Oh! Thanks!

We could start a buy/sell/swap space using existing Lemmy technology, if we left the messy details for users to figure out for themselves.

Messy details add up quick, though. Payments, currencies, mailing addresses, reputation, conflict resolution, returns, scammers and spam.

But “Craigs List” solved very little of that on day one, and went on to be pretty successful.

So it’s possible. happening now, I’ve just learned. Neat!. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade

(Edit: Added link to the real thing. Thanks!) (Edit 2: I swallowed the onion whole. Mostly jokes, there, I think. I’m gonna leave the link anyway.)

I plan to operate on expired certificates for two to four years, forcing all three of my users to click past a terrible warning.

Then I will automate my six day certificate rotation with Ansible (officially), but maybe actually with a stupid bash script in CRON (unofficially).

The real value is in the agility needed to update certs every six days.

Six days is still too long to leave a compromised key in play, but anyone who can rotate their keys every six days can probably also rotate their keys quite quickly if there’s a comprise.

7,300 files or 48,000 files - something stinks.

I get it, code fast go brrr! How convenient, as long as no one gives a flying fuck about maintenance costs.

Folks need to get good, and cut out pretending that a slop mountain is a real contribution.

“I apologize for the length of this letter. If I had twice the time - or if my tools were not shit tier - it would have been half the length.”

Abraham Lincoln, I bet.

It’s more that they want to say “AI Dangerous”. It’s step 2 in the oligopoly playbook:

1. ”It’s a perfectly safe miracle solution. Invest with us or miss out."
2. "It turns out it’s really dangerous. We need the governments to make tough laws that coincidentally prevent start-up companies from competing with us, (while we don’t sell you any RAM chips.)
3. “Remember those miraculous investment returns we promised, the evil governments forced us to spend them all on lawyers and stuff. Sorry about that. But the good news is…”
4. “We have a new safe sure-fire miracle solution (to something new and different). Invest with us, or miss out!”

Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google.

Opening a PO Box in person should avoid this issue.

Post Office Boxes are the solution.

Doesn’t outlook support imap?

Officially, it can. Many organizations turn IMAP off “for security reasons.”

Edit: Microsoft routinely turns off features for security reasons, so this comment may age poorly, if not already.

I’m so tired of “Ai big number” headlines. 100+ packages - but how many good ones? (Genuinely, I don’t know, as I don’t the recognize those listed.)

We need projects that diligently keep the slop out. We don’t need every protect to do so, but it is critical that some do.

We have Meta and Microsoft to provide quick-to-market low quality shit.

The version of Linux that matters is the slow thoughtful good software.

I’m not mad at slop slingers, aa long as they don’t secretly inject slop risk where not welcome.

Edit: Thanks for responses.

For anyone who has read this far, I encourage seeing responses below for informative and nuanced thoughts on this.

I do hate that about trains.

(Poe’s Law disclaimer: This is meant as obvious “yes, and” absurdist humor.)

Thanks. I hate it.

I run Linux at a workplace that is mostly Windows and some Mac.

Nobody notices or cares.

Everything I need runs in a browser now.

But why does everyone bring up AutoCAD? Lemmy seems to be full of AutoCAD professionals.

I sling code and documents. Linux is better for code and uses Office 365 as well as any other OS.

I asume the prompt was: Tell me your board of directors are all too young to remember the DotCom bust without telling me so directly.

Let’s not give the idiots more ideas. haha.

Yes. And perhaps, given time, accessing the wrong version of certain sensitive historic events could even be tracked that way.

I wouldn’t wish what I suspect is coming for some of these greedy robber baron assholes on any living thing that can feel pain… but I kind of hope it gets caught on film for future generations to learn from.

I wonder if we could collectively push the funds to divest from closed book financial companies

If we don’t, there just won’t be a market, anymore.

I stopped telling colleagues to “invest at least 10%” and “at least get the 401k match, it’s free money” about three years ago.

After this bubble bursts, I’m honestly not even sure the concept of 401ks will survive.

The future of common people’s investing is very possibly only in gold chains and under mattresses.

Some of them will lose, and some “investors” will go dead broke.

It’s never everyone one would wish it could be, of course.

The web didn’t go away when the web hype bubble burst. But it changed a great deal, and a bunch of suckers got to be very broke.

This bubble is much bigger, and will hurt much worse when it goes.

Meta just took a 11% stock price drop for saying “we still think AI is a good idea”. This bubble is right on the precipice.

Maybe it can stay irrational for a bit longer, but it doesn’t look good at all.