4 years

If we’re lucky. And even if we have another president and that president is a Democrat and even if that president has a Democrat super majority in the House and Senate, I am not convinced that they will prioritize breaking up monopolies.

While yes adding your birth year to your username is common (but terrible OpSec), adding 88 or HH or other Nazi symbolism is also common among their community. Especially in an open setting.

It serves as a shibboleth for the alt-right that you are one of them.

Doing the Lord’s work right here. I absolutely cannot stand screenshots of desktop apps.

Mobile screenshots will be readable on both mobile and desktop.

But desktop screenshots are only readable on desktop.

I say something similar when people say, “But your phone tracks you! Why are you worried about [privacy issue here]?”

“Well, I’m just going to go to your place and fuck your wife. Why are you worried? You’re already fucking her. What’s the difference?”

Consent. Consent is the difference.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.

I compile my own version of rm so that it doesn’t require the parameter.

Just in case I need to.

This is a reference I haven’t seen in YEARS.

Damn that takes me back.

It’s not the same. Granted it’s been years since I used the vim plugin but last time I tried it couldn’t even do standard find and replace.

The last time I was job searching, Comcast recruited me for a job. It was for way more than I was expecting but I told them that I was not going to work for them. They tried to push and ask me why and I should go through the interview process to see if I like it.

I was very frank with them. Their stance on net neutrality alone was enough for me to decline. The recruiter was surprisingly understanding and wished me luck.

The in-car footage of the driver is for insurance liability reasons.

Ftfy

What is Twidium’s deal? They are the most expensive and take the longest.

WSL is very workable as a dev environment. I just wish it wasn’t so janky with networking.

The biggest concern I have with Keepass is if the database gets corrupted, I can’t access anything.

So I end up doing two different databases: one for everyday use and a second database for critical “identity” functions like banking, Google, etc.

I’m almost at the point of wondering if it needs some sort of text-based backups (json or something similar) that can be encrypted and backed up in multiple places.

This is my official recommendation. It aims to be a drop-in replacement of Postman. They don’t have pre/post-execution scripts at the collection level (only at the request level) and there are a few other features missing but they are making pretty good progress.

I say official because I was on my company’s committee to switch to a new API tool. Though I personally felt that we should have just paid for Postman. But our business risk team didn’t like the terms that Postman had.

You could secure it using an IAM user with credentials but then those credentials would be available on all vehicles.

If the vehicles had direct access to S3, maybe that’s why the bucket was public? But you could also just leave it available to the public.

But if that was the design, you should sweep the bucket on a regular basis to make sure there aren’t any objects over x hours old or something like that.

Bucket names are often committed to GitHub. It used to be that bucket names could be published but ever since the blog post of the guy getting fucked by people polling his bucket due to an open source project typo made others realize that bucket names should probably be secrets.

There are bots that will just monitor all public commits to github, gitlab, etc. for AWS credentials and other strings like that. And as soon as they are found they will start to abuse them.

The default for net new buckets is actually very strict.

But it’s that strictness that makes devs just to open it up to everyone and not learn proper IAM syntax.

The unfortunate part is that AWS made rules and privileges so nuanced and detailed that it makes people want to make everything public and deal with it “later”.

I’m clutching my pearls as I type this.

Dustin (SmarterEveryDay) has weird energy and not in a good way. It comes off as a little creepy.

I know he and Diana met at some YouTube function and have done collaborations. Even though I know their friends IRL, it was still a bit creepy to me that he went to visit her while she had long COVID right after she got married.

I will say that she didn’t show any red flags for me until after she did the hydrogen cars series. I know creators have to get paid but still…it was like when Aubrey Plaza took Dairy Farmers money and did a commercial for milk.

Very off brand for both of them and lost a whole lot of respect when they did it.