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joshin4colours

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General techy person into big ideas. Loves Python, works with Java and JS.

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mcc, to random
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Feeling extremely vincible this morning

joshin4colours,
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@mcc this world can be whelming, that's for sure

mcc, to random
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Grabbing the lapels of whoever happens to be nearest to me, screaming "What year is it?? What year is it???"

joshin4colours,
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@mcc it's that time of year again, when Google decides they need a new messaging app

joshin4colours, to random
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Mansfield Park n Fly

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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This is your weekly reminder that unless you are building something for developers to use, end users do not care what language / framework you used to build it. They care if it solves their problems. Too many folks confuse personal desires for user desires.

joshin4colours,
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@grmpyprogrammer Sometimes users barely care what platform they have to use (web vs app, phone vs tablet) let alone the tech stack

hacks4pancakes, (edited ) to random

Polling y'all IT and security people for my own amusement and frustration -

The very worst tech sales pitch you got this week:

joshin4colours,
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@hacks4pancakes almost landed a POC from a competing company for my "dev team" (we weren't in dev) from a direct competitor

b0rk, to random
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i feel like 30% of my interactions on here are people telling me about cool tools and techniques and me asking them if they have tried the tool/technique and what they liked/didn't like about it in practice

i find it very easy to get lists of potentially interesting things and SO hard to find experience reports of what people actually thought of the thing when they tried it

joshin4colours,
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@b0rk I completely agree. It's very much like this in the testing space

mcc, to random
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I am on a BUS

I am going to a place called STRATFORD

I am going to a SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

That's Stratford in ONTARIO

It is some sort of JOKE

However it is by all accounts THE BEST SHAKESPEARE IN ONTARIO

I had to get up at NINE AM to catch the BUS and I am AGITATED

It is making me type in CAPITAL LETTERS

I am going to see KING LEAR

And also RENT

Apparently RENT was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

joshin4colours,
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@mcc agree on all fronts

anildash, to random
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welcome 2 autumn

joshin4colours,
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@anildash Let’s Go Crazy (for pumpkin spice)

0xabad1dea, to random

“we can’t find any good candidates for this role” you’re auto-rejecting people with 20 years experience because they don’t have a degree and then AI-sorting the rest by how Jared their name is

joshin4colours,
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@0xabad1dea I've just been goring through a situation like this!

jenn, to random
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you’re telling me five guys burgered these fries???

joshin4colours,
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@jenn inappropriate

joshin4colours, to python
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Question for all the folks out there: what's the most common or easiest hosting service/cloud to deploy a hobby Django project to?

grmpyprogrammer, (edited ) to random
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Mini-me has been discharged from the hospital today. UPDATE: turns out it is epilepsy and she had both a epileptic seizure and a non-epileptic seizure.

Glad she’s coming home but the unanswered questions leave a low level of dread.

joshin4colours,
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@grmpyprogrammer sending good vibes. Not knowing why a health issue is happening is never, ever good

joshin4colours, to random
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Do you need a nicely written technical blog post? Or webinar? I'm available! Message me for rates and discussion

joshin4colours, to random
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Interested in mathematics? Even just a little? Casual, even? Check out these resources https://joshs-newsletter-a4b32f.beehiiv.com/p/math-resources-youre-going-love

joshin4colours, to random
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Friendly reminder that historically in pastoral England, overgrazing livestock was not a problem and most farmers keep the commons just fine

joshin4colours,
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@gdinwiddie that’s the thing: I’m not sure there was evidence of overgrazing ever being a problem in 1800s England

joshin4colours,
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@gdinwiddie fair. But I think these commons were developed over many, many centuries, so issues like this probably were figured out

joshin4colours, to infosec
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Hi people, Friday question: what are some recent/high profile exploits that were based on SQL or command injection attacks?

briankrebs, to random

Placing bets on who's responsible. Too soon?

Just days after hackers stole $41m from cryptocurrency casino Stake, MGM Resorts International’s website has also gone down. The casino giant’s on-site computer systems are currently not working, including ATMs, withdrawals, box office, and MGM Rewards.

https://www.vegasslotsonline.com/news/2023/09/11/mgm-website-and-withdrawals-down-users-speculate-it-may-have-been-hacked/

joshin4colours,
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@briankrebs Seems bad

joshin4colours, to mathematics
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Ok here goes nothing: I'm starting a mathematics newsletter because I really, truly, love mathematics as a subject. Please take a look and sign up if you're interested https://joshs-newsletter-a4b32f.beehiiv.com/p/hello

malwaretech, to random

This is absolutely crazy stuff. Chinese hackers were able to get into a bunch of government email accounts by forging Microsoft access tokens, but how it happened is wild.

Apparently an internal Microsoft system responsible for signing consumer access tokens crashed, then a bug in the crash dump generator caused the secret key to be written to the crash dump. Microsoft's secondary system for detecting sensitive data in crash dumps also failed, allowing the crash dump to be moved from an isolated network to the corporate one. The Chinese hackers compromised a Microsoft engineer's account and were able to get a hold of the crash dump. They were not only able to find the key and figure out that it's responsible for signing consumer access tokens, but were also able to exploit a software bug to use it to sign enterprise access tokens too, basically giving them the keys to the kingdom.

So many security system had to fail for this to happen. Either the hackers were very lucky or extremely patient.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

joshin4colours,
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@malwaretech from a remediation/post mortem perspective, I literally do not know how you prevent this kind of thing from happening again. At least three layers of security, three direct failures.

preinheimer, to woodworking
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I made a pizza stand out of cedar. It’s probably my best woodworking creation so far. Base is stained with India ink, and assembled with half lap joinery.

I’m very proud of it.

Picture of a small table, base is thick pieces of black wood, top is smaller slats running across the table.
Picture of table base, not yet stained black. The joints used in the corners to attach wood are visible.

joshin4colours,
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@preinheimer Looking good!

drewdevault, to random
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"AI will revolutionize medicine and education"

Human doctors and teachers do better. The estimated market cap for the AI industry is 136.55B USD and, if that were invested directly into these fields, we could use the same money to train ~600,000 doctors or >1M teachers

joshin4colours,
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@drewdevault anonther example of "just pay people money to do things" is often a great idea

joshin4colours, to random
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🤔 Employers...what are you doing?

The job description on LinkedIn says "Full-time Entry Level"
And under description, "6+ years experience as a Quality Analyst". Of course.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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I regret to inform you that some well-meaning PHP devs have introduced the “visual debt” discussion to testing.

joshin4colours,
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@SenseException @grmpyprogrammer

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