CosmicTurtle0
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- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 1 day ago:
tbf IAM is the bastard child of many cloud providers.
It exists to provide CISOs and BROs a level of security that no one person has access to their infrastructure. So if a company decides that system A should no longer have access to system B, they can do that quickly.
IAM is so complex now that it’s a field all in itself.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 2 days ago:
I was on a non profit board where the founder realized he wasn’t the right person for the job after 20 years of growing the org. It finally got to a point that he felt like the growth was beyond what he ever imagined or wanted.
He was, on every metric, very successful. He grew the org from nothing, got millions of dollars in donations, amassed a huge base, and no one would have thought different if he just kept going.
I remember sitting down with him one-on-one and asked him why. He thought about it for a minute and said, “It’s time for someone to make it even better.”
Looking back, I think I see the exhaustion. To constantly innovate, to push people forward, to push the org, the mission…it was all one person at a time. He reached a point in both age and in life that it just wasn’t something he could keep doing.
He loved the mission so much he knew it deserved better.
If that isn’t leadership, I don’t know what is.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 4 days ago:
Wait…WHAT?!
I don’t want to fact check this. Is this true? Is this what all the memes were about yesterday?!
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 4 days ago:
I’d trust a Lemmy source more than a reddit source.
But that’s just me.
- Comment on 877-CASH-NOW 1 week ago:
I’m sorry but I have to ask: what is the point of a 50 year mortgage?
It sounds like a dumb way to give banks even more interest.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 weeks ago:
Right back at you!
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 weeks ago:
You’re getting down voted right now and I think it’s important to understand why because I had a similar reaction not too long ago. I was curious to understand my own biases and what I think it’s important to share what I learned as a cis male in IT.
Women just want to be women. Some want to wear nail polish and “look pretty” while others want to just rock a T-shirt and jeans. Like men who wear full tux and debug code at 6pm on a Friday (because they aren’t farmers), they want to be what they want to be.
Men have the luxury to wear whatever they want (for the most part) and not get shit for it. Women have to do everything that men do and do it with maturity while handing the shit that men throw their way.
I learned this lesson when I was the sole male STEM counselor at an all girls camp. It was a volunteer gig that my company put together. They had last minute cancellations and I had time on my calendar and so I volunteered. I did not know it was all girls and I certainly did not know I’d be the only guy.
I stayed curious and helped where I could. My job was to be a project manager, help teams understand how to win their competition that had set requirements. So I walked them through all that and looked over their code. There as a dedicated “make up hour” where the girls were encouraged to make their presentations “pretty” with make up, glitter, etc. I personally found it pointless given how far behind we were but I kept my mouth shut.
And I observed.
The fact that these girls could do this and do IT was immensely powerful. You could see their spirits lifted. It rocked my world and made me check my own beliefs. Why not allow them to be pretty? Why not let them take an hour to put glitter and stickers on their board if it made them happy?
Did we win? No. But they enjoyed it.
In my 20+ years in tech, we need more women because they bring perspective in ways I don’t. Not because they want to be pretty because they provide insight in ways I don’t expect. Anything I can do to help make that happen I’ll gladly do.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 weeks ago:
The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.
[youtu.be/uqo5RYOp4nQ](Remember: Shut the Fuck Up)
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
Add dual climate control and then I’m with you.
- Comment on Another day of AWS outages 4 weeks ago:
In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.
The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.
Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 4 weeks ago:
There is a chrome addon that will “block” anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.
I’m starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 5 weeks ago:
I get what you’re going for but this would absolutely wreck privacy. And depending on how those signatures are created, someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images and then we would be back to square one.
I don’t have a better idea though.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 month ago:
It’s no accident that capital is aligned with fascist. Line must go up.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 month ago:
Startpage for the win!
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 month ago:
Instead, these searches return a list of traditional web links.
“Oh…oh okay. So you know what that is. Why are unable to provide traditional web links for ALL my searches? Because, I’m gonna be honest with you Google. I never asked for you to ‘summarize’ my web results and the fact that you can turn it off at your discretion tells me that you could turn it off for everyone.”
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 1 month ago:
It says “7 comments” on my end but no actual comments. Also the post is from a year ago. The post I saw was at least a week or two ago. though it’s cool to see a meme rotating like in Reddit. 😅
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 1 month ago:
I think these are the image I saw but not the thread. The threads had comments.
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- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 month ago:
It’s almost as if someone figured out that conservatives, in an effort to feel the need to play the victim, will react negatively and thus be more engaged when presented with non-conforming news.
A sort of dissonance…that happens cognitively.
- Comment on POV you are rich 1 month ago:
The problem is that sovereign citizens try to do this in the wrong way. They often appear pro se in court with little to no research on how to actually argue their case.
I’m not an attorney but based on my understanding of current jurisprudence, here’s what you need to do to avoid taxes:
- Be rich. Like obscenely rich.
- Hire accountants and attorneys to align your income and assets into corporations.
- borrow against those assets, listing them as part of your collateral, and then use the money to live your life.
- if you get into trouble, say that it was the corporation, not you, making those decisions. Remember that corporations are people.
- if the corporation gets charged, bankrupt the corporation until it has negative assets and the shutter it.
That’s it.
I would argue that corporations actually have more rights than citizens or even religious organizations. The only thing they can’t do is vote. Companies can literally murder people and pay a fine.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 1 month ago:
Fortunately it doesn’t federate
Ftfy.
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 2 months ago:
Okay you just described my last dungeon event.
- Comment on Hen of the Woods 2 months ago:
I have these all over my yard right now. Or I think I do. Google identified them as something else that I can’t remember though.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 2 months ago:
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 2 months ago:
You know what would do this justice? We all gaslight the GOP into saying this is fake news. That it’s AI. That he’s completely fine but in a bunker somewhere for his safety.
In fact…this is what’s true.
No way that a shot would show this much blood, especially against a white hetero man. This has woke AI written all over it.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 2 months ago:
Everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 2 months ago:
Slight correction:
Every technology invented has been used at least once for sex.
- Comment on UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites 2 months ago:
I know the comic shows Uncle Sam but it still applies to the UK.
- Comment on I'm new to Lawnchair and I want to like it. Maybe I'm not seeing the right options. 2 months ago:
Thanks for replying. That’s kind of what I figured.
I am not a fan of the Pixel Launcher and was hoping for a good open source launcher.
Nova was certainly the GOAT. I really wish they would have not sold out.
