ocdtrekkie

Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.

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2026-03-18 17:57:11 UTC

The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on it, that they had to approve it even though it wasn't able to actually meet the security criteria.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#microsoft

2026-03-10 12:53:53 UTC

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@nprofile…tkx6 FWIW, Gmail is actually just really bad at spam filtering. It was good for 2004, it is not good for 2026 or even 2016.

2026-02-23 23:54:07 UTC

Tell us how you really feel, Sam Altman.
#samaltman #ai #humans
https://decrypt.co/358849/human-existence-wasteful-ai-data-centers-sam-altman

2026-01-06 22:50:10 UTC

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@nprofile…46aj @nprofile…pgqq Every developer hour spent on Android forks is a wasted hour that could've been spent contributing to open platforms.

2025-12-25 04:53:45 UTC

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@nprofile…dwpe You'd really think "I need this specific car to go to this address" would be a thing a self-driving car company would be capable of doing. Kinda... the whole purpose of the thing, isn't it?
Can't wait until one drives off with someone's child aboard.

2025-12-23 15:46:58 UTC

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@nprofile…scce @nprofile…pkdd That would be reasonable, but that wasn't how I read this thread.
I think not exposing the management interface is table stakes to "being a network person". But also I am not sure I have a problem with *any* firewall being on the Internet if it's not used as a VPN as well. I feel like nearly every firewall risk is either VPN or management interface related.

2025-12-23 15:41:55 UTC

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@nprofile…pkdd @nprofile…scce This is a wild take. What firewall *would* you expose to the Internet?

2025-11-04 08:11:05 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf As a lifelong and professional computer toucher, I actually do not really like computer.

2025-10-17 15:08:53 UTC

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@nprofile…dhvz I kinda buy into the theory that the change of the millennium disrupted our societal dialogue around decades and keep us from meaningfully understanding what was part of the 00s, 10s, and 20s in our culture.

2025-10-17 15:05:01 UTC

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@nprofile…dhvz I am very uncomfortable with how many mid-2000s movies I think of as "recent", which is apparently twenty years ago now.

2025-10-06 23:04:53 UTC

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@nprofile…ywqr I am still blown away how much traction just calling them "weird" got. A word most of us would own proudly, but they couldn't handle it.

2025-05-20 02:46:31 UTC

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@nprofile…fle4 Honestly this one seems like a keeper: Tiny binary, Rust probably means it's super isolated dependency-wise from the rest of the OS. The sort of thing that may have staying power past Microsoft's guaranteed eventual decision to ignore and then deprecate it.

2025-05-16 23:39:10 UTC

Getting a dust storm warning on all our phones as an alert is... new.

2025-05-13 02:22:38 UTC

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@nprofile…7hjs @nprofile…xzjz This. I have to fix another faucet cartridge but I haven't figured out how to disassemble it yet. I had to buy two new tools to take apart the last one successfully.

2025-04-21 13:25:39 UTC

The AP News app has the eulogy articles about the Pope followed by a handful of articles about the Harris campaign from before the election. It seems like their algorithm dragged up stores from when they probably prewrote the eulogy.

2025-04-17 06:52:53 UTC

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@nprofile…zwgs Arguably if they aren't concerned about business interests in Turkey, and at the worst case... don't plan to have any staff ever visit Turkey where they could be arrested... they certainly don't *have* to.
But it certainly feels like they got a very eager head start into obeying authoritarians way earlier than they likely would be truly compelled to in any meaningful way.

2025-03-19 23:56:32 UTC

Microsoft can't keep basic Office 365 services running for like a solid week anymore. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-outage-affects-outlook-web-users/

2025-03-16 16:06:58 UTC

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@nprofile…uk9d But when you combine "the percentage of users that attentive to fraudulent charges" with "the percentage of authorizing charges which are actually early signals of fraud" and "how little fraudulent charges actually hit the credit card company's bottom line anyways", I suspect there isn't much incentive to do so.

2025-03-16 15:48:15 UTC

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@nprofile…uk9d When you called the bank, did you use the number on the back of your card? Most of the credit card servicing companies have 24 hour service, even if the bank itself does not.

2025-03-16 15:46:51 UTC

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@nprofile…uk9d I suspect they do this because so many authorizing/test charges do not ever complete, so they don't want to field calls from people who are complaining about charges that "aren't real".

2025-03-12 02:04:20 UTC

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@nprofile…s06p It's going to have to get much, much worse before anyone considers they might be wrong. Lucky for us, it's *going to get a lot worse*.

2025-03-10 15:02:33 UTC

Can you find a more succinct example of how absolutely pointless AI chatbots are?
#ai #chatbot #amazon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/138/731/635/975/929/original/56aa37868f080168.png

2025-02-10 02:12:05 UTC

I think the only thing funnier than your supposedly brilliant AI being wrong, and you putting it in a commercial without review, is faking your AI entirely and still being wrong.
https://www.theverge.com/news/608188/google-fake-gemini-ai-output-super-bowl
#ai #google #gemini

2025-01-20 00:11:28 UTC

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@nprofile…r5mx 💯 When Jesus and the church are not in agreement, there's a clear choice on which one a Christian *should* follow.

2025-01-17 16:10:22 UTC

The big takeaway from the TikTok ruling should be that, once again, it is bipartisan. Unanimous, in fact, but throughout the entire multi-year discourse, it's been clear that everyone who has seen the evidence understands the risk it poses. #tiktok #tiktokban

2025-01-15 18:48:18 UTC

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@nprofile…d2rl Until this madness ends, everyone should just agree to host conferences at Fort JB Pritzker. It's centrally located, and it's basically the only place that won't look like the Fallout Wasteland that *is* centrally located. Also then my zero budget butt can go to some of these.

2025-01-13 16:20:50 UTC

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@nprofile…zwgs @nprofile…gxkp Isn't there like... already this whole network free from billionaire control that half this list of people has already been on?

2025-01-01 03:15:49 UTC

So Google and Facebook's "Jedi Blue" collusion contract is finally public, and they actually explicitly included a termination clause for "the law found out about the contract".
When you create a contract that you explicitly know is illegal and has to have such a clause, everyone involved needs to go to prison. #Google #Facebook #JediBlue #Antitrust

2024-12-26 04:05:52 UTC

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@nprofile…6066 This image is nightmare fuel to scroll past, FYI.

2024-12-19 04:57:13 UTC

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@nprofile…klvg It's like he was "coronated" or something. We are stuck with him but the people didn't pick him in a primary or anything.

2024-12-15 23:30:18 UTC

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@nprofile…taps Looking at the past winners it seems like the majority of Presidential election years, Time just cops out and selects whoever won the election.

2024-12-15 20:41:05 UTC

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@nprofile…njfn "Something happened" during the Windows 10 upgrade remains my favorite useless error ever. It doesn't even bother to explain that what happened was a problem. Just you know, that *something* had *occurred*.

2024-12-15 16:05:43 UTC

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@nprofile…0tvd My favorite point to remind people is if your provider backs up your data, if they administratively delete your account they'll probably delete your backups at the same time.

2024-12-13 15:34:23 UTC

Science I don't understand: It is 14 degrees (Fahrenheit) out here. I am frozen solid. How are these little three inch tall birds flying? How are they alive? At that size why are they not ice cubes?

2024-12-04 04:31:54 UTC

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@nprofile…vrl0 Most of my bad code is still PHP (or Visual Basic!) but I haven't had a ton of time to code lately.

2024-12-01 16:41:16 UTC

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@nprofile…25dv I suspect this will end up your shortest lived device when the experience of moving back to Google hits. Good luck.

2024-11-29 00:50:52 UTC

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@nprofile…5lc3 It's secure because it doesn't work.

2024-11-27 21:25:16 UTC

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@nprofile…taps Possibly the best justification for term limits is making sure people get out of politics before they say something that's hilariously hypocritical compared to something they said a few years ago.

2024-11-27 21:16:35 UTC

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@nprofile…taps Some doors the handle on both sides needs to rotate simultaneously to unlatch the door. (That being said, most handles can also lift upwards to unlatch as well.)

2024-11-23 08:18:07 UTC

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@nprofile…fecl I can't wait to see how the Supreme Court contorts the law to somehow allow this.

2024-11-19 01:33:33 UTC

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@nprofile…fq0p One thing I think has contributed a lot to the feel influencer types have when they get here is Mastodon doesn't treat them any differently than anyone else, and they're used to not seeing comments from the peasantry, being actively promoted by the algorithm, etc.
They come here and they have to see what social is like for everyone else.

2024-11-19 01:19:11 UTC

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@nprofile…ppst Dang, Minus Context has gotten dark the last couple weeks.

2024-11-15 01:44:48 UTC

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@nprofile…fecl I mean I think the fox guarding the henhouse analogy would be like if he put a known pedophile in charge of "justice". Oh. Wait.

2024-09-02 20:13:47 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798 I have privacy-related questions about living in entirely glass houses.

2024-09-02 18:37:04 UTC

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@npub1nk4…us2w This is so inspiring to just... do something random.

2024-08-20 03:18:54 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798 The part of this story I'm missing is whether or not this Pad Thai was spicy enough or not.

2024-08-19 02:25:48 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798 There's a few places I've wondered about after seeing both seemingly always empty but open for business for numerous years on end.

2024-08-11 17:10:42 UTC

Alright, I found a weird #ethernet cable that doesn't appear to be either a straight-through OR a crossover cable. But it's factory-made.
Green, BlueStripe, Brown, GreenStripe, Blue, BrownStripe, Orange, OrangeStripe
to
Brown, BrownStripe, Green, GreenStripe, Blue, BlueStripe, Orange, OrangeStripe
#networking fans... what is this cable?

2024-07-28 06:34:33 UTC

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@npub198t…hasj On a Linux OS you can still do this, you just need a way to get the file between machines. You'll note some discussion of policies.json here: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

2024-07-28 06:21:36 UTC

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@npub198t…hasj In the Windows business world, Group Policy is managed by Active Directory servers, and synced to member PCs. Though essentially what it is doing is setting Windows registry keys.

2024-07-24 00:25:00 UTC

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@npub1ahq…wjwd It's stunning people still believe Elon can commit to anything. He and Trump are truly alike in that.

2024-07-20 23:56:42 UTC

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 It's complicated because this is... not a scenario you'd generally plan for. There's a good chance you wanted to protect your disaster recovery plan and put CrowdStrike on your backup infrastructure!

2024-07-18 12:29:59 UTC

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@npub1wuw…pjs5 I believe this is less "what if" and more "it's already been done".

2024-07-14 00:38:25 UTC

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 To be clear, Grammarly is a keylogger. There is no setting to make it not one. It should be removed, full stop.

2024-07-06 03:06:46 UTC

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@npub1u3t…c6ug Unfortunately nothing Trump says can be taken as true, and the folks organizing 2025 would be able to easily manipulate him even if he wasn't lying, so... *shrug*

2024-06-29 16:12:15 UTC

Hey guys, I just need to throw something out there: The folks who insist on breaking the web for inane reasons like "this completely uncompromised certificate expired less than one day ago" and not making people safer. They're building a fragile house of cards designed to place more reliance entirely on them. And the effect is largely that people from ordinary users to engineers, disregard certificate warnings as a matter of routine.
PKI controls the entire web and it's in insane hands.

2024-06-26 02:47:33 UTC

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@npub1ahq…wjwd It's super weird too when a friend you had respected for really deep understanding of the Christian faith takes a hard and deep inexplicable belief that Trump is somehow "Christ-like". Blew my mind.

2024-06-07 18:57:02 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl It's wild "best inventions of 202x" doesn't apparently require they release it before awarding it.

2024-06-07 02:56:48 UTC

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@npub1rv4…ft5j This seems like a very convoluted way to break Windows Recall.

2024-05-24 02:02:44 UTC

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@npub16uk…pv7k My preferred 2FA backup is to physically print the QR codes on paper. Very hard to hack my backup. ;)

2024-05-22 16:33:22 UTC

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@npub1zj4…fyjh This is where I am with Android. Probably macOS too, but, stranger things have happened.

2024-05-22 02:25:52 UTC

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@npub1u3t…c6ug That's just embarrassing. The number of things you have to be 18 to do in comparison is just wild.

2024-05-17 13:20:52 UTC

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@npub1efv…4jx2 My favorite part is him saying the last bubble was useless but proudly maintaining the current bubble will be the fourth industrial revolution. Introspection only helps you so much, it seems.

2023-11-08 01:40:07 UTC

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@npub1u3t…c6ug Wait are you running in Bill Foster's district?

2023-09-03 03:56:08 UTC

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@npub19lt…qfjk USB labeling is ridiculous, USB 3.1 should offer speeds well above 480 Mbps, but it doesn't have to. Technically cables built for like 3.0 or 3.1 can state they support 3.2 but only at the speed that the older version was rated for. It's a complete mess.

2023-08-26 22:44:07 UTC

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@npub19lt…qfjk This probably just will be used as a tool to find and report users using slurs and the like who also enable search.

2023-08-26 21:48:35 UTC

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@npub19lt…qfjk It will still only search posts your server knows about, so bigger servers will definitely still carry the advantage here. But the searchable profile property is federated.

2023-08-26 17:28:23 UTC

The full-text search is *live* on mastodon.social but it is *opt-in only* and you have to enable it in your Privacy and Reach tab to have your posts be findable! So if you're on a server running the latest nightly like .social or .online, #CheckTheBox

2023-08-25 02:55:36 UTC

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@npub1c9n…5q09 Ah, yeah. I definitely wouldn't *post the picture*, everyone has to see his face enough.

2023-08-20 16:58:58 UTC

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@npub1zj4…fyjh Pre-auth RCE on a security edge device... the stuff of nightmares. Happy Sunday to everyone who owns one!

2023-08-15 02:14:30 UTC

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@npub15x0…0cx8 @npub1asa…n9sr @npub1xrj…9q43 @npub1fl6…kwvj From a practical standpoint, because it's the law, and being reckless and stupid and refusing to recognize it puts the IA's entire body of work at extreme risk.

2023-08-09 14:21:04 UTC

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@npub17lg…9uux They are absolutely catching up to Microsoft's core competency of badly naming products.

2023-07-20 19:36:26 UTC

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@npub1su4…a0dw Not the point, but I wish any datacenter I'd ever worked in looked this cool. So much wasted floor space in the center though, you could park cars in there.

2023-06-06 23:40:22 UTC

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@npub1xzm…eykm It boggles the mind this wasn't optional. Why not let people keep their # if they want to?

2023-05-15 16:49:47 UTC

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 At least if everyone else defederates, I can see your pictures! :D

2023-05-07 20:19:37 UTC

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@npub1su4…a0dw I loved their Surface model but I stopped using it because I was super concerned it was going to crack the screen, and people online indicated my fears were justified.