unhook2048

@unhook2048@mastodon.social

Proud father and husband. I'm an I.T. Generalist with over 15 years experience. Canadian.

You're not an ant, go change your own oil, build a patio, cook a meal, paint something.

The point isn't that you do everything well, it's that you enjoy the experience and try.

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arstechnica, to random
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Amazon adds its 10,000th Rivian electric delivery van to its fleet

The online retailer has doubled its number of EV vans since July.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/amazon-adds-its-10000th-rivian-electric-delivery-van-to-its-fleet/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica Is this joyous occasion in order to offset the layoffs starting today?
https://slashdot.org/story/23/04/26/1812206/amazon-starts-layoffs-in-hr-and-cloud-units

ryanhoulihan, to random
@ryanhoulihan@mastodon.social avatar

So many men’s first instinct is to be condescending, because they think it will immediately place them in a power position over me. But, like, you just told me this interaction matters to you – and you’re emotionally invested in winning it for some reason. With that knowledge alone I could crush you, baby boy

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@ryanhoulihan I wanted to jump in and condescend your post by saying something like "sure Ryan, I'm sure it's first instinct" but wanted to be sure to communicate that I'm just kidding, it's an interesting insight.

geerlingguy, to random
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social avatar

An inside look at the 45Drives storage lab (and Protocase manufacturing facility!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9up0gi57Kf8

Also play spot-the @technotim, @tekwendell, @tomlawrence, and @CraftComputing

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@geerlingguy @technotim @tekwendell @tomlawrence @CraftComputing
did you get skreeched in?

augieray, to random
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

My wife went to new physical therapy, and found it was in an open, crowded gym with no one wearing masks. She walked out, got home, and called around for another PT option. She found a place where they offered to wear masks when she visited, provided she gives them a heads up. Why aren't more medical offices and services offering this?

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@augieray My family and I have been without a family doctor for 5 years(appx), and there's not a new 1000 doctors available anytime soon.

But to address the question, because freedom. The same reason vaccines weren't forced on individuals, your car can go faster than the posted speed limit, you can still purchase alcohol, cigarettes, and guns. Get a good N95 and move on, I'm sorry that she was in a situation which made her uncomfortable, but happy to hear she found care that satisfies her.

aral, (edited ) to ai
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Hi there, if you don’t want me to hit you, please carry this sign that says “please don’t hit me” with you always. Otherwise, I can’t possibly be held responsible if I hit you. Because it’s in my nature to hit you. I can’t live without hitting people. It’s just who I am and what I do. Thank you for your understanding in this delicate matter.

Sincerely,
OpenAI

#ai #optOut #openAI #chatGPT #bullshit

unhook2048,

@aral I'm genuinely curious what you perceive the solution to this is? They modelled it after an already in place model that has worked seemingly well. I'd postulate that if companies took web presence and other technical matters more seriously by hiring and paying people better, this wouldn't be a problem or even a conversation.

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@aral well okay then. I mean you're not wrong regarding the opt-in, I suppose I just wish we lived in a world where the capitalistic approach of things could be ignored, it would allow us to act and move in a direction we agreed would ultimately be better for humanity, rather than relying and hoping on political leaders and c level execs to be ... well, not how they are now.

I also think the competative nature of the LLM models is a step in the right direction, Claude exists.

Sheril, to art
@Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

“Describe what you can bring to this company.”

#Art by Will McPhail

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@Sheril needs and expectations of morality, kindness, and equality along with a set income tied directly to the c-suites compensation packages.

jeffjarvis, to random
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social avatar

Here's what I had to say to CBC News about C-18, Meta, news, and the Canadian government trying to break the internet:
https://cbchls.akamaized.net/delivery/news/2023/08/22/nn-Jarvis-invu-210823-00-40-14/nn-Jarvis-invu-210823_5000kbps.mp4

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@jeffjarvis watched this last night, well spoken! Love to see it

augieray, to random
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

They told us COVID mortality had diminished so it was safe to return to 2019 behaviors, but they're silent on the growing risks to long-term health of reinfections.

They told us we could stop masking because was low, which only boosted more surges and long-term illness.

They told us we could go back to normal because we had monitoring in place, then they ended the monitoring.

I fear the end of 2023 and 2024 will be risky--we just won't see it in headlines until it's too late.

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@augieray I currently have 2 new phones and one owned outright, my monthly is 350.00 CAD. Technology was supposed to make things more affordable, but corp found a way to browbeat consumers into thinking more availability equals higher overhead. I'm looking for the cheapest plan with data possible currently from an ethical company.... At this rate I'm close to just starting my own company

jomo, to tesla
@jomo@mstdn.io avatar

Hackers from TU Berlin managed to jailbreak #Tesla cars, unlocking software-locked features worth up to $15,000 🪓🪓🪓

They used a known (unpatchable) voltage fault injection attack against the AMD Secure Processor to glitch the boot process, got root, and retrieved the car's RSA private key 👌

https://electrek.co/2023/08/03/hackers-manage-unlock-tesla-software-locked-features/

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@jomo If paying for it doesn't mean ownership, then stealing it isn't theft.

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Trump is now facing so many indictments that I think we can throw some fun ones at him and he won't even notice:

-conspiracy to date daughter

-attempted literacy

-illegally tiny hands

-aggravated spray tan

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@lowqualityfacts crimes against feline toupe repurposing.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan

US agency urged Microsoft to expand access to logs that can identify cyberattacks.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/microsoft-to-stop-locking-vital-security-logs-behind-57-per-user-monthly-plan/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica The lack of available logging and details is what initially drove me away from Windows, I appreciate there's been fluffy attempts to improve this, but it's still not enough imo.

simplenomad, to random
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After more than 2 decades my primary care physician retired, 2.5 years ago, it took me several months to find a suitable replacement, who after 6 months decided to stop seeing patients and focus on clinical research full time. Another search commenced - found a doctor and she's been great for the past year. Yesterday in the mail I received a notice that she's moving out of state.

This is the United States. It is hard to find a doctor that is 1) not in bed with the pharmaceutical companies, 2) moving me through a quick fire assembly line, and 3) actually considers alternate health solutions, ie DO instead of MD. The search begins again....

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@simplenomad I'd like to thank the US healthcare model who endorse profits over people for their influence on the Canadian healthcare market, such that the govt is defunding public HC without even having a private system available. 5 people, 4 years, no doctor

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@simplenomad I'm very happy with your outlook. It's important to recognize privilege but reasonably criticize the system and its failures... Might be a supporting factor given you're in InfoSec ;)

glennf, to random
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@nickheer On Zuck and masculinity: Bezos used to be a stereotypical pencil-neck geek and then at some point I guess decided he needed to be ripped. Having worked alongside him for months (and known him for a bit before that), it always makes me side eye photos of him now. It’s such a strange performative thing, like, being a billionaire isn't enough (or being a human isn’t). I guess it’s probably tied to theories of longevity too. I wouldn't be surprised if he takes a slurry of 25 supplements.

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@glennf @nickheer As insecurity is brought forward by the media especially in the case of Jeff, ego grows. At some point he's started pandering to his ego and is self serving to grow his ego.

simplenomad, to infosec
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A note to the roughly 5 other people on the planet who run their own mail server - do you reject the spam/scam/malware source of the email (returning a reject automagically) or do you let the process quietly discard it? I do the latter.

It made sense when a lot of people ran their own mail servers (mainly businesses) as it could delay and maybe prevent some from recently the bad email before the source got added to a block list, but now with everyone using something like gmail (BTW a huge source of spam in recent years) it doesn't seem worth it.

unhook2048,

@simplenomad It's more a decision based on the classification of "spam".

there's more to it than just saying "spam", is it a phishing e-mail that's generically written, and proven to be intentionally badly written in order to lure?

Is it spearphishing to a pointed group or individual with targeted information?

And don't mistake me, I'm nowhere even in the same universe of knowing this material and these various classifications. I'm just saying it's not a blanket to say "Spam".

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@simplenomad I think it sucks that the human factor here is what is actually the problem. the system(e-mail) works as intended. It sounds to me anyways like I should really be listening to where you land and hopefully learn a thing or 5000.

At some point I speculate there will be an AI for that. But more importantly, I hope that in the future scamming people isn't a viable option to live and eat food; I'd like that to simply not be a thing people feel the need to do because we've "evolved".

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Is it worth overpaying for extra RAM in laptops that cannot be upgraded later? 8GB? 16GB? 32GB? 64GB? 128GB? What are your bare minimum requirements these days?

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@nixCraft new these days I'm saying min32, optimal 64 expandable to 128

System76;Oryn is what I had previously

geerlingguy, to opensource
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social avatar

I'm now maintaining an @opensuse Leap Ansible test container image with systemd for Ansible role, collection, and playbook testing: https://github.com/geerlingguy/docker-opensuseleap15-ansible

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@geerlingguy @opensuse NGL, I never stopped being a SuSe guy. I'm thrilled that someone with your skills is in this space Jeff

jeffjarvis, to random
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social avatar

Brilliant. Jordan's GOP committee as the 2017 Cleveland Browns. "Goose egg after goose egg after goose egg."
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8d37Eba/

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@jeffjarvis But that's the point of it, it's not fact based, or even plausability based, it's emotional manipulation telling people that are mildly upset about x, that it's far worse than x, it's x to the power of y....

the narative from there takes hold, and once that news reaches that bubble, the doors get closed and the topic is left to grow and develop into a fear and hate mongering narrative of lies and deciept. None of which have been shown to be on point. This is the game.

arstechnica, to random
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Meta blocking VPN access to Threads in EU

Move comes as Meta tries to avoid violating privacy laws.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-blocking-vpn-access-to-threads-in-eu/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica From a Canadian perspective, I say good. With social media giants touting hate speech and falcities while selling whatever they can about you this hard line needs to be laid. I hope that these countries don't bend the knee. I hope these tech giants are forced to give up all their profits to the local gov't wherever they opperate. Stop treating people like cattle.

Gargron, to random
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

Back here again 🇨🇭

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@Gargron Oh that looks just aweful.

LilahTovMoon, to feminism

Utah is now asking for detailed menstrual information for girls looking to register for high school sports.

unhook2048,

@LilahTovMoon just don't. Don't fill it out, if pushed don't participate, I'm sure you could blow this up with the right attention if you choose

QasimRashid, to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

Spoke to a supporter this week who said, "I had a stroke 9 months ago. I'm now disabled & paying thousands a month despite having health insurance. I'm financially ruined."

Of all developed nations, such injustice only exists in the United States. This is the end result of our for profit health industry. Enough.

We Need Guaranteed Healthcare.✊🏽

And when I’m in Congress you can bet I’ll fight relentlessly for it.❤️

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@QasimRashid For as much as you yell and scream about this, as a Canadian the mantra and profiteering is now seeping into Canada. Telus has been running private healthcare (yes the cellphone provider) for some time now, Ontario's premier Mr. Ford along with others are actively defunding our public system, blaming them for not performing, and touting a "two tiered" system, in spite of input and advice from Doctors, and other professionals that this is not the way.

I'm both appauled and forelorn

liroyleshed, to random
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Mastodon feels like the most independent social network so far.

unhook2048,

@liroyleshed Welcome, it's an interestingly new concept to me. There's a lot to learn and much engagement to be had. I feel as though the interactions here are more real, less trolly, and when required they are actually insightful deliberations to educate and grow. I hope you find the same :)

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