Derek McEachern

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Worked in IT for the past 20+ years doing everything from application development to infrastructure architect. Interested in IT Security but it has never officially been my title.

Interests

#Linux | #Infosec | #OpenSource
#F1 | #FCBayern | #Everton | #BuffaloBills

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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

๐Ÿ‡ ๐ŸŽ ๐Ÿด

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Yes
No
Poll ends at .
@novet @cR0w That was my exact same thought....
@hal_pomeranz I have the same thing about my .vimrc file. I have it in GitHub so I can easily copy it down when needed

@hal_pomeranz I love the iso option for timestamps, I'll have to add that to my alias.

When I started out decades ago I used to have a very involved .kshrc with lots of aliases and shortcuts. As I've gotten older I've reduced that to only a couple since I got so frustrated with logging into new systems and not having any of my aliases and everything feeling so foreign.

@krypt3ia None of these mergers ever works out in favor of the users, we all know that.

I currently get HBO Max via a deal from AT&T because I have their fiber internet service. Wonder if that is going to last.

@mardor @micha @mcc thanks for this, I couldn't find it either
Out of these songs, which do you like most?
Son of a Preacher Man (Aretha Franklin) ๐Ÿ‘จ
38.1%
Oh Boy! (The Crickets) ๐Ÿฆ—
0%
American Woman (The Guess Who) ๐Ÿง”โ€โ™€๏ธ
28.6%
The Power Of Love (Huey Lewis & the News) ๐Ÿค—
33.3%
Poll ended at .

I'm curious about something. ๐Ÿค”

Does #Santa๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽ„go around your neighborhood on a fire truck with the sirens on๐Ÿš’right before #Christmas?

Is a #Philly area tradition or do other areas do this as well?

Poll Responses:

๐ŸŽ…- Yes.
25%
๐Ÿšซ- No, but I know about it the tradition.
8.3%
๐Ÿคท- No idea what this is.
62.5%
๐Ÿง - Just show me the results.
4.2%
Poll ended at .

I suspect that current unemployment numbers are missing something. The numbers don't seem to reflect the reality I'm seeing on here or on LinkedIn. The number of people looking is higher than I've seen in my career, but the official numbers aren't that bad (4.6% in the US). So let's run a little unscientific experiment.

If you work in tech, or something broadly tech-adjacent, please vote and boost for reach.

Unemployed
24.9%
Underemployed
12.4%
Employed
62.7%
Poll ended at .

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague it came up that they have never sat on a cow. Like, not even once in their childhood.

Another colleague listening in admitted they also have never sat on a cow.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a cow.

๐Ÿƒ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿฎ

Have you sat on a cow?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Yes
8.6%
No
91.4%
Poll ended at .