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Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

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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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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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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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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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?
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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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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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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LMAO at people vibe coding to add things to a no longer supported FOSS project and asking for help debugging it.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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No shit, Sherlock.
Speech patterns in hate group forums closely resemble those found in forums for personality disorders.
journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000935
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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For whatever reason I just recalled memories of booting RS/6000 systems from tape.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, and then swing it over your head. Not like my uncles (who were more like older brothers) taught me to do when I was 7 or 8. Usually worked out, but sometimes not.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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I think I've done it. I've finally done it. Reached the end. The end of the internet. Nothing new to scroll. All that appears new is actually old, has already happened at least once before. Time is a flat circle. Things are repeating, but not.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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One button deploy = One button destroy
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Oh boy, is ffmpeg ever a dogs breakfast of convoluted command line option hell.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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The more you try to make a service highly available and resilient to outages, the more complex it becomes to manage it all. Eventually there is always some random bit that isn’t working quite right and you spend so much time on it all.

This is a reason why I don’t run public access instances. Another is more people than you might expect being shit heads and the time / energy needed for moderating of their activities.

I’m perfectly fine with two nines of uptime on my private instance in the corner of my office at home.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Seeing news articles weekly, if not more frequently, about various states, cities, and businesses begging Canadians to please come to the USA and spend money.

Yeah, no.

Get bent.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Remember back in the 80s where you had dust covers for computers, including keyboards and screens, because they got turned off for a good portion of the time (like when sleeping, at school/work, etc?

Also, no eating at the computer desk.

Well. I have peanut butter on my laptop. I may or may not have straight up licked my trackpad and keyboard.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Two weeks ago we were travelling LHR -> YYC

The extra $$ for premium economy for a long flight is well worth it. Extra leg and shoulder room.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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How many run time hours do you have on your drives? My desktop's direct attached thunderbolt array has about 72K hours (8+ years) under its belt. I run a scrub every 6 months or so and haven't found any bad blocks yet. It's also backed up on a regular schedule.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Importing ~500 GB of raw vacation photos sure did take a while. Hours. Capture one wanted to do a bunch of processing to generate previews and such during import. Now backing them up in triplicate with my usual flow before starting work on tagging and ranking.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Airport security theatre today decided my tiny beard scissors with 1/4 inch or shorter blades with super obvious blunt tips tips were not ok to take on a plane.

Even after I stabbed my palm quite hard without breaking the skin.

Can’t even open wide enough to cut anything more than a baby finger maybe.

Then there was the language barrier of course with what they wanted me to do. Eventually threw them out but I think they wanted me to check them as non cabin baggage somehow.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Copying a week of vacation photos to a backup drive, just in case. Once a , always a sysadmin.
Camera connected via usb to a wireless portable nas, which is also connected to an external battery to keep the drive’s internal one topped up. Wireless is just a wishful aspirational figure of speech. Like paperless office.
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