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HOWTO Security: Throw everyone's data in a shoebox labelled Secret Docs protected by a techobro who knows NodeJS and AWS


Hey - uh #mail #admin types

I am spotting mail getting into people's spam folder more as my users use ChatGPT to write their emails, anyone else seeing this?

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Digging, washing, and drying dandelion roots because my kid wanted to make "kid coffee"


After this year I think I need to submit a talk to BSDCan entitled:
I'm An Idiot And So Can You:
A Guide For Homelabs


Listen, I am your sysadmin - but if an issue is urgent for me - it gets to be urgent for you.


Ug - I need popup blocks for the web.

Why the fuck did JS thing drawing over a page was a good thing to allow?!

in reply to silverwizard

It's the whole history of the web.

SGML was intended to overcome proprietary file formats for documents, marking text semantically, leaving it to the user to decide how to display it. HTML was originally an instance of SGML.

From the beginning, people were trying to thwart the design of HTML to force people to see pages specific ways. The early books on web design were mostly about how designers could abuse the standard with "tricks" to control the experience of users.

in reply to FoolishOwl

I had a job in a bookstore in the 90s and remember getting into an argument with two customers. One wanted to get in to web design, so I recommended some O'Reilly textbook that starts with explaining the underlying principles of HTML. An older guy got angry at me pushing pedantic nonsense, and recommended some glossy book on creating websites for advertising, how to create entrance and exit tunnels, do everything with image maps instead of text, etc.
in reply to FoolishOwl

Of course, I was making $7.50 per hour working in a bookstore, and I'm not a web designer now, so the market decided I'm wrong.


I am the office Windows expert. Also the Office365 expert.

This is maddening, strange, and annoying.



I just realized that my gopher phlog has null.hosts over its gophermap because I put it in a chroot.

I should be more responsible and write a less defaulty gophermap

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There's a theme in my Burning Wheel game that our spellcasters have:
Read
Calligraphy
Symbology

but not the Write skill, it often ends up leading to very funny situations.

Our belief is that Wizards can Spell but they can't spell



They should modify USB-c so that there's a host and a client version - that way I can tell which way some adapters are designed to go and make the standard a little more robust and simple


Completely seriously starting to think that if I ever got super high and did E or Molly - I'd probably end up in the middle of rave - dancing as hard as I could trying to explain network failure domains to someone


I wish I had a tool to manage my webapps separately from my web pages. Maybe a way to launch individual services and update them separately from my reference tool.

#sarcasm

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard I don’t quite get it. Are wishing web apps were standalone programs?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan yeah - I am

I am wishing we wrote standalone software rather than just being like "let's make the web a complication target because driveby malware is too hard and installed software is too easy to learn and get used to"




My son just gave me a piece of his food so that he could ask for a bite of it


Server ran out of space and broke - as part of maintenance updated to latest friendica.

Federation might be weird until tomorrow morning

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One of the interesting things about ChatGPT is that I think most people who think it's smart deal with ChatGPT and not prompting a model directly.

ChatGPT is very much the most obviously designed to look human.

I rememeber GPT2 and people being like "whoa, this is cool" and then kinda... nothing. After a bit OpenAI had to be like "oh we have GPT3 now! But.... uh... if we release it, it'll end the human race. So uh... better not...."



SSHing into work servers and whining about vim

From the perspective of being like "Damnit, why is vim so opinionated and full of cruft I don't want"




I've realized the signal that I'm most mad at work is me repeating the exact same message verbatim


My son has been playing he has a magic sword recently and he says "Daddy the sword turned us into different people! I'm a knight! What are you?"

I respond "I'm a wizard!"

He responds "No daddy! You have to be something different"

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Can I say how fucking unprofessional it is to fucking mute the alert channel rather than prioritizing fixing the broken alert
in reply to silverwizard

I wanna be super clear

The alert was: "Thing has returned an error an hard failed"

The cause was: "API rate limits not accounted for and usage went way up without backoff"



Being on vacation for a week was way too much effort - camping with a 2 year old is a lot.


My credit card company wont let me pay my phone bill until they can send me an SMS

in reply to silverwizard

Yes. It is just the regular kind of everyday pole vaulting all the kids in his neighborhood did all the time when he was growing up.


"I forgot my password" form that emails you the hash in the database so you can figure out which one you used

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@Jonathan Lamothe I editted to add that since I realized that was a possible interpretation
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Hypolite Petovan
@Fabio @silverwizard Nah, I believe you’re looking for 4a7d1ed414474e4033ac29ccb8653d9b


I am going to need a more powerful work computer

Not to do my job - but to use all the junk like Miro and Zoom and Datadog

My daily tasks are trivial for my computer to perform - but using the tools we've chosen means I need more.

This is failure of our entire industry.

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in reply to CJ the Awkward Lefty

@CJ the Awkward Lefty huh, seems like Windows deals less well with low RAM than I'd expect, because that seems an ok CPU and ok disk.

But I mean, don't ask me about computers I only buy stuff people are discarding and then build abominations out of it, I don't do computers anymore



Boss: *reviewing my slides for a talk* "I don't understand any of this from my slides! This talk is bad
Me: Uh... why would the slides be the talk? The slides are just some anchors and an agenda?
Boss: Well yes of course they are, but looking at the slides I don't understand the topic, these are just point form!


Programmers would do anything to be on the Enterprise but anything to avoid being in an enterprise



Bah, it's 5:30 am and I just awoke from a nightmare that my backups had failed

At least I am consistently me



Does anyone remember GMail Drive? The thing before Google Drive?

I remember it was harvesting passwords but can't find a source on that

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in reply to silverwizard

nope... And I've been using Gmail nearly as long as it has existed...


Coworker is trying to fix a problem by reverting a git commit and having issues

I respond "If you want me to talk to you about directed acyclic graphs for half an hour at some point I can"



Every time I need to use Miro for work I cringe because I know nothing will work and that sucks


Trying to setup some stupid Amazon web portal thing - and it's... a joke.

They want me to have a massive network setup - but there's no feedback about how things are setup. And - I mean, I have the gateway connected to the gateway and then a route connected to the gateway? That seems correct?

So I go and hit my home address from the portal, and I see a burst of activity in my logs, followed by nothing, because traffic is getting to the right spot but then Amazon is ignoring that.

in reply to silverwizard

If you say the words return traffic routing to me - I will cut you.

Ok, maybe not, just...



I wish Slack allowed me to schedule posts for like 9:15 or whatever in one click.

0900 is a terrible time for scheduled posts, neither of us are done coffees.



Ok, now I see a bunch of Fedi people signing up for accounts on Threads...

I
...

Uh


....

Do they understand they have Threads compatible accounts?

"No! I wont defederate from Meta, instead I will abandon the lack of ads and get some free ads"



Remember - when you get an AI image captcha - you can usually make a few mistakes without penalty - make sure to do that
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@David. Not Dave. 🏳️‍🌈 Well now it's weird AI generated art instead of self driving car images
in reply to silverwizard

There should be a convenient way to make Google pay me at a bare minimum $1000 for every time I run into recaptcha.




What's the status of video editting in the Open Source world?
My kid seems to want to do video editting (loves the idea of making portals, he's drawing them and filming them on his tablet, but wants the shimmer)

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