Tim W RESISTS

tim@union.place

I am an admin of The Union Place, and a proud AWU-CWA Local 9009 <a href="https://union.place/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Union</a> member.I'm a Staff SRE at Google, but all opinions are my own, and this account and instance are in no way sponsored by or associated with Google.I'm always open to answering questions, so just ask!<a href="https://union.place/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Labor</a> and <a href="https://union.place/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Union</a> Starter Pack: <a href="https://fedidevs.com/s/NTMy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://fedidevs.com/s/NTMy/<span class="in

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Post #3940077
Fuck that dude and his Meta spyglasses. #ESPvARG
Post #3747608
God Shave the King #NORvENG #WorldCup
Post #3745856
Should billionaires, as a concept, be allowed to exist? #EndBillionaires (To be clear, I mean "should a single person be allowed to have a personal wealth of $1B USD or more", not "should we actually literally kill them" or anything like that.) I'm genuinely curious if anyone who answers yes can convince me I'm wrong. Or if I can convince you you're wrong. Genuine discussion welcome! I'll post some of my thoughts / answers to arguments I've heard in r...
Post #3678913
@mrfoostang approximately all of them.
Post #3246714
@John change takes time. Giving up is the best way to fail.
Post #3246713
Ugh, something is freaking eating my lunch with network costs for media from Mastodon. And GCP media hosting via cloud buckets doesn&#39;t seem to have any great ways to filter that / figure out if it&#39;s from AI scrapers or something else (and do anything about it if I could figure that out). Any #MastoAdmin folks fight with this already and have any suggestions?
Post #3246712
You&#39;ve got to be fucking kidding me, Google Cloud&#39;s Cloud Armor security policies won&#39;t do HTTP header based filtering on a GCS Cloud CDN bucket endpoint?
Post #3246711
RE: https://mastodon.vtip.me/@whatyoumissed/116591339161823730 If only Hochul was begging the LIRR to offer a meaningful deal to the unions. #strike #UnionStrong #CollectivePower
Post #3246710
Gee, thanks for that stunning insight, GCP Billing AI.
Post #3246709
RE: https://union.place/@autogestion/116580207672968696 &quot;We are...&quot; &quot;Fighting back!&quot; #UnionStrong
Post #3246708
I guess gas prices that start with a &quot;1&quot; are over until they add another digit before the decimal or change the units, huh?
Post #2500160
Okay I&#39;m starting to think that the Google Cloud console is in fact having an as-yet-undetected/reported outage.
Post #2500159
Current status: IDGAF.
Post #2500158
RE: https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/116484579333805424 Such absurd virtue-signalling. Let&#39;s work on problems Boston actually has. Datacenters ain&#39;t one of them - the cost of land, and power, and water are all way too high for it to make any sense. Knock off the #NIMBY headline-chasing and spend time on our actual problems like drugs, and terrible bike infrastructure, and y&#39;know, the housing crisis?
Post #2500157
Howdy #UnionPlace! Monthly hosting costs have bloomed a bit over the past few months, from under $500/mo to over $650 this month. I&#39;m taking a look at where we can cut back, but just a reminder that union.place is run by Labor Union Networking Inc, a US non-profit whose main funder is yours truly, and any donations you can make are greatly appreciated! https://www.laborunionnetworking.org/donate has the details of how you can donate, lots of options available! Thank you for your support...
Post #2170269
How did I only learn about #Tailscale yesterday? WHY HAVEN&#39;T YOU ALL TOLD ME ABOUT IT?!? To be fair I HAD heard about it, I just hadn&#39;t actually had a use case for it, or at least, hadn&#39;t REALIZED I had a use case for it. Which I did. I can now access my building&#39;s Building Management System (BMS) without having to go up to the crappy laptop on the fourth floor. If I really want to I can probably even set up remote desktop so I can use the desktop version, not j...
Post #1709422
Wow, the Google Cloud console is either very badly broken or just has terrible resiliency to a bad filtering proxy (I suspect the latter more so than the former).
Post #1458049
The &quot;logic&quot; of blocking content from being archived on the Wayback Machine to prevent it being used for AI training blows my mind. Locks only keep the honest people out. In this case, all you&#39;re doing is restricting access for quite probably the best, and possibly the only, long-term durable archive of the Internet. The downsides for society are countless. Breathless headline, but good piece, from Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archivin...
Post #1458048
Fellow #MastoAdmin people: if you need to track down all users invited by a particular user, here&#39;s an SQL query (disclosure: generated by Gemini, vetted and validated by me): see next post.
Post #1384511
Check your servers for a user named &#39;aarohi&#39; with no or few posts, and any posts they do have are clearly generated nonsense. They probably invited a bunch of acconts after using a plausible &quot;reason for joining&quot;, and then those accounts are spreading pro-Russia propaganda. Check recent IFTAS alerts regarding the scheme in general. See my thread for a Mastodon database query to track their invitees: https://union.place/@tim/116426691453325273 #FediBlock #MastoA...
Post #1116401
We&#39;ve started listening to Sir Tim Berners-Lee&#39;s &quot;This is For Everyone&quot; on audiobook in the car and it&#39;s very good. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the history of the Web.
Post #1116400
Wow, I am surprised, TurboScum actually still honored my $150 flat rate even though I had to wait until after 3/31 to actually have their expert file for me because &lt;stupid prior year amendment reasons&gt;. I really figured that the whole $150 no add-ons for all tax situations, any number of states, had to be a scam. But I guess it is, still - a scam to put independent tax preparers out of business. My &quot;list price&quot; was over $1000 in the end.
Post #1116399
RE: https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/116354584553084641 I&#39;m not sure that counts as weird. TOO COVENTIONAL!
Post #1116398
&quot;Email: t****e@g***l.c*m.&quot; Way to make my email sound really dirty, random unsubscription page...
Post #830879
The Eiffel Tower begins. #Lego
Post #830878
@HopelessDemigod I don&#39;t know, I&#39;ve been told I REALLY suck...
Post #830877
RE: https://mas.to/@mcpinson/116230385475314543 #EatTheRich #EndBillionaires
Post #830876
Hmm, I probably didn&#39;t really need to rebuild my postgres indexes after a pg_repack, did I?
Post #830875
Man, wtf is Postgres and/or Mastodon doing with this database that I have hourly snapshot deltas of like 10+GiB every hour? #MastoAdmin
Post #830874
Dear so many websites: no, I don&#39;t want you to email me a code to login. I HAVE A FUCKING PASSWORD MANAGER. LET ME USE MY PASSWORD. I would also accept a passkey. But not this fucking &quot;we&#39;ll email you six digits like that&#39;s not easy to brute force&quot; bullshit.