The reason I went from Helpdesk Engineer to Security Engineer is because a lot of it is a subset skillset, if you're trying to build truly resilient systems and ensure nobody fucking calls you with their problem because the issues never happened in the first place, because you designed for the worst possible scenario.

I didn't learn most of this stuff because I was responsible for Security. I learned because it was my job to clean it up, either per-machine or a whole-network compromise. And I really didn't want to do that.

If you’ve used Movetodon or other similar services to find your Twitter friends here, don’t forget to try them again occasionally. There’s still Twitter folks joining us

The pro-covid cult started with Republicans, but now it's basically everyone who (wrongly) imagines he/she isn't vulnerable. This now includes Democratic politicians who once said they cared about public health.

Their message to older and most vulnerable people (typically due to physical conditions they can't control) is simple: Shut up. We don't care about you -- at all. https://thegauntlet.substack.com/p/zero-masks-on-the-house-floor-is

@natecull oh I love this.
I remember assisting an older library patron and advised them to ‘just click…’ and they replied, l’m sorry dear, but what’s that?
(some years ago but still relevant I think)

Ah, still learning on the Mastodon journey... my login issues are due to trying to login to the wrong server... have to login to the server where your account is.
Pretty basic, but a trap for those used to other approaches.

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

@dctrjack Thanks! The reasons are not clear to me either - just did the obligatory search...and no success. thelizzies.com needs an about page! :)

Sounds a lot like #libraries to me, but social media too.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/18/h-g-wells-world-brain/

@dctrjack I love the frill necked lizard trophy! What was it for?

@stevesilberman it’s really fabulous. Thanks for posting it.

Love this photo of late #punk #fashion icon Vivienne Westwood protesting bee-killing pesticides at #10 Downing Street in 2013. RIP.

In 1968, they knew about their connection to #ClimateChange.

That year, the American Petroleum Institute received its commissioned report on the pollutants the industry was generating.

The report explained that #FossilFuel use released carbon buried for millennia and, if this continued, oceans would warm, ice caps would melt, and sea levels would rise.

“There seems to be no doubt that the potential damage to our environment could be severe,” it concluded.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-lawsuits-oil-industry-research

*Sheepish request* I'm new to Mastodon, but a lot of my former Twitter followers don't know I'm here yet. Someone suggested I could simply ask you fine people to boost me. Would you be so kind? (I promise to post a photo of my dog to say thanks). #WelcomeToMastodon

How books get scanned.

My dumbass always pictured an old librarian with gloves at the copy/scanning machining having to redo it over and over because it scanned crooked.

@joannaholman I did wonder if that was the issue. Just hoping I haven’t locked myself out with multiple login attempts. 🤞

For some bizarre reason I can’t logon to Mastodon on the web, but fortunately phone app is fine. 🤷‍♀️
Not receiving reset link either. 😔

New Book - The Great Polarization

How Ideas, Power, and Policies Drive Inequality

Edited by Rudiger L. von Arnim and Joseph E. Stiglitz

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-great-polarization/9780231199261

Well hello there aus.socialists. We seem to be at the beginning of another surge due to some shenanigans over on the :birdsite: known as #twitter.

For those of you who’ve been here since October, it’s time to step up and help the new wave. You’re old hands now. Answer calls for help, point people at #feditips and @AusSocialMods and gently suggest that they might like to offset @shlee’s costs here: https://www.patreon.com/shleeau

But be chill, they’re learning. You don’t need to message on behalf of the mods - reporting is better. The mods never sleep, we’ll respond quickly to abuse and bigotry and other TOS violations - see https://aus.social/about/ - the openly vicious kind, the crypto-Nazis, the polite I’m-not-racist-buts; the transphobes and misogynists - all that shit is still not welcome here. New wave or old school, if anyone is punching down or sealioning at you we will swing the ban hammer without fear.

There will be some temporary noise until people learn that they need to put hashtags and CWs on everything. Try to help people understand how much more important that is here without yelling at them ^_^

OK. We’ve got this.

@DLeeTalbot I loved seeing the Jeff Fatt episode of "Who do you think you are": Jeff spent time looking at family records in Ararat (not sure if it was the Historical society though).
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/who-do-you-think-you-are/season-12/who-do-you-think-you-are-s12-ep4/1907730499752