AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

Still down on my end. My company decided (against my strong opinion) to use the whole microslop suite for the whole company and it’s been a quite… uneventful day. I’ve spent my day reinstalling DarkOSRE on my R36S, trying some new ports and roms… In 18 minutes I end my shift and I’m out until Monday. Meanwhile our IT dept is less than happy with the situation and the real possibility of having to come to the office during the weekend because everything is down and you can’t trust the system to send an alert if something happens.

Next time we have a talk, I’m gonna ask how did the outage go on their end and if they are still so adamantly defending the goodness of microslop.

I’m sure this comes out as a surprise to a lot of people. Just… not to anyone with a couple working braincells.

No, I can’t. I can’t see the future. What I can tell you is why are they protesting: cost of living and salaries are not growing at the same rate. And that’s a matter that affects both left and right in the country.

Nah, the problem isn’t the PP winning. The problem is that they are winning needing Vox and also while radicalizing themselves to be closer to the far right so they stop bleeding votes to Vox.

I understand the strike is needed because there’s an affordability crisis going on and it’s really bad. I also understand that even the right is criticizing the strike because they know the strike is, especially, about them (in the form of regional governments).

But this is going to be pointless if in a month there’s a far right government that will make Meloni’s something desirable.

Not sure how many people understand just how dangerous the discount conquistador, also called fachascal will be if he ever gets in a position of power.

Trump is a symptom, not the problem. The issue is that right now, there is no guarantee the US won’t pick another batshit crazy fascist in 2028 or in 2032. You need a reform so profound that you might as well call it refoundation. And I don’t see that happening when almost half your electorate is still voting for these republicans (and those who didn’t would have voted for them if gas prices were decent).

I grew up in a quite rural area, so Internet only arrived in the mid 90’s. I remember my first time on the internet was at my cousin’s house, asking him to download for me the Pokemon Blue rom to play on an emulator. It was available on a website called “la-pagina-de-jl-picard.com” and it had several game boy roms to download. I remember the day it was finally available (a saturday) I rode my bike from my house to my cousin’s (roughly 10km each way) with a couple 1.44 floppy disks to get both Blue and Red so me and my brother could play them. Coming back at home before lunch was a race against time because I was so hyped about this game. Good times…

On the other hand, we have been a bit better than the prior world police heavyweights (UK, Spain)

Have you? I’m not gonna say that the UK and Spain didn’t do awful things during their imperialist periods some centuries ago; because they did. And they were horrible.

But let’s not pretend you are better. You did have your genocide, in your own country. And you had slavery for a good while. And up until some decades ago, you were an appartheid state (and even if not so openly, you still are thanks to your pigs in uniform).

You’ve been involved directly and indirectly in who knows how many wars around the world, and staged coup in all continents; you meddle with every country you can (and are doing it with half the world right now trying to fund fascism worldwide).

You are not a bit better, you’re just doing as bad, just in a different way, adapted to the new times.

Nothing’s gonna change. For me to think things are starting to change, this had to be a blue supermajority. It wasn’t. It was a close call. Blue won, but it wasn’t a victory so big that they got a supermajority in both houses which means there’s a fucking huge portion of usians still believing in maga.

This means we might have a 2-year pause from the US of doing awful things (MIGHT), but there won’t be a guarantee in the next elections they choose again another pedohitler.

It takes years to build trust and only a moment to shatter it. This next two years will be key to see if you are starting to rebuild that trust, but unless you purge the present administration and set in place the foundations for this to never happen again, this will not be considered a good start; just a pause in your shitty dictatorship.

It wasn’t a flop, ok? Thanks to that half billion, the day after the elections Space X and Tesla lost roughly 100 billion in the market!

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-spacex-shares-drop-elon-musk-election-bet-backfires-2026-11

That is not a flop! It’s something way better.

“Vote as if I were in the ballot!” He said. And damn fuck if the people did.

Wow… where do I start?

If the department is that important, you pay people to have it manned 24/7. Yes, despite the cost, because it’s that important. Where I work, we have an NH3 cooling system and it is that important, so it’s manned 24/7 locally. But I digress…

You can collect that data locally, in a machine that is only reading the data (not writing it) and that then relays it to the outside through a VPN to which are connected only the relevant people. That way the machine is kept local, but gives your central the data it asks for. Again, no need for a freezer to be connected to the internet at all.

Then, to keep it local and safe, if you don’t want to pay someone 24/7 what you do is set a series of setpoints to trigger warnings and alarms that will notify your local team (which, even if it’s not 24/7, should be on call) to intervene in case of need. That way, if your freezer temps raise above the threshold, your local team will get a call automatically and act before even the central knows.

But ok, let’s say you, for some absurd reason, need to micromanage the freezers of the whole country from the central offices. If that’s the case, and I guess you have a good bunch of freezers to manage then, what you do first and foremost is creating a VPN to connect them all. And with that done, you allow access to it only to a controlled set of devices from which you can manage the freezers and that is separated from your administrative network to keep it safe.

And yes, all this costs money, but if you are big enough to be a target, you should be spending in security because the bigger you are, the bigger your loss when an attack happens. Looks to me that you’re just trying to save poor corporate some money by cutting corners when it comes to security and well… that’s a valid strategy… until you’re targeted.

Depends on the kind of conservation method they applied to the milk. Milk that was sterilized at lower temps is considered “fresh” and has to be kept refrigerated. Milk that has been pasteurized at higher temps is sterile and won’t cause bacteria to grow even if it’s kept at room temp.

This however changes when you open the milk and it enters in contact with microorganisms that are naturally present in the atmosphere and that can proliferate in the milk; to avoid this, you need to keep milk at fridge temps so bacteria won’t grow too fast (if you keep it open in the fridge for too long, bacteria will grow anyway and the milk will go spoiled).

Exactly why do you need to do this instead of just keeping everything out of the internet and then connecting through a vpn tunnel?

If you need to monitor these 24/7 for some reason, pay a department that works 24/7 locally. Otherwise is just half-assing solution that will end like this sooner than later.

No reason at all to connect any kind of sensitive machinery to the internet, especially if remote operation of it can cause harm or damages.

Oh shit! While you’re in, can you please check my email and maybe answer some so I don’t have to tomorrow?

Thanks in advance!

I work for the food industry, in automation. Our whole factory is connected. To the point that from my office, I can control most of the factory machines. From my office, from my laptop that needs to be connected through an ethernet cable to one of the tech network of the factory.

If I want to connect from another device, I need to set up a vpn with credentials and an authorised IP.

The only way to access our tech network from the outside is stealing my credentials and then ask some of my colleagues to authorise a device and IP for my credentials, something highly suspicious that would raise a lot of alarms.

I’m not going to say that a system like this is infallible but turns an attack like this extremely unlikely. This is how you should have your systems “connected”. Not through a login portal exposed to the damn internet.

You do that with your own internal network or, at max, with a vpn. You don’t need them to connect to the internet at all.

Reminds me of the first Nintendo Switch. That console got so many stability updates that could fit at least 100 horses.

If my productivity (and therefore my job) were measured not by results but by amount of tokens I use, you can bet I’m gonna burn tokens for absolutely everything during my work shift. Even if it’s just asking the chatbot what time is it every second.

Wait what? How? But wasn’t AI the thing to make business save tons of money by replacing workers with an almost free “artificial worker”??

Are you telling me that, as everyone and their mothers were saying, this was just a lie? Who could’ve thought?!

Usians: Yeah, but they give us oil, so they aren’t the bad guys. Iran on the other hand…