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Me: OpenBSD because it's a no-nonsense system that just works and my computer is a tool, not a project.

Also me: I don't like the battery status reporting tools I've found, I'll make my own.

Also me: Why does all the prior art use polling? Time to look at the kernel source.

The move from "lots of aliens" scifi to "no aliens" scifi is weird.

Like, just such a difference in the kinds of optimism I can feel.

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I hope one day the designer of this project finds out about HTML

I hear it's pretty cool


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MrCopilot
MrCopilot
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The review conversations were worth the price of admission.

Tomorrow I'm going to my first pride event

Over the past few years I've realized I'm both pan/bi and demi, so I guess I belong lol

@silverwizard is much more chill about it than me (in terms of nerves), so I think it'll be fun, and as he has pointed out, we'll potentially know a bunch of people who'll be there too... so not all intimidating strangers (all strangers are intimidating fyi)

I'm excited. I'm gonna wear my rainbow skirt and he's planning on wearing his rainbow vest from our wedding bc when else can you wear that?

Wish me luck, if you want to โค๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’œ

@silverwizard
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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Not a lot of venues for this vest ya know

Me, trying to get a timestamp to compare with logs
Idiots who think they're clever: 14 hours ago

Step 1: Create Urgent Ticket
Step 2: Go Out of Office for days

Recipe to me disliking you

Sales people making me go through demos are slowly making me want to write a 6000 question pre-purchase security review for them to fill out.

But that way vengeance lies.

This thing where I need to argue with a CEO hasn't happened in a few years, and I need to get better at it

I think I now have a list of things that aren't in #OpenBSD base that I can't use a computer without: git and rsync.

Of course if I want to use the computer *for* something, that's a longer list.

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Dave
Dave
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It's probably noteworthy that base includes tools that occupy the same space as these. The ones in base don't quite meet my needs but come close enough that they'd do if they were all that was available.

Just what I need, another computer.
At least I only have myself to blame for this one, whatever that's worth.

I always felt like Stephenson was gonna be a shithead. Mostly because Anathem. And apparently.

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Will Murphy

2022-06-08 17:46:20


You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

christian mock reshared this.

Gotta make a CloudToButt clone that changes buttons labelled "Got It" to "Fuck Off"

only kids born in 1988 know the curse of needing to change your email once you figure out the mistake you've made
in reply to Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*

silverwizard
silverwizard
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lol, seriously.

It's funny, I assumed everyone would just *get* the joke - but everyone except you not born in 88 has been like "Uh, my email as a kid sucked too".

So thanks for getting my terrible joke for only kids born in 88

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Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*
Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*
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terrible jokes are sometimes the best ones. ๐Ÿ˜… I love getting an eye roll or groan out of someone for my terrible jokes.

J T

2022-05-31 02:23:22


So #TCAF is right around the corner again, and of course that also means another tiny booklet giveaway! Iโ€™ll give away 5 booklet/ sticker pairs on June 18. Just comment or retweet to enter

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#TCAF

My security expert name is Silverwizard

The Gibson

2022-06-03 20:20:20


So that MS Security expert namer?
security-expert-name.com

Yeah, about that...

security-expert-name.com/uploaโ€ฆ

The nice thing about the pandemic is that Telehealth doesn't send you to the emergency room every call now!

The worst part is that they send you an ambulance

Alasdair Beckett-King

2022-05-31 11:14:26


Fascinating cultural differences

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#BSDCan group buy

Dan Langille

2022-06-02 19:08:17


@cperciva At present, it is empty.

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@Colin Percival

Colm MacCรกrthaigh

2022-06-01 18:15:53


Ninth rule of credentials: If you can't write down a common password comparison side-channel from memory, do not implement your own authentication. Yes this is gatekeeping. Sorry, but no.

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Does anyone else say "David Copperfield" instead of "Abra Kadabra" when doing magic tricks?
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Liwott
Liwott
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I see, thanks ! When did this magician live? According to wikipedia, the first known use of the word dates back to around 200 AD

Saying RTFM is a privilege earned by doing the work of WTFM
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jollyrogue
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@alcinnz โ€œHereโ€™s the code repo. Read the code. Itโ€™s self documenting.โ€๐Ÿฅธ
@alcinnz

good ol' zpool import -fF

My friends have started to view my game design threats as warnings
"I will build a Powered By the Apocolypse game for invading Shadowrun Mage TikTok"
"I will make a project management system based on the tactics rules to make extended tests more complex"
"Oh, you want a skateboard? I wrote a subsystem for skateboarding and have a half dozen statted boards, here."

Why do I have 3 browsers open?
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Dave
Dave
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You cleaned up your desktop today and quit all the other ones?
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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I think I have 5 installed, but I try to not use most of them!

Oh, look at that. Another course I need to talk to an advisor to enroll in because there's a bug in the calendar.
(Unlike the last one, this one might at least have a reasonable excuse.)

My macbook keeps whining about energy usage.
What's this iTerm2 and why does it keep using battery?!
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Viv
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Now, I'm suspecting iTerm2 to be the culprit for all my CPU usage woes and not Teams.
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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Apparently it was running the same subprocess which made hundreds of network calls a second for over a week? What a dumb program, who would do that?!

I want a word with whoever invented the idea of a raid controller


mostly - stay out of the 2020s

Rel ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

2022-05-24 11:23:34



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Comment if you're interested

I'm curious how many people and in what way people care about opsec

Personally, I am pretty certain my opsec is awful and I kinda wish I could have better opsec because I am generally, clinically (sometimes) paranoid but I also, in my clearer head, think it's too much work to bother with and more than likely nobody will do anything with information I post online

The giving your toddler an ice cream cone to filling the kiddie pool and not making them change into swimsuits pipeline

I really hope I donโ€™t associate Sean & Ro's birthdays with the upsetting events that transpired this year but I imagine it's going to be such a salient memory attached to very specific dates, I really donโ€™t know how I'm going to avoid the natural association

For context, a family member I was once close to, went into palliative care and then passed. Which is it's own thing I'm not going to get into

The worst part of recommending someone software to help them manage admin tasks is that they get really mad at you when they ask you to help out and you go "This software is beyond a trashfire"
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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VirtualMin is better than cPanel, but trying to get me to figure out how to use a server using Virtualmin is pure pain

Wayland is just X that doesn't work yet or have documentation about how it's supposed to work, right?
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silverwizard
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@SaddestRobots But but but!
Why wouldn't it!?

Not even multiheaded devices, what if you just want to be able to force some things to go to a place and misbehave there in peace!

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Alex P ๐Ÿ‘น
Alex P ๐Ÿ‘น
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@HippyWizard i think someone went through and just removed the parameter from most of the functions, somehow

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@Silverwizard

I saw a huge bumble bee in our garden today and took some time to explain to Shรฆ why it was something exciting to me

He looks at the bumble bee and says "he's so cutttee" ๐Ÿฅฐ

The problem with buying the new Marvel RPG is that I got excited about the last one and then it got destroyed before I could be excited

(Destroyed in the sense of "Remaining Product Must Be Pulped")

Congratulations, you solved Redactle #49!
You solved it in 13 guesses
Your accuracy was 53.85%

Whoa, that was lucky

#49

Wait - the chat for JJMumbleBot is a discord...?

Thinking about it very hard, the words "shit show" is one of the most horrifying idioms in English

1 Province Wide Power Outage we got caught in the middle of
1 Death in the family
3 Birthdays
5 day weekend

This has been a... long weekend

Discussing an online purchase from a company whose location unexpectedly turned out to be relevant: "In hindsight I guess their willingness to quote me a price in CAD was a pretty good sign that they weren't from USA"
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