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in reply to Darcy Casselman

(Come to think of it, we should probably figure out some sort of escrow...)
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@Darcy Casselman I *very* have my wife's password and vice versa. It makes our lives so much easier.

This friend had stored their digital life on my systems as a backup, and only just today finally figured it was time to roll those keys.



I am listening to an interleaved playlist of The Cardigans and Jaya the Cat. Because apparently, what I don't need today is emotional stability

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In case you missed it - update VMware ESX

There's an in the wild exploit chain being used which does VM -> Hypervisor escape, across all versions of ESXi. Allows full cluster access (not just VMs on that host)

Impacts ESX 5.5 (no patch), 6.5, 6.7, 7, 8 - ie every version released over the past 15 years

doublepulsar.com/use-one-virtu…

#threatintel

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6 different colors on the whiteboard? Looks a little too official...

Nice post though. Almost too nice...
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Me, trying to explain the Scooby Doo episode to my kids: "Ok, you remember Spiders-Man? Manbat is like Spiders-Man"


Friend: Apparently the LCBO in Ontario is one of the world's largest buyers of booze
Me: 18-25 year olds head north to where there's shitty internet and no town and spend four months getting paid well and living in a camp. Of course it is.

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The problem with parental controls, is that my kids are 3 and 5. I don't want them exposed to raw unfiltered internet. But I also know that they *will be*.

This means that parental controls are a war I'm trying to figure out how to let my kids win in the most gentle way possible. I want them to win without feeling smarter and better than me, and like they're invincible. I want them to become aware of the fact that the internet is a complicated place, I don't want them to fear, but I also want them to respect. I dunno - parenting is hard.

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sooo been there myself! My kids are now 12/13. We started slow, with unconnected devices (old phones) and a few games, kinda like just a different toy. As they go through school we try to draw analogies with familiar things.. Internet is kinda like 'outdoors'. Some areas are safe for you, some are not. Running around when you should be in bed is also not good. Trying to present family controls as helping, not a war you will lose...

But. Yeah it's hard 🤪 good luck!

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@Slash909uk yeah! outdoors is a good analogy. Someone else suggested the metaphor of the creek nearby. Fun but needs respect and precautions.

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@pluralistic

Another epic slam on libertarians:

"That's right: at the first hint of competition, the self-described libertarians who insisted that computers would make governments obsolete went running to the government, demanding a state-backed monopoly that would put their rivals in prison for daring to interfere with their business model."

pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/obj…

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💠 not knowing something is normal. Asking for help is good! Using LLMs for that is literally never going to help. It will appear very convincingly to help! that's what it's best at! But it will absolutely, 100% of the time make things worse for you.
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Private vehicles should be outlawed on public roads.

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You've read the tales, now get the books!

#Germany #folktale #folklore #book
sunkencastles.com/the-books/

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I'm wondering, with the US in the state it's in, and the potential death of some (all? any? no one knows) defense contractors. Combined with the current dramas around CVE/CVSS, is now the time to start replacing the CVE system with something else?

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Much ink being spilled about federal workers submitting 5 bullets of what they do every week and how big of a waste of time it is

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Me having to do daily stand-ups and sprints and filling out redundant metadata on tickets 😑

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in reply to Jess👾

I've been on standups with _3_ team members and 1 PM that take 1 hour because the PM just never shuts up. Thankfully that job is long over. So much wasted time.
in reply to Miah Johnson

@miah I keep trying to tell myself:

I'm just a mercenary. I do what the person buying my time tells me to. No need for loyalty or emotional involvement in anything.

in reply to Jess👾

Oh ya I'm far past that. My current role I'm one of like 10 people in the entire company. My work life balance is _fantastic_. I just think about pottery and fixing things around the house more than work at this point.
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@Willow Ya. I've started painting my nails during meetings =) When I get a crochet needle I'll probably start doing that too.


Our Shadowrun group just decided our TacNet (Military Tactical Network to link cyberpunk gear and soldiers) requires filing in Tactical Cards in order to meet our Mission Stories.

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Mozilla's most recent backpedal implies to me they wanna train an LLM with the data and are worried California will call it "Sell"

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A couple years back I saw a travel projector for $99, and uh, holy crap. It's currently running all my sound, running the sbc for the media, and projecting, one block of resources to handle "watch a show". It's real nice.

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If you're about to code in an override for my system default scrollbar width setting... please rethink your life.

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Fuck yes.

Server migration went off without a hitch.

If I disappear from you for 24 to 48 hours - flush your damn DNS cache

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I'm not in the UK anymore! I've slain the Online Safety Act


Ironically one of our users is a UK citizen, and out of 6 people that might be significant!



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the means of production were the friends we made along the way. always have been.

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@pixx I mean, I self own all the time and my friends are still very supportive so I think it’s working? ;P
@pixx

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My employer is continuing to pursue increased sales to the US government, so for ethical reasons I'm fully on the job market now.

I am an experienced #devOps engineer, having worked exclusively with #AWS. I have extensive experience in #terraform and #openTofu with significant #Ansible work as well. I've used the full alphabet soup of AWS services: VPC, EC2, S3, ACM, KMS, IAM, RDS, Route53, SNS, SES, SQS, WAF, and many more. I also am familiar with the various monitoring, alerting, and on-call platforms, most notably CloudWatch, DataDog, and Pager Duty. I also have management and project management experience, leading teams and projects at the application and architectural levels.

I do not, unfortunately, have experience with K8s or EKS, so any potential position would need to accept a ramp-up time if those are part of the infrastructure ecosystem. I am a fast learner, and I have a solid engineering expertise to build off of.

My primary need is a fully #remote position for family reasons. As my profile states, I am based in the Twin Cities area in US Central time. I am fully authorized to work in the US without employer support.

I'm happy to answer any other questions folks may have, and I can provide my resume upon request. Thanks in advance for boosts and such!

#FediHire #fedihired #getfedihired

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@hypolite Thanks, I really appreciate it. I've been able to put up with a lot from my current employer, but this is a major line I can't cross for reasons I can't disclose publicly aside from what I've already said.
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@A Sysadmin, but not *your* Sysadmin The fact you acted on them makes me trust your reasons no matter what they are. I’ve been wondering what I’d do in your situation and I’m not confident I’d have the courage to do what you did, and I wanted to salute it.

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Stolen to repost with alt text. Original source appears to be a now-deleted post in r/fuckcars

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Ah, my domain registrar enrolled me in WHOISGUARD, gave whois a bogus domain. And then required me to get an email to change the email I use on my domain, or change the DNS. They didn't grab the email from my account for this. Oh no! They grabbed the whoisguard bogus email!

How wonderful! I guess server migration isn't happening today >.<


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I have two main laptops I use right now. Both of them display a corporate logo for an OS (Microsoft and Apple) when they boot and then do not boot that OS.

Every single time I look at them and think "Stop embarrassing me"


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I’m a Scottish independent DIY musician on tour in Canada. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 Can you help me get the word out about my shows? I’m trying my hardest sell as many of them out as possible. It’s hard right now. If you like Scottish folk music, or know friends who might like my music. Please SHARE!
in reply to Iona Fyfe

I live in Toronto and I'm a folky with a love of the Celtic. Do you have a website or Toronto dates?


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Fixing someone else's mess will often take longer than just doing it yourself in the first place.

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in reply to Accidental CISO

this took longer to click than expected lol

I was like "yeah! it's fun to make mistakes yourself!"

and then I was like "oh they mean budget time and have patience and expect messups from underlings"

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@risottobias yeah, in this case, as a consultant working through a channel partner, I am now being paid to fix something that a contractor that is no longer around did last fall. The channel partner wanted to delegate it to this contractor. I spent quite a bit of time with them on this work last summer/fall. At the end of the day, it turns out that the contractor didn’t follow the pattern I helped them define. Now I am redoing the work to align it with what the client needed and the original pattern. I could have had it done for them last summer for a quarter of what it has cost them so far had the channel partner not forced the delegation. Oh well, I’m still getting paid my rate to fix it. 😎
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It makes me so happy whenever I can tell someone they can take the useful bits of something and thow away the rest. Instead of having to just patch and work around the old thing.


I'm trying to make a small device autoplay the playlist on a CF card when the CF card is plugged in.

Linux is garbage now - is that the lesson I've learned?

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first a question, what bits are you relying on to try and make this thing happen?
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@sungo Yeah - so I've tried a few different options

So I'm kinda stuck in Armbian land because I'm doing this on a raspi knockoff (after they hired a cop I swore them off).

So I started trying with just putting things on fstab, and found a tool for autoplaying CDs - but it didn't really work. So I moved to a udev rule which works on and off - but wont kick off sound because it's not able to subscribe the audio daemon. I've started looking at stripping out pulse and replacing it with alsa directly. But now I'm just trying to find a tool that will play an m3u without a session (cvlc seems gone from packages).

There's more - but I've spent a few hours on this and I'm mostly just frazzled.

in reply to silverwizard

I would look at a systemd automount config with an After= line to do the thing
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@sungo Cool - I will make an attempt. Thanks! (probably not a today project - but if it works I'll be very grateful)
in reply to silverwizard

occurs to me for the playback side, you could run mpv as a daemon and then send it a command to play the new files via mpv's command fifo. I use that for an audio player of mine.
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@sungo mpv eh?t I've never seen mpv in daemon mode. I generally use mpd - but it doesn't do well with a library being so weird.

Thanks!


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I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

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@puzzled O agree. Vehemently. Here’s what I said about it in the Senate last year. youtu.be/y1D7PlvSFTE #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #X #Musk
in reply to Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦

I cited this question in a letter to my MP about the continued use of Xitter. Thanks again for this content.
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saw something that said veterans are more likely to be scammed and I thought “yeah obviously they joined the military”

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@chris Trained to obey when faced by attributes of authority, it makes sense.

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So I read most @Cory Doctorow 's Picks & Shovels yesterday, and I definitely cried for a past that almost could have been.

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@Neil Brown @Cory Doctorow I got it via retail. My bookstore has my back!

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I'm a pretty religious dude, and I care deeply about my religion and my actually seeing religious people portrayed well, and stories about the ways our communities are preyed upon. It's really important.

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Thinking about how a completely plausible thing that could happen at this moment in history is that the Boring Company and the Boeing Company could merge to form the Boering Company, which would immediately move its headquarters to South Africa

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Thinking about “We have South Africa at home”, how soon Starport County, Texas will name the county seat New Praetoria, if John Cusack will be alive to play the Vice President in the remake of War, Inc. named Boer, Inc

And now frantically trying to not dephase into one of the Domination of the Draka timelines by repeating my mantra “The grasshopper lies heavy”

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@Catfish_Man

Why move, Musk is working to turn the US into Apartheid South Africa, including by importing lots more white South Africans.



I just replied to an email thread about a cooking group at church. Gmail rate limited for bulk sending.

This is anticompetitive bullshit and I'm so fucking livid.

I want to scream at Gmail users, but I acknowledge that it's not their fault.

in reply to Ji Fu

@Ji Fu Is what? The fact that nerds said "Don't use the shitty email from your ISP that works! Use this google offering! Their slogan is Don't Be Evil"?


in reply to MattoF

@MattoF Thanks! It's the RISCV model and it makes me happy that I can use it so easily! It feels like a device from the Good Timeline!

in reply to Forrest Brazeal

your MBA would be in the mail but you're demonstrating too much self-awareness to warrant getting one

i just can't think of anything else that would constitute "business hell" =\

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@nuintari
I thought "IT Hell" was just "your job".

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Since all the search engines have died - does anyone remember the story of the IBM coffee mug?

I can't find any of the info and I'm looking for:
1) one of them
2) just the history

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you were probably thinking of the Amdahl coffee mug?

deadprogrammer.com/fud-you

dealwhisperers.blogspot.com/20…

in reply to Kicou

@Kicou I had never heard this story, but it doesn't jive with my memory of the datacenter sippy cup, but I like it