tony

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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Their servers aren't terrible, but they check at boot for HP memory and HP hard drives.. all at a significant markup. We ditched HP kit completely due to that.. just upgrading a set of hard drives was going to cost four times the going rate for 3rd party.

HP printers used to be the gold standard back in the day.. a laserjet would 'just work' and often not even need drivers, was nicely servicable too.. then they went to shit, and nobody with any sense would touch them these days.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 1 year ago

4 repairable, one broken, 2 milion glued shut.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 10 points 1 year ago

Use ddrescue.. but if there are lots of errors what you get back might not be that useful. Once you have a full image mount it loopback (losetup -Pf) and get the files that way.

Don't try to mount the ssd directly as you can make things worse if the OS tries to write to it.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 1 year ago

They specifically say the high vulnerability one affects the command line tool, not just the library. High implies privilege escalation.. I'm wondering how at this point because it's not setuid and there's really no reason opening a TCP socket could cause it (and if it does, that's a kernel error not curl).

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So don't announce anything.. keep it quiet until the fixes are ready.

Now potential hackers know there's a flaw there and will be looking for it, and they have clear space to do so before anyone can fix it.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I answered the 'why do you want this job' question with 'I'm unemployed and need money', rather than lying about some lifelong ambition to work for a small software company in bumfuck nowhere. Got me the job.

Of course it depends on the interviewer, but TBH I'd rather work for one that values honesty anyway.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yup qualifications are only one of the things we look at, and it's way down the list. which college.. who cares?

Show us an active github page, boast about how you installed lemmy whilst fighting off a herd of wildebeast... top of the list.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 6 points 1 year ago

After thinking about it that's exactly what they're doing.

They sold tickets at $700 each to loads of men. So loads of men turned up.

What did they expect to happen. They knew in advance how many tickets they'd sold and to who.. and nobody raised any flags. A few % lying about gender (if they did, gender is complex) wouldn't tip the scales that much.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'd rather they didn't announce it existed before announcing what it is.. now we've got to sit around for a week potentially knowing the curl command could give someone root access or something.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 2 points 1 year ago

"If you ever use containers to self-host, do you prefer manual or automatic updates?" "Yes"

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Removing subsidies is a start.. they've never made any sense. If a company can't make money selling fuel then they must be the most incompetent company on earth.

This is just posturing for COP28 though.. makes good headlines but won't happen.. lots of countries talk tough before COP so they can claim it wasn't their fault when nothing is decided, again.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. Mostly you run around collect business cards and then go online to apply for the jobs.. that you could have done without going to the job fair in the first place.

TBH It's a huge red flag if a recruiter wants upfront payment with no guarantee at the end of it (or even if they 'guarantee' one). If the recruiters are so desperate for someone they want to organise a job fair, they can bloody well pay for it themselves.

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