mawhrin

joined 2 years ago
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

sure. because domains can be bought, not only temporarily leased.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

for backups have a look at kopia. not only for the functionality, but for the fact that this whole thing is a static-linked single go binary. drop it where you need it, and you're done.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

technically both, but “dei” became a mostly racist dogwhistle.

eta: also, people rarely express only a single type of prejudice.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

some twenty four years ago i managed, amongst others, a company's samba and print server (that was at the time when all the company's servers were beige boxes with less memory and disk than the laptop i'm using to type this – and still they served a few hundred employees).

the machine developed a strange custom of hard-resetting itself, which we initially tracked to specific files being sent for printing; the behaviour was fully reproducible.

as it happened, it was a hardware fault somewhere between the mainboard and the integrated SCSI card; installing a separate SCSI card and reconnecting the disks and backup tape device fixed the problem. (i did not have the budget for a new serwer, no.)

establishing the actual cause took me fucking weeks.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

the use of “DEI hire” is a shorthand for “i'm a massive racist shitweasel”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh. perhaps you could explain this to the authors of the article?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

i host my mail services for the last twenty seven years, and yeah, you're talking shit. starting the smtp daemon is not the same as managing mail server.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i'm sure a quick look at stock prices will sweeten the pill.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

also, to some extent, poul anderson's war of the wing-men.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this is not people's laziness; it's that the practice is deceptive. don't reinforce the business narrative.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

this is quite infuriating, i had a number of mozilla/firefox people telling me that this feature wouldn't work with opt-in (it's bullshit though) because too few users would enable it, and neither fucker asked himself : “wait, if we're afraid we can't convince our user base to buy-in, perhaps we shouldn't develop the feature?”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago

it's good the rats can't help themselves but to brag about what they're doing – in at least three different public places.

view more: ‹ prev next ›