Or those old Packard Bell yellow-white cases…

That already exists

cat /dev/random

I waffled back and forth on a docker install. Outside of the initial panic to reinstall the OS (Ubuntu 24.04 for me), it was relatively straightforward outside of the config. It may be worth it to dockerize it so I can git control the config but not sure how easy it is under v6. They really changed how the files are parsed.

Before pihole was essentially a frontend for dnsmasq but it seems like it’s a bit more than that now. I haven’t had the chance to look too much under the hood.

If I’m being honest, I’ve wanted to off-load pihole to my router but lack the time and patience these days. I’ve reached the point in my life where IT isn’t the most important thing anymore and just need it to work.

My company does it and it’s fucking stressful. And just like you said, it doesn’t make a ton of sense.

Occasionally there are certainly people who are just there to ride coat tails but I see this behavior more in leadership than in the front lines.

Literally just had my pihole hard crash this weekend due to a bad update to FTL. Apparently they had a major version upgrade and didn’t bother to read the notes so I had to do a full OS reinstall.

Back up your configs people. Had to dig through documentation to find the sqlite file and then parse through it like some sort of animal.

I personally blame stack ranking, invented by Jack Welch to justify cutting 20% of the company.

If you want to get mad, the Behind the Bastards episode on him explains why corporate America is what it is today.

So that’s what striping a drive does.

This is the only acceptable unsolicited Dick pic that should be sent.

I worked at a hospital that has therapy dogs. There was a code you could call for the dogs. I can’t remember it now. It was like "Dr. Rover is needed in room 12” or something like that.

The cutest thing is that the dog has a badge.

Just a reminder that a cloud provider can oopsie delete your data

The customer was fucking lucky they had their data also in AWS. many companies don’t do multi cloud backups.

Have Frozen running in the foreground. I’m half tempted to install Windows on a VM and just have Frozen running on a loop.

Make Disney and Microsoft fight it out in court.

Because of the implication that something could go wrong if you didn’t work for them on their boat.

Even if there was, look who’s in power. Even if judges ruled against Heritage, I’m not holding my breath of them getting any sort of accountability.

I felt like Matrix Resurrections was kind of a circle jerk against itself.

Boss: “Mr. Anderson. We want you to write a game for this old franchise”

Neo: “but it’s dead. Why don’t we make something new, and exciting.”

Boss: “💵”

Jesus fucking Christ …GitHub actions is free for open source.

And they still put their binaries behind a paywall?

When you’re discussing your own OPSEC (Operational Security for those unaware), you have to evaluate and determine your personal threat profile. Generally speaking, you need to determine what risks you’re willing to accept, what risks you’re willing to mitigate, and what risks you will not tolerate. There’s a whole field of IT dedicated to this but the general idea is for you to understand that there is no perfect solution and everything is a trade off.

There is an inherent risk to downloading pirated software, especially software that you use for private activities (e.g. finances, etc.). With today’s landscape of mining crypto, I’d go so far as to say almost any pirated software is at risk of this.

I would agree that generally playing media files is relatively low risk (though there was a vulnerability I read about a few years back of a zip-type attack. The details allude me at the moment).

But for executables, you basically have two options:

• spin up a VM to host your executable, sandboxing it from everything else.
• trust the people who are providing the executable and run it on your computer

Personally, I avoid pirated executables. More often than not I can find a similar open source product that I can download. My risk tolerance is not only low, but I don’t see the benefits of using a particular company’s software especially if an open source is available.

I don’t think so. I just rewatched it. It’s the one where Data finds out something to make himself more human. Picard tells him something profound and moving.

The one where there’s a problem with the holodeck.

I’d say the crime he committed was thinking Trump would keep his promise even after bribing him.

How anyone can trust this motherfucker is beyond me.