#GenX #EarlyRetirement #Retired
#Unix #SysAdmin 
#MeshCore (very casual tinkerer)
#YQL #Lethbridge #Alberta #Canada 🇨🇦
Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
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@RussSharek (re)following all my followers and categorizing into local lists later by their most posted theme or whatever suits my fancy. Probably not subdividing by length of pinky toe, but one never knows.
Dear country between Canada and Mexico that is a failed experiment. Please keep within your existing borders and implode quietly.
Started a rewatch of Lexx the other night. Got through the second “episode” tonight. Amazingly cheesy scenery chewing and all the dated sfx etc are an important part of the experience.
That /24 block of ip from Ukraine sure is persistent with the attempted logins. I think nearly all of that range was hitting my stuff within the same hour. Auto blocking worked but now the whole subnet is going on the permanent deny filter.
Just finished migrating all my 1Password entries over to Apple Passwords. Lost some features (categories and specific fields for software, secure notes, credit cards), but the basics work and the rest can be worked around by repurposing fields or just pasting into a notes field.
Reason for getting rid of - Apple passwords works well enough, the annual 1pass family subscription is up for renewal. It was annoying when they went to cloud only, subscription only a while back but we didn't have the attention time to find and migrate elsewhere.
Only just now found out 1pass are partnering with some AI browser bs thing.
Apple does questionable things too, but I generally trust them with account type things.
@GeePawHill All the people involved did a top notch job, thanks for pointing it out to the uninitiated :)
@Brett @GeePawHill Just wait for the episodes where Tatiana plays character A playing character B. It's exquisite.
Does Tim Apple have rickets?
I thought California had lots of citrus fruit.
Had a troubling dream last night.
There was a storm approaching and it was a super wide tornado. I was trying to text an alert about it but awtokorrupt plus clippy and several chat bots were getting in the way. Pop ups and cookie agreement banners overlapping everywhere, stealing keyboard focus.
The tornado came closer and closer, right at me, all while I was stuck trying to get the message out.
Woke up with my cpap hose wrapped around my throat three or four times. I must have been really tossing and turning.
No idea if it was the Brazilian BBQ meat overdose earlier that evening or what.
I’d rather take my usual but infrequent troubling dream of Charlie Brown chasing me with an axe.
Our pedestrian crosswalk beg buttons say "WAIT!" in a semi-urgent male voice when you press them (or wave at them closely in some cases). Meaning, wait for the light to change and the walk sign to light up.
Tonight we encountered one that said "Change password" in a non-urgent female voice. Couldn't get it to repeat that, nor give any more audible output while we were there waiting for the light to change. Pushed it a zillion times. (Usually you can push them and get it to say WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!)
LMAO.
Re-reading the Berserker books from Saberhagen, for the first time in many years. Oh boy, they did not age well. Many jarring things that often knock me out of the story. I feel a much better editing job could have been done.
Something is explained a second time or third time in as many chapters and not from different character's points of view either. Sometimes these repeating bits contradict what came from before.
This happens in multiple novels.
Maybe, I have not looked it up, it is a byproduct of being serialized in a magazine before being turned into a book? Still, an editing pass would have been advisable.
#Reading #ScienceFiction #1980sBooks #ScienceFictionReaders
@JRDRD Max Headroom was only 20 minutes into the future. How much harm could he do with so little time? :p
@n_dimension snort Related, I am currently re-reading Berserker Blue Death and the Carmpan just signed on as crew with the name "Fourth Adventurer".
Wow, I can not recall ever seeing S.M.A.R.T. actually warning about a drive before it was too late to save the data on it. I guess my 8.5 year old drives in the external array on my desktop are finally starting to go.
I have younger and slightly bigger drives from my old NAS on hand to swap in one by one, and a good backup system so I'm not worried about data loss or ordering replacement hardware.
#SysAdmin #HomeComputing
IT department didn’t just cut stuff off without warning though. Depending who it was and their role we gave varying (all short though) notice periods of the cutoff.
Also we let them know we would look for a safe way to enable whatever function they needed for their work.
Often it was engaging with the new to us vendor to see if their product had on prem version and/or they had (or could complete) various security audit things that met our requirements.
Anything that met the bar would be put into the self serve portal the end users could dip into to install approved things.
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Semi-related to basic literacy requirements for new hires, why not also require completion of a touch typing course within the first 6 months of onboarding at a position that involves typing anything at all? Even as low as 25-30 wpm?
#sysadmin #GrumbleSmurf
I remembered just now how upset certain people were at my last employer (in the finance industry) when we explicitly blocked Grammerly. Just use the built in stuff in Word and copy-paste the result into the customer support ticket or whatever. Or learn gud englysh.
Even back then it was so obvious you shouldn’t be sending confidential info to random third parties. Or hiring people without basic literacy.
That last bit is important even if you have tools to help oversights. The number of times I read about “The costumer ... "
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