POPs has a place as a protocol, even today. IMAPs is the norm but the right job needs the right tool.

MAPI is trash.

If we had everything in ansible it would be 5 minutes

Ansible at the day-job takes about 45 min to do a patch. As someone who’s used a fair number of alternatives, maybe consider anything else on the planet?

But, seriously. The response to this particular sploit wasn’t really “config management”-y. It was a simple process that cron generally handled anyway, and network segregation and firewalling allowed us to prioritize easily. My worry is that there are some core architectural decisions you may need to revisit in the post-mortem on this, because there may be some fundamental changes required to get sensible wins in the future.

(If you’re on containers, I weep for your validation challenges; also, get bazel)

rebuilding internet facing servers

Because of one vulnerability?

Jebus. Response at one site was a 10-minute thing and then letting cron do the work.

Where the hell is your D-R? I worry you’ve made some very non-optimal decisions in the past and are taking on way too much work now.

Jamie is a cool guy. He’s also super smart. But he’s not infallible, and so I must secure this and only run it from the internal admin network. Because that’s best-practice.

If you have to reach out to a screen to touch it, you’re at risk of developing Gorilla Arms, a RMI.

Laptops are hell on your spine. Seriously reconsider.

Ah! It’s a mixed drink and not like a Cherry Coke but wayyyy better. A dozen flavours of coke and a missing connector tripped me up.

Thanks for taking the time to explain what must’ve been So obvious for you!

Flatpak is opaque to system validation.

This is just slop on foolish.

You understand that, with a store-and-forward service, speed doesn’t mean a damned thing, right?

You DO get that … right?

It’s like gauging English spelling based on what’s popular on Youtube.

I have the usual - caffeine, fat snacks - but I’m a huge bag slut: I love a good bag or knapsack or carry-on.

Except I was raised poor, so I merely envy the hell outta them from afar.

Whisky Cola

What is this elixir you speak of?

Nothing deserves to be forgotten.

Counterpoint: I worked at SCO. The residual image from when SCO sued IBM for breach of source code contract, and the effects of IBM dumping money into PR - it created a propaganda news site! - to sling mud at SCO so by the time the case finally went to court there was no fair hearing possible, it’s something best forgotten. What I saw and experienced is far different from the ‘history’ recorded on wikipedia and in news archives, and it’s so absolutely false that ‘forgotten’ is the only peace we’ll get.

off course

Well, steer it back ON course!

If AI is what it takes to deliver a working FOSS Windows-like OS then I am not complaining.

Honestly, it could have less growing pains than systemd did – for example, you’ll notice how well LLMs talk as if they WANT to work with others, which is way ahead of Kay Sievers.

1. Anything Cavill wears; even the poofy Mission Impossible one. Honestly. I just wish I looked like that guy.
2. Heath ledger in “10 things” or “knights tale”; and not just because he smooched Julia styles or Shannyn Sossaman.
3. A nice part and the hair to pull the rest off. Like the dickhead on “that thing you do”.

I’ve started thinning, so a full head of hair is something I envy now.

Ideally those “independent thinkers” will take matters into their own hands and emigrate.

Flatlanders gonna flatland.

In fact,

A->B != B->A

and

a […] software

‘software’ does not get the ‘a’ indefinite article. It’s a mass/uncountable noun.

Viktor Alksnis met

Viktor Alksnis, met

a Putin-endorsed project

What a strange, and orthogonal idea.

I hear Putin breathes air too. What’s your plan for that?