Dave V. ND3JR @ND3JR@octodon.social
I dont understand why my gf insists on buy cable TV when we have the internet and an ota antenna. Its a waste of 40$ a month
"I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached." --Betrand Russell, 1932
Sysadmin work tends to be invisible and thankless - until something breaks.
Having been in their shoes most of my career, I try to resist the natural urge to get annoyed and complain when things break. Especially if it's rare and they get fixed quickly.
Don't judge work only by errors and mistakes - it's more fair to consider how well (or poorly) problems are handled.
Also consider: in Mastodon-land, often the admin work is a hobby. If it hobbies stop being fun, people find other hobbies...
This is some good shit.
"The proper response to crazy is: Shut. Up. Just shut the fuck up. Iโm not going to debate you, because I simply donโt respect your stupid bullshit enough to bother. Nobody does. Fuck off or Iโm getting out my Magic Marker."
Thanks to @gamehawk's post here I found some nice links on diceware and passphrases:
- EFF's dice passphrases page is great and clear: https://www.eff.org/dice
- The Diceware FAQ, especially the "how long" part, are very interesting http://world.std.com/%7Ereinhold/dicewarefaq.html#howlong
#contextpatrol https://mastodon.social/@gamehawk/99933096559696045
Here's a guide to those #CreativeCommons icons:
- Creative Commons
- attribution
- share alike
- no derivatives
- non-commercial
- public domain
- remix
- share
@alice or use an addon like "Neat URL" that does that automatically with all known tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
if your application uses this kinda ui without giving me the option to paste a path then fuck you
Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.
A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."
People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.
Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.
I've spent the afternoon trying to package something (Go+Rust) that has so many layers deep in the developer's build framework of expecting to be able to fetch data from the internet and from Github/Crates.io that there's clearly no end in sight.
Proper cleanroom build environments like FreeBSD uses for packaging requires everything be provided with the application source code and no internet access be available during build time.
Sadly this is completely incompatible with modern workflows. You end up chasing down thousands of dependencies by hand, trying to get them all in the right place for the build, and just when you think you've solved the problem the build process runs a command that expects to be able to query a website.
Fucking insanity, man.
Reminder: You did good enough today, even if all you did was get through one more day.
The battle is over. The next generation of programmers reinvented the wheel and it's full of razorblades. I think we should focus our resources on containing this mess with jails/containers. There's no other viable solution. It's our grim reality now.
To those who have sent me follow requests:
It's nothing personal if I reject your request. It's that I want to keep my account on Octodon more personal & I don't know you well enough to be comfortable accepting your request.
If you want me to get to know you, you can follow me on my social.coop account (@ND3JR) which is public. Then after we interact you can try again and you'll have a better chance of your request getting accepted.
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No tech sabbath today for me since I have company here.
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
Tooting this on both Octodon & social.coop. Bruce Schneier's take on the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal and surveillance capitalism in general.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_ca.html
Technological advancement purely for its own sake (read: without considering real-life consequences) is beyond foolish. A person who truly cares about the future of humanity and of technology will consider realism in their advancements. Do us all a favour: understand the impact of technological advancements before you mindlessly praise and support them.
me: I have no time
also me: *spends several hours a day on mastodon*
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