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> And despite security recommendations, too many IT depts still force password resets every 90 days…

It could be for contractual or for insurance reasons. We have some contracts with government agencies that require it, and our cyberinsurance also does. Even though NIST has been recommending for years to do long passphrase + MFA and no reset unless you suspect compromise.

So yeah, the reason behind this might not be just plain incompetence.

I don’t even ask for that anymore because it rarely leads to good ends. What I do now is send an email summarizing the dumb bullshit that they want me to do, describe the detrimental effects that it will have in excruciating detail, ask if there are any corrections and if my understanding is correct, and say that if I don’t get a reply from them by X time, I’ll do $DumbBullshitThing at Y time/date. It gets CC’ed at least one level higher than them in the food chain and also to my personal email address for CYA.

It puts the onus on them, creates a paper trail, and also places the blame on them when shit blows up because they asked me to do $DumbBullshitThing when the consequences were clearly laid out.

It’s so rare for me to have to use the modulo operator I’m actually excited when I come across a situation where I can.

The stock Pixel phone app has this. If you don’t use the stock phone app, you can’t use this feature.

That certainly makes me feel better for letting the Magic Smoke out.

So I’m not the only one who fried a monitor trying to get X11 working…

That’s exactly why we need to give them the boot.

Hard disagree. If you’re running something business-critical, the support that you get with a RHEL license {or any other vendor, for that matter) is worth its weight in gold.

If you can’t fix something, you don’t want to be looking for solutions by sifting through forum posts directed at home users when the business is losing thousands of dollars per hour. That’s what the license is for, and that’s what you pay for.

We’ve known about the principle since 1856, and have known about its possible impact since 1896.

I’ve been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it’s news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.

The only people that get upset over it are those whose entire personality are based on superficial bullshit like this because they don’t have a personality, or just want to feel superior to someone else, or both.

I’ve been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades, and using it period since it was hard to install and Slackware came in the mail on ~50 floppy disks. There is not enough “Get off my lawn” in the world for those people.

I’ll call the path container whatever I damned well please.

You wouldn’t download a folder

The fuck I wouldn’t! I’m gonna do it now out of spite!

This is art.

This comment made me physically recoil in disgust. Great job.

That sounds like emacs-user talk. We don’t take kindly to you folks around these parts…

Deleting an entire line by hitting x repeatedly

The first time I ever touched Double Ds was in vim.

I’ve been using vscode since it was released and I never knew that was an option. Thank you!

docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

…until you have a single extra space character hiding 20 lines into your compose file and the whole thing falls over the next time you try to bring the containers up.

Lint your code and configs every time!

Ok, let me know if you want help.

I don’t think the problem is so much profitability as it is the demand/expectation for endless growth. It becomes a positive feedback loop and is completely unsustainable after a certain point.

You know what else is endless growth? Cancer.

contributing to open source projects

You need to be careful with this point, because it becomes addictive.

It’s 4AM and I just submitted a PR to the Liftoff app repo.

I think that’ll always be the case with the Fediverse.