@alan @diazona @qgustavor @SecureOwl Some systems might require uniqueness per account, so deleteduser4738@ourdomain.org, deleteduser4739@ourdomain.org, etc.
Of course, when your org gets bought or undergoes corporate renaming, all bets are off anyway.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Apr 14, 2026
@regehr Assuming that the latter will avoid The OOM Killer. Otherwise it would end up being an expensive version of an infinite loop.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Apr 14, 2026
@wordshaper @cwebber They don't need to. Their age-old "how much revenue did you make last year? That will do nicely" ploy will still work in the agentic era.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Apr 06, 2026
@xgranade and we've been working on it with digital logic for over 70 years already. Still haven't got it right, or even vaguely close.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Mar 24, 2026
@SteveRudolfi 'The leap from "the link can appear in a sponsored content item" to "you could be billed for clicks to a page you didn’t create" seems like a radical shift in the way the internet works'
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Mar 18, 2026
@iFixit The upper one appears to have a different-size tiny SMD component near the far left side, and an additional tiny SMD component just above the right-hand side of the USB-C connector.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Mar 02, 2026
Gold.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Feb 07, 2026
@kirb And also that the high-ups at large companies, cannot be trusted *at all*.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Jan 03, 2023
@juandesant @Di4na @foosel Might be arduous ir tricky for recipients to check, when you are writing portable software eg: automated build with (say) the last 5 versions of 12 compilers across 15 platform types, that may result in several hundred different current 'build results', in terms of sets of executable binary blobs, from a single version of the source.
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Dec 19, 2022
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Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
Mike Spooner
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
oldbytes.space
@shelldozer@oldbytes.space
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Nov 15, 2022
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