Just keep in mind that if it was a corporate social network - the difference would be 1) the FBI would send a letter not a raid 2) you wouldn't know it had happened
One of the biggest traps I see is that communication and effective action is called incompetence
When Chapters/Indigo took down their store after a ransomware attack my dad kept telling me how incompetent it made them seem. In my opinion, they are the only sensible store I've ever seen. After that I trust their team has the resources to do their job.
Sure, an instance got raided, but they did the right things afterward. And if you can tell me where I can find a remote instance with enough disk, ram, and cpu to figure out wtf on a prod DB, you let me know
Security is the tool by which we protect privacy and increase safety.
Saying something increases security while reducing privacy *better* come with a coherent argument about safety, otherwise you're probably a bootlicker.
Aw shit! A rumour that makes all of the "Wait and See maybe Meta isn't evil" look very stupid. If the rumour is true, it turns out that Meta is indeed evil. If the rumour is untrue... uh... maybe you should check any other source about if Meta is evil
oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse
tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."
can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case
@vantablack Any idea how Louis learned this? I tracked down the original conversation on his timeline and someone else asked him the same question--he hadn't answered yet. He seems like a decent guy but I think he's inferring/guessing rather than knowing per se.
I went to sign up my kid for the local school's stupid SaaS product that, according to the school, has the main feature of adding a 2.9% transaction fee to all trips and other assorted school fees.
Yeah I've seen so many of these micro service companies.
They see the big money schools get and want a share, and they find a way to save administration time, they just do it very poorly.
I think it's more of a problem that school administrators and staff don't want to do the same work they've always done for their pay which is fair, but this isn't the way.
@Aaron A Brown š± Some reddits are opening and I posted a screenshot I saw in another thread. But it's entirely a rumour I am repeating, but seems correct.
@Memos from Lofwyr Is there a standard gift saying "we're sorry you woke up and had to chase us , but we also really don't want you to know who we are?"
1) you make some chocolate donut holes (and call them Timbits) 2) you make a lemon creamcheese icing 3) you drizzle the icing over a bowl of the timbits
@silverwizard I thought it went like this: - Q1: January, February, March - Q2: April, May, June - Q3: July, August, September - Q4: October, November, December
Although there may be difference between calendar year and fiscal year š¤·āāļø
I have a PinePower Desktop on my desk - and my headphones refuse to say if they're charging, but the thing says how many amps the port is putting out - so I can just *see* if they are charging - and this is one of the most convenient parts of the device
Bad at posting and dropped off the face of the fediverse for a good 6 months, but excited to be making a book for my 4 yo starring him and based on his current favourite book series. This is a picture of the cover I've made so far. Seems to warrent a post :)
Somebody please tell me if I did alt text correctly or tell me what I'm doing wrong if I didn't... I have never managed to get it right šš³
@Hypolite Petovan lol! It's based on an existing book series as if we're adding him as a character to the series in his own book. So the dragon masters books exist with that font already (I tried my best to copy it) the rest is all original thoughts and work, including the secondary title. I'm not the most skilled artist imo, but I'm seeking advice from a friend on ways to improve it š.... ShƦ gave us imput on some story points he'd like to be in it and Sean's put them together into a cohesive story arc
I understand it's really easy to build a lil' car out of a disposable camera using the motors for film winding or whatever - but I've never done it. I've looked for guides on how to do it - but I mostly find the dumb like "here's a tazer from a camera" instructions.
If we get our domain added to all the RBLs then we can just shut down the company I can find a new job and my stock options can be worthless - makes the Startup life go faster
are we talking about general emails (like direct communication with customers and prospects), or marketing campaign/mailing lists?
If the latter, you may consider using a service that is dedicated to this type of messaging (Sengrid, Mailchimp, whatever). It will have its own DKIM signature and a different origin (of course present in SPF records), and would make human, hand-crafted artisan messages written with love less likely to be blocked by a blanket RBL listing.
If the former, then maybe you don't need salespeople after all. Just an OpenAI API subscription and a couple of scripts.
@Hypolite Petovan at least the writer's strike is about the studios acknowledging they are gonna go: make AI write useless script hire writer as an *editor* and violate guild rules but try to be a dick on a technicality where Draft 0 was by AI
Sean, we want to see more leadership from you! But you 100% cannot have admin access to our email.
You can control the MX record, have control over the users, have the ability to read everything, just not the Admin keyword. Meaning you have to bug the CEO whenever something changes, and boy will he get mad at you for bugging him.
Successfully wrote an awk script to make user invitations way easier - pretty excited - awk has always eluded me as a skill and I want to get better at it
Oooh! AWK is usually my go-to language for almost everything!
Mind you, "almost everything" I do involves processing long lists of text: log files, address books with tens of thousands of contacts, all election candidates in the whole region... so AWK is usually the correct choice. But even when it's not, I usually start with AWK anyway.
@Bob Jonkman I am really good with cut, sed, and a bunch of other shell tools - meaning I never really ending up needing awk - but there's a bunch of places where you need awk
Hacker Public Radio is an podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that are of interest to hackers and hobbyists.
Wow! An entire #HackerPublicRadio series on #AWK. I'm sure I've heard some of these already, but I'll see if I can add just the series to @AntennaPod and decrease even more my copious amounts of free time for listening š
And, of course, repeat my so-far unkept promise to contribute an episode or two. I hear @hpr is running low on episodes again.
@bobjonkman @ghostdancer @AntennaPod @hpr In my case discovering #AWK was an introduction to the "Unix Way". I found a version to run on the OpenVMS system I was administering in the 1980's or later, and it made life so much easier. Handling data from the student records system (to make accounts for them) was so much easier than writing compiled programs!
@Dave Morriss @ghostdancer @Hacker Public Radio @AntennaPod @Bob Jonkman AWK always feels like an arcane thing to me - it's something my dad has implemented three times on three systems - and so it's kinda always been a mythical tool. But so has KornShell and that's also my default shell.
@perloid @ghostdancer @hpr @AntennaPod @bobjonkman I used awk in my hardware detection script, but I had to look up how to use it and then experiment a bit... Sed and awk are both a bit mystical to us 'desktop users.' :) But still super handy for hacking together things.
silverwizard
in reply to silverwizard • •I can only find the twitter number but it looks like the FBI payed Twitter $3.5 million between Oct 2019 and Feb 2021
We don't know how many requests but that seems like not a small number
silverwizard
in reply to silverwizard • •One of the biggest traps I see is that communication and effective action is called incompetence
When Chapters/Indigo took down their store after a ransomware attack my dad kept telling me how incompetent it made them seem. In my opinion, they are the only sensible store I've ever seen. After that I trust their team has the resources to do their job.
Sure, an instance got raided, but they did the right things afterward. And if you can tell me where I can find a remote instance with enough disk, ram, and cpu to figure out wtf on a prod DB, you let me know