Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
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After months offline, DISCMASTER rises again! 💿 The site, which is not run by the Internet Archive, offers users the ability to perform semantic search of thousands of shareware & compilation CD-ROMs preserved at @internetarchive 👉
https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/21/discmaster-rises-again/
If they simply must have an obese character to ridicule - hire a fat person. Or realize why this is problematic and hire an actual writer.
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After half a year away, the DISCMASTER service has returned. It's just finishing up its restore process and is very usable now.
Go re-visit one of the biggest events in deep digital diving now:
Weird hobbies are the interesting ones.
I don't know, man. We never see you at a party together.
Good. A nice cost-based external driver should help get people moving, because "you know you're three revs behind latest stable" sure doesn't seem to.
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Your @AWScloud EKS cluster control planes are about to be 6x more expensive if you don't keep them updated to current.
I think this is genius; if you don't patch your infrastructure, you're inflicting externalities on the rest of us. It's time you bore some of that cost.
It is always the curse of the ops/security person that when you put in the hours and effort to make sure things are safe - nobody notices. They only notice when you fail.
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Nice way to eliminate inter-zone egress on AWS. Just push it to S3 and pull: https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashing-data-transfer-costs/
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Steamboat Willie in 4k, digitized from 16mm film: https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-16mm-film-scan-4k-lossless
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"Those who don't know history are doomed to look like an idiot on social media."
There are few things funnier than corporate marketing colliding with nsfw slang.
I think it's about control - she is young and has wealth and defies how they think women "should" behave and they can't stop it and it drives them crazy.
And that's fantastic. Every bit of humility we can inject into the lives of the haters is useful.
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Winter weather keeping you inside? Check out this excellent guide from @mental_floss — 7 Fun Ways to Use the Internet Archive https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/internet-archive-fun-features
I have 7 computers on my desk. Macos, windows 11, ubuntu, steam deck, pi, iphone, ipad.
Guess which one just hard crashes, frequently?
Windows, you betcha. Newish hardware, too. Very sad.
I do manage to crash the mac mini, my daily driver, every few months.
@jacobydave i thought everyone above a certain age (50?) in the business automatically learned a tolerable amount of both. I'm not sure how anyone survived the late '90s and early 2000's without it. It's like asing the oldsters about Fortran or COBOL.
We use both, but in a prior job I used Remedy, and honestly that was an order of magnitude worse.
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To prove the point that users will continue to click links, regardless of how obvious it is that they shouldn't, I worked with the person in charge of the monthly phishing trainings at $dayjob last month. Historically, they have used the hated ruses like fake gift cards, and I wanted to try to get away from that, especially during the holidays. We ended up using something to the effect of the following:
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Hello <first name>,
Happy Holidays. This is the monthly phishing test. Yes, really. It's not a trick. Use the <phishing reporting function> to report this as phishing. If you do not know how to use <phishing reporting function>, feel free to ask a colleague. If you still have questions, search for <phishing reporting function> on <internal docs site>.
Do not click the following link as it is there for metrics and will cause you to be assigned phishing awareness training: <phishing training 'malicious' link>
Sincerely,
IT Security Team
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I don't know how well it was received by users, but I do know that we still had more clicks than two other months in 2023, despite being explicitly told not to click the link. Users will always click links with their link-clicking machines. Relying on their discretion is either ignorant, or I expect in some cases, malicious in that there will always be a scapegoat to blame for the inevitable breach.
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
