I will refrain from looking up who decided that #FreeBSD needed to lose a magic comment line from every init script and config file but didn’t need etcupdate (or whatever we're calling mergemaster now) to understand that change as a no-op, because if I were to identify that person I would feel compelled to find them and extract my wasted time from the front end of their remaining lifespan.
Dear #LazyWeb: What is needed to get Google to show me fun AI suggestions like adding glue to pizza sauce? How do I get the fake-#AI results?
I am not kidding. Most of my searches are on macOS (12 & 14) using Safari and occasionally other browsers (I've got 7 installed...) but I only log into my G accounts on an as-needed basis and because I use a real mail client for email, I almost never need to log in. I wipe cookies on every browser restart.
I’d like to trust this story, but it fails to link to its supposed source or provide enough info to find it elsewise. A few clicks around the site makes me think that it may well be nothing but a #LLM-composed content farm. https://cosocial.ca/@kgw/112498693958537559
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 I didn't know the original Orphan Black had 2 audio / podcast seasons after the show ended (mentioning this as you reminded me) but yes -- she was incredible
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 #Michigan that I would be unsurprised to see openly reject the authority of state or federal law enforcement. https://infosec.exchange/@nathans/112434989146661808
@grumpybozo
As a reminder, a County Sheriff is the only law enforcement officer that is elected to office. Only a governor or voter recall election can remove one from office.
This scenario drips of irony.
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… #CallMeADoomer… (1/2)
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.
@grumpybozo I'm just not buying it. I've also thought about this a lot and this is my thesis:
These people will run off to start their civil war battalion and who pays their mortgage and truck loans? The bank isn't going to pause payments for this. They'll come evict their families while they're playing toy soldier. It's only the loners that are the real threats.
We would need a systemic collapse first otherwise we're just going to have a few terrorist groups of extremists
I thought the #DoctorWho 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.
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 #InfoSec 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.
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. #Sysadminnery#GrumpyTesting
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…)
Oh, hey, folks who use #SpamAssassin: 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 #spam from such addresses. See my toot of yesterday.
No.
The fact that he thinks they could just reuse the steel of the old bridge is the best proof I have that Elon Musk is no sort of engineer.
The physical characteristics of a piece of metal change over time under stress, temperature cycling, and vibration. Even those pieces which are not visibly bent or cracked (good luck finding those) won’t match their original strengths. https://mastodon.scot/@Peternimmo/112192734660529758
I think all my bad luck hits me when I’m handling my own systems rather than at work. My desktop, a 2016 i7 iMac, apparently had its disk die. That’s not fatal: I have 2 flavors of backup & a DiskWarrior flash drive & a Recovery slice. Worst case: Internet Recovery.
It hangs in EFI when booting the DW drive.
It doesn’t see the Recovery partition
It doesn’t see the CCC backup as bootable.
Internet Recovery gets me El Capitan: APFS-ignorant, doesn’t see the TM backup.
@grumpybozo I had an SSD drive get corrupted on me earlier this year. It was an encrypted APFS drive. None of the disk recovery tools I've used in the past worked on it at all.
APFS is supposed to be a more robust file system format, but if my experience is any indication, it's tougher to recover if something does go wrong. I did have luck with EasUS Disk Recovery Wizard though.
I had never heard of them up until this point so I was hesitant to give it a go, but there's a "demo" you can download that lets you view discovered files and recover a few GBs to verify that it works.
That disk was the first SSD disk to go bad on me. Normally I have backups upon backups, but I got lured into complacency by how reliable SSDs are. Luckily, I was able to fully recover that drive.