An oldie but a goodie: The Case of the 500-Mile Email:
"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."
"What's the problem?" I asked.
"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. "Come again?"
"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."
Used my recovery day to do a little geek tinkering, and now my calendar and contact list are being served up to my phone via nextcloud rather than Google.
I like to post about this stuff not just because it interests me, but I feel like people need to hear that these sorts of privacy enhancing shenanigans are possible for less technical users.
I'm not an IT person. At best I'm an enthusiast that can read documentation. I got it done, maybe you can too.
The 2017 Mastodon Mini-Census is here!
It's only 10 questions, so it's nice and short :]
Please boost this so we can get as many responses as possible
The downside of using #Splunk all day every day at work: I now have a far larger desire to have a decent logging interface for my Mac at home. The console isn't bad, per se, I've just grown used to properly querying a metaphorical database.
It's a hard life, the life I lead. :single tear:
Have you ever actually *wanted* a gatekeeper for some disability or identity or similar, just so that you can finally feel secure in it?
I'm reading up on [some new neuroatypicality] that i might have-or-be, and I constantly worry that I'm not *enough*. Having a... maybe not a gatekeeper, but a border collie? This would be useful to me.
Ellie
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