IsoKiero @ IsoKiero @sopuli.xyz

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I've seen some shit. But I'm also old enough to not care. I'm a freaking system administrator, not a surgeon. No one has died if their email is unreacable for an hour or two. Shit happens, then you deal with it and that's all. Difference between a junior and a seasoned veteran is that old guys with battle scars is that the seasoned guy knows that something will break, shit will hit the fan and everything might turn up into a chaos and plan accordingly. Juniors will either endure and learn along the way or crumble.

When you've been in the business for few decades it's not that big of a deal to cause an outage. You know how to fix your shit, you know how to work with a severely crippled environment and you know how to build the whole circus from the ground up. And you also know that no matter how disappointed or loud the C** suits are, they'll calm down once you get them out of the hole.

Just today I had a meeting with discussion on what to do if some obscure edge-case ruins our ~5k users and few continents wide AD tree. Sure, if that would happen, it would most definetly suck balls to get back up and it would hurt the company bottom line and it would mean few nights with very little sleep, but no one would still die and our team is up to the task to build the whole crap out of nothing if needed. So, it's just business as usual. But all of us have been in the business long enough that we know how to avoid the common pitfalls and we trust eachother enough that should the shit hit the fan in the big way we could still recover the whole situation.

And still, even if the whole thing burns up in the flames, I've got the experience and skillset under my belt which will be valuable to some other business entity. I just don't care if the main office building is on literal fire. It's not my problem to fix immediately and when it is it's still just work. I put in the hours they pay for me and do whatever I can but when I'm off the clock the employer doesn't really exist in my world.

Without any expertise, I'm going to say that minuscule amounts of radioactive nickel from your CR2032 replacements compared to wasted lithium on pretty much every battery your all current devices have plus single use LiIon-cells on e-cigs, single use toys and whatever is a pretty good improvement. In 100 years or so all that nickel is converted to copper with small amounts of radiation and heat as byproducts, in today's technology, is pretty good.

And the radiation is beta-negative. I'm not an nuclear physicist, but if I'm not mistaken your common 3032 cell has enough metal to shield pretty much all of the radiation. Just don't eat them and maybe stick with li-ion on your wrist watch.

They more likely use turnips.

Löyhästi asiaan liittyen: !buyeuropean@feddit.uk löytyy ei-amerikkalaisia vaihtoehtoja vähän joka lähtöön hammastahnasta lähtien.

Ei tornifirma sinänsä väärässä ole. Täällä hoidetaan miinoitukset kuitenkin niin vastuullisesti kuin miinakentän nyt ylipäätään voi vastuullisesti rakentaa (ei miinoiteta tenavien hiekkalaatikoita, miinoituksista piirretään kartat, niiden purku on suunniteltu etukäteen jne).

Mielellään näkisin maailman missä miinoja ei ole olemassa, mutta kun sirkus etenkin itärajan takana on mitä on, niin vähän pakkohan meidän on varautua siihen että iivana joskus ei-niin-kaukaisessa tulevaisuudessa haluaisikin ottaa revanssia. Maassa kuin maassa kun on pidemmässä juoksussa aina armeija. Ja jos kurkkusalaattipojat ja -tytöt ei ole omia niin sitten ne on tuontitavaraa.

Meillä ei ole rajattomasti resurssia laittaa esim. kk-pesäkkeitä 50 metrin välein koko rajalle pysäyttämään lihamuurihyökkäystä niin jotain muuta pitää keksiä. Paska tilanne, vaan ei peukalo takamuksessa istuminenkaan ole oikein vaihtoehto.

Neither can Ukraine.

True, but Ukraine has played this game pretty well in my opinion. They keep negotiations going, speak nicely about the deal in public and at least in here media represents Ukraine as willing and open of discussion about whatever deal Trump suggests, no matter how bat shit crazy they are.

I mean, Ukraine isn't stupid enough to sign off all of their wealth to USA or surrender land without any significant gain. But they can now at least say that they're willing to discuss about the matter while Russia just bluntly rejects the proposals.

Fair point, but basic physics has been a part of our education program for at least 60 years. Also for few years the 'exchange priced' or 'market valued' electricity has been somewhat popular and on the news, which adds up to the general understanding as if you know your stuff it means quite literal money as your bills are smaller. So, maybe 'absolutely everyone' is a bit of a stretch, but in general the majority of adult people understand the concept.

And also a ton of common folk understand it at least a bit on a deeper level as basic physics is included to studies beyond elementary school regardless on what you study. Sure, not everyone understands (or cares) how 3 phase AC in here adds up to 400V or why you need to have 2,5mm² wires for 16A fuse, but it's still pretty common that people, specially in a separate house, understand how you can only pull 2300W out of a 10A circuit or 3600W from a 16A one (10 and 16A being the most common fuses in a household in here).

Vic 20 -> C=64 -> few 386/486 units -> AMD K6-2 and a ton of stuff after that. And maybe something in between.

And now I'm writing this in my garage computer which I picked up from a e-waste pile at work few years back and it has more computing power than pretty much all the systems combined I had before being 18 years old. And when we (as a family) got our first "mobile" phone it was hardwired to a car electronics since they took 'a bit' more power than the supercomputers we carry in our pockets today (obviously Li-ion batteries were not a thing either, but that old Motorola NMT450 took a crapload of power by todays standards).

It's been a wild ride so far. My grandparents were on top of the technology when they got the first landline phone around the neighborhood (I'm living in a rural area so it was not a new invention back then by any stretch) and now I can just yell to a entity in my palm to show me pictures from another planet or a high definition live video from Earth orbit.

And still I'm somehow trying to teach basic tehcnology concepts to both my parents and my kids. It's bizarre to try and explain about benefits of touch typing to a 16 year old who thinks it's pretty much impossible for anyone to type out an essay at school containing 2000 words in an hour (33wpm)...

I've been a happy customer with joker.com (Germany) for at least 10 years.

I think it's easier the other way round, find all symlinks and grep the directory you want to move from results.

Something like 'find /home/user -type -l -exec ls -l {} | grep yourdirectory' and work from there. I don't think there's an easy way to list which symlinks point to any actual file.

Can you link a case where that actually happened?

Cases where salary was paid by government aren't directly available online (at least in Finland) but I personally have recieved money trough them and followed the process from the side as my previous employer was bankrupted. Also in here the tax office is the biggest entity which drives companies to dept collection and eventually to bankrupt if they don't have money. So, yes, it happens pretty much all the time. Most of the time those are businesses which are going down anyways so there's nothing to get, but there's no mechanism preventing that happening to any company which doesn't play by the rules.

Good luck with trying to evade payments.

I don't know how things work in Germany but here in Finland we have an government agency which pays salaries if company can't or won't as a safeguard for employees. After that they go after the company with pretty beefy lawsuits which eventually say that either the company pays for the salaries and some extra for the trouble or government just seizes and sells enough property that they get what they're owed. And if company doesn't have money nor property then it'll go bankrupt and that's it. I assume Germany (and most of the other European countries) have similar mechanisms.

And then there's of course the union too. They can just decide to either stop coming to work altogether or go in a 'sitting strike', as in show up but don't do anything during the day. And they can enforce that, you can't just hire new people to replace those on strike.

people using it are not secure at all.

And this is very much not limited just to signal. No matter what software, protocol or any other way you use to communicate, both you and the receiving entity/entities are the weakest link by a long shot. I don't expect even my closest friends to hold our everyday conversations secret if for whatever reason their wellbeing was threated in any way. And even if I did there's always other options, like targeted social engineering, to get trough pretty much any reasonable safety concerns on digital communication.

Of course in everyday life if our chat histories were publicly available it would not be too big of an issue, but it's still something worth keeping on mind when interacting over any digital or any other written medium.

Exactly. You can build rules with ufw and view them on iptables. Maybe the one thing ufw does better out of the box is persistent rules and simpler "firewall on/off" switch, but specially on this particular question I don't think they matter.

Suomi tarvitsee lisää Hannu Karpoja.

Aamen.

Tätä juuri tarkoitin sillä että spekuloida voi mihin suuntaan tahansa. Toisaalta, lakiteknisesti katsoen, kokoontumisvapaus ja muut avoimen demokratian hienoudet koskee myös fasisteja, joten sen suhteen poliisilla on vähän kädet sidottuna, mihin tuo ylen jutussakin oleva geneerinen lakipohjainen vastaus vähän viittaa.

Mutta sitten toisaalta ei poliisilla(kaan) pitäisi olla kovin korkeaa kynnystä sanoa että avoimesti demokratiaa uhkaavat järjestöt voivat painua hevon helvettiin. Itse olen sillä kannalla, että ihan hyvä että näissäkin tapauksissa poliisi jättää linjanvedon lainsäätäjille ja muuten yhteiskunnalle, mutta toki sekin ajatus on käynyt mielessä että ei kai poliisissa ole suoraan aatteen kannattajia. Toivottavasti ei, ja sen verran kuitenkin luotan valtion toimintaan noin yleisesti että ei poliisivoimissakaan katsota natseja tai muita sekopäitä kovin suopeasti.

Helsingin poliisilaitoksen puolesta asiaa kommentoimaan osoitettu ylikomisario Jarmo Heinonen kritisoi Helsingin kaupungin linjaa kirjastojen tilavarauksien suhteen.

Eli siis käytännössä yksittäisen poliisin kehotus, vaikkakin toki koko laitoksen nimissä on asiaan kommentoinut. Ja lisäksi Helsingin poliisi laitoksena ei ole vastannut ylen kommenttipyyntöön että onko kyseessä koko kioskin linjaus vai pelkästään tämän Heinosen.

Tuota poliisilaitoksen toimintaa voi nyt sitten spekuloida miten päin haluaa, mutta olen kyllä Helsingin kaupungin kanssa samaa mieltä siitä että Sinimustia tai muitakaan vastaavia ei tarvitse päästää mihinkään julkisille paikoille pitämään kerhojaan.

Vuonna 2024 antamassaan päätöksessä korkein hallinto-oikeus toteaa muun muassa, että puolueen tavoitteet eivät olleet yhteensopivia perus- ja ihmisoikeuksien ja demokraattisten periaatteiden kanssa

Sikäli kun tämä nyt konkreettisesti toteutuu, ammattilaisten tekemänä eikä poliittisena sirkuksena, niin äärimmäisen hyvä. Eurooppa on ollut valitettavan munaton Ukrianan tilanteen kanssa ja vasta Trumpin sekoilut saivat pyörät ihan oikeasti pyörimään. Tuo peemaan kuvaus tulevaisuuden tilanteesta on juuri tasan se mitä tarvitaan.

Sen verran tuohon voisi vielä lisätä, että kaikki konekivääreistä lähtien pitäisi olla keskenään yhteensopivaa ammusten osalta. Teknisemmissä asejärjestelmissä tämä ei välttämättä ole realistinen tai järkevä veto, mutta kaikki "putki, ruutia, nalli, ammus" -osaston vehkeet pitäisi olla samalla mitoituksella että minkä tahansa maan ammuksia voidaan käyttää minkä tahansa maan aseissa. Rynnäkkökiväärit, tykit, heittimet ja ainakin halvemman pään raketit menevät kaikki tähän kastiin. Nato on toki tätä tietä jo tasoittanutkin, mutta samalla vauhdilla tulee loputkin yhtenäistettyä.

Ja tässä on kyllä nyt Suomella paikka olla kokoaan isompi ja haalia tänne töitä ja investointeja. Patria, Nammo ja se uusi räjähdetehdas on hyvä alku. Tuohon päälle vähän alihankintaa Saabille ja sille ranskalaisten lentokonetehtaalle jne niin saadaan uskottavan eurooppalaisen puolustuksen lisäksi valtion talous ainakin vähän paremmalle tolalle. Ja jos jotakuta ostajaa hirvittää Venäjän rajan läheisyys niin siellä on sitten meikäläisillä poliitikoilla paikka sanoa että ei ne iivanan ohjukset ja pommikoneet ole käytännössä yhtään sen kauempana Pariisista kuin Helsingistä.

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I think it was some XMPP related server I ran quite a few years ago which had 'i_have_read_the_manual = 0' or something similar buried into default configuration file. And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

Maybe we need more things like that.