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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
99% of people don't know or don't care or don't decide to deal with it until they are past being able to deal with it. It's difficult. I've seen tears shed because a wife couldn't get into her dead husband&#x27
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
That information I'm talking about is mostly photos of me and my kids. They might want those. They can choose.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
The problem with this is relatives may need to when it comes to dealing with wills and assets later. Naive legal statements like "I leave my car to Bob" become rather difficult when the car is tied into cloud accounts, locked EV c
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
It's more a tale of woe to remind everyone that your technology choices may affect yourself and others in ways that you don't think about up front. Take what you want from it. Discard what you don't.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Some advice from someone who's done it wrong for years and dealt with dead people who have done it wrong for years. Firstly don't try and run a corporate level backup solution or NAS with terabytes of storage and tape at home. You
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
imap-backup. It just extracts everything from imap server as mbox. Then that's rdiff-backup'ed to target disks. You can imap-backup it back to another IMAP server if you need to. However it's better to just delete most stuff
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Meh. My toothbrush engine has around 100 trillion pathways in the neural network and sophisticated vision and motor capabilities. Also it didn't push Brexit for years then piss of to Singapore.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Don't underestimate the ability of workers to completely misunderstand the capabilities and drive it from the bottom up too. Half my colleagues are besotted with the technology and unaware that it is shaping their decision making, not
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Sounds exactly like my place. Never take your primary source of personal worth from a job. Get out of that mindset as soon as you can. In most companies like that you’re fungible in a moment’s notice even if they tell you they value you. As
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
I’ve seen rust in a newish (Danaher era) one.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Other than the very bottom end ones, no. Mostly went to Hp/Agilent instead.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Yeah agreed. I’ve fixed more Tek equipment than most people out there. In the order of hundreds of units. These are just exceptionally bad.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Give it a month and the acquisition ASICs will blow up and the caps will eat through the board traces. Can’t stand these scopes.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
It’s who the money is going to in FOSS.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
No issues here in UK. 18650s have high self-discharge rate so are useless for standby applications. AA's are, well, AA's. So you'd have to replace them more often. Not what you want to happen with a door bell.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
As a former embedded systems engineer, my door bell is two long bits of wire, a bell, a push button and two C cells. My light switches are similarly complicated.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Hey I'm quite happy to run my banking over TN3270 :)
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Looking at some of the shit I have to deal with, yes it is. TODO: insert something about open source, beer, free beer, someone else's beer, trading beer, subgenius, slack etc etc
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Got no AI 7 days here. I sold my token budget to other staff and spent the money on beer.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Maybe if we didn't virtualize everything at machine level we'd have portable software that runs on the original virtualization method: processes. Stares at Go as about the only step in that direction...
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
I think it's pretty much spot on myself and applies to more than virtualization based on the last point. It really suggests that further complexity and abstraction is not a good security posture. And I agree with this from extensive ex
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Reminds me of Theo DeRaadt again: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
How long ago? Everything is instant self service now. I haven’t spoken to a human in ten years.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
100% why I bank with an old bank that runs mainframes.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Urgh I was about to buy one for GOS. Maybe back to iPhone it is.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Same service with HSBC and Giffgaff here. Meh.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
I suspect Monzo was bitten by complexity. The network should not be assumed to be reliable and if you make a thousand things (microservices) with network between them regardless of what you think may happen, it’s entirely impossible to test
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
An increasing risk for sure.
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by sdcfgy 1mo ago
Due to the recent outage where it didn’t work properly, this should be renamed Monzo Limp-In.
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by sdcfgy 2mo ago
Well said. On your last point, I'd love one day to see that OSS developers are paid because society benefits from their work.

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