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zygmyd

@zygmyd@toot.cat

Living and working in Toronto. Sysadmin (or whatever it's called this month). He/him.

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Joined January 29, 2025

zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@transform This tweaked a distant memory, I looked it up, and oh right, this is another offshoot of a Dianetics offshoot. The same Dianetics that was a fad in the early 1950s and a precursor to Scientology and also spawned all sorts of other movements besides. If you are interested in any kind of co-counselling please read first all that you can find about the promoting organizations and the techniques themselves. Do yourself a favour and approach this with a significant level of skepticism. There are many people promising to improve your life with their special techniques and none of them offer a high standard of reproducibility for any of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-counselling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics #CoCounselling #Anarchism

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@zzt Datacentre tech rushing back to the backpack lockers because the core switch just asked for age verification during the remote hands part of the total outage P1 incident.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 3mo ago

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@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io I am going to steal the heck out of this.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@zzt Learn the variations between basic regular expressions, extended regular expressions, and perl-compatible regular expressions.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@transform While appreciating your reply, it appears from the Wikipedia page that CCI broke off from RC which broke off from Dianetics. Co-counselling has its roots in Dianetics. I can't find anything which reports that any Dianetics-sourced techniques have achieved the same level of rigour that modern medicine has. I am referring to the transition in medicine from miasmas and humours to to the germ theory of disease and knowledge of the endocrine system, among other developments. Co-counselling deserves the same level of disbelief afforded to Dianetics. Given these two items, an increased level of scrutiny and skepticism is entirely appropriate for Co-counselling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-counselling

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 2mo ago

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@petrillic@hachyderm.io Don't forget the auditioning. If you do free labour for companies then you have shown that you are ideologically compatible with companies who like the outputs of free labour.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@draken @nixCraft Seconded, this is a valuable gold mine of who is trying to access which internet location and where they might be while doing it and what others are doing while there.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 4mo ago

Right then, who else is having a very #GitLab afternoon?

https://status.gitlab.com/

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work_items/22103

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work_items/22104

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

The upcoming grimness of an energy crisis right before we can all grab solar panels.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/armstrong-oil-strait-of-hormuz-9.7142143

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 4mo ago

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@Nonilex@masto.ai Not specifically advice but should you look into immigration consultants check their College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants membership. The industry is rife with scams. https://college-ic.ca/protecting-the-public/find-an-immigration-consultant

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 4mo ago

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@foolishowl@social.coop This thing where your volunteer work acts as your audition to get a high paying tech industry jobs probably doesn't help here. I've started pondering whether it actually helps distort the tech economy as well. https://landscape.cncf.io

CNCF Landscape

CNCF Landscape

The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape is intended as a map through the previously uncharted terrain of Cloud Native technologies. It attempts to categorize projects and products in the Cloud Native space.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 9mo ago

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@dahukanna@mastodon.social @benjamineskola@hachyderm.io @davidcelis@xoxo.zone This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@bstow @geekysteven This thread is why Americans are such fun toys online.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 9mo ago

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@haverholm Write HTML. HTML is still there. You don't need anything other than HTML to get started for a link-clicky formatted website. Heck, you could even upload .txt files and use direct urls if you felt like it.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@jameshowell@fediscience.org I already feel like I should start a binder of cheat sheets.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 8mo ago

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@theorangetheme @kevin Nice, the modern server stack finally accelerating to blockchain-like transaction speed.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@EndlessMason @zzt At least late-model grep has -P now.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 10mo ago

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@autism101@mstdn.social It is a very learnable skill to use a seam ripper to either remove the tag, or, if the tag is sewn right into a major seam, pare the tag fabric down until you can't feel it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_ripper

en.wikipedia.org

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@ginny@transister.social My attention went to the traditional value falling and nobody else in that crowd helping them up. Then also exactly none of them stepping two paces to the sides, that too.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

I piece of advice I have offered for newspaper (and now online media) readers is to consider all articles in light of how accurate that outlet is with articles in one's own specialty.

I think this same advice may hold for people claiming success with AI. However, I do not actually know how to evaluate this myself for areas not in my own specialty.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@baldur@toot.cafe I'm by no means as skilled in any of this as the people in this thread, but also I have never once seen a company succeed by solving individual problems through heroic operators working beyond the limits of their own capacity.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

J.K. Rowling as our current example of all billionaires being policy failures.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

A software/systems engineering question I'm still posing in my own head. Anybody have strong opinions either way?

The example situation is something like copying a docker container from a public repository to a private repository. There are existing broadly used binaries for this process (docker or podman or buildah). There are also libraries for programming languages that implement supersets of this process (python-docker in this example situation).

https://docker-py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

What sort of criteria would go into a decision to call the widely available binary from your script, versus use the library for your scripts programming language? How has that decision ended up when you have implemented something to handle this situation?

docker-py.readthedocs.io

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@swetland This would make an amazing LinkedIn post.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@snap2grid@mastodon.social We haven't been criticizing AI enough if he thinks of us as common legionnaires. I would have expected at least decanus status by now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion#Legionary_ranks

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 16mo ago

@Daojoan I will say that email platforms absolutely definitely throttled you but only in the same way that a human person was not allowed to stick a hundred thousand pieces of lettermail in the corner box.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 10mo ago

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@CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro I have occasionally thought that if USian Protestantism had saints then Fred Rogers would have already been well on the path to sainthood.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 7mo ago

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@sysadmin1138@ngmx.com Not for nothing have all the best teams I've been on had Opinions about office overhead lighting. (In one past company management pointed out they were getting questions about whether the company had enough money based on the missing lights in one part of the office. The difference was visible from the street. The reaction from sysadmins was so vociferous that management never mentioned it again.)

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 7mo ago

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@r3dr3clus3@infosec.exchange Good find, thank you. Definitely going to re-read work's social media policy to find out how much trouble I'll be in for reposting it on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7436040672094236672/

AI Boosts Engineering Speed, But at What Cost? | Imran Gardezi posted on the topic | LinkedIn

AI is making engineering teams faster. But faster does not mean better. When teams ship code they do not fully understand, technical debt compounds silently until the system breaks.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 7mo ago

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@aulia@mementomori.social She won't be wanting to do anything more or less than you did at that age. Apple falling not far from the tree and so forth. (I can't tell if I'm being cruel or kind by saying this, uh oh.)

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 12mo ago

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@hedders@mas.to Ouch, yes, damn, ouch.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 14mo ago

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@markwyner@mas.to Thank you for pointing that out. And this is me changing all opinions about GitLab and finding a new place to host my Shadowrun campaign docs. As to opinions, I deployed my first set of production Puppet-managed infrastructure from an internal GitLab instance (in 2014) and it worked just fine. And the company seemed weird with their location-based pay but it's their company so whatever. This squick overrides that for sure. Reference: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation/

handbook.gitlab.com

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 12mo ago

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@jakelazaroff@mastodon.social Thank you, very useful.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@grimalkina@mastodon.social There is a heck of lot of climbing people pulling up the ladder behind them in tech, yes.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@mjg59 It's interesting that the answer seems rarely along the lines of welcoming the new people and seeing what set of norms works for everybody.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

If there's anybody here who hasn't seen North Of North, you should.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/north-of-north-indigenous-music-9.7139893

https://gem.cbc.ca/north-of-north

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81616012

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@mosssupply This is what the internet is for.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 10mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@mcc@mastodon.social I don't think I have been to Union Station in quite some time. Is this the Lakeshore entrance to the bus terminal, do you think?

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 4mo ago

The CN Tower is participating in Doors Open and the CBC has an article with photos from non-public areas!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cn-tower-rare-tour-photos-doors-open-9.7198273

#Toronto #DoorsOpen

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@earthtoneone@mstdn.social Surprised he didn't have a bad office day someday.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

I made it nearly two weeks without stabbing/slicing/burning myself in the kitchen. Now I'm still oozing through two adhesive bandages from an unfortunate sieve encounter yesterday.

Did you know the sheet metal on the inner inside rim sometimes isn't folded back on those things? Now I know.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 9mo ago

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@oblomov @haverholm I'm presuming at this point that you mean something more complex than pasting a URL in a mastodon post, but it sounds like any of the other alternatives will be better at this than me. =D

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@zkat I vaguely recall people on single-user instances asking for boosts far and wide, something about getting data on their instances. I could well be misremembering this.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 4mo ago

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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Every wretched poxing suppurating time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@tlayoyo Oh HAH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98_(disambiguation)#Science,_technology_and_engineering

en.wikipedia.org

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

Once again America misses an opportunity to learn about confidence votes. (From parliamentary democracies.)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/senate-agreement-dhs-funding

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 6mo ago

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@koen_hufkens@mastodon.social "The house I live in matters more than the code I ship." (From the post you linked.) Sounds like moral growth as well.

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 7mo ago

Replying to on vis.social

@infobeautiful@vis.social I don't believe that there is or has been an agency in Canada called "National Statistical Agency".

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zygmyd @zygmyd@toot.cat

· 5mo ago

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@misaimed_brain @autistics Sometimes the day's victory is that you didn't end up going backwards. Also I bet the people affected by or at risk of being affected by those issues would consider your day well spent.

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