bpchaps

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by bpchaps 7y ago
It was more than an announcement. They cutoff access to gitlab and broke automated workflows. It shows that they don't know their customer base that well if they were willing to do that. Surely they knew they'd break automated wor
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by bpchaps 7y ago
My questions come from the fact that you, and others from Gitlab, are coming out of the woodwork in groups in response to public negativity and trying to play it cool, eg "wanna". At least to me, it feels hollow, just like your re
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Ah. Is that any different from a "Fulfillment Center Ambassador"?
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by bpchaps 7y ago
I used to work at Bank of America as a level 2 app analyst back when they first started building Quartz. At the time, it was advertised internally as a system to be used for reporting, and so it had lots of built-in functionality to connect
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California governor gives OK for state, local agencies to destroy emails(thedesk.matthewkeys.net)
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Why technologists need to get involved in public policy(boingboing.net)
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by bpchaps 7y ago
You okay?
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by bpchaps 7y ago
That's my understanding, yes.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
A few years back I was mugged in Chicago at a busy intersection very close to a train station. Being the FOIA nerd I am, I submitted a FOIA request for the footage of the spot I was mugged at. It came back saying that no footage exists. Pro
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Thank you - this is exactly what I was trying to explain!
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Edited for pedantry. :)
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Google fi user here: when they throttle in areas with weak cell signal, the throttling is aggressive and internet practically doesn't work. It's very frustrating. "Throttling" isn't the right word.. maybe "cr
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Gravity propagates at the speed of light. So, imagine you have a massive celestial body floating out in space, with a large gravitational field. Its gravitational field is always propagating. Now, take that celestial body, and make it compl
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Need a degree for both of those.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
What's wrong with honest feedback against clearly outrageous marketing? Serious question. Not trying to troll.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Ah sorry. That does sounds relaxing, even in jest. I'm trying to get out of for-profit tech and into the non-profit space to do data/FOIA/investigative work. It's still "tech work" at the end of the day, but wi
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by bpchaps 7y ago
This isn't my experience with just a single job. This is my experience in the perspective of a sysadmin/SRE/devops "track". Maybe it's different for programmers, but the overall spirit of my post happens at mos
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by bpchaps 7y ago
No need to be patronizing.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
This field fucking sucks. I'm tired of being on call 24/7/365. I'm tired of having to explain why plaintext passwords are bad. I'm tired of being taken advantage of for being a generalist. I'm tired of ex-googl
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Does this count for backups, too?
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by bpchaps 7y ago
You're suggesting that Facebook is 100% accurate in determining whether a name is real, or a pseudonym. Imagine this: someone is on Facebook and wants to hide their identity for some reason. Best examples I can think of right now is te
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Troll post? This would either imply that Facebook has 100% valid identity checks or that 100% of people are honest about their identity.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Yes, you can get tons of personally identifiable information from things like public records laws and such. That's irrelevant, though. This is a phone number tied to a facebook account, not just their name. A major difference here is
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by bpchaps 7y ago
They're very good at creating a public image.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Named in a sibling post.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Eh, screw it. It was Rackspace. I worked there, and was told this by a senior member of the infrastructure staff in a one on one. It was was fixed before I got there. They still have similarly bad security flubs.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
There's a major, major hosting company whose server IPMIs all had an internet IP and used a default password for an unreasonably long time. I'm honestly not sure how this company is still around.
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by bpchaps 7y ago
This is super cool! Does anyone have any insight into whether this sort of muscle-movement based vocalization has been done in the past?
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Yeah, seriously. Are email addresses even regular to the extent that a regex would work 100% of the time?
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by bpchaps 7y ago
Flagging this. This post has been advertised on Twitter non-stop. This is very clearly written as a PR piece, and it won't go away.

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