DigitalDilemma @ digdilem @lemmy.ml

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2 yr. ago

That basement full of old pcs and servers... Checked some models against ebay?

I bought a pallet of "computers" from a local agricultural auction for £1 based on nothing but that one word description. Turns out one was a fully working PS/2 with monitor and keyboard. The keyboard alone sold for £80, and I made over £200 on the lot and got some great messages from the buyers who were really pleased to find one.

Nope. Two months of not using reddit. Not doom scrolling, not feeling that heart rate lift when I see I've had a bunch of new replies and wondering whether I said something wonderful, or something dumb and a hundred people are now calling me an arsehole.

I do get your point about some reddit communities being genuinely nice places with great content, and if it was just that I'd still be there. But my mental health is better through having left it. Also, having read the posts about Reddit's attitude to its users and supporters during the Apollo posts made me realise just how toxically they view us. Fuck them, they can go to hell without me.

I feel really bad for everyone involved - customers and staff. The human cost in this is huge.

Yes, there's a lot of criticism of backup strategies here, but I bet most of us who deal with this professionally have knowledge of systems that would also be vulnerable to malicious attack, and that's only the shortcomings we know about. Audits and pentesting are great, but not infallable and one tiny mistake can expose everything. If we were all as good as we think we are, ransomware wouldn't be a thing.