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grumpybozo

@grumpybozo@toad.social

Dad, Husband, Sysadmin, Anti-Spammer, Disillusioned Radical Lefty|Old GenX-er|DREAD Pirate|
I'm fat and I have a headache|AntiFa Patriot|
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
Living on occupied land previously shared by many Anishnaabe peoples.

#Detroit #Michigan #USA #Sysadminnery #BadDad #ADHD #infosec #IWeepSixColors #Spam #ASF #SpamAssassin

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grumpybozo, to random
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I though crypto was safe? https://infosec.exchange/@screaminggoat/112446226057448933

grumpybozo, to random
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Tat Maslany is not in it and there is apparently not an equivalent polyrole. Probably the right choice, since that was such an outstanding tour de force and attempting it again would just lead to a focus on the comparison. I can’t imagine any actor would want to take on that sort of thing. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112435177663326709

grumpybozo, to Michigan
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This is how we get rapid scattered systemic collapse. We elect lawless people to positions which a large fraction of them believe to be the only legitimate law enforcement authorities and effectively above the law.
There are counties in that I would be unsurprised to see openly reject the authority of state or federal law enforcement. https://infosec.exchange/@nathans/112434989146661808

grumpybozo, to random
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I’m resigned to the inevitability of a "hot" civil war in the USA as the only way our current tribalism will be resolved.
Recognizing that leads me to thought patterns that seem callous, because I believe that we’re getting widespread poorly-targeted violence before we solve our big issues in any robust way.
I don’t want it, won’t participate, don’t want to live thru it. However, we do kinda need to be rid of most of the people willing to die before compromise…
… (1/2)

grumpybozo,
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And that is what convinced me. Hearing far too many people (especially on the Right but not exclusively) using "death before compromise" sorts of language and explicitly dehumanizing talk of their perceived enemies. Too much social and epistemic encapsulation. Too many fucking guns in the hands of people who bought them only intending to shoot (someday, as needed) another human. Chekov was right.

(2/2)

mjg59, to random
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Hmm got a response from CPUC saying that they're not responsible for enforcement of AT&T's Carrier of Last Resort obligations, and referring me back to AT&T. How is this actually meant to work? (Yes, I know all they're nominally obliged to provide is a basic copper landline service, that's all I'm looking for here)

grumpybozo,
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@mjg59 I thought that obligation was a Federal matter, i.e. FCC.

justyourluck, to H5N1
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Has it been proven that one cannot get infected with from non raw milk?

Because last I heard there have been no studies done.

Or am I wrong?

Because...

1/

grumpybozo,
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@justyourluck If 20% of the US milk supply has , then we've already effectively done the study, because we don't have a human pandemic. We would, if it were possible for pasteurized milk to be a significant vector.

Also, we’ve known for decades that pasteurization effectively kills influenza viruses. Pasteurization degrades both the protein capsules protecting viruses and their genetic material. What is in milk after pasteurization are fragments, not whole viruses.

grumpybozo,
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@feld @justyourluck Yeah, well, not much to lose there…

grumpybozo,
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@feld @justyourluck I’ve drunk raw milk too, from a literal family farm that had about a dozen Holsteins: decades before there was any sort of ideology attached or H5N1 risk. There was definitely some risk but it was unlike the modern circumstance. There is no good reason to not pasteurize milk and H5N1 is just one more pathogen in a long list that can appear in raw milk. I’d be MUCH more concerned by the risk of Listeria, Botulism, or enterohemorrhagic E. coli.

grumpybozo, to DoctorWho
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I thought the debut with Disney was fine.
Not great, not horrible, but good. In a way, it was a return to earlier (‘60s/70s) silliness and absurdity in basic plots. It also is clearly pulling back to being aimed at a younger audience. Fun. Don't think too hard about it; enjoy Ncuti dancing...

Also: all the people bemoaning how terrible this all is, the end of Doctor Who, blah blah, blah, makes for a great list of who to mute permanently.

fanf, to random
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Evil: When I have the map, I will be free, and the world will be different, because I have understanding.

Henchman: Uh, understanding of what, master?

Evil: Of digital watches.

Evil: And soon I shall have understanding of video casette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them I shall have understanding of computers.

Evil (crescendo): And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the supreme being!

grumpybozo,
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@fanf So how has that been working out for you so far?

grumpybozo,
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@dgerard @sneerclub That was a very difficult read. I feel dumber somehow…

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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One “homes in” on a place or thing; one “hones in” on a skill.

The difference is that a skill can be sharpened (honed) and “homing in” comes from planes being directed to a target or their home base.

grumpybozo,
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@lilithsaintcrow what?

Hone is a perfectly good verb in its own right, synonym of sharpen. Used commonly in reference to bladed tools and their maintenance. Or skills.

“Honing in” seems like just confusion and conflation. Like “taking for granite.”

jik, to cashapp
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Heads up! probably had a big security breach they're about to announce, because they just released new terms of service with a draconian binding arbitration clause, and the only way to opt out is to fill out a specific form on paper and pay to send it to them via postal mail.
Personally, I'm just going to delete my account.
Ref: https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/tos

grumpybozo,
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@revk @jik Obviously the enforceability of those terms is jurisdiction-specific. It would be unsurprising if different places saw such machinations differently. No one will know until someone tests it.

Schrödinger’s ToS.

grumpybozo, to infosec
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I boosted my own reply toot because the 2nd paragraph is relevant to all. Neither Apple nor any other mega-corp with literally billions of end-users can do proactive support for all of them on an individual basis. If someone calls you claiming to be from the security staff of $BIGCORP about your account being cracked, they are lying.
There are not enough skilled humans to handle that sort of operation.

grumpybozo, to random
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I’m so old and nerdy that I find this amusing...
Ultrix was my second Unix. https://mastodon.social/@wollman/112299582019528006

grumpybozo, to random
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From a supposed "Linux Installation Guide" for the product referenced in https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/112297970090554349

  1. The program "tar" does not unzip anything
  2. If you want me to run Install.sh, do not tell me to run install.sh. It’s not Windows, philistine!
  3. Maybe YOU should tell ME if I need to be root for your "agent" installation?

Edit: of course it needs to be root. There is no documented way to run as any other user.

grumpybozo,
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So, this thing installs a cron job. Fine. It calls a shell script every 7 minutes. That is a really short script because all it does is grep the output of ps for the agent and uses 'service' to start it if not. Which would be fine on an old Linux system. This is not so old that 'service' doesn’t just redirect to systemctl and chide the user. So we were getting mail to root every 7 minutes.
I assume there’s some reason they don’t just actually make it a service.

grumpybozo,
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And why is secure.log growing? Oh, look, that ‘sensor’ is doing a bunch of stuff using ‘sudo’ which is funny when you consider that it is running as root and has no documentation of how to run it in any other way. I think that means it is actually firing off a shell to run the sudo command…
It has become too cheap to launch processes. (not my real issue here…)

grumpybozo, to random
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Oh, hey, folks who use : if you rely on the “default welcomelist” embedded in The Rules to avoid blocking mostly-good senders you should move to something more fit-to-purpose. A removal from it may cause you FPs.

By ~Monday, the ‘updates' rules channel will no longer have any def_whitelist_from_* entries for @.microsoft.com, as there has been documented from such addresses. See my toot of yesterday.

18+ Torres: "rumors have been swirling about the Future of Humanity Institute shutting down" after they got $665m in ETH from Buterin (twitter.com)

Btw, rumors have been swirling about the Future of Humanity Institute shutting down(!!)–I’ve heard this from multiple people at this point. Does anyone have any extra info they can share with me? Off the record or in confidence would be fine. DM or email me!

grumpybozo,
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@Soyweiser @sneerclub LOL. That might explain why I got suspended. For the past 18 months all I have done is suppress traffic to my timelines by blocking anything promoted, delete my messages programmatically, and try to unlike every tweet that I ever liked. That after years of using blocking tools to ultimately block hundreds of thousands of accounts. It would have been millions if they didn’t have a 64k at a time limit.

grumpybozo,
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@Soyweiser I’m terribly sorry in advance for your massive wax-fueled house fire.

alex, to random
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The “great” thing about England is that when these articles come out and you google the person who wrote them it’s not something boring like “their dad is a trust fund manager” it’s “their dad is a baron, their grandfather edited the newspaper this appears in, and their family founded the private Bank of England”

*all true of this writer

grumpybozo,
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@ryan @alex Crazier than that. The Money side married into the Coutts money, seemingly by happy accident.

mattblaze, to random
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About six months ago, I made multiple sets of refundable plane and hotel reservations at different places along the path of totality for Monday, every one of which is now forecast for heavy cloud cover.

Sorry, everyone in those places.

grumpybozo,
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@mattblaze That’s why I made no plan beyond driving south into the path (from Detroit, very close) in the morning and figuring out the best direction to turn to find sky. Still looks like it might work. They say Indianapolis may be the best sizable town for it, but out in the middle of an Indiana cornfield seems better to me.

grumpybozo,
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@dgerard @sneerclub YET!

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