Last time I was tempted to use suid, it was in order to allow an application I’d written to listen on 80 and 443. Fortunately I found the capabilities way of doing that (setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' executable) and that was the first I ever heard of capabilities. I consider myself pretty Linux-savvy, but it was pretty recently that I learned about capabilities.

The only thing more subversive than silly hats is signing your Lemmy posts.

TootSweet

There’s no more today, there’s only now.

ChatGPT

Arm yourself with knowledge

Bruh

My favorite book ever. “Hackers” by Steven Levy. It really does a good job of giving you a sense of the early days of software development and the background behind/before the Free Software movement.

Woah, I thought I was in !weedtime@crazypeople.online for a minute there.

Reddit: “Nobody gets to secretly experiment on Reddit users with AI-generated comments but us!”

Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.

Yeah, it’s like prosecuting women for miscarriages. Oh wait.

I think you’re misunderstanding octopus_ink’s comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they’re just a Lemmy user hoping we don’t get flooded with 4chan assholes.

4chan and Jira too. It does seem like a lot of things have had outages lately.

I really can’t overstate how much respect I have for Kuhn and the SFC. If RMS and the FSF are the Free Software movement’s past, Kuhn and the SFC are it’s future, and I can’t imagine anyone better to carry that particular torch.

Why wasn’t I told that was an option sooner?

Whoever created YAML apparently thought Excel was a masterpiece of software design.

Damn. You’re tempting me to make a novelty language.

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

When and why did my head canon decide this creature speaks Japanese?

I’m not sure I’ve ever tried to do any write operations. I’m honestly not even sure the service behind that login page offers any write operations. I might have to check sometime. I’m curious.

Where I work, the infra folks are way overworked. Getting them to do things is impossible given their existing todo list. And when you do get them to do something (by throwing managers at them) they half-ass it.

(I’m not blaming them. I blame the managers. It is frustrating though. Anyway.)

And as a result, there’s one system that I use frequently that they set up, but cut corners and never hooked it up to our single sign-on solution. And so in order to get into this system, everyone has to use a shared username/password. “readonly:readonly”. And every time I log in, my browser nags me about the known weak password.

If Satan walked into the room you’re currently in right now and said “I’m here to collect your soul to torture for eternity as payment for the bigger dick I gave your great great great grandfather on this date in 1925 unless you can make me laugh in the next 30 seconds”, what would you do?