Notices by 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)

BRILLIANT! https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-PP_M7-DcRX-sXsfa3HL-JA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

@dalias FWIW, I see many QRTs where the link *is* to the post in the bridged account rather than out to bsky. I think that when it isn’t, that’s because the original poster has not enabled bridging.

Glad I’m likely to never need to job hunt again…
My experience with ‘cold’ applications is not much better than it is now apparently for everyone. I have not gotten a job from the effort of looking for one in my entire IT career. Every tech job I’ve ever had, I got because someone needing me ‘knew’ me from my online activity. Or–in the most recent case–someone running the plan of “let’s fire Bill and hire some eager kids” to its natural conclusion: begging me back. https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114793140487136432

Well then, I guess I’ll have to replace that disk…

Except it’s a virtual disk, and should NOT be doing that. None of the other umpty-zillion VMs in that zone are showing trouble. Only this one. And the 3 other instances I launched before based on the the same original image, provided as a pre-built one for #OpenNebula from the #Alma site. On different physical hosts.

I am pondering how the content+config of system image could lead to this. sysctls?

#Sysadminnery #OpenNebula #AlmaLinux

@JulianOliver @clacke I am fortunate enough to have a limited number of very paranoid colleagues who could theoretically have such issues and we work to reduce the attack surface, e.g. no root login, no passwordless escalation (doas/sudo) by users who can log in, idle logouts, and we avoid issues with X and lockscreens by not having X (or any other GUI) installed.

@clacke Yes and no…
Instead of the overhead of containers, my 'jump' machines bind specific keys to the ssh commands that do the specifically authorized next hops and (where possible) restrict to specific client IPs. The OS of those machines are only accessible over a VPN or (for some VMs) a tightly secured web interface that has VNC over WebSockets inside a private network to their virtual consoles.

#infosec #bastion #jumphost
#ssh #sshd #OpenSSH

writing json by hand in a janky Java console to get a network working is what I live for.

#Sysadminnery

Not a word about WHY he’s paving it over. He just is. https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/114729442831614255

This is at the core of my depression.
For nearly all of human history, the majority of humans lived in what we today would call subsistence poverty. It was mostly unavoidable.
Sometime in the '60s we crossed over into being unequivocally able to feed everyone every year. People in the modern world only struggle to eat because of economic & political barriers designed to starve them. The world has worse famine problems right now than at any point in my lifetime.
1/4 https://mastodon.social/@rbowen/114727887530237309

America’s GenX was sold the idea that a better world was possible and we bought it because the facts backed it up, to a point. We could see some of it in some of Europe. However, we were not living in a system that could get there directly. We were told that it was necessary to waste a lot of money on destructive things because of the Cold War, which ended but nothing got that much better.
We were given the Internet, gestated in the incubator of the military-industrial-academic complex. 2/4

The Internet was supposed to set the whole world free to communicate openly, promoting frictionless interactions, mutual understanding, & universality of opportunity. But it didn’t. It got us spam, fraud, abuse, and more sophisticated disinformation campaigns than were imaginable in 1990. It turned many "white collar" jobs into effectively 24x7 on-call serfdom. It’s making kids neurotic now, having originally been a refuge for many of us whose brains worked differently. 3/4

@emptywheel.bsky.social The USA is a net oil exporter, as long as the global price stays high enough. Our producers start to shut off wells and stop drilling around $60/bbl.
OPEC(+) has been pushing down prices recently, to shut off US production.

A collapse of legal immigration options are the root cause of all of our immigration problems.
We need more paths for people who are not refugees, asylees, relatives of citizens, or otherwise specially eligible for immigrant visas.

But of course that’s not happening in any foreseeable future. Not sure why I bothered thinking about it… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wqhhxg36ofhh4cbhe2l2qevm/post/3ls5bn6xnjk2y

@PurpCat @phnt @feld Yes, taking the side of Fascists is a life choice with long-term consequences. It sucks to be stupid and/or evil.

It helps to not believe that you need a ‘side’ to accept you.

@feld I don’t intentionally alienate anyone but I distrust by default. Probably a character flaw exacerbated by decades of doing “Blue Team” #InfoSec.
Also, I used “untrustable" rather than “untrustworthy" consciously because I think the latter expresses a moral judgment that does not apply. Someone who managed to not notice that Trump is a dangerously corrupt and actually *anti*-American in the early days of his first term is someone I could not trust to tell me the color of the sky.

@mischievoustomato@tsundere.love Are you 12?

Anyone who took this long to split with Trump is untrustable. They have a history of spectacularly poor judgment mixed with moral turpitude and they failed to recognize their own error for about a decade. It’s nice to have a vote change and good to have someone intimate with the MAGA mindset trying to persuade his former co-religionists, but anyone who stuck with Trump past the first quarter of 2017 has a lot of eager evil to atone for. https://beige.party/@Lana/114711292686762490

@feld It’s more a Dire Warning than a Law, but yes.

I agree entirely with Rich.

BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

Seriously, we should have mandatory national service consisting of farm and construction labor. Make rich white kids spend a year under the Central Valley sun learning how to pick radishes from an expert who barely speaks English. Send kids into the Great Plains to detassel corn between HS and college. Put teams of young folks into Habitat For Humanity and similar projects.
It would reduce the disdain so many adults have for migrant & marginalized workers.