Dave (also @cursed.monster on bsky)
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Dad, computer necromancer, disassembler, spoiler of grains, happy opera singer spouse. Trans rights are human rights. He/him, always antifascist.
Joined September 2010
So I have a pair of Avocent DSR4010s (16-port IP KVM boxes). I can only use them as local KVMs because you can only connect to them via their DSView management software, which is super proprietary and you can't even get licenses for the old versions anymore. So let's look inside!
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@InternetHippo This is 100% a thing that I could see happening, but it is a sign that they dodged a bullet by not working there.
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I want to eat the forbidden ravioli
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Tesla announces end of Full Self-Driving Program following records leak revealing thousands of fatalities
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@HollieTheNerd @ellle_em “She’s throwing the sweet sixteen thing in my face” yeah, because she’s incredibly hurt because this is the second time in two years you’ve built up her hopes and dashed them during the worst part of puberty!.
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What if we kissed beneath the missile toad
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@JeremiahDJohns @BoxElderDust Carbon emissions? Sure, less harmful than nuclear waste. May I introduce you to All The Other Shit In Coal?.
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Now that this Facebook video debacle has finally put the lie to the idea that video is a better way to communicate, can we PLEASE stop making video-only tutorials for COMMAND-LINE PROGRAMS AND TEXT BASED LANGUAGES. I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU.
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@rabiasquared @christabishmark Gotta have a staging area or you’ll wind up with an inefficiently filled fridge.
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Ah, I see the script kiddies found my honeypot but don't know how to use arch. hostname -i.hostname -d.hostname -f.cat /etc/host.conf.hostname -s.hostname -a.hostname -A.dpkg-reconfigure postfix.yum.apt-get install dpkg.apt.apt-get.install.apt get.apt-get.
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@malcolmsramsay @nuclearkatie I believe science, it’s just not the fuckin’ boss of me, it’s not my REAL mom.
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Eli Lilly to make insulin free, donate patents in 2024
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The Dilbert guy is fighting with Jar Jar Binks about white privilege on this website and I think I just need to go back to bed
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The 5yo just asked what the “tube” in YouTube was for, and I guess I hadn’t thought about how anachronistic that is.
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Glad to report that this completely safe item from the 1960s is still operational at my grandfather-in-law’s house
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DDOS (Distributed DOS): An attack wherein thousands of computers attempt to disrupt service by breaking into your computer and installing DOS.
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Now I'm halfway inclined to add some decoy yum and apt binaries that only print the standard help text no matter what arguments you provide.
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I always forget that people don’t know Shen Yun is a Falun Gong evangelist front, and then I remember most people here don’t know about Falun Gong.
i get a dozen fliers in the mail for this every spring and i’ve always assumed it was just a traditional dance troupe, but this year they changed their slogan from “5000 years of civilization reborn” to “china before communism”, forcing me to finally google what their deal is
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@Plasmaposting @InternetHippo And this is where a more skilled recruiter would have said “how about we do $50k and offer a raise after a year if you perform well” and then never put that in writing.
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@actioncookbook @BoxElderDust This entire thing has the feel of an endless Frasier joke machine, with the Republicans playing the part of both brothers.
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@HollieTheNerd @ellle_em It is absolutely coming across as “I would just like to reinforce that you are a lower priority to me”.
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Two things about this new approach:. 1) It is a terrible idea with no redeeming aspects, aesthetic or otherwise, and the disinformation benefits are probably intentional
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@animtree @davehill77 @vornietom @taylordotbiz @kickstarter If you get the job back alongside a union that will kick the asses of the folks who fired you, it’s not so bad. Otherwise, yeah, not great.
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It’s only Active Directory if it comes from the Redmond region of Washington, otherwise all you’ve got is sparkling LDAP.
Happy 20th birthday to Microsoft Active Directory, the biggest foot-gun in all of computing! 🎂 🎊.
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@InternetHippo Oh, because they want someone who’ll work for peanuts without a second thought.
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@hacks4pancakes @wbm312 @Patreon Good thing Patreon doesn’t hold any data that needs to be secured!.
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This is the best news I’ve heard all week
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@Plasmaposting @InternetHippo Which is a classic recruiter technique for suckering people into settling for a lowball offer because it works unless you’ve been burned before.
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Bet advertisers are going to love this!.
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DID YOU KNOW: “dot com” is actually short for “Dorothy Computer”.
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A lot of malware is absolutely terribly written garbage that wouldn’t pass muster in CS101, and it still manages to bag millions in ransoms and take down Fortune 500 companies.
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@InternetHippo The moment they think you might remotely know the worth of your labor, they’re not interested, because it means you’ll probably leave after less time than they want to juice you.
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And again, the funny thing is that older clients still render it correctly, which is going to make it extra fun to post when people abuse this for actual nefarious purposes.
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@ScrumWhat Hm, yes, funny you should point out that the new headline style makes it much easier to falsify article content.
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@BoxElderDust Me: man, I wish people would stop lionizing the Soviets so much. Monkey’s paw: *finger curls*.
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I’m naturally suspicious of anything involving cryptocurrencies because of my standing “beware geeks bearing grifts” policy.
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@Lubchansky @BrandyLJensen A friend of mine once said “Growing older doesn’t have to mean becoming Republican, but it does mean increasingly identifying with Bennie in Rent,” and she was definitely not wrong.
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Worth noting also that there were a few intentional features of the old format that made it nearly impossible to fake a news link with an image, unlike the below.
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@Baston_TB @goldman And a lot of programmers underestimate what it takes to maintain a large system based on having never done it.
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@Defunctland @AnaMardoll It's only a sea shanty if it comes from the ocean region of Earth, otherwise it's just a sparkling work song.
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@explodingblood Imperialism, man. It’s not complex. They even state it outright, all the time.
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Your computing ancestors would beat you senseless with an acoustic coupler if they knew you were making video files larger than their entire file servers’ combined drive space just to convey the information present in a few kilobytes of text.
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LOL @ everyone reporting me to community notes or telling me it’s misinformation, yes, that’s the point.
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@AugustJPollak @KateRoseBee “HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?”. “Uh, they weren’t wearing masks?”. “YES BUT HOW?!”. “. did you pass high school bio?”.
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“Coping with ADHD is easy, just have a to-do list,” they said. “There’s an app built right into your phone,” they said. Just completed this today, only 19 days late, after hitting snooze on it every day because I couldn’t find the number on my desk.
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@SwiftOnSecurity Constantly horrifies me that we’ve continued to keep SMTP alive despite the fact that it is literally begging for the sweet release of death.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made usefu.
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Bet they didn’t ask PUA_TIPS or whatever if they wanted to review before posting.
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LOL this will do absolutely jack shit to stop the scam bots (which are largely using the reverse engineered private API anyway, and if they aren’t already, they will) while absolutely destroying everyone who made a fun little bot that keeps people engaged. $100/mo?! What?
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These are prime examples of what happens when you develop a piece of technology without stopping to think how it could be misused.
Horrifying out of Microsoft. The false positive rate won't be exactly pretty. I wouldn't be surprised if this results in quite some communications in affected orgs being moved to other channels.
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@baddestmamajama @dannyschof81 I would, however, like to know more about the real ale festival.
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@Aliafonzy43 Oh. Oh yes. Everyone has done it, for the most part. And, every time, it is a failure of the system around them that let one person break the system by mistake instead of having the safeguards to prevent it.
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@VeryBadLlama @MsEmilyEdwards I am under no impression that I am just growing the peppers and tomatoes that are fun to eat in my suburban backyard. There is absolutely 100% no way I could grow enough to feed ONE person here, let alone all of us.
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@OregonHouseGOP How did the ten-year-olds get pregnant. Seems like it might not be a good situation for parenthood, just sayin.
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@properdipwad @anylaurie16 Gonna go ask this guy who his favorite computer scientist is and if it’s not Edsgar Dijkstra, pronounced correctly, he is WRONG.
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@exylophone__ @Plasmaposting @InternetHippo Yeah, there’s a lot of tricks out there on both sides, this is somewhat tech-specific but probably 80-90% of it applies everywhere:
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@LisaMCrosbie For those of us who spent their childhoods being told stop fidgeting, pay attention, look at me, your behavior is distracting (all pretty common with ADHD or ASD), feeling seen is *exhausting* because you’re always basically performing and/or worrying.
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Judging by the rate this is spreading, it seems like he’s removed enough safety features to bring us back to 2016 levels of susceptibility to fake/manipulated news, which is just grand.
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It’s the year of Linux on the desktop
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If you’ve ever had to buy a house (with a mortgage, since I assume most of you can’t just plop down a big sack of cash and buy one), you might have wondered, “why do I have to do all this paperwork about where my down payment came from?” The current crypto situation is telling.
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@wartranslated It’s one of those things where a tree looks fine until you get a little storm and it falls over, revealing it’s been nearly rotted through on the inside for years. All it needed was a little push….
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@socialistdogmom @burger_enjoyer Pity he didn’t end the exchange with “And if ya don’t know, now ya know.”.
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@OriginalRamayan @MarkHertling @jakejsullivan The alternative is total annihilation, though, so it’s not much of a choice.
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@aquatique4tist @lainasparetime This works with Disney stuff too, if you want to get the bots a takedown notice.
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@Mr_Considerate @Asher_Wolf “I have perfected the recipes for seven different highly potent and undetectable poisons.”. “…”. “The antidote will cost you ONE JOB.”.
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@BIMBOCOMMUN1SM @SAMOYEDCORE This definitely started as a sex thing before all the dislocations and torn cartilage.
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@Chinchillazllla “The state of the union is Nebraska, congratulations to Nebraska. Come back next year to see 2023’s state of the union, and thanks everyone for the nominations.”.
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@opinonhaver @BoxElderDust Movement leader: “Guys, the feds are trying to infiltrate us and promote infighting! We have to be vigilant!”. Committee member wearing a ball cap and Oakleys: “Yeah, we should… read more theory to make sure we’re ready. I’d like to add these four books to the mandatory list.”.
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@clairewillett I keep saying this. It’s a fucking donut. If it keeps people from killing other people, let them have a donut.
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@marypcbuk @Phyllisthefree @theamycoop Yes but what about the congealed guns that “Phyllis” was suggesting. I’d like to hear more about those.
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Extremely cursed image.
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THESE ARE NOT MADE.THEY SHOULD *NEVER* BE MADE.WE WILL NOT MAKE THEM.WE WILL NOT HELP MAKE THEM
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@LisaMCrosbie I will put the camera on if I *need* to, but I would actually take the request to turn it on (especially in a group rather than a 1-on-1) to be crossing a line, a bit. It’s kind of invasive, and part of what I like about working from home is not having to *be seen* all the time.
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@lukeweston @chubbyemu Not for long, certainly, but if there’s anything AITA has taught us it is that cishet women put up with entirely too much.
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@RottenInDenmark My mother, who doesn’t even swear, learned a particularly juicy piece of slang from my British uncle. She thought it was just a cheeky term of affection and started calling everyone a “wanker”, including her friends at church. We had my uncle give her a little talk.
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@christapeterso I could be persuaded to accept “the website formerly known as Twitter”, there’s already an unpronounceable sigil and it would be 100% faithful to Prince’s original intent.
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The cursed power strip has reentered the conversation
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@AliceAvizandum Also, like, filming and photographing all the safehouses and putting them on the fucking Internet for lolz.
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So apparently you still get put in Twitter jail for telling Nazis off
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@Chinchillazllla @ElectionFrenzy Genuinely shocked they didn’t say the chief thought about fentanyl and had to have a lie down.
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