wes @wes@qoto.org

@snow I have been using the pok3r for 2 years. It is my favorite keyboard of all time. I used a 15 year old Microsoft Natural before that, which is my second favorite. It had a ps/2 interface and there was a USB adapter you had to daisy chain.

http://www.vortexgear.tw/vortex2_2.asp?kind=47&kind2=220&kind3=&kind4=998

One day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" ... When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

(Final speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967)

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4629609/amp

@greylaw89 I recently needed a new personal development machine. I have used either Linux or macOS for the last few years. The machine came preinstalled with Windows 10. Since I was told that many things have improved as far as software development ergonomics (e.g. WSL), I decided to spend a few hours on a first date with Windows 10 to see if sparks would fly.

During this time I was bombarded with critical software security updates. I got nervous and wiped Windows entirely from the machine.

I got a laugh from the release schedule for IE as provided by Wikipedia.

@greylaw89 I once worked for a large aerospace company that managed 100k+ end user devices. At the time (2012) the company was transitioning from Windows XP to Windows 7, and the vast majority of devices were still XP. I recall there being constant CVEs for IE, and the company rolled out the weekly patches. It was not permitted for employees to install alternative browsers unless there was a business need exception (e.g. certain engineering teams), so most users were stuck with IE.

That being said, there were few, if any, incidents related to IE. This was due to the defense-in-depth the company policies had established. This included aggressive web filtering and blocking policies, MITM all SSL/TLS, security policies, IDS, and network isolation.

They took so long to migrate because of the large inertia involved. Internal company tools, end-of-life specialty CAD tools, updated training for 100k employees, all of which requires testing and verification. I’m empathetic to these sorts of situations because of the enormous cost, and anyway, the business quantifies and agrees to the risk.

@freemo I would agree that these two dimensions aren’t necessarily orthogonal in certain structures of governance (e.g the US which is where I live). My summary of the bottom left is wanting to live in a society that rejects hierarchy and authority, but works together and cares for each other collectively.

Not so much requiring the imposition of laws or taxation, but more the desire to opt-in to a society that collectively agrees to do what it takes to preserve personal liberty while cooperatively maintaining its prosperity.

@freemo this survey accurately portrays me as an anarchist.

@greylaw89 @freemo I’m sticking to open water and single tank dives. I get too distracted to do anything else.

Team motto on display

Apache Kafka m+ms someone gave me last week.

@snow I try to mute all bots.

@snow my iOS client only allows 500 characters. Maybe there is one that allows for relaxing this limit?