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Holy fuck

I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!

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@Kicou The rclone I have access to in packages is sliiiiiiiightly out of date, and in that slight change, Google changed its entire auth scheme
@Kicou importantly I'm stuck on AWS linux, and AL2 has out of date rclone and AL2023 wont install fail2ban
will the installed rclone binary self update?
@Kicou I installed it from packages, will that out of band update?

Ya, it will pull the latest binary from rclone.org repo and overwrite the existing one

You may want to back up the original binary file beforehand

@Kicou nah, the server doesn't live longer than a few hours

but ok, this might make me not claw out my eyes

I hate to say it, but could you bodge something together with curl?
@kicou
@DHeadshot's Alt @Kicou I got allowed to put the docs in S3, which is good only because AWS interacting with AWS

What do you expect from Microsoft ? (Lennart works there now)
@ck0 I expect Microsoft to Embrace at least a little!
@ck0


@Becky said she wanted to watch classic movies and I had to ask "Casablanca or Mean Girls" and I feel like this kind of distinction would serve very well in a lot of situations.
Babe wake up new verse of “Hey Nineteen” just dropped


Any #AWS types ever seen an issue where when restoring from snapshot a table or schema is missing?
#aws
@silverwizard @rgegriff Is there any chance the Aurora instance that you took the snapshot from is also missing that schema? Like did you take the snapshot from the original Aurora instance that had the schema and restore it to another?
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@Rivetgeek @Chrisshy Keygen nah, it's actually a clone of an instance (we had two services using the same DB and split them apart, so now 2 dbs) and one had it and the restored copy didn't. Second restore had it.

Another entry in the world of "Silver says something that's barely even words unless you understand everyone one of them"


My neighbour has an above ground pool, which has some sort of tech on it that beeps like a failing UPS.

I am actually starting to have trouble sleeping due to my brain panicking that something is going down.



The existence, and especially ongoing existence, of something.com brings me continuous joy.

you can have pyramids in your pyramids on your pyramids


I need to go get in a fight with my city about their fucking lawn bylaws. "No plants over 20cm" is basically a crime against the ecosystem, and they're on a tear this year.
Ah, the classic city planning priority: classism. Followed quickly by racism.
@Craig P with help from my parents I bought a house while still in university, and because of that I live in a fairly poor area. And holy shit, it's hard not to understand what people are talking about. "We will collect your leaves, but only after snowfall. We will penalize you for having leaves after it snows". Just so many ongoing attempts to fine people who live in my neighbourhood.

This is a joke about vampires, it has not deeper context around the problem with a lot of The Purpose Of a System hot takes is that a lot of the systems are hidden from view


This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.

And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!

A screenshot of the AWS EC2 console, with the IP of a server, with "Open Address" and "Copy To Clipboard buttons"
Don't worry, I'm gonna delete that server, that IP isn't a thing.


I gotta figure out a funding model to do security for libraries and hospitals, there's gotta be a way to build DFIR and hardening teams for these orgs, the question is how to get the money.

@Rye yeah! I'm at the noodling stage

I just my first main cert so feel like people can take me seriously, am dreaming about my next steps because I feel like the company I work for is about to collapse, and I want to do something that feels good

this all adds up to figuring out grant writing, where to look, and more yeah, I just need to, figure that out

@Rye


bad USB port on my phone (the replacement is in the mail), so I do a watch adb shell wm reset and then start wiggling the cable until the screen unfucks itself.
Holy shit! My replacement parts came in within 10 days.


Asking a bunch of python and JS devs for review on my current project

A bunch of fail2ban rules and a bash script that writes to sshd_config and fstab

Code review is a weird beast

"It's a thousand lines changed because I wanted to keep it small"

I got a review comment "Shouldn't this thing that can't call out to anywhere, call out to get this value?"


If Taylor Swift was as cool as people think she is she'd straight up Boeing Daniel Ek


Calling the local farmer's market enshittified because it's got limited space and so worse and worse vendors looking to shill crap for too much money are covering more and more and of the stalls. Sunglasses, Disney plushies, and cheese that's more expensive than the Loblaws.
@Jonathan Lamothe The worst part is that there's so many good farmers markets around, just not that one
@silverwizard How close do you consider "around"? I'd love a local alternative.


Poor @Alex P. 👹 tried to come over and talk - and got ambushed by learning things no one needs to know about the horrors of Canadian fibre and ISP drama.
it's exciting to me because i don't have to live with the consequences daily


I didn't eat for 24 hours, and then I ate a largish breakfast.

Now my stomach is mad at me



Problem with buying a kilo of coffee right before the conference, is that every time I open my bag it smells delicious


Somehow, I don't have the jankiest Mac running OpenBSD at BSDCan

This is both surprising and unsurprising

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Train wifi is so crappy it's taken 40 minutes to download Rust


Everyone else is at or going to BSDCan and I'm trying work on making SSH behave on Linux :(

Tomorrow I go on the train, but, not until tomorrow.



UniHertz sold me two backup charging assemblies and a backup speaker assembly for my Titan. All in cost me $30.

This is exactly what I want from a phone company. Sell me fixes!



birthday at a mini-Legoland in Toronto! They have a Lego earthquake machine!
A lego structure on a baseboard with controls showing how intensely it will be shaken

I know they don't let grownups in without kids

This is why I have a deep cover 3 and 5 year old



My aircon is covered in ice and apparently this is a thing that happens and I am sweltering

Yup. Freezing is a known failure mode for air conditioners.

Hopefully it just means it's dirty or the fan has broken in it. Without enough airflow the evaporator coil will get too cold and freeze.

If the fan is ok and it's not dirty then it could have a more serious problem

@Bee O'Problem yeah, we had a massive spike of plants grow around it and left it for a day, and so I'm hoping that that's all it is.

If it's not that it apparently could be a coolant leak



My two year old walks up to me holding a stick "It's my shilleilagh!"

I stop

I skip a beat

I realize that there's a troll in True And The Rainbow Kingdom who calls his stick a shillelagh.

The real question is how can a 2 year old say Shillelagh pefectly

@Hypolite Petovan it's more, kids pronouncing any word is hard, any multisyllabic word is harder
@silverwizard Fair, I’m probably auto-correcting my memories of that time.


I wrote a lil essay


In my twenties, I could hide my invisible disabilities because they were both invisible and I had already learned that people had judgments about them that I couldn’t always handle well. Hiding my disability was a goal to me, to keep me safe, but it backfired. Now, not only will I have to sit with the consequences, but potentially others will as well.

I learned watching people react before I knew that I should or could hide them - it taught me a lot about the implicit biases and judgments that people had, and in a lot of ways I was grateful for my experience being disabled with my natural openness, because it gave me insight I never would have found as easily elsewhere into how othering effects the people who are targeted by it. Hearing the kinds of things that were expressed to me about my illnesses, that I had no idea other people could even get it that wrong so easily, will always be in my head. I always worked tirelessly on myself so that I didn’t have to feel such intense effects that my disabilities caused me, and as it was I could hide my disabilities so effectively that other people were shocked when I divulged them. I also didn’t know one of them at the time, so it was really when I divulged the one I knew about. I lived a disabled life, but I lived the kind of idealized to able-people disabled life, which is to have a disability that is so hidden that you effectively do not (to them) have a disability. This has caused problems, and I’ve seen them. People will expect everyone who has my disabilities to be able to hide them as well as I used to be able to. Or to work tirelessly at themselves so their disabilities are not ever put upon another person. I feel like I have accidentally tricked these people into believing the worst about people with disabilities without them ever realizing the problem with their actions. I wasn’t even for the most part aware I was doing this.

One day I became a parent, and my ability to hide my disabilities was shaken, and yet there I was and I persevered through and nobody would be any wiser. But then I became a parent again to another little cutie, and I stopped any pretense at being able to hide anything. In fact, my other disability popped it’s head out too and made itself known to me. My house became a disaster I couldn’t even comprehend being able to do anything about. I stopped being able to live up to the demands of life in the ways that everybody expected me to be able to. The pressures to preform kept building, and in fact still do. I was living in chronic overwhelm and the only thing that made it calm down was the ability to treat my second disability with medication. Yet living is hard, let alone thriving. When I ask for support, I am often faced with a wall of nothing. When that is not true, I begin to rely so heavily on my single outlet of support that I burn them out, because there is often only one outlet of support that I get. I am trying not to do that, it’s hard and complicated. I am complicated.

People had expectations of me as a person, and I let them down. I had dreams and expectations of other people too. That they would help me when I needed help, and recognize that I was disabled and understand what that actually meant, and that they knew that when I said something about the situation I was in, that they should listen to that and hear it. I thought that by being honest with the people I was closest to, that I was letting them in on the crucial knowledge that I was a complicated person who might need grace and understanding and help sometimes. Actually needing help has always been a complicated thing, and so I would only ever call on people when I actually needed it. As it turns out, I needed it so infrequently that they thought I would never need help. Their expectations of me were molded as I was, as a young independent and secure disabled person. Their expectations of what disability looks like were shaped. Now I am an inconvenience and a burden, but that is clearly not because I have been disabled and always will be disabled. It is a character flaw, it is a problem, it is ultimately in my control that I need more than what I’m being given.

If you see my fall from grace, know that I did let you down. I should have advocated better when I had the strength. I should have explained what disability was and now instead of seeing a person who has things going on and is struggling under the weight of it all, all you’re going to see is an inconvenience, is a burden. It is complicated because I don’t believe that disability makes you need more than other people need, it only makes you need what you can’t do on your own. If we had different systems, if we had different connections, if we had different structures than we wouldn’t need things in the way we do. It is because we are not considered that the need is great. On top of that, needing should never make somebody a burden or an inconvenience, it should only ever make them a human being. Yet we live in this world where needing anything automatically makes you an inconvenience or a burden or both, depending on what and how you might need something. Being disabled in this world, means I cannot live up to expectations. It is not fair, it is not easy, and I have no control over it. This is the reality I need people to realize about disability.



@Becky says my N95 Accent Disguising Machine isn't stopping the Quebecois from realizing I'm not a local
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I boot an old Mac I rarely use except when I need a mac. I run "brew update" and... it updates XZ

Painful :(



the problem with making robots with k year olds is that I just kinda thing "let's do this" and fly by the seat of my pants but the kid really needs structure


Been sick all week, it's quarter to four and I'm basically asleep. Blah. Don't get sick.
hope you are better soon!
I'm hoping to be well enough for the Birthday Gauntlet next week, and then BSDCan! Baaaaah!


How do people parent without having a partner or self who did their thesis on zeitgebers?!
@silverwizard Thank you for the elaboration!
@Hypolite Petovan it's kinda a IYKYK thing, but I care deeply about it!


In the wake of vishing, smishing, and qishing, catfishing will now be known as chishing
@silverwizard Oh no, I'm sorry, hope you're feeling better!

whole RPG industry would die of Squenix switched to a proper vcs
Fantasy, Final X (2)


Now that I'm a CISSP is it the *law* that I have to add it to my email signature? Or somehow dangerous not to?

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you mean “LinkedIn only, I am excited to announce”

@AN/CRM-114 I am excited to announce my CISSP allowing me to leverage my knowledge in assisting organizations in their DevSecOps journey!

(I was to be clear - I'm making fun of me, not others, this kind of language has its place)



My son thinks every country has a king, since ya know, we do. It feels weird and is so fucking hard to explain to a four year old that having a king is considered dumb and out of date.


As a kid I watched the PBS show Ghost Writer, but on TVO. Now my kid is starting to watch it, and, uh.

Wow it's better than I remember.

It is better at talking about race in America than any show I've seen, and it does *the fucking work* to make sure its kids feel like kids but also never once talk down to a kid.

I honestly wonder if, as a show, radicalized me into the person I am.

My wife who has never seen any episode is so fucking invested we've watched some episodes while the kids were asleep.

Thinking about it, my final answer is that Ghost Writer is a show about teaching kids to seek justice, in an unjust world. They don't call the world unjust, but present the world as it is.


I should be flattred that when I make brownies my kids start chanting impatiently, shouldn't I?

it's just very stressful



Why haven't we, as a society, given up on USB-c as a failed experiment?
That’s not been my experience, but I’m much more careful about which cables I buy than with other types of cables, as there is/was a ton of fraudulent product, particularly early on.
@Lester Ward for most it's that the ports go tacky after a few months


Fuck
My site's RSS, for an unknown amount of time, has been fucked, because it gets generated using the creation time on the file. But apparently something is updating the creation time on every file in the directory. Shit.