[-] ClumsyTomato 6 points 2 months ago

I worked for a loooong time in a medium size development company (about 200 developers, mostly doing large web portals). My team was some kind of central DevOps in charge of architectures, cloud, technology stacks... we were ALWAYS involved in EVERY deployment, and we were directly in full charge of the big ones.

After many years of constant work alongside the DEV/QA teams my team had gotten REALLY good doing deployments (we mostly sailed on each of them, since all was well tested, prepared and automated), and the project leaders simply trusted us. In the scarce occasions we said "sorry, this is not ready for prod" they knew it was true and didn't pressured us. And our customers were happy, since needing a rollback was EXTREMELY rare.

One of the most important things we managed to agreed with all the team leaders:

  1. Fridays are read only.
  2. No, that doesn't means we all can go home: Friday is now "Documentation Day".
  3. Of course, if shit hits the fan, we are ALWAYS ready to deploy fixes.

I think in about 10 years I only had one call on a weekend.

[-] ClumsyTomato 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Space(d) Billionaires" would be a great sci-fi series to binge watch.

[-] ClumsyTomato 4 points 5 months ago

The article states "this operation involved chips made to convert analog signals to digital". So not GPUs, or even CPUs, but specialized ADC (Analog-to-digital converter) chips.

[-] ClumsyTomato 3 points 7 months ago

I love that "door open" warning of my fridge, and I also like that I get a notification when the fridge unexpectedly disconnects from the network (which usually means that the power has gone out, so I can go and check before all my food has died).

Also, the notifications when then laundry machine finishes are handy (so I can unload it and avoid smelly clothes).

[-] ClumsyTomato 32 points 7 months ago

Just yesterday it requested me to verify my account (with a full UAC dialog) before opening the clock app. I guess it was trying to sync (?) the custom alarms/timers (??) between my devices (???) but... WTF, Microsoft.

[-] ClumsyTomato 9 points 9 months ago

I have a micro-bakery (I run it completely alone) where I make everything from scratch, and every day I get customers who enter and immediately leave disappointed because I only have 6 or 7 different breads at most, when the big-name franchise store in the main street has literally dozens of varieties. Once one woman asked me why I wasn't baking fresh baguettes every hour like them. I don't know, lady... maybe because my baguettes take more than 3 hours just to do the first proofing, while they simply have to put industrial made ones in the oven?

[-] ClumsyTomato 4 points 11 months ago

Sad news! A mythical character from my youth, I have enjoyed so much reading his books. Without doubt, he has been an inspiration for a whole generation of security professionals.

Fuck cancer.

[-] ClumsyTomato 3 points 11 months ago
[-] ClumsyTomato 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I use it quite often, but only recently began contributing. And as they (very) wisely say at the bottom of the wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions ):

WARNING: OpenStreetMap is highly addictive Take frequent breaks, there is a lot to be done.

[-] ClumsyTomato 3 points 1 year ago

Beautiful. Well done!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

25 years ago I fell in love with the M68k trainer board we used at the digital design classes. My teacher saw my enthusiasm for the elegance and simplicity of the architecture, and recommended me to find an ST to work with it, but all the available ones in my area were horribly out of reach for my meager economy at the time.

And... emulators are merely a placebo for the real drug.

I hope you are enjoying your beauty and may be able do for many more years. I am truly jealous and happy!!!

[-] ClumsyTomato 4 points 1 year ago

In my current case, because my local public transport service is not the most convenient.

I live in a medium sized city were we only have bus service. We have many lines covering "almost" all the city, but each of the lines only has a relatively small number of buses available. This causes long delays between arrivals and makes combinations very difficult when needing to use more than one line. Waiting times of 40 minutes in the bus stops are not uncommon. By car, it takes me 15 minutes to go anywhere.

Another issue is with pricing: in our case buying individual tickets VS a monthly pass only makes sense when you do more than 40 trips every month. It literally costs me more to use the bus than to pay for gas.

In the past I lived in much bigger cities with underground service and plenty of buses available, and I barely used the car, and didn't even considered the pricing.

[-] ClumsyTomato 6 points 1 year ago

Kepass (and Keepass2Android) + Nextcloud instances to keep sync and backups

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