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@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device

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  • skoombidoombis@masto.aiS skoombidoombis@masto.ai

    @barryjsullivan @x41h @paco @briankrebs the devil who went on fox this morning saying that Americans need to put Israel’s interests first?

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    @skoombidoombis @barryjsullivan @paco @briankrebs Well yea dont you know how much investment the Trump administration is putting into prime real estate in Gaza. C'mon man... we need to put the rich interests first or did I mean Israel?
    Even more comical is Ben Shapiro calling Americans lazy and stupid for not knowing how to balance a checkbook. Yet our taxes fund their missiles, birthright trips to Israel (non-directly), partnerships and other programs.
    Its getting beyond ridiculous how much America takes it up the rear end.
    Don't have freedom of speech to speak against Israel's crimes publicly though because the FBI who apparently work for them will come knocking. So Israel is reshaping our constitution while they are at it.
    Dumb Christian Nationalist MAGA idiots.

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    • msh@coales.coM msh@coales.co

      @paco we as a society have been in serious "cognitave debt" for decades. Computering became a shit sundae of frameworks on top of containers within VMs floating in a cloudy cluster sauce of somebody else's servers that no single person knows WTF made this all work.

      Then #LLM based #GenAI came along and we are not just in debt we are now Cognitively Bankrupt. I thought we hit rock bottom when web designers started saying they needed 32GiB to build their fekkin' websites but then all...this...came around and we started telling Rube Goldberg to hold our beer as we cooked the planet to make computers be bad at math and make memes and tacky art and write bad code and invent new and incurable injection vulnerabilities.

      Inventing snappy new terms for shitty old problems is just another sign of how things are spiralling faater and further down the toilet TBH.

      I'm not bitter I'm just a cynical old Gen X man. Whatever I don't care

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      @msh @paco
      There are some frameworks that feel a lot like that.
      Then there are technologies that feel more complex than they need to be. But actually, each piece solves a real problem you'll eventually run into. Like Kubernetes.

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      • orb2069@mastodon.onlineO orb2069@mastodon.online

        @paco how would we test "this is actually comprehensible" using SonarQube, so we can put it on a chart for management? I mean, that's the really important thing in AGILE that management can track 'progress' using some sort of near random metric, right?

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        @Orb2069 That’s EASY! Use an LLM to process the code and assign a “comprehensibility score….” 😝

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        • cascheranno@hachyderm.ioC cascheranno@hachyderm.io

          @paco hmm, automated stack-overflow copypasta is apt.

          But we’ll need a derogatory acronym, uh.. ASS =automated stack-overflow snippets, or (a new kind of) ASCI = automated stack-overflow copypasta inserting, etc.

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          @cascheranno
          I dunno about acronyms, but here are some good terms I commend to your use. 😛

          • Full Slop Developer
          • DevSlops
          • SecSlops
          • DevSecSlops
          • CS/CD (continuous slop/continuous deployment)
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          • delta_vee@mstdn.caD delta_vee@mstdn.ca

            @paco The drum I keep beating is Peter Naur's "Programming As Theory-Building" from all the way back in 1985. The job of software development has always been about knowing how your shit works (and perhaps more importantly, what exactly it's supposed to do).

            It's disheartening as fuck to see so many people in the industry having to rediscover that from first principles, or worse, continue on blithely.

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            @delta_vee I agree. We have gotten so far from those seminal lessons that a whole generation is insisting on learning them again. It’s such an implicit disparagement of a whole field. This idea that radically underinformed and underskilled people can do the work of skilled, experienced people just by getting a typing assistant.

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            • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

              @Orb2069 That’s EASY! Use an LLM to process the code and assign a “comprehensibility score….” 😝

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              @paco you laugh, but I've seen a few ai-related 'research' papers that use that exact methodology.

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              • x41h@infosec.exchangeX x41h@infosec.exchange

                @skoombidoombis @barryjsullivan @paco @briankrebs Well yea dont you know how much investment the Trump administration is putting into prime real estate in Gaza. C'mon man... we need to put the rich interests first or did I mean Israel?
                Even more comical is Ben Shapiro calling Americans lazy and stupid for not knowing how to balance a checkbook. Yet our taxes fund their missiles, birthright trips to Israel (non-directly), partnerships and other programs.
                Its getting beyond ridiculous how much America takes it up the rear end.
                Don't have freedom of speech to speak against Israel's crimes publicly though because the FBI who apparently work for them will come knocking. So Israel is reshaping our constitution while they are at it.
                Dumb Christian Nationalist MAGA idiots.

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                @x41h a few months after October 7 a journalist was interviewing Israelis on the streets going about their days. One woman stuck with me. She was in tears over the incident. Then the journalist asked what if Gaza becomes part of Israel and the two state solution dies. In the blink of an eye her tears disappeared and joyfully said with a smile “a house on the beach in Gaza would be nice.” Dead children is a small price for Mediterranean real estate.

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                • elfin@mstdn.socialE This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @paco It's always DNS.

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                  • elfin@mstdn.socialE elfin@mstdn.social

                    @paco It's always DNS.

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                    @elfin I need it tattooed on the inside of my eyelids

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                    • adr@mastodon.socialA This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @paco one time I brought down the Internet for an entire university by editing a BIND file and using "#" as a comment line instead of ";".

                      Fortunately this was like 1996 and I fixed it in about 10 minutes and nobody much noticed, but. Yeah. Always DNS.

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                      • adr@mastodon.socialA adr@mastodon.social

                        @paco one time I brought down the Internet for an entire university by editing a BIND file and using "#" as a comment line instead of ";".

                        Fortunately this was like 1996 and I fixed it in about 10 minutes and nobody much noticed, but. Yeah. Always DNS.

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                        @adr This was a single dot. I had a CNAME for www and it pointed to host.cdn.net without a final dot. So it was a CNAME to host.cdn.example.com instead of a CNAME to host.cdn.net.

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                        • edwing@mstdn.moimeme.caE This user is from outside of this forum
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                          @paco Consider your DNS privileges revoked.

                          You’re only allowed to modify hosts files going forward 😆

                          (I did so many DNS shenanigans, one would spend a lifetime counting)

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                          • edwing@mstdn.moimeme.caE edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca

                            @paco Consider your DNS privileges revoked.

                            You’re only allowed to modify hosts files going forward 😆

                            (I did so many DNS shenanigans, one would spend a lifetime counting)

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                            @EdwinG The most embarrassing thing is that I probably know more than the average person. But it doesn’t matter. I’m getting clumsy in my old age.

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                            • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                              @adr This was a single dot. I had a CNAME for www and it pointed to host.cdn.net without a final dot. So it was a CNAME to host.cdn.example.com instead of a CNAME to host.cdn.net.

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                              @paco @adr

                              I was just going to post about learning my final dot lesson.

                              Fucking BIND.

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                              • 48kram@retrorewind.social4 This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @paco Dammit Paco -- did the Nominum folks teach you nothing?!? 🤣

                                (I think I still have the binder they gave us back then)

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                                  @paco Our rule, which we have found pretty accurate, is to take the time for the game on the box and double it. Box times only happen with experienced players (thus no teach) and no AP. In one of my regular gaming meetups there's a group of us who pride ourselves in actually being able to knock out Terraforming Mars:
                                  Ares Expedition in the 45 minute box time.

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                                  • diazona@techhub.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    @paco ❤️

                                    Not the same but I have also been having DNS-related problems today... small world!

                                    #Monsterdon #4DMan1959

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                                    • moira@mastodon.murkworks.netM This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      @paco #EpsteinClass

                                      #monsterdon #4Dman1959

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                                      • gblues@bolha.usG This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        @paco they do get soaking wet on and abandoned house. You know, this shit is sooo hot.
                                        #monsterdon
                                        #4dman1959

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                                          @paco 😆

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