Cody Sparks

Radical #Leftist, #Hippie, #AntiCapitalist, #SolarPunk and happy parent of a couple of wild children.

Avid #Reader of anything weird and fun, with a slight lean towards #SciFi and #Fantasy #Books. #Neurodivergent several different ways. I'm not too bad at pool (#Billiards) and #Bowling, but haven't had time to enjoy either in several years.

As for work, I'm a computer generalist -- equal parts #Sysadmin, #NetworkAdmin, #CyberSecurity and #NetworkSecurity engineer and a dabbling novice #Coder. Have been working as a senior engineer at a small #MSP for several years, necessitating the wearing of many hats.

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David Brownmanxavdid
2024-12-04

Here's my writeup for day 4: advent-of-code.xavd.id/writeup

My existing `neighbors` helper came in clutch today! Really shows the value in a good helper function.

2024-12-04

I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4

2024-12-03

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

2024-12-01

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

2024-11-24

@jsmall that like a 1 in a million chance!

2024-11-21

@Remittancegirl @hannu_ikonen ok, I think I misinterpreted that🤣

2024-11-21

@Remittancegirl @hannu_ikonen wait, I get why we blame Clinton, but are we blaming Obama for being black?!?

2024-11-16

@CrebboElodie it makes sense when you realize English is really three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one language. Bits of German, Latin, and Greek all mixed together to make up most of the words and rules with a bunch of bonus loan-words from other languages. And the rules are pretty loosey-goosey. So cactus (Latin) can be pluralized with an -i ending as cacti, but not octopus (Greek), but we still do it anyway sometimes and say octopi. And it is also still acceptable to pluralize them both with default English pluralization (cactuses and octopuses).

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Joyce Lionaronsjoyce@hcommons.social
2024-11-10
If You Force Me to be Your Property
I Will Become a Wood Chipper
Leslie J. Anderson

I've been many things in my life --
a scholar, a mother, a laborer, a love,

a singer of songs that are mostly puns,
a dancer with my dogs in the living room,

but if you force me to be an object
I will become very sharp --
A blender. A garbage disposal.

Arsenic served our ancestors well
but have you considered
that we are being threatened
with the room where the knives live?

Someone once told me
the best poems are threats.
Well,
so am I.
Cody Sparks boosted:
2024-11-09

Some thoughts on being embarrassed.

2024-11-09

@arielkroon @RyanChartier the thing I like most about these #jekyll and similar #staticsite generators is that they tend to produce beautiful results. I love your site design/layout!

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2024-11-09

Finally finished switching my blog to #jekyll, which is super light, #EnergyEfficient (and thus more #EnvironmentallyFriendly), and lets me get into the back-end nitty-gritties armed only with a vague notion of #HTML coding from teenage years spent on #LiveJournal. Major props to @RyanChartier for enabling me; if you ask him very nicely, he might help you make a simple, lean #webpage, too. (seriously, give him a shout if you're interested)

arielkroon.ca/

2024-11-07

@RyeNCode make sure the solar quote includes a whole-house battery. Most power grids require the system to shut off your solar generation if the power goes out, so you aren't energizing the grid while workers are trying to repair it. A battery in between the grid and your solar allows your solar to keep operating when the grid is down.

2024-11-07

@outofcontrol ugh. My fedi pet peeve is when users think they're being clever by using alternate words instead of the politicians' actual names that we may have blocked like "tfg" or "orange man", or words like 'nem', 'unalived', etc.

I get that we used those terms on other platforms to circumvent automated algorithms, but you're just being a bad community member when you do it to circumvent actual people's manually-defined filters.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦outofcontrol@phpc.social
2024-11-07

…and a new round of unfollowing people who never use tags for certain stressful topics (politics anyone?) :(

My blocking does try to block on sensitive words too, but people don’t always use the trigger words in their posts.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2024-11-07

Every time policymakers or private companies tried to undermine your rights online during the last Trump administration, we were there. In preparation for the next four years, here’s just some of the groundwork we’ve already laid: eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024

Cody Sparks boosted:
2024-11-07

Play a #game and learn #Rust oort.rs/ I have not dared to try this beyond some initial levels.

2024-11-07

@edwardk I feel anti-virus companies share at least part of the blame here. They've been flagging our software cracks and key gens as infected for decades. They've trained us to ignore and bypass those warnings even when they do detect something. 💩

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Em :official_verified:Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
2024-11-07

In the weeks to come,
protecting your communications and online activities might become increasingly important 🔒

Remember that complete anonymity online is difficult to achieve,

But here are a few tools
you can start using *right now* to greatly improve your protections and data privacy online:

📶 VPN (Proton VPN): protonvpn.com/

:blocky_white_cursor: Browser - Day-to-Day (LibreWolf): librewolf.net/installation/

:tor: Browser - Sensitive Activities (Tor): torproject.org/download/

:protonmail: Email (Proton Mail): proton.me/mail/pricing

📩 Throwaway Email Addresses (SimpleLogin): simplelogin.io/

:signal: Messaging & Audio/Video (Signal with username): signal.org/download/

📄 Shared Documentation (Anytype): download.anytype.io/

🔃 File Sharing (OnionShare): onionshare.org/

🗺️ Maps (OsmAnd): osmand.net/

✊ Activism & Groups (Mobilizon): joinmobilizon.org/en/

📆 Scheduling Meetups (Framadate): framadate.org/abc/en/

#Privacy #Safety #USpol #Activism

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Aspergerblues :verigold:Aspergerblues@mastodon.nu
2024-11-06

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