corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml
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We were always going to pay for their failures; this one, or the next.

I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.

Having said that, IT'S STILL NOT FACEBOOK'S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

-- randy pausch, the last lecture

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you

ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.

https://youtu.be/j7zzQpvoYcQ

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The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory

This trick alone makes my Lemmy addiction pay off. Thanks for even suggesting such magic is possible. Adding that as a task after my samba-AD rebuild this very f'n week.

There's a lot of value in a sleeping area that can get really really dark.

I'm ever so grateful for electrical tape.

I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.

You don't; and you know this already.

I quit my union job when the new hotshot manager started mandating RTO into a newly compressed, hot, bright, loud environment; being able to actually see asses in chairs was his jam, despite the work impact. What a tool.

Found a job with another unionized IT shop, paid for it with a 3% pay cut but got an extra week of vacation (net loss: 3 days pay/yr) and a really great crew and 100% remote written into the contract. Thanks, ya tool.

I use flightaware and similar apps, but they all eventually want a subscription. Bleugh.

Is this one totally free ... or at least better than your average app?

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Sister's vet office is now offline again for COVID. Docs sick, most of the tech staff, most of the admin staff. When it hits, it runs through like a forest fire. One vet left because F the angry pet owners who think it's a personal insult they can't get special treatment, and he replaced one of the two who killed themselves (stress) last year.

They may institute a mask mandate again

  • to keep the remaining staff healthy on return
  • to filter their customers further because of high correlation of shitbaggery
  • because docs are always masked so lower risk is now a work perq for them.

Me, I quit my job when they mandated return to work and I joined a union shop with 100% remote in the contract. I should mask up when I go to the store but I'm a dumb boy and always forget. I'm so vaxed it's like a bad hangover, but I don't have time for even that mess.

It's a signed archive of deployable files along with meta-data. Usually a cpio archive (which is similar to a tarball) with that extra signature wrapper and meta-data (which, itself, should be a list of files and checksums).

A proper package can validate a project's installation, either from the local database or from remote resources, at any time, which gives positive assurance that what is installed is what should be installed.

As well, proper package info is exported by SNMP to be consolidated centrally and validate what is vs what should be installed at the group level.

TL;DR? Like a tarball with tracking info, signatures, checksums, and top-to-bottom validation. If it's a good package, anyway.

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I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.

The right destroys privacy for either their control of the poors or for religious morality police.

The left destroys privacy to root out fascism.

They are not the same[.gif].

Maybe this will help.

I LOVE "dissolved girl" but I'm not as Gaga about the rest of the band's material. That sultry style cut with that music tempo is amazing.

It's like Finger Eleven has their their one massive departure track 'paranoid' -- all good, but very different.

I'll be checking this in the hopes it'll match a track and give me more sexy molasses for my brain.

I found keepassium for the work phone and I was in love that I could keep a separate db with my OTPs under a password and backed up.

Then I left that job and had to split my OTPs. Vanilla keepass for droid will gives me the OTP values for gitlab etc, so it's good there, but Vanilla keepassium for Android has no camera/QR->OTP input that I have yet, one that works like keepassium does and is all compatible down the line. I'd love to keep using it to maintain the existing separate keepass OTP db I have.

Do you (or anyone) know of a good combo for droid that gets

  • keepass
  • backup to box/gdoc/etc
  • qr for OTP

In one final package? Does XC do it in a way we think may be compatible?

They surrender their passport on arriving.

They're housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said "they don't need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet" as if that was okay.

They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.

They die.

work with headphones in. So I wouldn't contribute to the collaboration that is claimed to take place.

In the new cramped environment with low visual privacy and especially no audio privacy, we all just end up with earpods in. We need the noise isolation to f'n THINK!

So the boss oozes his way over and 'hums' and 'haws' trying to get our attention before waving and doing that "hey pull out your earbuds so I can talk" gesture that resembles yokels trying to pick up someone in an elevator or on the bus and not.getting.it .

Because he doesn't.

So that is the life of people I left at the old job, and it's repeated a thousand times over.

Learn to also say on the phone "this environment has no audio privacy. Can you book meeting and a conference room? Thanks", if you get too many desk calls.

... and HVAC and power with the internal wall change and sound-insulation.

I live near a hospital. I think my data connection can't handle that kind of hit. ;-)

Swedish transit strikers and everyone else.

Thanks. I'm sorry it's yet another science project, though.

I'm plenty technical, with a few C contributions to projects in the web and VPN space. But with two jobs and three ageing parents, I'm tapped out!

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You're really close, yeah .

But because like every layer is checksummed both in delivery AND when it's installed, so you can easily validate a delivered file, and it's all signed with signatures you can easily check, you can at least be assured that

  • what you installed is what that package delivered
  • which is what the authors wanted
  • and the package probably hasn't been tampered with
  • even weeks after install

the chance of problems should be reduced.

Bonus1: with a proper repo config, you can check for updates so fast. It's like the chocolatey windows repo but more formalized and usually vendor-maintained.

Bonus2: bad upgrade? Enterprise packages on Linux (long description; trust me) can be reverse-installed over what's there so you can back-revise or downgrade with almost no pain. It's a good oh-no fix. At every point you can still validate that what is there should be there, according to hard signatures at every stage.

Bonus3: grabbing os version 6.1 and upgrading to 6.5 OR just installing 6.5 fresh gives the same final content - files and services - when you're done. (almost entirely) No cruft, since package installs (because of the locking below) just install over themselves in a way Linux people just accept and windows people may freak over.

Linux bonus: Linux locks file differently; again, long description, so trust me or look it up. You can upgrade many files and services without stopping them, and then bounce a service or a host, so your patch-and-bounce process is fast, it happens after the upgrades, and is like 2 min or with systemd 3min.

Ultimately

  • use packages for wayyyy easier, consistent, reliable, tested, quasi-roll-back-able updates that you can validate all the way down.
  • and still that SNMP connection to check content remotely. It's so great.

I'm aware I'm jinxing myself when I suggest that I've had very different experience. We're mostly WDReds though.

Making reddit go back only shows they have the motive, means, and now another opportunity to try again.

Kill it. Leave their corpse at the gates so others know not to alienate all the cattle.

100% on all points.

That's the real problem -- the product sucks.

Have you heard of the CLOUD act?

many offices have already been converted

The plural of anecdote isn't data.

If it was, we'd not have smoke detectors. After all, most people have gone through 12,000 days without a house fire, so there's no value.

There's clearly a value and a route toward companies hosting their own federated comms. It's like how email became self-hosted in the '90s: first the bitnets and aols, and unis and orgs, and finally, thanks to Outlook tasting email on the way in, email viruses.

The same progression will probably repeat for Lemmy and mastodon. Consolidation and self-archiving and all that are valuable, and once HPe finds out how to link ChatGPT to a Lemmy or mastodon, they'll be all in with something suiting their current quality trend.

Ideally we'll have gone crypto by then for private messaging, and go farther for privacy than email and fbchat seems to be able, and that'll be nice.

Thank you for that explanation!

Consider PCLinuxOS. 'PLOS' has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

  • as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it's derivation from RH is super long ago so it's closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

  • it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose's vocal range compared to EL's Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

  • No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

  • if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
  • people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
  • people who support last week's version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there's no magical fix for "10 second tom" devs here either.

I don't think it's Facebook's business, nor in its best interest or ours to store those messages, either way.

Read the article again and again, and then eventually understand the meta-issue here.

God bot, but fix that comma-splice.

Good bot

Sure. Okay. No argument.

Stallman is also his own worst enemy. Feet-picking aside, coat-tailing Linux with this whiny "but ack-shually, gnu is a big part of it so we want equal billing" is just weak and arrogant and has been for decades.

.. and if stallman can't see that without Linux he'd be just a hippie with other issues, he begs for the same trivialization of his own role.

Call it Torvalds/tridgell/baumel/Bourne/Ritchie/Linux before GNU/Linux or gtfo. And if we call it gnu/Linux, we should say chisel/David or Mussolini/UN because, like GNU, they were in the right place at the right time to have a completely fungible sidecar role in what actually happened to catalyze actual work.

Stallman made emacs. Cool. I use it daily. GNU is great but not vital. Without Edison, we'd have a Marconi somewhere.

Ms Smith goes to Washington?

I think some of my units are on the 'lgtm' update plan too. ;-)

That's funny. When the maintainer of AT&T unix's perf group was looking at a distro to clone and support, RPM>Deb was 90% why debs were excluded.

Maybe something changed dramatically since then.

Do you mean libertarian?

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Please don't humour stallman any more than necessary.

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So it's only a War No-No, then?