Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The Fedi has all seen Jack bigging up decentralisation, right?

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

Trying to get people to understand that a VPN doesn't do shit for things like photo metadata. I can't blame them, they're marketed as turnkeys that secure everything.

One thing I realized with that Parler dataviz: There's locations in Venezuela, Iran, and other spots with poor human rights. These people might not want to be found by state security apparatus.

Worth considering places outside of the US before you gleefully dunk on US users.

Never saw the video for this underrated Duran Duran single from their near-disappearance in 1990. Featuring Sterling Campbell on drums (Bowie, Cameo et al) and Tess Daly who apparently does not age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ihtEg_hWIM

Whoever said Die Hard was Alien from the POV of the Alien was bang on.

Watching 1985's 'Runaway Train'. It's not bad. Quite like the aesthetic. Lots of shouty overacting, such was the style of that decade.
@Dad

Yessss

I knew something was off when login took about 30 seconds because associated systemd events were failing each time. It had segfaulted and could not be restarted. You can't issue a 'shutdown -r now' because systemd controls that too. Nothing works but hitting the power button. It's ludicrous.

SystemD is completely fucked on my Mac mini media server install. It's just destroyed itself and rendered the OS unusable.

Microsoft own SwiftKey now? Wow.

Merry Christmas to all my fedi friends. Have a great day one and all.
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Aw mate, 98-99 was entirely unexceptional, and MTV was in the shitter after the 80s.

It is so weird looking at music video comments on YouTube. People are absolutely stuck in their time.

"They don't make music like this anymore" (1999 song)

"Back when MTV was GOOD" (2002 song)

It's fucking hilarious.

Might be a white Christmas... Kids are excited.

My eldest is sick and as he won't suffer in silence I've been ejected from bed so him and his brother can remain together. The things we do for family.

Best monolith meme

Sigh. Great work, all.

SolarWinds Orion got trojaned. Oh great.

"The SolarWinds vendor was breached resulting in the insertion of trojan code into the SolarWinds Orion Platform software builds for versions 2019.4 HF 5 and 2020.2 with no hotfix installed or 2020.2 HF 1. They were advised that this incident was likely the result of a highly sophisticated, targeted, and manual supply chain attack by an outside nation state, but we have not independently verified the identity of the attacker."