So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"
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Got a rejection letter form one of the jobs I'd applied for. I have to say, I'm not terribly broken up about this one. I applied because I'm trying not to be overly picky, but I don't see myself as having been happy there long-term.
Dear state and local governments: STOP using Google Drive as your only means to disseminate public information.
Private systems are not public, they are subject to arbitrary access controls with no public oversight or appeals process, and therefore they do NOT meet your responsibility to provide information via public means.
This means you, #Brattleboro and #Vermont. #VTpol
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Anxiety's been bad again lately. I am moderately worried about losing the apartment. Taking steps to try to keep that from happening, but sometimes just trying to engage with the problem brings on a panic attack.
I have medication to help with that now, but it makes it hard to think clearly. I will survive this one way or another, but my life is going to have to change. I don't handle change well.
@uoou Yeah, I actually agreed to go off ADHD meds because while functioning without them is far more difficult, dealing with this is essentially impossible.
This probably won't help me in my current job search, but is it worth learning COBOL? I've heard that there are still a bunch of critical systems out there that use it, and that it's hard to find COBOL devs these days.
Is this still the case? The only downside I can see is that I'd have to program in COBOL.
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Having worked adjacent to 4 different mainframes at this point in my career along with their "modernization" efforts. Reading COBOL, not terrible. Writing it, eh, probably not so bad but I've never done, only had to read and comprehend what it does. And there are non-MFs that provide implementation of COBOL so you can learn on your own time.
The devil is going to be understanding IBM systems "junk": CICS, DASD, DCLGEN, TSO, RACF etc
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What he said. Mainframe basics are more important than COBOL, I'd say.
I work for a company that's doing "Mainframe Modernization" and as a result we have to understand the old crappy non-modern stuff in order to implement new stuff! (Currently my group isn't reimplementing anything based in Cobol. We do Db2 monitoring stuff.)
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@Judy Anderson @Bill Fellows I was poking around with some TOPS-20 stuff on SDF. Is that perhaps a more viable route to persue?
@billinkc TOPS 20 is dead. Only SDF hobbyists would still use it. IBM mainframe is not dead, much as people wish it were 🙂
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@nosrednayduj OMG super small world. One of the projects I was on dealt with model 204/m204. We ended up building a real time synchronization between m204 and SQL Server via messaging.
It was going to be a very cool way to modernize the client's data storage while they incrementally switched the front ends.
Pity literal debt caught up to them 💥
If you have no mainframe experience, the first thing I would do is get some mainframe experience or study the mainframe environment. Include JES2. If you only have one or two other programming languages that you have mastered, then I would go for something else that is in current development use. If it's your fourth or fifth language, get COBOL. It's quicker and easier to pick up a language after you have a few under your belt and the concepts are clear in your mind. Oh, and a mainframe environment is not the only place it comes in handy. I did a little work for a steel company that had Critical applications in micro focus object-oriented COBOL, and they had a huge IT department, but I was the only one local with current cobol experience. You never know when that knowledge might become critical.
Dear job posting,
If you expect me to install spyware so that you can micromanage me while I work, at least have the decency not to expect me to supply the hardware.
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Also, it was an expectation that I submit to random drug testing. No, I do not want to lose my job because they found amphetamines in my system (legitimately prescribed for ADHD). I already have to jump through enough hoops to get them in the first place.
Went to pick up a prescription and the guy ahead of me in line was chewing the pharmacist out about the automated system, which admittedly sucks but is certainly a decision made by corporate, not her.
He repeatedly threatened to take his business elsewhere. Were I in her position, the response I'd have wanted to give was "please do".
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I would have said, "It's against company policy for me to say, 'please do'"
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In case you are wondering why my public PGP key is expired, it is because I would like to discourage people from sending me PGP-encrypted email. The number of times I have had people send me mail in the clear that they appear to have thought was encrypted is NOT SMALL.
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I am not surprised!I deleted my Proton account when the CEO started praising fascists, but they made PGP simple to use. 😿
The number of people who have emailed my EFF account from their Proton account thinking that they were sending me an end-to-end encrypted email would surprise you.
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I just got a flashback to setting up GnuPG with Eudora in the early 2000s. I used it exactly once. 💀
Sooo... I have a flatpak version of LibreOffice, and for whatever reason (probably sandboxing) the spellchecker can't see the text of my document.
I may or may not have sent off a bunch of resumes that said that I "wrote technical documentaiton" in a previous job.
That's just super.
There's a job I really want a decent shot at. Thank God I caught it before submitting to that one.
Edit: I typo'd my typo. 🙃
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Back in the 1990s I worked at a very large government facility on an RFP for getting an ISP. The winning bidder had in the footer of every page "Bid for Interenet Service Provider." Nobody but me noticed.
Of course, the Interenet was so new in the 1990s that maybe they thought that's how it's spelled...
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I had a bit of a hard time getting into this one, but once it got going it was worth it. That said, I think I'm going to step back from the horror genre for a bit. I'll probably return to it when life settles a bit.
(comment on HEX)
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So, apparently I've started sleepwalking, or at least sleep-sitting-at-the-edge-of-the-bed and mumbling when spoken to, so that's fun.
I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.
I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.
I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.
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have a try here ? careers.ovhcloud.com/ and search for Beauharnois. HTH
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hey! I'm a founder with myascend.ai. We're an early stage startup working on making professional networking suck less with AI Agents. We could use some hard engineering expertise to ground our engineering team. We have a really solid go to market plan and are getting good traction. Thought I'd say hi and see if you're interested in chatting.
It may become necessary for me to shut down this Friendica node. Since this is essentially a single-user instace, I won't necessarily give a lot of notice. If that happens, I'll be migrating to a friend's instance and will announce my new home from my old Fosstodon account: @Jonathan Lamothe
I've been an #Emacs user for like 20 years because there was one thing I needed to do back then that was made easier by elisp, and I just got used to using it. In all that time, I hardly ever tinkered much with the config, save a few minor tweaks it was pretty much stock. I had no strong feelings about Emacs in general, it was just the text editor I'd grown comfortable with.
I've recently been diving into #Lisp and poking around with my Emacs config, and after all these years, I think I'm starting to get the appeal. I am still a proponent of "use the tool that works for you", but I'm personally firmly on team Emacs now.
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I'd been told that there were add-ons that could do things like making vim more Emacs-like, but I never saw the point in spending energy to make some arbitrary tool more like the one I was already using for no particular reason.
Everyone who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying...
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Also, there are two types of people in the world: those who divide the world into two types of people... and those who don't.
What about correlating causes and effects? And what about identifying a correlation as the cause of some effect---such as a misunderstanding?
I've been an #Emacs user for probably about two decades. Despite this, I only recently learned that ELPA and MELPA are not the same.
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Welp, it's #FountainPen cleaning and re-inking day. #Today I re-learned why I don't use shimmer inks in my #TWSBI Diamond 580. In fact, I usually reserve them exclusively for dip pens.
Time to meticulously clean out a clogged feed. It didn't even make it a paragraph.
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I've got J. Herbin's 1670 Emerald of Chivor in my TWSBI Diamond 580, and it's working fine. I'm not seeing any shimmer though, as I've got an EF nib on it. It looks REALLY cool inside the pen.
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So, I've been taking another run at learning #CommonLisp. The last time I tried, I simply could not wrap my brain around macros. I'm reading the same book again, but this time am a more experienced programmer, and it all just clicked in my head.
I might actually end up enjoying #Lisp after all. I don't know if it'll dethrone #Haskell, but I'm starting to get why people like it.
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@Karsten Johansson Tell that to the author of Practical Common Lisp.
That said, I get it now. It's so stupidly simple when it finally makes sense.
Also, yeah, learning Haskell in the interim helped a lot.
I finally got around to setting up a gopher hole. There's nothing there yet, but hopefully soon there will be.
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jlamothe
(Apologies to anyone with a screen reader. There will be an accessible version.)
Cool! The Lagrange browser is also a Gopher browser, making it easy for me to check it out.
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I recently got a #Sailor #Hokoro dip pen, and much to my chagrin have found that several of my #FountainPen inks do not work well in it. It's almost like the ink refuses to be picked up by the nib/feed.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a solution?
Edit: the paper also seems to be a factor
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do you have a nib with or without reservoir? It works better with reservoir so I put them on all the nibs. You do have to keep it dipped in the ink for a few seconds for the reservoir to fill up, which is something that’s not necessarily intuitive.
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@StarSloth I'm giving them a second longer go with a bit more soap. I've also picked up a few other tips. We'll see of those make a difference.
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PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains
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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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in reply to evacide • • •Orphanero(tm): Order yours today or we'll go out of business. Please.
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The Juicero for Billionaires (elite undersea edition) was a great proof of concept... now we just need to scale it...
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
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You lack vision !!!.
We need to build Parent Crushing Machines to provide a stead supply of Orphans for the Orphan crushing machine!
A Flock of Beagles
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what if Russians put fluoride in the water to steal orphans' precious bodily fluids?
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in reply to evacide • • •Joxe Rojas 🥐
in reply to evacide • • •"oh, come on! If we don't build it ourselves, someone else will!" 🤷🏻♂️
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B O
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in reply to evacide • • •dystopian novel: “don't build an orphan crushing machine”
corporation: “we built the orphan crushing machine from this dystopian novel!”
Ashwin Dixit
in reply to evacide • • •We gives our boss what it seeks.
The "why" is beyond our pay-grade.
All we want is to get paid.
Ours not to wonder why.
Be meek, and don't even try.
Ours just to thrill and chill.
Code meditation, while sitting still.
We ain't tryna Kill Bill.
We just wanna pay our bills.
Chris Del Rosario ☕️
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in reply to evacide • • •Sigh.
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in reply to evacide • • •That Nexus won't torment itself, baby*. 👈😎👈
*In case it's not abundantly clear, I'm not actually calling you baby.
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in reply to evacide • • •And then they extort you by saying: "Hey, but wouldn't you rather have an Orphan Crushing Machine that *didn't* accidentally leak the data of their parents in an incident, rather than one that did?"
And yes, the only answer to this is: Stop the madness and also stop collecting that data. But capitalism means you're right when you deliver shareholder value I guess.
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