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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?

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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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!

I've been daily driving LibreWolf for two years.

I like it.

AMA

#Mozilla #Firefox

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

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DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab
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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

#aws #ansible #devops #getfedihired #remote #Terraform #fedihired #FediHire #opentofu
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A Sysadmin, but not *your* Sysadmin
A Sysadmin, but not *your* Sysadmin
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@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.
@Hypolite Petovan
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Hypolite Petovan
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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.
@A Sysadmin, but not *your* Sysadmin
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Stolen to repost with alt text. Original source appears to be a now-deleted post in r/fuckcars
A sad looking figure stands by the lever in a trolley problem image. No people are tied to the tracks and no trolley is to be seen. Green weeds have grown to cover the tracks. Text reads: there is no trolley. they were all killed off the by automobile industrial complex. the tracks are now unruly and wild, the people once tied to them are killed in crosswalks by giant trucks and SUVs. but sometimes you come pull the lever to reminisce on simpler times

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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!
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Olivier
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do you have a link with a list of your concerts and locations?
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Olivier
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ionafyfe.com/tour/

Tour

February 2025 05/02 Irvine Folk Club 22/02 Montréal QC, Espace Knox 23/02 Ottowa ON, Red Bird Live 24/02 Petawawa ON, House Concert 25/02 Ottowa ON, House Concert 26/02 St. Catharines ON Warehouse …
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Christine Malec
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I live in Toronto and I'm a folky with a love of the Celtic. Do you have a website or Toronto dates?

Cooking Theory:

You can use garlic powder instead of flour for dusting

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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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Accidental CISO
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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. 😎
@Risotto Bias
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Paperisiili
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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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sungo
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first a question, what bits are you relying on to try and make this thing happen?
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silverwizard
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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.

@sungo
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sungo
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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)
@sungo
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sungo
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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!

@sungo
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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

Petition e-5359 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca
#fediverse #cnpoli
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Marcus
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@Paulatics ☝️ 🙏
Gov't of Canada should leave twitter
@Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦
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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦
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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

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be
#Musk #cdnpoli #x #senateofcanada @Marcus
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It Begins

Child discovered Minecraft

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

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

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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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AN/CRM-114
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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.

@David Smith

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.

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silverwizard
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@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"?
@Ji Fu
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A pog with the Mosaic browser logo labelled Genuine Mosaic

A Pog with the MKS, the unix-for-dos/forge company, logo


I have found an ancient artifact

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my desk is looking cyberpunk
A stack of a DevTerm with an SDR plugged in, sitting on a multimeter and a copy of Open Circuits the book where they cut open electrical components. Beside the devterm is Cory Doctorow's Picks and Shovels
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silverwizard
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@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!
@MattoF
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I'm going to business hell for this one
A "demystified" Gartner hype cycle graph including points like "trough of zero real adoption" and "slope of enterprise marketers jumping on the bandwagon too late"
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Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran
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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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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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Kicou
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you were probably thinking of the Amdahl coffee mug?

deadprogrammer.com/fud-you

dealwhisperers.blogspot.com/20…


FUD You

A common IT worker in computer related conversation spews more acronyms than a Soviet Commissar, but chances are he or she won’t be able to decipher half of them. Managers often don’t e…
Dead Programmer's Cafe
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silverwizard
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@Kicou I had never heard this story, but it doesn't jive with my memory of the datacenter sippy cup, but I like it
@Kicou

Fuck - the #ArcologyPodcast has decided to become AI trash

I hope this isn't a theme in their work

#arcologypodcast
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Today marks 10 years since the first Devuan installation isos were released. @jaromil posted the "pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration)" announcement to the DNG mailing list:

lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/…

So take a trip down memory lane and feel the love for the #Devuan team and our users and celebrate their dogged determination which has beaten the odds!

May the fork be with you!

The Devuan Team

[Dng] pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration)

lists.dyne.org
#Devuan @J @ Dyne.org

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A frustrating thing about (tabletop game) kickstarters is that it seems like they go through a mess:
1) the designers of the games make all their articles to advertise their kickstarters
2) the kickstarter ends and then it disappears
3) the books flood out and the backers get excited
4) then it's gone from the zeitgeist because the momentum of the *conversation* was before it was released
5) it's a pain to get it to the table

qz.com/banks-gold-plane-new-yo…

Two Words:
Air Pirate

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the price of oggs

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I just wrote this PR comment:
My biggest worry is that this will take longer to review than it took to write. But to be clear - this is already in staging

Ops is a complete breakdown of the dev process and this is why DevOps is always weird.

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard Any software takes longer to test/review than it takes to write. Be very suspicious of short test/review times.
@silverwizard
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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan The problem is that it's config not software. I only made like 8 actual changes to the default files, but I added nearly a thousand lines spread over 31 files!
@Hypolite Petovan
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The real question is if the law exist, why did Trump get convicted of a crime and the judge go "Well, you can't do anything to the president, so whatever"

Americans need to come to grips with the idea that laws don't exist

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mastodon.sdf.org/@mmiasma/1139…

I didn't realize it took that many words to spell "I don't know what a presidental pardon is" damn

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systems thinking leads people down the garden path of not looking at the simplest brute force solutions, people always forget the virtue of laziness
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Ontario NDP promises better nurse-patient ratios, plans to hire 15,000 nurses

ground.news/article/ontario-nd…


Ontario NDP promises better nurse-patient ratios, plans to hire 15,000 nurses

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says if her party forms government she would establish safe nurse-to-patient ratios so patients get more care and nurses don't b
Coast Reporter (Ground News)

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got an idea for temperature-stabilised mailable packaging for chickpea dip, but I want it to be published posthummusly

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I am tempted to boot my desktop from freebsd live media, copy over the zpool to a 10TB disk, do the upgrades, then copy that back to the server

is this stupid?

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JB Carroll
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I think as long as you zfs send and receive, I don't know why it wouldn't on the same hardware.

The thing I took away from last night's superbowl is that cops are stupid.

Everyone: PARTY IN THE FUCKING STREETS
Cops: Joy is prohibited citizen

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Shit - this newfangled kea DHCP server wont let me use the static DHCP lease I have ><
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silverwizard
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So it seems like the dynamic lease was created, and I couldn't find that lease anywhere in the lease table, and the server decided that the dynamic lease was the one it should use, not the existing static lease. So I needed to shutdown the server and wait for the dynamic lease to expire, and then it grabbed the static lease? WTF?
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I wired an ether cable without making a mistake
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sep
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i have discovered a law of the universe.
If i have extra rj45 plugs or keystones, i never make a mistske.
If I have just as many as i need, I always make a mistake and need one more.
This is suspiciously consistant.
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@sep lol, that's tragic

I am nearing the end of the first box I ever bought so I'm finally getting the hang of it.

@sep
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Hey, Ontarians! 👋

Since y’all are headed to the polls pretty soon here, I thought I’d take a second to remind you that under Doug Ford, the literal fuckin’ ARMY had to go into seniors care homes to rescue your elders from the negligence of the provincial government during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. What our soldiers witnessed in those places has left them with lifelong psychological trauma.

Anyways, carry on.

"It is scandalous. It is shameful. It is shocking," Mitchell said. "Our senior generation is living in that, and that is a national atrocity."

There are many signs the provincial government knew, or should have known, what's happening inside these homes, but it took military intervention to bring the details to light.

#DougFord #OnPoli #OnElexn #CDNPoli

cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mil…

#onpoli #cdnpoli #ONelexn #DougFord
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