Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Is it Friday? It's Friday. Friday. Friday never changes. Friday changed. Did it? No.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lennart_poettering_leaves_red_hat/ I am experiencing that emotion of wanting to laugh but its not actually funny at all.

I wonder why I run to OpenBSD sometimes, like a sinner that has strayed far from the Church. Then I read things like this, and remember why.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/gtk_5_might_drop_x11/?td=rt-3a

I see Apple have expanded ifconfig in new and exciting ways (head smashing sound)

And also

This is normally a remote day for me so I don't get that holiday feeling. However everyone else is home and that's different. I am on the couch with my dog drinking my morning ☕️☕️ happy holidays if it is one in your part of the world.

I was playing with new firewall rules and managed to lock everyone, including myself out for the day. This was a great success, because I now know that particular rule doesn't fucking work

The Vader/Kenobi fight in the finale of Obi Wan is so good, and very similar to the Ahsoka scene in Rebels.

And you can have rules pinned to a service or executable, as well as a *nix like simple network rule. This allows flexibility, but also gets horribly complicated to understand just what the fuck is going on.

That said, there's something like six different entries for RDP connections, and you'll need to switch them *all* off to get your own rules in there. This is silly.

Some of it is part of the MS sausage machine, like all the WinRm shite and SMB (endless retching noises)

Fooling about with managing Windows Firewall with Powershell, and am discovering the usual 'Windows things', like by default there's 70 rules that are enabled that are a default allow. It's howling fucking madness.

Telegram Premium? I have no problem with developers getting paid well for good projects, but there's something a bit nause about these offerings. It smells of VC money and startup mentality, which is one of the worst excesses of modern tech.

She shrugs and says "I know. Can you get the data off it?"

I swear we deal with this kind of shit every day.

A user brings me an external HD. "I need the data off this" She announces. I plug it into one of our bench machines. "This is encrypted." I say.

The Mandalorian was very good, but this is just a cut above, even if it takes a very similar idea.