A Game of Crohn’s

@rtswiz
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Back on my bullshit. 
Sysadmin, aviation nerd, occasional gamer, film fanatic.
LocationCorn Country
concord hotel, kiamesha lake, new york, 1978
I hate when I get a little distracted and forget to do anything for many years

I uploaded a copy of the whistleblower complaint for easier reading. Didn't have "uploads entire Social Security database to AWS" on my bingo card this year, but here we are.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26074874-charles-borges-ssa-disclosure/

Charles Borges SSA Disclosure

It’s been a bit of a rough year, but on the plus side I’ve probably built my system administration skills in the last 6 months more than I have in the last few years. I’m hoping that’ll translate to a decent career despite the market conditions.
I might get hammered for this but I think there’s a theoretical situation in which generative AI is helpful to society, and folks in general. The problem is we’re so far away from having the correct conditions to implement it. As it stands every job lost is a huge pain point since basic quality of life is fully tied to employment stability, at least in the US.

New: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found.

Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post&utm_content=8-20

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

ProPublica
I know a lot of people have negative opinions about Firefox, but I'll miss it if it ever goes away.
I’ve never been much of a fan of thunderstorms.
Intel laid off several employees who were key maintainers of Linux kernel drivers. As a result, many drivers, including those for CPU temperature and the Slim Bootloader, are now "Orphaned" and lack anyone to maintain them https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Orphans-Maintainers
Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring

Debian Linux version 13 has been officially released. Let the celebration begun ...

https://micronews.debian.org/

Debian micronews