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ME: Stop, this is a nightmare, it's like THE GIVING TREE but with classism.
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this is another one of those moments where we bump.up against the fact that security and privacy/autonomy aren't exactly the same thing yet we lump.them together anyway.
(+1 to opening it up and fixing it myself, what else would I use All The Tools for??)
Fuck you, Oral-B
I needed a new toothbrush. My gums are a bit screwed up and my wife’s cousin (who is a dentist) recommended I get one of the new Oral B “iO” models, because it would be good for the specific problem I...frabjousdei (Tumblr)
CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices
I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that
Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?
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if I fail I basically have to spend another 1k and take it again in a week
and then I have an eclipse chasing vacation and my brother's wedding, which I hope will make me less stressed
bah - 2024's first half is intense
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@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.
I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃
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@BB :verified_cool: I really hope I don't have to find another fee, that's my main fear!
but thanks!
Man, this doesn't miss
The Writer Will Do Something by Matthew S Burns
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.itch.io
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yeah i like Dune 2
Dune 2 others as i would have them dune 2 me !!!
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I'm uncomfortable using Bluesky for a very important reason: I don't know how they pay their bills, and despite this, they've taken VC funding. They have no option but to fuck us over at some point.
I'm exhausted by the enshitification cycle. I miss all the friends I've lost from Twitter and I don't want to go through all of this again.
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another service shot down by my personal rule:
Before creating an account on any service, go to your favorite search engine and type "how does _____ make money"
If you don't like the answer, it's "they aren't" (i.e. they are running a loss, whether due to VC funding or other reasons), or it's "we don't know", then don't join
I approve of your take
i've just been burned by the #Skiff mail case recently...a mess really. Eyes opener for me.
I think your prediction is very likely to happen at some point.
I am actually more active here on #Mastodon now: when you find the right community, it's a joy, really.
Though, i really like Bluesky from a technical perspective. But, i'm not investing much of myself into it.
oh lots of reasons beyond that. they are the reason i think the fediverse is the Right Idea. BBC Lab’s experience says some interesting things about an economically neutral platform like Masto
https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/111999515166981399
fed 267 min video
Some thoughts on engagement and network effect.
and general flying the flag.
Size Isn't Everything | What BBC Labs' experience (so far) with Mastodon says about engagement.
#BBC #Mastodon #socialmedia I can be found on Mastodon: @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.aihttps://fedi.tips/-- links to background material --https://www.bbc.co.u...YouTube
I've learned from various sources that Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk are collaborating. With Bluesky, data is not secure (pervasive tracking of online behavior, including IP address, third-party trackers, data leakage). What got me most is Jack Dorsey's 'endorsement' of anti-vaxer 'Independent' /Trumpist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who had the audacity to compare semi-lockdowns to the suffering of Anne Frank and other people in hiding during the WWII.
The bottom of it all. I prefer Spoutible.
Bluesky currently generates some revenue as a domain name reseller for those people who buy vanity domains as their Bluesky handle through them. Imho that’s a perfectly acceptable model.
However, I seriously doubt they could ever break even with just that model, never mind return multiples to investors. So far there has been no other answer on revenue models, I’m not sure they know themselves. If it remains an open network, hard to see what they could do.
Bluesky pays it bills with VC money, which of course is not and is not intended to be a long term solution.
Mastodon and the Fediverse pay their bills with volunteer labor and donations. I'm a bit suspicious that is a viable long term solution.
In either case, I thinks it's reasonable to speculate that eventually things will have to change and either performance/quality will degrade or a new source of income will need to be found.
@stpaultim I should have been clearer and said "I don't understand how Bluesky WILL pay its bills". Because as far as I know, they haven't really said. And ultimately their bills are going to be quite high because they need to pay their VC investments back.
Donations and volunteer labor might not seem sustainable but at least it's out in the open.
Then, I remember all the problems we already had because of Jack. And I stay far from him.
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Just quickly - anyone here works for the #CDC or has "well respected buddies" there?
Fuck you. You and your buddies are Social Murderers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
Be a real ally & resign.
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Engels in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working-Class in England whereby "the class which at present holds social and political control" (i.e. the bourgeoisie) "places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death". This was in a different category to murder and manslaughter committed by individuals against one another, as social murder explicitly was committed by the political and social elite against the poor.
Engels:
"But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence –
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... knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission.
But murder it remains."
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It is a dry run for #ClimateChange policy
Author and journalist Chris Hedges writes that the global ruling classes are the "architects of social murder" by accelerating ecological collapse and climate change:
"What is taking place is not neglect. It is not ineptitude. It is not policy failure. It is murder. It is murder because it is premeditated. It is murder because a conscious choice was made by the global ruling classes to extinguish life rather than protect it."
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@bobjonkman Someone needs to start a site that keeps track of every single politician's score in terms of "answering the question" and the number of times they have dodged an answer by saying shit like "yes, I agree with you, we need to do something".
Even if a conservative asks you a pointless and disingenuous question, you can address it as such. Instead of "No, that is a false equivalency and an overreaction" the liberals say shit like "we are good, we have done this and that"
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Content warning: me? landslide
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Fuck
I just realized why I'm always confused why my coworkers want an update in slack for PR changes rather than just using the automated emails.
It's because I've levelled to the point of being Email Driven
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#SlackLife
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@silverwizard That’s why we do both at my job! 🙌
It still didn’t prevent an SRE from claiming no alert was raised. 🤔
@Hypolite Petovan Alerts are things that cause alarm. Email and slack both can only contain alerts if they also are alerting! They need to create attention, not fall into background noise.
But yeah, we do both, and I'm always weirded out by the manual slack.
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@Hypolite Petovan Just shark your wires! It'll be fine!
Or use some screen scraping! We're too afraid of writing software that lies to other software! Mouse clicks are just programs!
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please boost!
i need help finding a job that doesn't suck, online or in seattle
i'm vanta -- longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, and all-around creative person
i'm looking for something that isn't as super demanding, or public-facing, or low-paying as fast food. that is literally my only criteria lol
part-time probably, but i wouldn't say no to full if the situation was right
here's a link to my work portfolio https://vanta.work
resume available upon request
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#GetFediHired #FediHired #job #jobs
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I need this kind of work too lol
My friend pointed me to this, though I haven't heard anything as of now so I probably didn't get it
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I'm back in the job-hunting pack.
Me:
- high level site reliability engineer
- lots of small/medium startup experience
- loads of cloud infrastructure building on AWS/GCP using terraform
- experience as the jill-of-all-trades as first company SRE
- lots of kubernetes
US, prefer remote first
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Doing a vulnerability hunt at work. Finding everything that's low priority and triaging it.
Everyone is learning why they don't want to do my job!
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@hakona Please see https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112005732639072195
Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn. Coding is old news, so focus on farming. Ah yes glorious future for all of us as everyone is going to return to the farming. What makes you think machines can’t do farming? https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-ceo-predicts-the-death-of-coding-jensen-huang-says-ai-will-do-the-work-so-kids-dont-need-to-learnNvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn
Jensen Huang believes coding languages are a thing of the pastBenedict Collins (TechRadar pro)
Oh, he's talking about his kids and the kids of other CEOs though. Also everyone else is happy no need to read about them.
of course they would discourage...
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them" - Assata Shakur
"ceo of company making money from selling shovels tells people to stop whatever they're doing and buy shovels to dig more holes. says holes are the future."
i find it fascinating that this is getting so much attention. i mean, even setting the conflict of interest aside: why should his predictions be reliable. they build the hardware, not the AI.
He didn't say to not teach kids math or science. He specifically said to not teach kids coding. I'm an ex-programmer myself, and I agree with him in this day and age.
"Teach your kids the skills they need to thrive."
Exactly. And that can't be done with coding in the age of AI. Not anymore. 20 years ago, yes, I'd say go for it. But not today.
Today, you need to pick careers that AI won't touch for another 20 years. After that time, all bets are off anyway, as robotics is coming too.
I was with you until the "strong nations" part.
We are humans on a planet.
All of that except coding. If my kids had learned coding, they'd have learned COBOL and FORTRAN.
I assure you, whatever hot language they learn today will NOT be useful when they go to work.
Given all the other skills, coding is literally just learning other specialized languages to express the other fields and there *will* be better ones.
Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You!
News article: http://silicon-news.com/news/2012/06/17/linus-torvalds-nvidia-fuck-you/Linus Torvalds reveals his true feelings for Nvidia.YouTube
Farmer : [Jailbreaks tractor] Ok, now I can actually use it properly.
AI is doing nothing to help with the loud spinning fan noise and crashing proprietary driver.
“I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.”
—Don Knuth https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt #donknuth
I like that you say 'critical thinking and love of learning' after saying they should learn science and art and everything.
It annoys me when people act like 'critical thinking' is a skill you can practice in a vacuum, without any other underlying knowledge (imo that just leads to blindly shouting 'is that really true, maybe you are lying, just because you are a scientist does not mean you are right')
my dad was a designer of naval nuclear reactor shielding (& later manager of a shielding group). Recruited a lot of people, mostly mathematicians, over the years. & he came to believe the best candidates were from small 4 yr schools with strong distribution requirements. Engineering school ("schools with letters for names - MIT, RPI, etc) grads 'don't think as well' as kids from, say, Sienna College.
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Content warning: The cloud is legalised ransomware
[Decided to post something different on LinkedIn which might actually force people to think, a novel experience for many]
Yes, that is an extreme and provocative statement but it is an attempt at bringing to the forefront that you should look at your data.
What is your company if not your data for the vast majority of companies?
Who owns that data? Are you sure?
When ransomware hits you the data changes owner as it is now in the hands of the criminal gang which encrypted it. You might be able to recover it from backups or you might decide to pay to get your data back.
When you move your data to the cloud the data changes owner because you don't own anything on which the data is held: not the computers, not the disks, not the network carrying it, not the memory processing it.
Indeed, you pay to be able to access it.
"Yes, but these are reputable companies and this saves me from having to run datacentres, employ staff, etc. etc."
Who runs these companies? Are they your friends? Do you have the legal resources (and associated warchest) to take them to court if something goes wrong? Do you know how to extract that data _and delete it_ today should you decide to? How do you know that the data is truly deleted? What if the country where "your" data is held suddenly is no longer a friend of the country where your company resides?
If it takes a Las Vegas casino $100M to recover data which they could have paid $50M to unlock could this not be $100M to a cloud provider to release the data back to you?
What are your contingency plans should your cloud provider hike their prices by 100%? Or if the flag under which your cloud provider works suddenly becomes hostile to your company because it decides to support your local competitor?
Perhaps you might want to condsider what you are truly giving up by moving to the cloud: control over your data.
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Content warning: The cloud is legalised ransomware
Also look at the SLA. AWS's S3 SLA states that if they lose your data, that you don't have to keep paying for the storage for your non-existent data. Amazon has zero liability if they lose or corrupt your data.
Which means that if you as a company aren't keeping an off cloud backup, you're playing with fire and very brave.
Content warning: The cloud is legalised ransomware
True story: worked a while ago for a SaaS company.
Most of our data was in our own data centers. Management announces a major move to a 3 letter cloud provider.
One of our largest clients told us they would leave immediately unless they had written assurance by management that their data would stay "in house" instead of going to said provider.
Management could not supply said assurance.
Client left, taking 8% of our annual revenue.
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Oh yeah.
Same SaaS company ended up paying 18 million dollars per year to that 3 letter cloud company.
That was just for dev and testing environments.
The management who took that genius cloud decision had left long before that bill came due.
Content warning: re: The cloud is legalised ransomware
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I need to figure out what happened and then file a bug report for blueman >.<
Anyone have an issue where the default bluetooth controller is powered off, but there's a secondary controller, and so when the open blueman-manager the window closes immediately because the controller is disabled?
I had a currywurst at a pub last summer, and I've thought about it on and off since. Went back to the pub a week ago, and now I made my own.
Currywurst is fucking amazing
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Make no mistake, the massive layoffs are intentional SHORT TERM sabotage by business decision makers with the goal of LONG TERM benefits for them.
They're trying to drive down the costs of labor. Specifically, they're firing everyone so that we'll accept lower wages upon rehire.
In #infosec, this will backfire on them.
By firing everyone, the level of security technical debt will increase that they'll have to hire everyone AND THEN SOME back at even higher rates.
So. Neat. Fucking great.
In the mean time, research how to create unions. Start doing so. Tech folks and infosec are not used to needing collective bargaining. You need it now.
Learn about the concepts of Economic Leverage and how it works as an individual contributor and when that fails how Collective Leverage works. The whole "if you fire that one person, we all quit" sort of thing works.
You all hack systems every day. You all study Social Engineering and combat it every day.
Hack the labor market. Socially engineer our mutual protection.
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In the mean time, lean on each other. Use your current support networks and build those networks up.
Mutual Aid means you give AND you take. It isn't charity. It's support structures that don't rely on those that would exploit you.
Plant food. Share food. Learn about your local food banks. Contribute now if you can. TAKE NOW IF YOU NEED! That means your money for rent can go a long way.
Those with means and equity can look into buying multi-family buildings (think apartment buildings and condos... yes those are for sale). And setting up tenant co-ops.
Others can form renters unions. Think of it as a reverse HOA where you organize to protect against landlord exploitation.
Use your libraries and boost them. They have free internet and free hotspots. Free streaming. Free education. On top of free books. They are third spaces with free meeting rooms. - Use the library to organize your local unions.
Those that are out of work need to hold weekly meetings with each other. Compare notes. Share leads. One person gets in and can help hire the others up. Form unions when you get hired.
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so much fun to toot stuff that is totally unrealistic
why not add a pink pony for everyone
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fuck, I vaguely cut a biscuit recipe in half and just guessed and made the fluffiest lightest biscuit I've ever soon
they're probably tasty for about an hour but who cares
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every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private
because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private
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Aw fucking shit!
@Titan Up the Defense posted a fucking episode! I know it's a different show now but it doesn't matter! Fuck yeah!
I should make a neocities for this as well! To rival the amazing titanupthedefense.neocities.org
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Generative AI today is where self driving cars was in 2015. Lots of impressive announcements by big tech and startups with the idea that machines replacing humans was a few years away.
In reality, instead of being close to done, a decade later we realize now we’d barely started.
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You know how young children will see some toy or shiny object on a store shelf, and somehow — by design! Marketers know what they’re doing! — they instantly •have• to have it, and are obsessed, and all sense and proportion go out they window and they need it now now NOW, but if they get it they soon abandon it because it’s junk that only looked good on the shelf?
It’s like that with CEOs and AI right now.
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My mother-in-law still wont look at me, talk to me, or be in the same room as me, its been almost 6 months since I told her she couldn't blame my son for being bullied (and explicitly she couldn't tell him it's his fault). Apparently she just wants an apology.
Parenting sucks,
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ugh. What is it with in-laws especially...
Sympathies from a mom (and her partner) who have had many similar struggles trying to get parents to understand their neurodivergent kid and treat them with kindness instead of reinforcing the same old generational trauma.
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@Erin the hard part is that it's his cousin bullying him and my wife and sister in law are super close, making it very hard to avoid.
I'm just mostly so upset how much non-parents think they are entitled to parent kids. And I know my mom is super bad about it to, we just have way more experience fighting with each other.
And yeah, trying to be better parents than your parents is the eternal struggle ain't it.
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