mingus88

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by mingus88 2y ago
I would not
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by mingus88 2y ago
In that era also, the communities you had to chose from were higher quality, simply due to the barrier to entry of being always online. To continue with IRC as an example, having access to a shell account where you could set up a bouncer to
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by mingus88 2y ago
As soon as you have to provide an ID or a credit card to access a site, we’re talking about PII which is a whole different ballgame for privacy.
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by mingus88 2y ago
Yep. My dad kept his playboys under his bed. I knew as young as probably six or seven. They sold them openly in magazine racks at the gas station and in middles school most boys had easy access. The 90s had Usenet, IRC and free image galler
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by mingus88 2y ago
lol, restricting administrative access to the administrators is pretty much a security best practice in every company everywhere. Ever heard of the principle of least privilege? They didn’t give me admin in the database and I don’t want it.
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by mingus88 2y ago
Amazon is full RTO in my city and there are now lines down the block for the food trucks this week at lunchtime. I’m sure every business owner is conspiring together to get those captive office workers back in city centers where their wages
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by mingus88 2y ago
It feels like this decade or so is defined by people who just don't know when to fade out and retire with their legacies intact. Whether it be this guy, elderly politicians, or billionaires with social media addictions, everyone's
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by mingus88 2y ago
These were solaris 8 or 9 patches for some Oracle DB. Patch management back then was wild and conflicting patches could cause problems. Of course there were no consequences for someone bypassing the approval process and doing unscheduled ch
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by mingus88 2y ago
As someone who used to sysadmin and was well aware of this trick, sometimes a developer or dba will bully their way through leadership to make sure they never need to ask for permission to edit their configs We all knew it was a bad idea bu
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by mingus88 2y ago
Apples innovations these days are in the privacy space, so it’s no surprise that Zuck doesn’t respect or even acknowledge it
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by mingus88 2y ago
I left FB in 2012 mostly because they wouldn’t allow me to share articles about how to properly secure your profile and posts. These were all innocuous sources such as Ars Technica that were pro-privacy. The blocks were immediate, which sug
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by mingus88 2y ago
Nothing. It’s all partisan theater. Why else would you explicitly call out CA workers as being biased and the solution being to move that work to Texas? The state where the Gov recently pardoned a convicted murderer whose victim was a lefti
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by mingus88 2y ago
This is the buy vs rent discussion all over again. By tying your “purchase” to an account with T&S they have ensured you only have a license to use it on their terms which they can revoke any time they want I’m a loyal steam customer be
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by mingus88 2y ago
> I’m just going to say that maybe you’re criticising it because you yourself cannot achieve it. Or you want to be like that, but you just don’t know how,” she says. Man, these influencer people are exhausting… it’s hard to believe that
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by mingus88 2y ago
Something I have noticed about higher education admins is that they hire consultants to do every project I came to understand that this is because the career positions have such great benefits, often the last bastion of pensions, that these
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by mingus88 2y ago
That’s the only reasonable thing to do in their position. Anything you say from there can and will be used against you. It’s also the best way for any customer service rep to eject from an unpleasant exchange. 100% done with you; lawyers pr
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by mingus88 2y ago
This is so true. My nephew worked at a Starbucks kiosk for a minute and had to deal with the most toxic territorial BS from the women who worked there before he started I said basically the same thing to him. It’s amazing how bad it can get
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by mingus88 2y ago
According to this chart on X, X is the fairest and most balanced platform ever created. Nice. Try this experiment. Make two posts. One with the word “cisgender” and the other with the N-word and see how balanced the platform treats you. The
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by mingus88 2y ago
The idea that you could blackmail an Meta interviewer for the crime of using Meta’s own product, at work, for work purposes was a bit of a stretch Then the whole thing came apart entirely when they were able to do anything productive at all
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by mingus88 2y ago
In this economy, I wouldn’t judge anyone who takes an offer at Meta if it means they can secure a home and a financial future for themselves. That’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for most people. I have worked in all kinds of fields and
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by mingus88 2y ago
The CEO class has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The Chinese government has a vested interest in American instability and sowing chaos and further economic dependency on China So I guess you could say bothe of these are “o
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by mingus88 2y ago
It looks to me to be exactly what a typical coding interview looks like; the first shot is correct and works, and then the interviewer keeps asking if you can spot any ways to make it better/faster/more efficient If I were a CS st
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by mingus88 2y ago
I quit Facebook in 2014 for the same reason. Their privacy settings were regularly reverted and it became clear that their business model and my privacy were not compatible. Apple “gets away with it“ because people pay them for it. Apple is
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by mingus88 2y ago
> What I want is very simple: I want software that doesn’t send anything to the Internet without some explicit intent first. At the risk of blaming the victim, it just seems so strange that in 2025 we are still having this discussion. If
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by mingus88 2y ago
It’s not meaningless, it’s an interesting coincidence. These acts are done for notoriety and taking a gun into a school or a market has become so normalized we are seeing more attacks like this that can be done anywhere at anytime with easi
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by mingus88 2y ago
There are a ton of great Christmas movies on Netflix. We just watched Christmas Chronicles again last night. Klaus is great. The Wallace and Gromit ones…I could go on Maybe you aren’t being suggested kids movies. Most Xmas productions are.
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by mingus88 2y ago
Half (if not more) of the leadership on andruils are from palantir. Schimpf was a senior director there and his wife was the head of infosec at palantir in the last decade It always looked to me like palantir was the software side and Andru
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Brace yourself for AI video
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by mingus88 2y ago
> Hopefully they will gradually cut out the record labels entirely, and pay the artists the full cut directly that is currently going mostly to the record label Ok stop it. This is too much.
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by mingus88 2y ago
If you don’t actually respect the artist who is getting cloned and replaced by lazy/AI versions of their work without compensation, sure. No problem with this at all. This enshittification of the streaming industry comes after decades

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