WapsMar 19
Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116161830981397350

hey so

what DOB do you put on service accounts

Mar 19 at 8:35pmWeb
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19
codebase is only three days old, so clearly it's under 18.
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19
POSIX does not have a meaningful way to differentiate between an account used by a human and an account used by a daemon or service; the spec does not include this because nobody with half a brain thinks that this is remotely a suitable idea.
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19

If you want to keep your children safe from inappropriate content, we have a tool for that.

It's called -supervising your children's use of computing devices-.

Show threadVarxMar 19
@munin I dunno... The idea of only authorizing daemons that have 18yrs of continuous uptime without crashing sounds pretty tempting now a days....
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19

@varx

That indicates that the system has not been taken down for proper maintenance for well beyond an appropriate time period, and kernel patches have not been applied.

I know you're being facetious, but godsdamn that workflow is quite thoroughly noncompliant and would actively piss me off if I saw it IRL.

Show threadVarxMar 19
@munin oh no... This joke just lead me down a new thought.... There's not a carve out for things like FreeRTOS or custom yocto builds is there? So like... Any medical device or other OT that lets a user create an account and connects to the internet needs to ask and report their age too? Looool what a cluster.
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19

@varx

Children have insulin pumps too.

Show threadelridoMar 19
@munin Informally, any UID < 500 is likely a service account. Or just use nobody for everything 
Show threadnyanbinaryMar 19
@munin age of the org/business unit?
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 19

@nyanbinary

so startups can't do business with anything adult-oriented, huh.

Show threadJeff AtwoodMar 19
@munin my age is old enough to know better than to put my ACTUAL birthdate in ANY system. Also my area code is 90210
Show threadStéphane Charette 🇨🇦Mar 20

@codinghorror @munin I assume you mean zip code?

All of us throughout the world learned in the 1980s and 1990s about "90210". We use it all the time when a web site asks for any sort of verification that we're in the U.S.

Ironically, that zip code might be a tell for our age! It means we were teenagers in the late 80s and 90s. Some zip codes indicate wealth, but that one could reasonably be used to identify Gen-X.

Show threadjavensbukanMar 20
@charette @codinghorror @munin Omg I also did that. US service asking for a zip code? 90210!!