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Mistakes were made. Lessons (not) learned.

Distributed systems: previously databases, currently search, always service discovery.

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I guess it was get drunk and make decisions kind of day. Partner stopped me on the way to the garage and insisted I'd look dumb if I shaved entirely so I guess it could be worse

I know this is "benioff is a shitbag and idiot what'd you expect" but still  

https://fortune.com/2023/09/15/marc-benioff-salesforce-says-hes-remote-worker-office-return/amp/

i need somebody to give me a real-time feed of #airing-of-grievances, pretty please?

Marc Benioff drops a bomb after calling Salesforce workers back to their desks: ‘I don’t work well in an office—it just doesn’t work with my personality’

"I don’t work well in an office—it just doesn’t work with my personality," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a recent interview.

Fortune

oh lol. actually, there was this when I found out that moderation tools landed in slack.

Might actually be a tossup which was more rewarding.

I can't think of anything more cathartic than this

We had a few moving companies provide estimates. a) they were all expensive and b) they all said we could expect to fit into one of the 16ft PODs.

In any event this is a 26ft truck and that man can barely stand on the open space. We got **extremely** lucky that earlier today he happened to be doing a PDX->SF and convinced us to let him haul us north + cancel the POD. Very close to being turbo fucked today.

#movingday

finally caved and got a bluesky account. initial impressions leave me concerned but not surprised.

instantly feels like a more cohesive/lived-in/social space. community interaction seems to be less of a cannibalistic circlejerk.

it's possible to follow conversations and interest discoverability exists (c.f. screenshots vs https://staging.bsky.app/search?q=cello)

I'm going to be beyond angry if another fucking jack dorsey project succeeds

Bluesky

Lmao. so there are distinct benefits to having your infra distributed and run by random folks.

There are also some downsides that people like to just to pretend don't exist. "Some clown accidentally turning over all your presumed-private content over to the feds" has actually always been high on the list but it's still funny to see it written down.

Anyway, heads up if you communicate with anyone on kolektiva -- https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150

admin :heart_cyber: (@[email protected])

🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨 This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety! In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest. Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else. The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023: - User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc. - All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, *and direct ("DMs")*. - Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included. - A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password. 🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social *change their password immediately* to a new, unique, and strong password. We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing. We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed. Thank you for your understanding and solidarity :black_sparkling_heart: 👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇

kolektiva.social
Had to do self evals. It was more entertaining than usual.
this is a way better version of the joke than I was going to tell

this is before the first round of salvage; will post an after picture if I can get them working again.

would be significantly more optimistic if It wasn't up against the rush of trying to pack