"Now that I've got FreeBSD up and running I should really figure out how to work with jails..
"
[@mwl has entered the chat]

Just picked up FreeBSD Mastery: Jails
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/fmjail/

Realising that the otherwise innocuous sentence, "You're absolutely right" is now completely poisonous

I'm fucking pissed off over here. The scare campaign worked, the ALPs spine liquified and average punters have once again demonstrated that they can always be relied upon to vote against their own self-interest.
CG tax to get a loophole you could drive an accountancy firm through.
#auspol

I have just learned that rodeo exists in the My Little Pony universe and I have questions.

Me: You have all your test users on admin profiles in dev
Vendor implementer: Yeah we kept running into blockers with standard access
Me: You realise they can't have that access in prod right?
VI: we'll get that fixed before go-live

They did not, in fact, 'get that fixed'.

Seeing too many responses to impending age-verification laws being like, "Frog-kind need to stop overreacting, they're only raising the pot temperature by one degree!"
#ageverification

One benefit of socialized healthcare that I'd not previously considered is the added incentive for the government to make healthcare decisions that improve population health as better population health results in lower costs.

For those not aware of how important a development environment is, a dev server is a server with the following attributes:
- not the same as prod
- mostly (but not all) the same vulnerability and patching requirements
- never used by end-users as, "It's not the same as prod"
- you don't have credentials for

If I lived in Perth I'd be a bit offended by how eager England are to leave early #cricket

Hey there fellow Aussies, if you know people who pay for Microsoft Office get them to check if they're eligible for a refund for MS being scumbags
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/account-billing/how-to-get-a-refund-on-a-microsoft-subscription-67dca30b-b323-44d5-acc2-e02f9902c472

Why don't keyboards have copy and paste buttons?
Seriously, print screen, scroll lock, whatever the context menu button is called? Heck, even caps lock is less useful.

Without letting Optus off the hook, this is not really an 'Optus' issue. This is a 'we sold essential services to the private sector'. We see it with telcos, electricity, water, transport, etc.
Neoliberalism has failed as hard as it's possible to fail. If a service is essential, it needs to be publicly owned.
#Optus

Dear fellow corpo scum, if someone at work does you a solid, email them to thank them. Be specific about how they helped you and most importantly *cc their manager*. This person will have a future perf review where your little email may be the reason they get a bonus.

My grandmother used to say "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
When I was younger, I thought this was overly harsh. Now I spend a large portion of my time ensuring policy and requirement compliance.

Younger me was wrong.

Linux is unbeatable in some ways. Just installed Mint on a hand-me-down laptop for my kids. Went from borderline unusable with Windows 10 to near-new with Mint. Even the kids got excited by the improvement #linuxmint

While I do want to see renewables feature in election pitches, Labour's home battery subsidy is bad. Home batteries are popular but they're exclusionary and they exacerbate existing issues around grid maintence costs. It shouldn't be desirable for most people to be operating a hobby-grade home powerplant. We should be investing in grid scale batteries. #auspol #renewables

Have given #Vivaldi a fair shake on my phone but with no ability to install extensions and the ad blocking not being good enough I'm putting it aside. I'll check back in from time to time but not being able to control ads is a dealbreaker for me.

If your job title has the word 'risk' in it, please go sit in the corner and make some better fucking life choices

#AI at the moment reminds me of when, as a child, you would make 'potions' in the backyard. You'd wander the garden grabbing random bits and pieces, pop them in a jar and call the result 'magic'

At my age Friday morning office convos are like:
Them: Oh ho ho, looks like someone had a big night
Me: Nah, I just watched one more episode of Severance than I should have and got to bed at 10.45