Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

The thing is, lots of corps "need" "a throat to choke", because they still simply can't wrap their heads around what the fuck "FOSS" is. They want to make a contract with another company with a friendly salesperson and a support desk because it makes them feel safer than "hire your own people to be part of the community, write patches and support the OS for you.

And Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE are happy to be those people.
@dalias @halva @0xabad1dea

Plural system with more members than a gacha game

@rooster @cwebber

You know, if there was any country in the world whose laws respected human rights that wanted a metric fuckload of some of the "best and the brightest" people in the world to turbocharge their economy for the next 100 years, they could have them for the low low cost of ... A big stack of renewable work visas for them and their families.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

@hal_pomeranz But just this ONE time? I mean it's such a quick little change. Surely nothing could go wrong just this once...

One of the times - oh yeah, somehow there was a transaction lock on the database from something else happening. So it wasn't anything I did.

The other time ... Well, let's just say the DBAs got a plate of cookies from me the next day.

That feeling in the pit of your stomach when your DELETE SQL statement that should have completed in a split second still hasn't completed.

(Thankfully not me this time, just cringing in sympathy after I heard someone else's tale)

Anyone who ever starts a phrase with "If this makes me a fascist..."

You were always a fascist. You're just looking for a punching bag to blame it on.

There's one very simple rule to the world. If you look left and right of you on the barricade and see Nazis, you're on the wrong side of the barricade. Sure, in SOME cases it means you build your own barricade elsewhere. But you NEVER FUCKING EVER side with Nazis.

Hahaha, TRUMP just Streisand Effecting himself with "TACO Trade"! Short for Trump Always Chickens Out.

Trump fumes at a reporter for asking him about Wall Street investors banking on the "TACO trade," which is that "Trump Always Chickens Out" with his tariff threats.

"Don’t ever say what you said. That’s a nasty question... To me that’s the nastiest question!"

https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3lqani2w2rc23

Controversial hot take:

Abolish ALL copyright. Megacorps are going to steal your shit with or without copyright. At least without copyright, we can steal their shit right back.

And now, in the House's budget bill they just passed, they ban Medicaid trans coverage for ALL trans people of ALL ages.

And a huge percentage of trans people are in poverty and rely on Medicaid.

Oh sure, who knows what will happen in the Senate, or in reconciliation, or in the courts. But the bans on all trans people are coming fast.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/house-spending-bill-now-bans-medicaid

Fun fact:

When you criticize the way an #actuallyautistic person communicates, it's pretty likely that they don't actually change the way they communicate, they just communicate less.

"But Hallucinations!"

Do you even remember how much incorrect drek you filtered through on the internet even before AI spam sites?

The LLM genie won't go back into the bottle. People want an internet they can ask a question and get an answer, same as they always did. It's everyone who shoved toll gates of money, ads, or personal data in front of every single scrap of data you are trying to find that enable it.

The especially damning thing about all the websites putting their stuff behind paywalls and registration walls and having cookie banners and modals begging for donations, Google results continuing to get more and more and more shit and everything else that makes browsing the web hell:

Someone can go to ChatGPT, ask a question, and get an answer that is clearly worded, can accept follow-up questions, and appears good enough in like 2 seconds. And in a lot of cases is a good enough answer.

For your average person, that's just fine over trying to deal with the hellscape we've made the internet.

In things that annoy me about the English language:

Sister in law could mean:

A person married to your sibling
A sibling of your spouse
A person married to the sibling of your spouse

I'm SO tired of people sneering at folks who live in red states as being somehow personally and directly responsible for the politics of their region, and thinking that it's an appropriate dunk to say "well who did your city vote for" when they talk about how much shit sucks for them. Notice that even in the most red state in the country last year, Wyoming, with 71.6% of the vote going to Trump, there were STILL 25% of the voters who got off their ass, showed up at the polls, and punched the blue lever anyways. That ain't nothing to spend your time spitting at the fash running your state.

Just a periodic reminder: even the places with the most racist, fascist, corrupt, or autocratic government, and who have a majority of people who vote for that still have a whole lot of people who don't support racism and fascism. Stop judging people solely based on where they happen to live. And don't tell other people "if you don't like it, you should Rise Up and Fight and Die!". You don't know their life, their situation, their story, so stop blaming the victims of fascists for not "doing enough". It's like telling someone who experiences abuse and violence by someone with more power than them that they should have fought back harder if they wanted your sympathy.

Every Democrat right now:

"Please give us money so we can Resist Trump!"

Watches C-SPAN

Oh look, the same Democrats happily voting for Trump's bills and nominations.

And why was I supposed to give you money again?