The world is just too terrible right now for April Fool’s pranks.

The level of anxiety and distress over real things really happening is too high and too diverse in its sources to allow anything to really be funny if it is close enough to be true to be at all funny.

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Every now and then I get a glimpse into the thoughts of a delusional person who believes that they are a “Targeted Individual” with a personal “APT” that has been playing weird pranks “hacking” their devices for many years, usually with effects on email…

There are entirely distinct interpretations of our reputed shared reality. Don’t assume others share yours.

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gender and orientation label gatekeeping is almost as bad as the tiny number of horrible humans who provide it justification.

If you've ever suggested that casually calling oneself ”bisexual" is intrinsically enby-phobic, please volunteer to pilot the next solar probe. Not everyone is as carefully precise in discussing the nuances of their sexual desires with near-strangers as you, Jan...

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Always funny to see someone try RFC-lawyering and getting called on it by the author of the specific RFC .

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Having a quiet bit of blinding rage at the diverse vectors of naive stupidity demonstrated intersectionally by this morning’s work.

Although I’m not displeased that the Boss had me just power down that VM until the customer can pick a process that they are willing and able to actually implement...

(#PSA: If you don’t plan on READING feedback, DO NOT have a “Feedback" form on your website sending mail anywhere.)

#Sysadminnery
#Email
#InfoSec
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#PSA: if you try to use Accessory A with Software B and the authors of Software B insist that what Accessory A is doing with their data is broken by design and will cause unsolvable failures, it is not useful to continue to harangue those authors to help you solve the failure that you are inflicting on yourself. Especially when the conflict between A and B has been well-documented in public as intractable for 15 years.

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Ever have one of those days where every item on the to-do list involves doing work which you know will ultimately disappoint the requester of the work, because they clearly don’t understand their own needs but demand specific deliverables that they think they want but which will absolutely not satisfy them?

#Sysadminnery
#SubberThanSubToot
#IWillGiveYouThatZipFileButYouWillNotLikeIt
#IfYouInsistOnRunningStrangeVBAMacrosTheCleanupIsTimeAndAHalfNotPartOfRoutineSupport
#InfoSec

#ProTip: Never insert yourself into a discussion amongst those who are arguing about how to make reality fit their shared {Libertarian,Christian,Marxist} “principles” rather than admit that their system of principles may not provide a positive or even clear resolution to every circumstance (UNLESS you share their Faith, in which case you deserve your fate.)

I broke that habit about a decade ago and never regret it. Let the wrong people fight each other in their wrongness.

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