Sam Black samwwwblack@identi.ca
United Kingdom
Uses twice the recommended daily allowance of `dnf check-update`.
2019-10-04T18:51:11Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Guess me being self employed is official now I have some dead tree to hand out.2019-09-30T18:40:01Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Whats the quickest, easiest way to piss off our users?" - Someone in Redmond.Windows 10 Users Fume: Microsoft, Where's Our 'Local Account' Option Gone?Can't have people using their computers the way they want, they might use it in a manner where we can't make money! /s
And yet, people will just go along with it 😆
2019-09-26T13:47:53Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Which is worse: lying about what was actually said, or hearing only what you wanted to hear?Businesses deny Gove claims on no-deal preparationhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-498332212019-09-26T09:31:11Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Johnson throwing a public tantrum is to try to goad the opposition into a premature no confidence vote.
Ironically, by not calling a vote of no confidence (VoNC), Johnson is going to get bolder and more extreme in his actions, and I'm not sure the damage he'll cause will be repairable.2019-09-25T19:13:44Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I hate patent trolls.
Parasites that contribute nothing to society that I wish we would collectively legislate against.
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-lawsuit-from-rothschild-patent-imaging/Akari-chan, nukem, nukem shared this.
Pieces of ****.
2019-08-28T15:56:41Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Why are password requirements hidden?
If you want 8-16 letters, 15-56 non repeating alphanumeric characters plus a limerick, or 512-1024 bits of noise from /dev/urandom, please say so.
Don't have me waste 10 minutes trying passwords because I'll just go use another service.McClane likes this.
so true
2019-08-15T07:58:44Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Whilst he'll protest he meant in the "work with others" definition, he knows full well his target audience will hear it in the "cooperating as a traitor", "enemies of the people" kind of way.Boris Johnson: Brexit opponents 'collaborating' with EU2019-08-06T19:51:37Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Now we have a c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶d̶i̶o̶t̶ UK Government minister openly saying that No Deal will be the EU's fault for not renegotiating.I'm not sure I want to be here when the crescendo of this uncomfortable tone arrives.Brexit: Michael Gove accuses EU of refusing to negotiate new deal
Divisions between UK and Brussels become further entrenched as minister calls EU stance ‘wrong and sad’2019-08-06T09:06:11Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
They're nicknamed "Crapita" for a reason, so this isn't adding "reputational damage" or "extremely significant prejudice", it's just another unsurprising, yet tragic, fuck up by Crapita.Capita seeks to reverse 'reputational damage' after death of claimanthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-492082402019-07-31T15:44:20Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
We already have "encryption with authorised users", most people have these devices/services in their homes and use them regularly: DRM, be it DVD/BluRay, media streaming or games.Those systems never get broken. Like ever.Completely secure, 100%, forever. /sNew UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for end to end-to-end encryption
Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/31/home_sec_priti_patel_five_eyes_encryption_controversy/2019-07-24T15:08:42Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
So Boris has just set the tone for when we have a recession later this year after we crash out of the EU, it was Brussel's fault for not renegotiating.My condolences for having the UK idiotic clone of the US idiotic president as PM 😰
2019-07-23T15:32:18Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Please don't do this. (Direct Line are a UK insurance company).
Not only is the password policy probably out of date, not giving feedback on what you expect just means people will make poor passwords.
The accepted password was <30 characters, so guessing it didn't like 64!Idiotic website, like 99% of the WWW 😓
2019-07-23T12:11:57Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
We've swapped a "party before country" authoritarian for a egomaniacal populist.
I'm pretty sure we're going to start seeing smoke from past Prime Minister's graves from the increased rate that they're spinning.Yeah, I spotted the grammar error about 5 seconds after I posted.
Shush now, I'm trying to remember when the UK was a reasonably sane place.2019-07-10T07:52:02Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I can always rely on El Reg to inform and skewer in equal measure.Internet imbeciles, aka British ISP lobbyists, backtrack on dubbing Mozilla a villain for DNS-over-HTTPS support
Claims nomination was 'light hearted' so they can laugh off this light-hearted article, too2019-07-04T14:42:12Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
TIL UK bank sort codes (branch identifiers) form part of the checksum for verifying account numbers.
No, I wasn't winding up a scammer pretending to be from HMRC demanding I pay owed tax in the next 30 minutes or I'd get arrested.
Nope, not me.2019-07-04T14:33:41Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
If you even vaguely use GPG, make sure you've changed your keyserver and removed popular public keys.Spent yesterday morning diagnosing why `gnome-keyring` was hanging, spawning multiple processes and loading my system up: GPG taking minutes to start.
https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f2019-06-07T15:01:41Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
After spending weeks shouting into the void that is O365's spam filter, I've given up sending emails directly from my self hosted server, and opted to use a big name SMTP relay.It is now slightly less of a crapshoot if people get my emails.Aaaah, Microsoft really loves openness, standards and fair play 😆
2019-05-01T11:25:10Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Upgraded to Fedora 30 from 29, absolutely painless this time around, and everything just works.
This is a massive testament to the millions of hours that have gone into FOSS that we have something that works so incredibly well.McClane likes this.
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» Sam Black:
“[...] a massive testament to the millions of hours that have gone into FOSS that we have something that works so incredibly well. [...]”
Indeed! 😎
2019-04-24T20:25:44Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I'm collecting bad password policies from places that should know better; this time from Xero, the default password to access payslips is the user's initials in upper case followed by their date of birth.
Not like a friend/colleague knows that information or anything.McClane, Ben Sturmfels likes this.
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2019-03-30T17:00:59Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Virgin Media, an ISP/media company in the UK, have thrown a load of rubbish, including set top boxes with customer addresses on, into a handy skip.
I'm pretty sure the fine for a GDPR data breach, as well as the WEEE tipping fees, would be a nice surprise for them.
Makes a change from the off cuts of cable and plastic bags they normally leave behind.McClane likes this.
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Wow... 😒