Godort

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  • It’s the fact that the easier options are bad choices.

    It’s easier to sit around the house than it is to exercise. It’s easier to order pizza than it is to cook something. It’s easier to be ignorant than actually learn and change.

    The easy choice should be the good one. Making a bad choice should take effort.


  • “Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male”

    Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that. That is a bonkers thing to say as a public official and should invoke some kind of mental health check.

    I’m aware Hegseth is just posturing for brownie points with this Scouts thing, but this kind of behavior should not be normalized. I still remember when Howard Dean lost his bid to be a presidential candidate because he got too excited during a speech.






  • There should be no need for this to exist. The internet has been around for long enough without age verification that it doesn’t need to be added now.

    That being said, this is the lesser of the two evils, I think. If your age data exists at the device-level and can send an authorization to a service that says “This user is an adult” without needing to send them any additional identification, that would be better than needing to trust some nebulous cloud service with identifiable information tying your personal identity to your online habits.



  • GodorttoProgrammer Humor@programming.devbackups
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    10 days ago

    I’ve had an IT Career for about as long as you. I’ve had 2 memorable restore failures and got real lucky both times.

    The first was a ransomware incident, and the onsite backup was not hit, but it was corrupt. Thankfully, the client had been using a 3-2-1 strategy, and the off-site one was fine.

    The second was a situation where a failed update rendered a client’s RDS unbootable. This time, they didn’t have an on-site backup and the off-site one was corrupt. This time I happened to get immensely lucky in that there was no real data on that RDS, so I was able to spin up a fresh one, and install their LOB app and all was good.

    We now test that all backups are stable every 6 months.