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backupbear

@backupbear@aus.social

Enterprise tech worker focused on ethical advancement of the industry. Heavily into #DataProtection – of the storage/availability kind (particular emphasis on #backup and #recovery). Blog and publish books on it, just for ongoing nerdery on the topic.

Also a huge #PowerPlate fan & user.
Posts are my own, unassociated with any employer. Links at https://linktr.ee/backupbear

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backupbear,
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@ojala @bplein also the ongoing combo of:

media: <this worker once stole a loaf of bread to make ends meet, we must hound them to death> and

media: <this business-owner found a creative way to underpay staff by millions for decades. worship him>

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Pet theory: the paywalling of valid, useful information while misinformation is freely available everywhere is a leading contributor to our societal problems.

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Personal theory: LLMs deliver all of the enthusiasm of a 7-year old breathlessly describing a stegosaurus while less than the guaranteed accuracy of the same.

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Me: "I finally achieved Inbox Nero."
Them: "Don't you mean Inbox Zero?"
Me: "No, I played some music while I burnt it all down."
Them: "That sounds way better. How do I sign on?"

backupbear, to random
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Open web page:

  1. Dismiss popup with some shit I don’t even read
  2. Do the cookie dance
  3. Dismiss popup lower-right corner asking me if I’d like to chat to Shazelle, the autobot director of despair
  4. Answer ‘No’ to the stupid popup asking me if I’d like to accept notifications from the page
  5. Increase browser font size.
  6. Page dynamically readjusts.
  7. Increase font size.
  8. Page dynamically readjusts.
  9. Increase font size you BASTARDS.
  10. Start reading.
  11. Popup, “How would you rate our site?”
  12. Become a hermit.
backupbear, to random
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Dear $retailer. Just because I bought 3 products from you in an order should not mean I have to:

  • Unsubscribe from your inspo emails
  • Unsubscribe from your updates
  • Unsubscribe from your exciting-new-collaboration-with-another-product emails
  • Unsubscribe from your emails asking me to review product 1
  • Unsubscribe from your emails asking me to review product 2
  • Unsubscribe from your emails asking me to review product 3
  • Unsubscribe from your emails asking me to rate your company
  • Unsubscribe from your emails asking me to rate my general shopping experience

Signed,
Every. Internet. User.

backupbear, to random
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Must have caught a scam caller today having a really bad day. They didn’t even try.

Them: “Hi, this is Commonwealth Bank Security Department.”
Me: “No, you’re a scam call.”
Them: “NO! YOU SCAM CALL!” <they hung up>

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Australia's new DigitalID will feature an advanced 2FA mechanism. You'll have to listen to a random pronunciation of "Maaaate" and determine whether it was friendly, neutral or a deadly-enemy statement.

backupbear, to random
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While the people who protest climate change inaction get more jail than the people who cause climate change, we won't see any tangible improvements.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/message-must-be-sent-jail-terms-almost-tripled-for-climate-activists-who-shut-down-west-gate-bridge-20240319-p5fdh5.html

backupbear, to random
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I again find myself wanting to automatically add a "Local time: X" to each participant's square so that everyone on the meeting sees what time it is for each participant.

backupbear, to Minecraft
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Well, new instance, so I guess it's time for a new post. Data protection geek with a skew of homosexual tendencies. I'm an author of a number of books (so yes I'm a big geek -- and hence the handle), enjoy the non-technical world through my collection, probably spend too much downtime idly playing and get quite passionate about in IT. In my $DayJob I'm a .

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I really do get tired of news articles talking about domestic terrorists as "known to have mental health issues". Fuck that. Many people have mental health issues without committing acts of domestic terrorism/mass murder. Stop demonizing people with health issues.

backupbear, to climate
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People briefly interrupting access to artwork to protest inaction? Great stuff.

People interrupting traffic to protest inaction? Nice!

People disrupting annual general meetings to protest inaction? Excellent.

People briefly halting sporting events to protest inaction? Awesome.

People heckling politicians in parliaments and on the street to protest inaction? Fucking awesome.

If you think any of these things are disruptive or too much of an inconvenience for you, wait until disruptions caused by climate change start really hitting you. Then you’ll find yourself reminiscing about that simpler time when Olivia and Randal glued themselves to a pedestrian crossing and delayed you getting to work by almost half an hour.

backupbear, to random
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People who talk about dismissing prompts for cookies, opting out of newsletters, etc., as being the modern browser experience forget about the other side of it:

  1. Scroll to where text starts on page. Start reading.
  2. Page elements above you load & move content.
  3. Scroll back to where you were trying to read. Start reading again.
  4. Page elements above you load & move content.
  5. Scroll back to where you were trying to read. Start reading again.
  6. Page elements above you load & move comment.
  7. Give up and close browser tab.
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Social Media tip:

The people who tell you "don't block" are mostly gonna be the people wanting to troll you or people of privilege. Maybe - just maybe they might be people who think you can politely debate people who aren't interested in debate.

BUT, believe them when they say "Don't behave on social media like you wouldn't in real life". But they're saying it to try to guilt you into doing the opposite. You gonna stand in the street and politely engage when a total stranger walks up to you and starts harassing you or abusing you? No, do what you'd do in real life: get out of that situation as quickly as possible for your physical and mental health.

Block and block frequently. You have better things to do in your life than try to be accountable to strangers who hold you in contempt.

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JFC if you’re a white straight guy in tech complaining that people are commenting with disappointment on the lack of diversity at an event … You. Are. Part. Of. The. Problem.

backupbear, to UX
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I'm freaking tired of product situations where "No" isn't an option. Giving options of "Yes" and "Maybe later" is specious bullshit and it results in a fucking creepy, unpleasant experience.

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Go home, TechRadar, you're drunk.

In its list of "best email clients" (free and paid) it ranks Slack as 4th in the free rankings, with the note "Reasons to avoid: not email".

Yeah, why not put KFC Zinger Fillets in your fecking list of email clients if you're gonna do that? Because they're better than any damn email client I've ever used.

backupbear, to random
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offering 200GB to people affected by the outage should be a clear indicator of how cheap it is for telcos to provide data these days.

backupbear, to random
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Just for shits and giggles, someone should convince Elon that he needs to buy Oracle and give it the same treatment as Twitter.

backupbear, to random
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Did you know that if you write "Kate Middleton" backwards, you get "notelddiM etaK", which is about as useful to your daily life as any other information about the British Royal Family.

backupbear, to llm
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Tell me your has been trained using cishet data, not vetted for diversity & inclusion, without telling me your LLM has been trained using cishet data & vetted for diversity & inclusion.

backupbear, to random
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This says everything that is wrong in the Australian housing market in the lede.

backupbear, to starbucks
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Someone recently suggested to me that has "improved" in Australia and convinced me to try it again.

I can safely say after grudgingly agreeing to try it again yesterday, while it might be possible to say that it has "improved", it is "improved" in the same way that eating 3 rat turds would be an "improvement" over eating having to eat 5.

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Can anyone recommend a USB-C to Ethernet dongle that definitely delivers full gigabit speed (as opposed to simply advertising it but failing to deliver)?

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