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@emberquill@tech.lgbt

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Cloud Systems Engineer, hobbyist developer, gamer, anime enthusiast, and fanfiction author. My interests are many and varied, lol.

Fluid/Pansexual. Pronouns are whatever because I change genders more often than I change hats. I collect pronouns like they're achievements and I'm aiming for 100% completion.

Boost as you please, even if my poor inbox suffers.

#nobot #noindex #nobridge

Profile Pic Alt Text: cropped screenshot of my Guild Wars 2 character, a feminine Sylvari (basically a plant person) with pale green skin and glowing red facial markings on her brow, nose, and cheekbones, dark red leaves with glowing red tips for hair, and big purple eyes.

Header Alt Text: Photo of Denali Mountain in Alaska on a slightly hazy day, covered in snow.

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Joined November 04, 2022

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Anything goes. She/he/they/it/xe/ze/fae/etc.

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https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/37753233

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https://codeberg.org/emberquill

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

Replying to @emberquill@tech.lgbt

re: AI/LLMs, Mythos, work stuff, profanity Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

I was just told that we have 24 hours to reduce our count of critical CVEs to zero across every single server running on our network or in our cloud environments, company-wide. They don't care if the attack surface isn't exposed. They don't care if the code wasn't updated because the last update broke something. No exceptions. Drop everything else and only work on vulnerabilities, no matter what other deadlines might be missed. We're fucked. Someone's gonna get fired over this mess. All because the CIO fell for a goddamn AI marketing stunt.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

Replying to @emberquill@tech.lgbt

re: AI/LLMs, Mythos, work stuff, profanity Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

They "graciously" gave us until Monday. Which means a lot of people are going to be working all weekend. What an absolute shitshow.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

Replying to @livingshredder@furry.engineer

@livingshredder@furry.engineer For creating a bunch of portraits of different characters, maybe something like Picrew? Depends on whether you can find one with the right kind of style, I guess.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

One of my coworkers had jury duty a few weeks ago and I mentioned offhand that despite being well into my thirties, I've never had to do it.

Anyway, I got a summons today for jury duty in August. Next time I'll keep my mouth shut.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

RE: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

You will never guess what the real problem was. I'm still not sure I completely believe it.

It was the mouse.

My mouse, or more likely the little wireless USB dongle that it connects to, has been repeatedly crashing my whole computer since December.

I solved my problem a few hours ago by switching to a spare mouse but I'm still angry because this was so ridiculous. I was moments away from giving up entirely and buying a whole new computer and I would have had the same problem because I never would've suspected the mouse. If I'd gone through with that only to see the new computer start crashing too I think I would have actually screamed and thrown both PCs out my window.

I hate technology.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

Found another old hard drive I'd forgotten about today. This keeps happening. The sheer number of old drives and USB sticks I've found stashed throughout my home is becoming absurd. To the point where I could swear I've found every stray byte of storage I have, only to pull an old box of keepsakes out of the closet and find yet another hard drive stuffed behind it, storing some old junk from college that wasn't worth keeping anyway.

I always pull out a drive when replacing it with a better one and say "I'll back it up and wipe it when I have a chance," and then it disappears into the void for the next 5-10 years.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

I don't get it. I installed a new SSD. Installed Linux from scratch on the new SSD. Copied some files from the old, dying SSD to the new one but just documents and pictures and stuff. Basically started over.

The EXACT SAME btrfs errors I was getting before are happening again. It's not even the same brand of SSD. It's not even the same factory that made the silicon on my new SSD!

Is my computer haunted? Seriously, what the actual hell is going on here?! Drive randomly flips to read-only and then my whole system gradually dies, usually starting with the taskbar disappearing, then different windows, then Plasma dies all together, drops me to the tty, where I get to watch a couple btrfs errors pop up before the whole thing shuts down.

Boot it up again, the last several minutes are missing from the journal so I have no logs of whatever the hell just happened, and the computer's back to normal again.

It's possessed, I tell you.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

Replying to @kasdeya@cryptid.cafe

@kasdeya@cryptid.cafe Wait, what? How? This sounds awesome! I'll have to check it out.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 39mo ago

Replying to @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org

@simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange "Meta has never, ever, ever prioritized the privacy and safety of users over profit at any point in their history and has frequently embraced new tech only to force people into their implementation and then cut off support for other implementations but I'm sure this time will be different!" /s

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 26mo ago

Replying to @Mae@is.badat.dev

@Mae Apparently all subnets are /24. No exceptions.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 37mo ago

Replying to @TonyJWells@mastodon.social

@TonyJWells@mastodon.social @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk anyone who thinks they can win a fight against a goose has never actually seen a goose in real life.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 39mo ago

Replying to @trekman10@union.place

@trekman10@union.place @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange There are many things they could do. Most of them would immediately out them as trying to kill or seriously twist the Fediverse but I'm always suspicious of large companies entering environments where there doesn't seem to be a market for them. After all, how does Meta plan to profit from entering the Fediverse? Until I know the answer to that question, I'm suspicious by default. They're developing their own application, not just a Meta-branded Mastodon instance. They can inject all sorts of garbage into the federated timeline. They can decide not to allow federation for posts they don't like, or repeatedly boost posts they *do* like. They could use any username on their instance or create new ones on the fly to circumvent user-level blocking. They could send out ads disguised as posts from users you follow. A lot of the way Fediverse servers behave is based on trust in admins and an agreement to not abuse the system. I don't *trust* Meta.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 39mo ago

Replying to @trekman10@union.place

@trekman10@union.place @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange Perhaps, but you're underestimating what can be done within the standards of ActivityPub without the constraints of a specific implementation like Mastodon. I already know of at least a couple ways they could justify (or even try to hide) pushing ads to other instances. When you own the whole instance, evading anything short of a site-wide block would be easy. Disguising ads as posts wouldn't be hard either. Hiding those ads from people you don't want to see them, even the user that you sent the ad from, wouldn't be terribly difficult. I know it all sounds like doomsaying and "what ifs" but at this point I'm not willing to give any Big Social company the benefit of the doubt. They've repeatedly and consistently shown a willingness to screw over their users to benefit shareholders, and when they federate with the wider Fediverse, we all become their users, whether we like it or not.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

Pretty sure my motherboard is failing. I've posted about fans and GPU issues and SSD issues and other stuff over the past several months but I think I've finally narrowed it down to a faulty motherboard, because otherwise literally everything else in my PC would be falling apart and it just doesn't make sense.

I am going to throw my computer into the fires of Mount Doom and sail off to the Undying Lands. I am so done with this crap.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

Never let it be said that I have a good memory.

My right hand was hurting a bit today. I broke one of the bones in my hand 15 years ago and the pain was in about the same place. I was getting a little worried that I'd aggravated the old injury or something.

Four hours later, I remembered that the bone I broke was in my left hand.

Anyway I think I just strained the tendon a bit.

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 36mo ago

Replying to @itsOasus@pawb.fun

@itsOasus@pawb.fun what is it about War Thunder that draws people to leak military secrets? I mean, I understand the general motivation but why is it always War Thunder instead of, say, Arma 3? Unless Arma had its own leaks that I just haven't heard about...

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emberquill :v_gf: @emberquill@tech.lgbt

· 39mo ago

Replying to @trekman10@union.place

@trekman10@union.place @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange Defederating doesn't prevent Meta from reading data, however federation does open up additional avenues for Meta to violate privacy and online safety beyond just reading our data. Serving targeted ads to people who don't even use their website, for example. Enabling stalking and harassment and all the other nasty behaviors that instance moderators try to prevent, because let's face it: we already know their moderation will be inadequate. And so on.

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