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matdevdug

@matdevdug@c.im

Security/Devops engineer. Moved from Chicago to Denmark. I’m an expert on nothing but I’m trying.

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matdevdug, to Texas
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I like how this article about why Austin didn't end up being the second tech hub skips the laws discriminating against women in the form of anti-abortion laws. Like 50% of potential employees were risking their lives in moving to the state, but maybe it was the power outage that did it in.

https://sherwood.news/business/austin-tech-hub-growth-market-texas-housing/

#texas #austin

matdevdug, to Denmark
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One thing I love about working in is their complete respect for personal privacy. You could come in with blood soaked clothes and a shovel and they’d be like “good weekend?”

matdevdug, to ai
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Nothing like having a beautiful day ruined by Slack deciding they're going to opt every customer into training their LLM unless you send their customer service an email. I'm so mad at how scummy this is. Now I need to warn effectively every non-technical person I know that they need to send an email (not in the client cause Slack knows people might actually use that).

https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

matdevdug, (edited ) to random
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New post on my blog. You can read it here: https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/

matdevdug,
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@metasonix Oh I had no idea!

matdevdug, to random
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My daughter on the bike ride to Danish daycare after waking up at 5:45: “I don’t want to 🎶 I don’t want to! I don’t want TO 🎶”

aleck, to random
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Tried watching HBO's Euphoria TV series.

I may be getting too old but this is so unwatchable. Apart from one or two characters, everyone in the series is deplorable sick person, no one is even remotely likeable nor interesting. Everything in their lives is shit.

matdevdug,
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@aleck Yeah I found it nihilistic and depressing to watch. Everyone in the show would be better off dead.

matdevdug, to apple
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I’m sure there’s a reason but I don’t understand why released the new iPads now. Why not hold them until ? It just seems weird since every review is “the hardware is great but iPadOS is bad”.

matdevdug, to random
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I feel like I really monkey pawed the world when in 2003 I said “man I would do anything for there to be a game”.

matdevdug, to Eurovision
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Watching with my wife. “Do you think anyone currently makes a keytar or are they passed down like family heirlooms?”

Wife: “I think they’re like Stradivarius violins where they given by fellow musicians to people with the most promise.”

matdevdug, to Parenting
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My daughter while we were biking. “I don’t like bumps”.

Me: “I know but”

Her cutting me off and sticking her hand out to gesture at the cobblestone street: “and yet, bumps”

film_girl, to random
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Watching Linux distros (and yes, it is usually Debian packagers who act the most sanctimonious) shoot themselves in the face and then insult upstream AND the users of a popular package under the delusion that only the distro's self-declared experts are capable of making decisions is always a good reminder as to why you will never be able to waterboard me into using Linux as my primary desktop. Very sorry this is happening Team KeePassXC. https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720

matdevdug,
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@film_girl As someone who has spent a lot of time in this ecosystem, I’m gonna devils advocate this a bit.

Being a Debian maintainer is largely a thankless task. Your community are extremely hardcore privacy advocates who gladly make the trade off for less functionality to more privacy all the time. The software project you do this work for often doesn’t acknowledge your existence. The act of packaging stuff, keeping track of the project and all that associated work is a lot of headache.

Your package ends up being a massive percentage of the codes usage around the globe but you are forced to effectively defend the projects decisions against the Debian maintainers mailing list without having much active say in how the project develops.

It’s a lot of drama that largely goes without any public acknowledge of what you are doing. So I can see how this happened, even if the result in this case was wrong.

matdevdug,
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@film_girl I mean in this situation no question the maintainer made the wrong call. Like as much as I wanna go to bat for maintainers this is pretty indefensible.

matdevdug, to Israel
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If wins tonight it’s gonna be one of those incredibly gruesome pictures that is in history books forever.

matdevdug, to iOS
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#ios #shortcuts remain both very useful and infuriating to troubleshoot. Like when they work, it feels like AppleScript but when they don’t you sort of feel like a crazy person just staring at the screen.

matdevdug, to random
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So I built a pretty simple POS system for a convenience store a few years ago as a favor. Nothing complicated, a Flask app that runs on a Pi with a backup hardware unit and remote access controlled by Cloudflare tunnels. Credit card processing happens over Adyen terminal API. Inventory is parsing a csv from his supply company. Terminals are pis with a touchscreen and barcode reader.

The whole point was to get him started, but I have a job that updates dependencies and pushes a new docker image once a week. The pi’s do automatic upgrades and reboots once a week as well. So it’s barebones but seems to work fine. Well until he called me today complaining that it’s really slow.

So I ssh in and I’m baffled there are somehow 40 terminals sending data to the central box. I ask “what are these other terminals” and he explains that friends wanted to stop paying for their POS so a “tech savvy” nephew set up a vpn.

The latency was caused by the vpn but let this be a reminder that normal users will always find new and exciting ways to break even the simpliest programs.

matdevdug, to stackoverflow
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Jokes on you my highly upvoted answers were fucking terrible.

matdevdug, to programming
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Whenever I have to write an login the struggle is never getting it to work. I can always end up with a successful login.

Without fail I will finish, then go check the best practices guide and inevitably find out I messed something up. It’s just crazy for an “easy” protocol to have so many footguns. (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics)

matdevdug, to apple
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Sometimes I like to think of Tim Cook being startled awake in the middle of the night and shouting “Jesus Christ we forgot about the iPad mini again!”

matdevdug, to tech
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I do wish I could tell recruiters that I’ll never apply to a company that reports record profits and also lays people off.

Like why are we wasting each others time talking about corporate mottos and exciting projects? Your leadership treats people like disposable cups. That’s all I need to know.

#tech #layoffs

matdevdug,
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@meett Fear of making FAANG mad at me.

matdevdug, to random
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I'm still secretly hoping that both candidates for president die of old age and we get a last-minute scramble election full of whoever is interested in being president.

matdevdug, to random
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For those of you using , I've noticed a strange behavior and curious if its a known thing or just a me thing. When I go to the Fastmail login page, 1Password will fill in the password for me. I click Login and every single time I get the wrong password screen. Refresh the page, let 1Password fill it in again and it works.

It's latest Firefox on Mac but seemed to start when I turned on 2FA with Fastmail. Just wondering if anybody else has seen this.

matdevdug, to iPad
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New #ipad looks great but we’ll need to wait for #WWDC before we get to the “why”. A skinner iPad with a nice screen is great, but still doesn’t turn the iPad from an overpowered movie streaming device into something worth the cost.

I’m curious if we get that amazing virtualization tech on iPadOS with a legal way to run macOS. That could really transform the iPad from niche to go-to travel device.

GossiTheDog, to random
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Mastodon has hit 2 million active users today. 🎉

matdevdug,
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@GossiTheDog Jesus that’s rough.

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