Today in Dutch crime:
— There was a tax officer with legitimate access to a database of information on citizens, needed to do his job
— His lookups in the database increased an order of magnitude, often after work hours
— The people whose information he looked up were peculiarly likely to experience a mafia intimidation crime (such as fireworks-in-the-mail-slot) shortly afterwards
This is why thorough audit logs are such a crucial part of computer security. If your org handles sensitive personal information, you should be proactively looking for users with an unusually high number of accesses, or who are looking up celebrities, politicians or their own family and neighbors for no clear reason.
Finally. FINALLY. Defeated one of my nemesis boulders this evening, one that is well within my abilities until the last two moves which I just could not get. I’ve been trying this one for about a month now, and tonight I spotted the move I’ve been missing which makes it all fall into place.
This is why I enjoy climbing as a hobby, it’s exercise, but also it’s defeating little puzzles with grades attached to them. Basically catnip for my brain.
@dave my worst one of these was a recruiter saying “yes, 100% remote is fine” and then later finding what they meant was “you’ll have to commute in five days a week for the first month and then we might talk about reducing that”.
Your call is important to us. But not important enough for us to hire enough staff that it will be answered anytime soon, don’t get too full of yourself.
Once again woken up mad that we have made a world where the number one priority is that the money is happy
@Edent well that didn’t get properly attached to whatever I was replying to, and I can’t remember what it was now.
Suffice to say it was a hilarious response to… whatever it was.
@Ashedryden tuna mayo, pasta, a fried mix of mushrooms and green pepper.
@benc to shared branches, absolutely not. To a branch only that developer is working on, all day, every day. Anything for a useful commit history which tells a story rather than “fixed PR comments”.
We’re going to play test it on a small scale next week. No idea how it would work as video but it sounds very fun to just go and do for a day.
My brother and I nerd sniped each other and now we’re plotting a YouTube series which is a combination of Jet Lag and GeoGuessr called DashCam which we’ll probably never make, but I reckon it would be a banger if we did.
The BABY CHANGING STATION is where you can allocate ATTRIBUTE POINTS to raise your baby's ATTRIBUTES, and unlock SKILLS with SKILL POINTS. You can also replace your baby's EQUIPMENT.
Just saw the most egregious use of YouTube face in a thumbnail while browsing some Google Cloud documentation. Nobody needs to be doing that to themselves for a video entitled “Manage CAs with Terraform”, either I’m interested in that or I’m not, you’re not getting driveby views on that regardless of how excited you look about the prospect.
@mike @pikesley @Thebratdragon @anon_opin the right people just have to want it. After that it’s quite simple, the council buys some busses and starts running routes. For extra value the council says to the current operators they’re going to do so, and asks if those operators fancy selling their busses and cutting their losses before their routes are abandoned because they cost 10x as much and run worse.
@an0key I feel you there. Suspect it’s one of those things that’s mind blowing when you first hear about it and then after you’re just like “oh, they pulled the firmware” unless there’s some wild exploits to bypass secure boot or something.
@gothintheshell I bought the flat I’d been renting last year, which is both lovely (paying half as much as I was for a start), but there was never a space for ripping out all the landlord crap and replacing it because the place is already full of my stuff. Every now and then I wonder if a can of petrol and a zippo is the answer.
(To my insurer, should my flat suddenly by engulfed in flame, this is mostly a joke. I’m not seriously considering arson).
Everything may be shite but this will make you happy, albeit briefly.
Promise.
@pikesley if your going to search for stuff like that I suggest incognito mode rather than typing it into Mastodon.
@tdp_org I was discussing this with some people in the pub last night, it was about 50/50 whether we’d seen it. I haven’t but also don’t use YouTube for music, I wonder if this is a model just going “statistically people who like music go wild for this stuff”.
@grajohnt there’s something intensely sci-fi about wires that blink as signals go over them.
I’ve managed to lose an AirTag. I can say for certain it’s somewhere in my bag telling me the battery is low, but I’ve checked all the pockets and I can’t find the thing to change its battery.
@cmconseils I was with you right up until “you just have to do it”, I don’t know why you would say such things.