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Lifetime catgirl, makes computers go beep, sometimes streams, and generally knows too much random stuff.
(Software dev, infra maintainer, admin of many places)
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IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github

the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it
Anyone ever think of a funny joke, a good domain for it, and then realise it's not worth ~$30/yr ?
Having to hold myself back so hard...
Re-inked. A bold portrait. I like the vintage look of this sepia ink <3

FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".

Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.

Sigh. Another door on questionable hinges.

Physical security and cryptography can learn from each other, part 11367:

Hotels wisely don't put the room number on guest keycards so if someone finds your card, they'd have to exhaustively search the hotel to find the room it opens.

Some hotels now have elevators programmed to only let you call the floor for which your keycard is coded, preventing guests from wandering to other floors.

But it also means the elevator can be used as an efficient oracle to determine the floor of a found key.

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.

My bank is changing names and I feel like I should request 5 identity documents and a name change certificate from deed poll before its permitted
Train of thought