Posts by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
(DIR) Post #A5q1cUJmvJ3e1GN8sa by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2021-04-02T13:49:12Z
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We're going to have to revise all the science fiction stories, the ones where there is any competent government response to public health crises or any rational and self-preserving response by the public for their own health. There is no fear of dying, no fear of illness, just hubris, bravado, and jingoism.
(DIR) Post #AIscXjH2TeuNyu3bW4 by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-04-27T16:26:16Z
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@pingviini Save us from rampaging Musk Ox. ;)
(DIR) Post #AIvCHjCUy1qvmqWSfY by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-04-28T21:58:24Z
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@atomicpoet foxes are cat firmware running on dog hardware.
(DIR) Post #AIwvrfttP8Q14XIKUi by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-04-29T18:00:36Z
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So, usually around 10 or so, I take my break, turn off the AC unit behind me, and that shifts the battlefield between the technology warming things up and the machinery cooling things down. Then it starts to get really nice in here, loud and hummy, but somewhat warm too. It's my daily delight, like I'm coming in out of the cold, slowly.
(DIR) Post #AIwvwHeWz64DJiJ6G0 by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-04-29T18:02:45Z
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Some people would suggest that I seek other employement, if they knew all the details, however, even with all this extra stuff, the job is exceptionally easy to execute, so in a very real way, it's really an endless Elsyian Field of low-hanging fruit. I have my own 100m fiber to the Internet, I have privacy, and I can do pretty much whatever I like whenever I like, however I like. I set the rules, and so, I have a lot of freedoms that others could only dream of.
(DIR) Post #AIwvyaGMlMhncB6Jwe by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-04-29T18:06:17Z
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The best times at work are when I dive into a geek exploration. I will download a linux distro and roll up a VM in the VMWare ESXi server, or I'll trot it out on Hyper-V on the newly idle Windows server in my stack. Install it, measure it, see if Linux passes various hurdles. Where is it now? I check in every six months and when I'm knee-deep in some geeky thing, the hours just fly by. I hardly even notice that lunch comes, and then it's break time, and then 5 is coming up...
(DIR) Post #AIwyM8sGRebNWpBl4q by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-04-29T18:50:06Z
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@atoponce I've been with 1Password for a really long time. It's quite good for my use cases. I just wish people would use it, or any solution really. Ideally there would be an OSS option, I think the only one I've tried is KeePassX, but that was many many moons ago.
(DIR) Post #AJ2sSHHAge3GXy8mtE by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-02T15:09:04Z
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I have an ethical and social curiosity at work. I have a query that I run on our Cisco Unity Voicemail System that pulls message item numbers off the database, showing how many voicemails are in the system, how many are unheard, and how many are in the deleted box. Right now I keep this detail to myself, as it's primarily diagnostic, but would folks send this detail to management or just keep tabs on it?
(DIR) Post #AJ5cHBEhmpf6pxYNI8 by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-03T15:48:11Z
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Layer 1 is a nightmare that is alive. I witnessed it myself, the T1 circuit, a copper pair of wires that goes to my Traverse City Michigan branch of my company snakes into the basement through dirt, connects to a 66-block WHERE THE LID IS ATTACHED WITH BUBBLE GUM. That's what Layer 1 is. Layer 1 is a MIRACLE THAT ANY OF IT DOESN'T START FIRES. That's what all this magic happy bleepbloop is all founded on. Ratty nasty copper infrastructure installed in 1943, still chugging away.
(DIR) Post #AJ6u8yQJX6Vn7DBChE by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-04T13:49:48Z
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@stux About 40 miles northwest of me is Holland Michigan. It's exactly what you would expect. Everything Netherlands Everywhere All The Time. They make it a matter of pride, in your face pride. You can't avoid it pride. Waggle Waggle Even Got The Names Right And Flags, Too... sort of pride. :) All of the provinces, too. :) The tulips, the shoes, the pottery, you name it, it's likely a smaller version of what makes the Netherlands the Netherlands. Even a working windmill... you can buy custom flours from.
(DIR) Post #AJ6xjn3d3NzsRRoeq8 by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-04T14:30:06Z
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@stux Designed almost to want to avoid vehicular manslaughter! Wow! That's so nice! We have "bike lanes" but they are mostly just ways to be smashed from rampaging motorist bumper to rampaging motorist bumper. Ooof. That's downright humane, what you have there. :) We've got something like that, but only in fits and starts, connecting things you don't really care about but someone did so they paved it and shrugged. LOL.
(DIR) Post #AJ6y9LEN8Rm9fT1bV2 by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-04T14:34:36Z
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@stux If you ever visit, and hop on a bike, please remember that nobody here, in the good ol' USA understands the rules of the road when it comes to bicycles and cars. Bicyclists going the wrong way, sailing through red lights, passing stop signs, cars honking and throwing gravel at bikes, leaving maybe an inch and laughing with a middle finger and unpleasant screaming words. The only real meaningful bicyclist experience around here is the Kal-Haven Trail. It's about 50 miles from here to South Haven. +
(DIR) Post #AJ6yVaMBZsP4x2HodE by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-04T14:36:12Z
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@stux + And the only reason it exists is because it was an old railroad bed that had the rails pulled out and it was paved. It was an afterthought that got "rediscovered" and then slathered with marketing. So you can enjoy it, and get to the lake, and not interact very much with automobiles. Someday I will have the physical capacity to dare it. LOL.
(DIR) Post #AJ6ymdwZUkYkzyRIau by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-04T14:41:48Z
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@stux @pla Those aren't stray bullets! Those are spicy mosquitoes! It's not a gaping gunshot wound, it's Flamin Hot Cheeto Malaria! ;) Although that rarely ever happens in a town as tiny and forgettable as Kalamazoo. Mostly life just goes on, in its own quiet little way, unaffected by the world and well, reality? Americans mostly don't really care so much about reality, we rarely ever come into contact with it. ;)
(DIR) Post #AJ70YTjar8YrBmk5pY by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-04T14:59:57Z
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@stux Wow. Targeting FTW. ;)
(DIR) Post #AJAzZk6zj6nmduRjvs by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-06T13:09:37Z
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@stux It’s a very elaborate ATM for the venue. LOL.
(DIR) Post #AJBA6GKGURfFMRnaJk by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-06T15:07:32Z
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@stux When you spot that, you know that the news cycle has grown weary with that story and has moved on to something else. Like COVID... uhhhh... ;)
(DIR) Post #AJJkvJnuT8vsX0zNi4 by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-10T18:37:36Z
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@stux Musk does the obvious with the likely for the worst reasons.
(DIR) Post #AK1XwrAWYeIb5MorRo by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-31T21:35:08Z
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Well, the bank demands we forge a new GPG keypair every two years and so, I've done it. Every time I do this damn thing I always get the same shuck-and-jive from them. Oooooh it's so complicated, you have to create a summoning circle and get just the right... Bah. Give me a break. 15 seconds maybe. It's done. Signed with the current public key, clearsigned even, named just the way you like, and then uploaded. Sure, be dramatic. Get 14 VP's of the bank on the phone. Gimme a break. LOL.
(DIR) Post #AK1dVgc2IUKkFh7Cym by Bluedepth@mastodon.technology
2022-05-31T21:44:54Z
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@pingviini I know! They’ve automated it and it seems to work well for them! They don’t use it for email, but for financial data, yup.