNIX #OpenSource #SelfHosting #UrbanWalking #WiFi #CafeComputing #Geekosterone

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ElleGray, to random
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elfin,
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@ElleGray spits tea across Cafe +

Lol.

  • It's ok, they're used to it and I know where the mop is.
inquiline, (edited ) to random
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Even with all the collaborative work tools available out there, we don't talk enough about the very sophisticated practice of 2-3 colleagues editing a draft together by texting chunks of the draft back and forth 😬

elfin,
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@inquiline @danhon Hits Floor Laughing

elfin, to sysadmin
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Ok. I have an opportunity to do some serious fucking about with IPv6 but got some questions first.

I got Machina, been production and a very good boy with excellent IP reputation for a long time.

Months ago Rebuilt shit with AlmaLinux, tested, moved to new server but my new server I HAVE the opportunity to just not answer IPv4.

I had just do it, move my personal domain there and watch it burn in interesting ways but I'm super curious, anyone here tried it?

shoq, to random
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I am starting to think social media and democracy may not be compatible at all. Sure seemed like a good idea at the time.

elfin,
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@shoq It really did. At WiReD we Even found the term Netizen.

We Knew the risk(s) ... our mistake was thinking people would improve if you connected them and let them work out it.

That went over well.

elfin, to sysadmin
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So, it's technically my typo, but it's in the zone file, so I still get to blame ... right?

elfin, to random
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Good. Fuck California. I'm ashamed Cal is considering one of these shams.

And we already know how t ends for publishers that suddenly have No Fucking Traffic! Surprise!

Who the hell have y'all elected?

Google blocks California news outlets as new law looms

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244416887/google-blocks-california-news-payments-bill

elfin, to random
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Snorts Hot Coffee
I really must learn to not read Masto when coffee is freshly hot.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks*

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/san_francisco_muni_floppy_disks/

elfin, to random
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Well... this is inconvenient.

elfin, to random
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Downloads directory is getting a little out of hand.

mv ~/Downloads/* /tmp

Right. Now one way or another, that problem is going to get resolved.

Binder, to random
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Cryptocurrencies are worth their weight in gold.

elfin,
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@Binder Twice their weight, even.

pseudonym, to infosec
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Resets the sign to zero for "days since it was an expired TLS certificate"

It's DNS. It's always DNS. When it's not DNS, it's certificates. But it's always DNS.

It's 2024. How was this not automated?

elfin,
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@pseudonym Feckin' DNS, and Certificates, but mostly DNS.

And mine IS Automated, still breaks, because ... DNS.

elfin, to random
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I'm getting an API Key at Weather Underground and their Sign In form asks for Gender. Perfect it isn't, but it does include "Other" and "Prefer Not To Say".

elfin,
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@FirefighterGeek I very much agree, and was just talking to @juliewebgirl about very same.

I #Drupal land, there is a module for gender that basically just creates a field ... but it's Module Page spends pretty much all of it's tie explaining why you should not do it. It's a good read.

https://www.drupal.org/project/gender

elfin, to random
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LOLOLOL

Toilet paper spill ‘clogs’ traffic on California highway
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68540785

feld, to random
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    elfin,
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    @feld Yay! I get to point out that the little blighter's finger is on the trigger.

    elfin, to random
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    Bastards. Looks like I'm buying more ThinkPads. (As if that's a surprise.)

    Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers • The Register
    https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/01/lenovo_certified_refurbished_hardware/

    pixel, to random
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    Lookie what I found in a drawer

    elfin,
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    @pixel When Radio Shack had electronics. There was one in my neighborhood as a kid. I should have worn a rut in the road biking back and forth while noodling on a project. Paper route, lawn care, and often lunch money when into that store. I regret Nothing.

    Great Find.

    stevegrunwell, to wordpress
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    Some important context as this news breaks:

    is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org.

    One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of , which runs WordPress.com and owns .

    They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, not self-hosted WordPress instances.

    BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬

    https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466

    elfin,
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    @stevegrunwell Right. WordPress Core is NOT going to be sending your data from your WordPress install for consumption. If that code showed up in Core, this might be an interesting issue.

    If you have stuff at Tumblr, WordPress.Com, Blogger, Xitter, FaceBook, the companies can and will monetize it and AI is this weeks darling (read "crap") tech. WordPress.Com is a company like any other.

    wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip is a whole different animal...Until you install that total sack of shit JetPack.

    elfin, to random
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    "We're the phone company, we don't have to Do Anything." --Ernestine The Operator

    Don't spend it all in one go: AT&T's $5 outage credit
    https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/at_and_t_outage_apology_plus_5/

    Binder, to random
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    elfin,
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    @Binder That's how I do meetings.

    GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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    elfin,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell That's advocacy for SkyNet. 😁

    stux, to reddit
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    Oh btw, this is why I do not use #Reddit

    Ask yourself, do you want to train AI?

    elfin,
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    @stux Ewwwww. Reddit is Super about the cash right now to up their valuation. I expect more of this horribleness.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    I wonder what he wished for.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    elfin,
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    @lowqualityfacts That ... actually tracks.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Wow.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    elfin,
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    @lowqualityfacts I live in greater Seattle ... while not entirely a fact, it's not entirely wrong, either.

    maxleibman, to random
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    “I’m pretty sure this video explains exactly what you need,” said the most unhelpful person on the entire tech support forum.

    elfin,
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    @javierg @maxleibman I'm adding "V;DW (video, didn't watch)" to my regular lexicon.

    Thank You for that.

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