Go ahead and deploy a new version of Cisco Anyconnect VPN with a new icon color and ask yourselves why I phone corporate support to ask if that's legit.
I hope all > 50,000 of your employees do that as well!
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:54:08 JST 
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 22:51:13 JST
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Yes, well, it is dog food, but you could still run your product name through a multilingual dictionary.
I spoke to the owner of the shop, and he was not aware that this actually means something in English. 😭
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:59:46 JST
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"On January 11, 2025, a new trust anchor, codenamed KSK-2024, will appear ..."
Two guesses what I would have codenamed it ;-) (I know it's the year in which it was generated; just shitposting.)
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 00:29:58 JST
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@slothrop so it seems best to just cut the bloody wire and install linux on it. Might do the trick.
JP out.
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 22:05:43 JST
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This isn't written in Java, doesn't require Kubernetes, NodeJS or three distinct NoSQL document stores, runs sans Docker or MySQL, and I horribly miss simple software like this.
@Edent wrote a two-file Fediverse bot https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 04:35:07 JST
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I live in Germany and need this rubber stamp.
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:57:51 JST
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It’s been a while since I last brew installed inetutils and had forgotten that macOS hasn’t had ftp(1) for years. ncftp(1) which I first learned of via Usenet (that’s how old I am) came in handy.
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 23:48:27 JST
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"In the GNU project, man pages are secondary. [..] It’s your choice whether to include a man page in your program. [..] consider that supporting a man page requires continual effort each time the program is changed. The time you spend on the man page is time taken away from more useful work."
MORE USEFUL WORK?!?!!!!
I can't think of much in our IT world that is more useful that good and accurate documentation.
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html
(h/t giulianopz)
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 23:44:29 JST
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TIL via @feld about RIPE Atlas Software Probes
Documentation https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/howtos/software-probes.html
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 23:28:01 JST
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@feld I hadn't expected anybody to still be asking that rhetorical question in 2024 ...
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 22:52:58 JST
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"We noticed that your probe with ID xx has been disconnected for some time now, and you have probably received reminders from our system asking you to reconnect it."
Erm, no. No mails.
I can locally ping the probe. I've rebooted it.
RIPE says (see screenshot).
Is it a bit kaputt? 🤷
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 22:52:57 JST
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the reboot was good
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:42:25 JST
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Please add one or two characters to the first bullet point; my eyes hurt.
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 21:24:37 JST
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"We could have used an off-the-shelf solution like mqtt but being a hacker lab where we like to experiement with the ssh protocol, we thought we could create something even simpler and just as powerful."
Even simpler?!
Authenticated Unix pipes over SSH
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 22:50:09 JST
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Mark Crispin proposed RFC 1730 in December of 1994, and I've been using #IMAP for very many of the intervening years.
Almost exactly thirty years after their invention, I use flags for the first time.
Follow me for further exciting reports on how I stay right up on top of technological progress.
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 05:44:48 JST
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Please remember, girls and boys, if you celebrate: UNIX day 20000 is on 2024-10-04 (the 4th of October). It's a special day, since the next round (10000) UNIX day is 30000 at 2052-02-20.
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 23:35:55 JST
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The content of the two lil’ bags seems overkill to me, but hey, who knows
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 17:41:16 JST
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IMO this has always been the world's cutest NS RRset:
$ dig mx. NS
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 21:26:01 JST
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To those who thought Telegram provides e2e encryption by default: "Telegram will start moderating private chats"
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JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 21:00:15 JST
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That your accounts payable robot and all other robots return HTML mail is so incredibly useless. And in this case wrong:
<p><!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><p><img ...
Instead of 4k of bullshit, they could have sent
Status: success
Although how I would recognize success without the green color ...
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