Ffs. 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
Ffs. 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
Oh man. Huge company I used to work for had:
two separate Okta instances. It was a coin toss as to which one you'd need for any given service
oh, and a third internally developed federated login service for other stuff
90 day expiry for all of the above passwords
two different corporate IM systems, again coin toss depending on what team you're working with
nannyware everywhere. Open Performance Monitor and watch network activity spike anytime you move your mouse or hit a key
an internally developed secure document system used by an international division that we were instructed to never ever use. We were told by IT that it "does something to the PC at a hardware level if you install the reader and open a document" which would cause a PC to be banned from the network until we get it replaced. Sounds hyperbolic, but plausible given the rest of the mess.
required a mobile authenticator app for some of the above services, yet the company expected that us grunts use our personal devices for this purpose.
all of the above and more, yet we were encouraged to use any cloud hosted password manager of our choosing.
If I couldn't wear fuzzy socks and sweaters at work I'd just quit.
Ah yes, IEEE 802.3HV.
The intersection of people who aren't five figures into photography and know what a hot shoe is, and people who recognize a wall mount phone trend old.
...but pdf and epub still work. Easily the least objectionable thing Amazon has done all year. But don't let that get in the way of your mad.
Cellular peptide. With mint frosting.
Eternal September has happened before, and it will happen again. One service is enshittified, another takes its place.
Plasma 6 and Wayland are working great under Tumbleweed for me on my 2-in-1 laptop, but there's still no usable virtual keyboard package like Maliit in Factory.
Tumbleweed is boring, and that's why it's wonderful.
Every one of us a Glizzy of Theseus.
Don't sleep on OpenSuSE. It supports everything you're looking for and has options for periodic and rolling release.
Oh, like back in the Before Times when everything was statically linked?
J E N O V O
Wrote a TSR to beep the speaker gradually longer every time a key is pressed. The programming teacher assumed excessive beeping meant you were playing some sort of game. I'd run it on the PC I was using before class was over to get the next kid to sit there in trouble.
I have plenty of memory, but it's mostly swap.
sudo dd if=never_gonna_give_you_up.mp3 of=/dev/sda
Say "It's a UNIX system! I know this."
Make your capslock LED blink along with network activity using a built-in kernel driver
Fix bugs yourself
A large green pushbutton with a Molly guard labeled "OK" I found in a scrap pile behind the physics building.
I work from home 3 days a week. I have a decent battlestation, 5800X and RX6700 with a 38" widescreen and homebuilt ergosplit on a sit-stand desk. During work hours I use a KVM so I can use my work laptop with my setup.
When I built it out, I wasn't prepared for how little I would want to game at that desk.
The only gaming I did since I built that PC was sitting on my couch with an old Steam Link and Steam Controller. It didn't matter that the screen wasn't as good or that I had to timeshare the TV with the rest of the family. It was a change of scenery that let me leave work behind.
Since getting a Steam Deck, I've finished more games than I have in years. Not only can I game away from my desk, I can hang out with the rest of the family without disturbing them. And if someone needs my attention, I can put it to sleep without worrying about save points or load times.
It's not known to be a backdoor, but it's a juicy attack surface that customers are largely ignorant of and provides little consumer benefit. If I were an NSA employee and my boss handed me a blank check to develop a preboot exploit for Intel PCs, I'd start with IME.
Thinkpad intensifies
Apple historically can't or won't bring mixed signal design in-house. It could be related to patents, standards compliance, or the much more complicated silicon design, DV, and test for analog vs digital. It's not just the modem either. The bulk of Cirrus Logic's business nowadays is making audio, haptics, and focus servo chips for Apple, and if Apple ever went vertical with those components Cirrus would collapse overnight. Yet Apple has been buying custom audio chips from them for over 30 years, so obviously this isn't a new trend.
That's exactly what they are, but instead of connecting to a VAX at the other end of a modem they talk to a shell attached to a pseudo terminal device on the same machine.
M-x butterfly
My New Hobby: The Director's Cut with Bonus Deleted Scenes and Commentary
A real life series of fetch quests on acid. Myst and SCP had a lovechild, and it's a four story tall warehouse in Denver.
Sometimes EDID eeproms are writable from i2c-dev... And sometimes VRM configuration ports too...
Former Oculus Go users:
First time?
PINTO16B [120][beautiful bean footage mix]
Start As You Bean To Go On
[CTRL][ALT][PrtSc]-K-S-U-B
or [ESC] :q!
YMMV
Plain cast iron. Once it's been broken in it's mostly non-stick. To clean, scrub with a nylon scrubber or sponge without using soap and the coating will last.
Nah. The current license holder for MIPS announced its death a couple of years ago.
RISC-V is the new hotness.
DAK catalogs were wild. Each item had a magazine article length description that was clearly bullshit. But by the end you're certain that the constant emptiness you feel is from not owning the World's Best 16 Channel Stereo Graphic Equalizer.
I have an HL-2270DW and the toner low light comes on well before prints start washing out. Fortunately the toner life is tracked by a plastic gear on the cartridge, and it takes just a minute to roll it back. When it does run out, good third party replacements are under $20.
You will certainly not regret eating 220-280 pickles.
Also Professor Charles Javier
The Interdimensional Hole Of Portals has some fierce competition.
...with slides.
Up until a few years ago there was a local urologist named Richard Chop, and Dr. Peter Ruff is still seeing clients. Nominative determinism is a thing.
Have some compassion.
Fraud is highly addictive. He needs to be in a fraud rehab center where trained professionals can step him down from treason to committing misdemeanors in a safe, controlled environment.