Notices by ghorwood↙↙↙ (ghorwood@mastodon.social), page 2

back in the 90s, stacey lindburg taught me that when deleting from the prod db to always write the statement as a select first then edit it to be a delete after auditing it.

this advice has saved my ass at least once a year since.

anyone here ever use ventoy for live booting multiple distros off one key? looking for some pre-advice before spending an hour futzing with it.

@GreenSkyOverMe popos is my daily driver. it's ubuntu but with... more.

all those things the nerds dogpile into the comments section to argue about? they don’t really matter. we’re enthusiasts and we argue because we’re enthusiastic. that’s all. ignore us.

look, i’m obviously one of those crusty, old command-line-first linux guys, but hear me out: you don’t need to be “culturally linux” to use linux. you can just install it and use it and not make it part of your identity.

any of those distros people talk about will work fine, great even, right out of the box: popos, mint, fedora, elementary, zorin. it doesn’t really matter.

you want enshittification? the bell phone monopoly gave us, free of encumbrance, the transistor, the solar panel, telstar, three different types of lasers, pressure treated lumber, and two operating systems, one of which i like.

and today at&t is bribing the friends of public officials to get out of providing landlines.

@Quinnypig non-competes mean nothing when you’re a monopoly.

i was going to wait to tell the “who called it ‘secret santa’ instead of ‘non-disclosure claus’?” joke until it was closer to christmas, but i figured i’d totally forget, so i’m telling it now.

huh. apparently you *can* stand up to big tech. who knew?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-to-pay-canadas-link-tax-drops-threat-of-removing-news-from-search/

mike just called that ai thing “chatGOP” because “it says things in a really earnest and folksy way that are demonstrably untrue”

@atomicpoet

@letsencrypt ever since certbot, i've never had to say "there are now fourteen days until the cert on prod expires so somebody in this organization with access to the company credit card better step the fuck up" in a standup.