Notices by Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 (alda@topspicy.social)

I recently found out that in my native language, "a professional" is synonymous to "a full-time alcoholic", but you'd usually only know this if you're an AA member.

The nuances of language never cease to amaze me.

@jnv @chris I'll just put this here.

@chris they seem to have had a code injection vulnerability late last year and all the agency bros disable automatic updates.

This has resulted in tens of thousands of casino spam pages per site and bans from Google Ads, with no way to appeal.

On several sites.

Fun times.

I have a question.

Why is it always Elementor sites that get hacked?

Fucking shit garbage.

@riley @goatsarah As far as I could pick up from my local pharmacists is that the default dose of dermal E is a single 0.75 mg. For all they know this is what everyone uses ranging for post-menopausal cis women or trans women.

Medical practitioners generally have no idea how all of this works and a lot of it has to do with a system of values rather than any medical reasoning.

@goatsarah @riley It is also an extension of post-meopausal conditions being first and foremost psychosomatic.

As pro-science as I am, I've stopped considering many medical practitioners as being "people of science".

Germany is a fucking shithole.

There. I said it.

I guess you can follow me now as @aldavigdis on #Pixelfed.

Yay.

@chris the only way towards digital purity is to buy Richard Stallman's laptop second hand. 🙃💀

@chris According to my brain, it's Monday.

@chris They host systems for German neonazis and have been known for taking down LGBT+ content without notice.

Just FYI.

Say I don't run a 3rd party analytics platform on a site but would like to run something like Webalizer on it?

Webalizer seems to be abandoned by now, so what are my alternatives for something locally hosted that crunches through web server logs and displays graphs, preferably as static HTML?

Hi. My name is Alda. I am looking for new jobs and consultancies.

My Github profile is at https://github.com/aldavigdis and my own website is at https://aldavigdis.is/

I am primarily looking for Ruby on Rails roles, but I am also highly skilled when it comes to WordPress (in particular on the backend and infrastructure side), DevOps and general Linux/Unix system operations.

I have worked in sectors ranging from digital agencies to intl. diplomacy.

A printable resume is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5FjXfFhlkDNqrWZ8xBMH9ZzGlBzxHVD_6klUG-_FRE/edit?usp=sharing

"The woke agenda" is simply the bare minimum for human rights and dignity.

And if that's a bad thing to you, then I suggest you move to an abandoned oil rig in international waters.

As the lady who comes in and sweeps the floors after a WordPress plugin vulnerability has destroyed your company website and online shop and the members of an Indonesian crime syndicate now have all your customers' purchase histories — Instead of licenses for paid plugins simply expiring after 6 months, I've been seeing far more revenue generating sites with "nulled" premium plugins installed.

And that is really, really bad and extremely unprofessional.

#WordPress #Infosec

Want to hear the truth about #Automattic, the not-like-the-other-girls company that still thinks it is a startup after 20 years and his founder acts like he invented remote working?

With the CEO who boast about his access to an international talent pool?

And the slogan "embrace the chaos" greeting you in all caps when you open the staff handbook?

Read on.

@chris Is it lit?

Anyway. Monoculture is bad. Diversify your skills. Your preferred CMS or tech stack is not a belief system. Perhaps a single deranged former wunderkind should not be the single point of failure of the way you make a living.

@navi I think what matters here is that whatever your work is about, it doesn't stand and fall with some demented techbro going rouge or not, so I think you're doing good.

@navi Like, Linus Torvalds throwing tantrums at NVidia will usually not cause your whole industry to have a meltdown.