If you're invested in there being a Linux distribution that works better with laptops then I will happily make that happen for a mere $1 million a year and you will not be associating your brand with white supremacy in the process please enquire for references and my credentials
@joenash increasingly depends where you are. If you’ve got a local fibre provider they’re usually pretty good from what I’ve seen, otherwise Zen will provide the same service everyone else does over the same line but with support who know how to do more than read a script. Andrews & Arnold remain incredibly competent but somehow always feel like they begrudge having customers.
Has anyone in the EU tech policy space considered just making it illegal for services to charge more for MFA, SSO, audit log streaming, and break-glass/split privilege accounts?
If y'all are serious about improving SME security, that's an easy win.
Absolutely rampant ADHD this morning for reasons I can’t put down to anything other than maybe bad sleep two nights ago, or having had a very focused work week. I’ve done a great many things this morning but none of them have been what I planned to do because everytime I start a task I immediately veer off on a tangent.
@vampiress hashtag and allow muting, one of the great things about short form social media is the ability to proactively filter out things you’re not interested in.
@gsuberland trick question. Phone never goes near the bed, that way leads to being up way too late reading the internet instead of sleeping.
@stevestreza regrettably I think it’s just the rich tech bros club, where everyone funds everyone else’s pet project on the basis that if someone has managed to make a bunch of money they must be a good bet.
@chrisd @CatherineFlick that sort of size always seems to me like an awkward middle ground where it’s too big to be a thing I carry all the time but too small to be useful in the way a laptop is. (Tablets are imo a dead end, good only for use as a portable video player)
@chrisd @CatherineFlick yeah, ipadOS has an almost usable windowing system now that allows things like running apps side by side or one floating on top of another. Still not convinced I want that in a a phone though.
Today in security theatre, a client who is concerned we might be on a network segment with access to sensitive machines rather than just building controls. They’d like me to let them know what I can see and provide logs to reassure them this isn’t the case, rather than, you know, checking where the port we’re plugged into goes and whether it’s limited to just the BMS.
@eloy I’m not aware of any device ever which has actually implemented Ethernet over HDMI so I think you’re probably safe unless you own the only example of an HDMI network switch ever manufactured.
Love it when what I thought was going to be a multi-phase pain in the arse project turns out to be easy.
I don’t in fact need to replace the fans on my GPU to make the gaming PC bearably quiet, I just needed to not have the CPU radiator fan plugged into a fan connector that’s always at 100%.
@krans @phlash @homelab as someone who was once responsible for several Raspberry Pis distributed around Europe, do yourself a favour and get a cheap thin terminal or mini PC off eBay instead if you want something you can hold onto, or rent a £5/month VM from somewhere.
Raspberry Pis are great if you need a Linux machine with GPIO to interface with the real world, otherwise they’re just woefully underpowered computers with flakey storage.
@phlash @krans @homelab I’m the era of symmetric gigabit home internet connections I also question whether most people really want a *home*lab. I do have on site hardware for home automation and local data storage but the beefy server is rented from OVH because who wants the power draw and noise a proper server in their house?
@phlash @krans @homelab this absolutely the start point - what do you want to achieve? Also I think there’s a question of how much reliability you need/want, which will be influenced by the first question - there’s a world of difference between a machine or two to tinker with stuff you’re interested in on and something you’re going to rely on.
@dramypsyd firstly, yes. Secondly, is there a huge asterisk on that because they’ve been doing personal pizzas (four small slices) for as long as I can remember in the UK.
@Dany this depends how it’s being done for me. If you’re doing it with headphones at normal coffee shop conversation volume then fine, if you’ve got it coming out of laptop speakers while shouting over the din you can fuck right off.
EE/Money Saving Expert sales once again knocking my door, apparently BT are doing “the internet updates” in the coming weeks. I almost admire the bullshit they feed their door to door sales people to do market research on who’s with which ISP.
@an0key I’d take the piss out of someone buying one of those as well.
@an0key I love that the only commentary I’ve seen on this thing has been “wtf? Who’s spending £420 on a toothbrush?”