Good ol’ surveillance capitalism, agree the ship has sailed. Seems like its becoming harder to avoid all the little things that are constantly spying on us. Seems like 75% of my neighborhood have ring cameras.
Whatever happened to being able to egg someones house in peace. Feels bad for all those kiddos not getting to experience that.
Moto G Stylus (2021) user with no screen problems here. My only gripes is Motorolas shitty update policies and lack of custom rom support. Guess I can’t complain for a sub-$200 phone.
Non-developer searches seem to work Ok. I honestly havent tried that much. It seems like most the time I do engage with Phind its usually code related. Its become a pretty good utility for debugging.
Strip out any sensitive bits, paste it over asking the questions and or presenting the error while running usually results in figuring out my mistakes (or at least gets me closer).
Sadly no, just have the fireproof safes you can find at most big box stores.
I’ve patched on to Phind(phind.com) a bit more lately and for the first time in a while thought that i would absolutely pay for it if the service can remain the same.
I’m all for paying for services that make sense for the better of my own data. I’ve been running a SearXNG instance for a bit though. I’ll likely check out Kagi, as SearXNG hasn’t been too quick to return results.
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Not looking forward to resuming my debt payments. I’d imagine the larger consequence being a bigger hit on the economy as a whole.
We are about to see a drop in consumer spending, which being one of the core functions of how capitalism operates its not gonna bode well. Combine that aspect with inflation, layoffs and a housing crisis is not going to be a fun time for anyone.
Current have two Yubikeys for personal use. One is a backup and remains in a fireproof safe, while the other is on my most / all of the time via my keyring. Agree the individual side is a bit more complex.
For me I took the approach of not relying that much on cloud services and rolling a lot of it myself. My data then gets backed up to a backup repository via borgbase in the EU. Usually try to follow the 3,2,1 rule for backups. Three copies of your data on two different medias with one copy offsite (ok the two different medias thing i cheat a bit and have a couple extra disks).
The enterprise side we’ve talked about implementing Yubikeys in the org, but havent gotten all the buy in on that yet.
What’s funny working in the cybersecurity space is we’ve actually adopted Bitwarden I’m out org. Now, with that said to your point not all our eggs are in one basket.
Most of our auth (if not all) relies on another mechanism for authentication. Typically some other 2FA mechanism that isn’t stored in our org Bitwarden vault. We enforce that separation with the assumption that if our vault is compromised the core aspects of the business easily accessible isn’t necessary breached.
The break glass accounts / etc that are not protected by 2FA are 99% of the time locked down to only be able to use that use from very specific subnets and or source systems. The ones that are accessible outside (say a AWS account) is always locked down with a hardware key. This isn’t fool proof either as technically in a very targeted attack you could focus on the admin/IT user and work your way through their system. To your point…it’s Electron based, but we also found not offering it and making it easy for the typical user often led to even worse practices being adhered to.
We’ve embraced Bitwarden at this point pretty heavily, but at some point we will be rolling our own instance and migrating that way. This will allow a bit more separation and control for more of our break glass based accounts.
This actually hits home a bit. My wife and son both deal with severe depression (major depression disorder). It’s a challenge at times and can’t say I’m not impacted by the same.
I’m not Appalachian, but pretty close to that area (Southwest Ohio / Cincinnati).
I haven’t been able to solve my wife’s and sons issues (both do take medication). For myself though, I find limiting certain things do help. For instance…
#1: I’ve abandoned all/most forms of social media. The platforms I’m on I limit my time
#2: Having hobbies outside of tech helped balance some emotional states / burnout. Taking a interest in hiking and kayaking has been a great disconnect for me.
#3: Pay less attention to political dramas and other fear inducing platforms. I still check in on major things, but reducing this helped my anxiety and depression.
There’s no one size fits all for depression. Overall loving a healthy balanced life seems key…just easier said then done in today’s world.
Applaud the decision! Rust has been on my “to learn” list for a while, but wow, it does look frustrating at times from the outside looking in.
Personally, I still stand by my comments of I’d be glad to chip in some bones to help pay for the instance. I appreciate having the small curated community and in today’s bot filled social media generation that gets harder by the day.
Electromagnets actually seems like a pretty cool field to be involved with. Regular electrical engineering has never really been my forte, but always have had huge respect for the individuals in that field.
Atlanta I try and avoid like the plague when I can (only due to the traffic). Unfortunately they are not alone on not making the right decision decades ago. Numerous cities are paying for that today. Personally wish public transportation would get a bit better in other “majorish” cities.
That would have been awesome. My kids always want McDonald’s and we have a rule where we only go like once or twice a year. Needless to say that period was recently (mainly due to family craziness / scheduling).
The Grimace birthday shake…1/10 would not recommend. Like a watered down heavily food colored vanilla shake. Mistakes were made for sure.
Personally love the small community vibes. Locking down wouldn’t be a bad idea. I wouldn’t even mind chipping in funds (subscription cost) to pay for the VPS hosting.
They should have put some RGB lights and a massive heatsink for that photo op. Gotta at least sell that’s it’s not a Raspberry Pi quantum SoC haha.
Welcome! Nice to meet you!
What kind of engineer are you (out of curiosity). That’s a very diverse field.
I’ve been to Georgia once or twice, that Atlanta traffic though…
Going to be a really confusing and entertaining republican race. With a lot of the things going on it might be the downturn to that party in general. Sad though that Pence might be the most sane one in the mix so far? Never thought id say that… (also not republican myself)
MicroOS user here. Honestly I love the workflow of using distrobox for about everything I need.
Essentially I have distrobox images setup for specific development workflows. I just hop into the one that is suited for the task I’m doing. It automatically sets up icons in the Gnome menu if you don’t want to use the cli commands.
Between flatpaks and containers I couldn’t be happier with my setup. Combine that with the fact I can potentially trust the underlying OS to not crap the bed via updates (and when it does I can roll back my filesystem snapshots) is a win/win.
As someone who leads a team in tech this is maddening. There are days for me that I personally like being in the office, but tech 100% has no issues embracing remote work.
I’ve seen more leadership just not able to grasp the fact they have to embrace technology to communicate, as opposed to walking over to someone’s sunlight isolated desk cube.
^ Exactly this! Looking over the questions there’s a lot with impulse control. As someone with severe ADHD (inattentive) with a dash of ASD impulse control isn’t one of my strong features, which skews the results.
Agree, if you have doubts or issues that a qualified professional can help get to the bottom of it.