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philip

@philip@mallegolhansen.com

Dane 🇩🇰 (with Polish 🇵🇱 blood) living in the US 🇺🇸, previously Ireland 🇮🇪 and the UK 🇬🇧.

Technology Consultant, teaching people how best to utilize modern SWE and Ops practices.

Computers are overrated, people are underrated.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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The presidency is a JOB. The person who we PAY to WORK for us is NOT your god, grandparent, parent, friend, buddy, or guru. They are an EMPLOYEE who needs to know what they're DOING.

philip,
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@StillIRise1963 He’s probably the most important federal employee.

But an employee nonetheless.

It’s interesting how much people care about his actions, his election, and all of that.

Yet electing the people who make the rules he must play by, seems like an afterthought.

Binder, to random
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    philip,
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    @Binder It is if we deem it to be.

    john, to random
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    I just got this water bottle has smelly thing on top that is meant to trick you into thinking you’re drinking >flavour<, when really you're just smelling it.

    Ask me anything!

    philip,
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    @john Does it actually manage to trick your brain?

    jerry, to random

    Imagine a world with IT testing like space ship testing…

    3…. 2… 1…. The datacenter is connected to the internet!

    “Coming up at t+5 seconds is the first significant hack attempt.”

    “Oh no, the auto termination sequence kicked in and exploded the datacenter. I guess that firewall didn’t work out the way we thought.”

    philip,
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    @jerry Alright folks, DC scrapped.

    Let’s prep a new one for launch next month.

    andrew, to random
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    If this is the Sam Altman you gotta wonder who the Sam Mainman is.

    philip,
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    @andrewfeeney @andrew It would appear he’s Sam Deleteman.

    hazelweakly, to random
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    Any sufficiently advanced systems thinking is indistinguishable from premature optimization

    philip,
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    @evntdrvn @hazelweakly Whoa whoa whoa, hold on there.

    We don’t have to get this real.

    Edent, to random
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    I am desperate to know what secrets this website is hiding!

    https://www.potatoes.com/

    philip,
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    @Edent

    I’m probably not the first but… here you go.

    mariyadelano, to workersrights
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    I lost a deal with a dream client last week.

    I’ve… been struggling to recover from that. My self-esteem is still shattered, and I don’t know how long it will take me until I feel confident enough to get on another sales call.

    And that doubt brought back an old nemesis - “the dread". An awful feeling in the back of my mind. My brain reminding me of my trauma.

    I wrote about dealing with this in my :

    https://www.admdnewsletter.com/p/marketing-has-felt-really-hard-lately

    philip,
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    @mariyadelano For what it’s worth, as a consultant I also struggle with “managing the client”.

    Sometimes it really does seem like they want to shoot themselves in the foot. That’s not a failure on your part.

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    So, uhm, what’s a nice alternative to GitHub for some private and some open source repositories?

    Maybe something that pledges no AI bullshit ever, just, you know, repos, issues and integrations with stuff?

    https://aus.social/@TheMartianLife/111377920682670147

    philip,
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    @thomasfuchs I’m personally trying out Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/

    So far so good.

    bagder, to random
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    I've ordered 40 curl coasters I'm gonna give away to contributors I meet.

    https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/03/curl-coasters/

    philip,
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    @bagder Looks cool!

    jerry, to random

    I’m going to start a new company that will fill an import market void. It’ll be called WeWorkFromHome

    philip,
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    @jerry I can see it: AirBnB meets WeWork.

    Subscriptions membership that gives you access to all home offices in the area not currently used by their owner.

    You can come use my office whilst I’m on vacation, for a fixed low fee.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    b0rk, to random
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    git rebase: what can go wrong? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/06/rebasing-what-can-go-wrong-/

    philip,
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    @b0rk Well written and useful as always, thank you!

    philip, to random
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    On days like today I wonder: What’s the total cost of ? Between miscommunications, poor sleep, person-hours spent literally changing clocks back and forth, there’s a real toll to this weird thing we do.

    (Brought to you by me crashing on the bed at 9:50, and undoubtedly waking up much too early tomorrow)

    philip,
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    @peterbutler That’s useful, thanks for sharing!

    forteller, to norge Norwegian
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    Carry yourself with the confidence of noen som åpner en iskrembar i november

    philip,
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    @forteller Ja tak!

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    This is fine, right? Right?

    “Best if used by January 2003”

    philip,
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    @thomasfuchs Everyone says it’s better when it’s aged.

    jerry, to random

    My mortgage provider just called and basically said: “We noticed you have a very low interest rate. Have you considered refinancing to our new higher rate loans?”

    philip,
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    @jerry “It’s an amazing deal (for us)!”

    dangoodin, to random

    Can someone help me parse a statement I just got from Okta? I asked if the service account compromised in a recent breach was protected by MFA. The response:

    "The unauthorized access to Okta’s customer support system leveraged a service account stored in the system itself. Service accounts are used for machine-to-machine functions that would be disrupted by an interactive prompt. MFA is not supported on such accounts."

    Can people with experience in these sorts of environments paraphrase in plain English? How is an account "stored in the system itself" different from other sorts of accounts? Is it really not feasible to use MFA for this account?

    philip,
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    @dangoodin Generally speaking, MFA is unlikely to be used for “service accounts”, that’s correct.

    They’re used in the context where it’s a service (some bit of software) using credentials directly, rather than the software acting on behalf of a human.

    Because actions are intended to be taken without human intervention, MFA is inconvenient.

    Techniques for managing this situation include:

    Short lived credentials that get rotated often.

    Very narrowly scoped permissions.

    mariatta, to random
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    Highschool friend who I haven't talked to in like 20 years started learning Python. He messaged me just because my name popped up on his Python feed.
    "Congrats for your success" he said.

    But I'm just a loser who fails job interviews. 🥲

    philip,
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    @mariatta In my experience, most good engineers interview poorly, and most good interviewers are the “fake it till you make it” types.

    codinghorror, to random

    Here's one little American Psycho movie detail that you can never un-see

    philip,
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    @codinghorror TIL I have no idea how acquisition is spelled.

    philip,
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    @codinghorror Absolutely. I will live in shame 😅

    thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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    Ok, which one of these is not a real brand name on Amazon:

    philip,
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    @thomasfuchs Trick question, surely they are all real at this rate 😂

    lisamelton, to random
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    I wrote about my gender affirming experience at the California Department of Motor Vehicles today:

    https://lisamelton.net/2023/10/30/gender-affirmation-at-the-dmv/

    philip,
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    @lisamelton I’m so glad you had a good (albeit it sounds slightly repetitive) experience.

    philip, to random
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    Seems like Apple is getting more aggressive on the whole “Intel Mac is dead, please move on” line.

    Can’t blame them, but it’s getting pretty clear.

    philip, to random
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    I just bought a couple of new domains under the .social TLD.

    Will I end up doing something, or will I sit on these like the pile of other potential projects?

    Only time will tell.

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