woof. woof woof. bark.

Pro tips from original antifa.

Reblogging for reasons

Wowsers. Is everything cool?

Yes, in fact. We have entered the Cool Zone, the zone in which Anything Can Happen. It’s Totally Radical!

are we ever gonna get a tumblr linux discord server/irc channel/BBS/mailing list. cuz i would totally join one if i knew it existed. i want more queer nerds to talk to 3:

We have a matrix chat but I haven't been there in ages

It's not dead yet, I'm just terrible at orginization, and haven't gotten around to handing the link out to the newbies yet.

If anyone wants to do that, that would be convenient.

I need this

i need it as well, i wanna yap and be yapped at :D

Me when I do it

And by "it", haha, let's just say. Meeeee :3

😘 didya wanna link with that

Hook a girl up cmon

in most shells, you can use the command 'cd -' to go back to the previous directory you were in. but most people don't know that if you use 'cd ' it will take you to the next directory you need to be in

similarly, using 'cd /' will take you to the top-most directory. so naturally, 'cd *' takes you to the bottom-most directory

I use pushd and popd because I’m old like that

We love when a subway system has at least three incompatible train standards that can’t share platforms.

Also the red line’s overwhelming piss odor makes NYC smell like roses.

ok gimmickverse let's all do this

I would be oho-h-

@maryland-officially @the-real-catholic-church @north-dakota-unofficial @non-tyrannical-usa @thee0ne-whos-trying and anyone else!

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I don't exist

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the bible translated doesn't have an h

i have made a fatal error

-offc

pp-x-offc

Uncharacteristically political take, I know, but I personally think if you want to blame any particular group of voters for Trump getting elected it should probably be the people who voted for Trump

Fag strong together. Don’t forget.

wondering why my stupid script isn't working and realizing it's because the one semester i spent doing rust code has overwritten a lot of what my mind categors as "stupid idiot powershell syntax that makes me hate microsoft even more" and i thought putting

$thereturnvalue

was the proper syntax for passing a parameter as a return value in powershell for a good few hours and it let me do it

powershell is the programming language that says "ummmm you mean gnu/linux" and rust is the language that replies to yohr typed in .3 seconds comment with "*you're"

python is the programming language that gets offended when you end a sentence with a preposition

It's always fun when you try to program in language X but you keep accidentally typing in language Y stuff.

I get this with Lua all the time: my brain goes back to my childhood and tries to write BASIC stuff

I fucked up a promising interview by writing Go instead of PHP.

Ouch!

On the plus side, they didn't make you write php, which is what happens when you get hired for php jobs (or so I've heard: all my php has been unpaid*, thankfully. I can hide my shame)

* I think I might technically have gotten paid for some php work for 4chan once, actually. But that was less a job and more moot lying to me

Nevertheless PHP is one of the 3-5 languages that I use on a regular basis for my work, so I didn't spare myself much.

I'm so sorry, and get well soon!

Meanwhile I’m trying to excise PHP from the stack I support and I’m almost across the finish line the only issue is it’s being replaced with JavaScript.

every time i make a symlink i still have to think for moment to not fuck up the order of the two arguments

*talking out loud to self* xtract ze vucking file

why would i master the cli when i could just download a snap or a flatpak with a gui that does the same thing? :-)

did they ever say if they closed that goofy side channel vuln from m1-3

I would hope they’d patch it for the M4 chips considering it was published before they came out but since it’s Apple v😐v

They do talk a good information security game but so do lots of companies.

i think this is probably true of every office, but there's a middle aged woman working in business who doesn't hold any particular place in the chain of command but is Sovereign. i was running support and she has access to more secure network drives than i do. im pretty sure she has an admin account. i was having trouble with my parking pass and my boss just said to talk to kristen- one day later i had parking in any garage on campus. she's not even in charge of parking in our building

This is also true of academia. In pretty much any department of the university — in my experience at least — there’s a person with a small-but-private office and an unassuming title (probably including a word like “secretary” or “assistant”), usually an older woman, and she actually runs the place. Faculty defer to her; department heads come and go, but Jill has been there for thirty years and knows how everything works, and she’s the person you go to if you want to get anything done. You’ll know her because when a professor directs you to her they won’t say “you need to talk to the Office of So-and-So because this falls under their purview”, but “you need to talk to Jill.” Her official job title is basically irrelevant because her actual role is acting as eminence grise for this whole operation.

I’ve personally had the experience where my advisor told me “you should do such-and-such certification, go talk to Jill,” and I went to talk to Jill & she said “actually you can’t do such-and-such because XYZ,” so I went back to my advisor to relay this, and he just kind of shrugged and was like, “well if Jill says no, then it can’t be done” and that was the end of it. Complete veto power, no higher authority to turn to, because the only reason Jill can’t do something is if it’s literally impossible.

Honestly there’s probably a whole dissertation about invisible labor and gender dynamics in there waiting to be written.

The one in my undergrad department was Linda C, and I think her hypercompetence must have risen to the point of allowing her to manipulate time itself, because in my experience, every time you needed to talk to Ms. C, you would end up chatting with her for at least an hour (which was both enjoyable and informative) and yet she got so much work done--it just didn't seem physically possible.

Take secretaries and administrative assistants out of any organization and you'll see it crumble in no time. They are the holder of the secrets to understanding red tape and other administrative nightmares.

The whole project of corporate IT was trying to get rid of this type of person and it's why nothing works anymore and we're all dying

God that is so true, I work in an IT adjacent field and so much energy is spent explaining that our “shadow IT” exists because the actual IT department fails to support our needs. Industrial controls don’t need three different MDM agents and a virus scanner that’s fighting with the EDR that’s fighting with two of the three MDM agents, it needs to be strictly airgapped so that when someone inevitably pops Joe in accounting they don’t get to ransomware the CNC mill I support running Windows XP because the vendor says that’s what it has to run.

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what are they putting in the water

prog

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