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King of England. Please don’t visit the Palace, there’s literally nothing to see.
If you’re going to see the show and spot me in a side booth, please don’t heckle. Yes she knows. Yes of course she knows. Yes he’s a prick. Yes your money is being wasted on us, but we’re all you’ve got in terms of benevolent rich people so live with it.
IT
Scripting menial tasks isn’t that hard. You can learn basic shit pretty easy. It’s a nice little dopamine hit when you get even something small that works. Make your computer work for you, not against you.
Also, Excel. If you have to use Excel at all in your job, learn the basics of formulas, formatting, and tables. It will take you maybe a day, and your excel shit will look 100x nicer, and work 100x better than whatever the fuck you are doing now.
I found out last year there’s an entire Microsoft Excel World Championship and my mind was blown.
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Report dev/data analysis/data engineering: if you think data or a report is wrong tell us exactly what information is wrong, exactly what report/code you ran, exactly what filters you selected, and exactly what you are using to compare that information. Second thing: no we can’t just ”make the data different", we pull the data in the database. If it is “wrong” it is upstream of us, we need to find the root issue.
I work in the magical world of ISPs. If you’re having an internet issue, reboot your router and/or modem before calling in. It may not seem like much to you, but many background processes happen when you do so. This can be useful to troubleshoot where the issue lies. There’s a reason why techs will make you do so when calling in. And yes, they can tell on their end if and when you do so. So don’t bullshit them by saying you already did it if you didn’t.
Yeah, but we all know that no matter how many times that I have already done, tech support won’t talk to me until we do it again together
IT guy here, it is fairly common to make a change in the system™, and need to reboot the device for the change to take effect.
If I had a nickel for every time a full power cycle fixed it all, I’d be rich. However, if you did power cycle before and call in again, often it’s an issue that needs deeper investigation. In that case, the tech can likely watch the process of your equipment coming online in realtime to see where the issue is happening. Network entry, authentication, package application, DHCP, it can often be monitored as it’s happening. A reboot while on the phone starts the process right from the beginning so it can be monitored to determine what happens immediately and what happens after it sits for a while.
I work in tech support. An error I haven’t seen doesn’t exist. So yes, I’m going to re-trace the trouble-shooting steps with you.
90% of the people who call in haven’t done it, but claim they did. Because they think I have a magic tech wand that can find and fix all problems, and that I just make them go through the motions because I’m lazy.
I feel like some people “lie” about rebooting their modem simply because they don’t know how to reboot it
- Unplug the power
- Wait ~30 seconds, just to ensure it’s good and off
- Plug it back in
Fortunately there are no commands to enter or buttons to click. They’re designed to handle losing power.
Can’t give specifics, but regarding enforcement work: We know who’s breaking the rules, but we let them get away to prevent exposing our methods.
Mall cops recording video in the washrooms. I knew it.
I work at a gas station—take note of your damn pump number.
Like everyone else, I get distracted and forget to do this. Then I look out at my car while standing at the register. Naturally, the numbers are not visible from this location…
Indeed.
Can you just check on the camera. Yeah, the blue car. No not that one, the other one.
“It’s the one at the end.”
Turns out it’s Pump #2, not Pump #1…
I’m in the museum sector.
Never pick something up to move it until you’ve seen the place where you’re moving the thing and it’s clear of junk.
It’s safer to make two trips instead of one. It’s safer to make three trips instead of two.
The best thing you can do for something old that looks like it’s slowly falling apart is usually to leave it alone.
A lot of people who come into the museum do that, do they?
Tech, specifically AI automation. My LPT is that most services are just using GPT4 in some capacity. Automated workflows are not plug and play, credentials expire, variables change, limits are exceeded, etc. Rather than pay a random company to build and maintain something for you, you can save a shit ton by just hiring someone in-house who knows Zapier or Make and having them build the workflow you need.
So I typed out a long reply with helpful tips and everything but Lemmy broke and I couldn’t send that, and I really can’t be arsed again, this is already too much effort.
Massage/Wellness: your posture sucks and your back hurts all the time because you have a flabby gut and no ass. Get to exercising.
Cybersecurity
If you have anything worthwhile on your PC, you should really buy your own router instead of using the one provided by your ISP.
currently my only option for internet is by tethering my phone mobile data. i do it with a usb hotspot. i have a wifi router but it seems unnecessary, complicated and slower than usb, so it is not currently in use. it’s an android phone and a linux computer but i don’t feel i know enough about either device or networking in general. should i be worried or do things different? i don’t have much that’s important. i still fear i might be doing things wrong.
I always have a firewall inside the ISP device. I also have segmented network with the devices I mostly control on one network and the devices that the manufacturer mostly controls on another.
So everything in one amd nothing in the other besides (obviously) your Linux PC/server? /s
Something like that. Hardened personal devices in one and things like TVs and game consoles in the other.
I’m actually looking for a router right now, do you have a particular one or few you’d recommend?
I was thinking about going with one of the companies that preinstalls openwrt and trying to learn that, but idk much about openwrt just yet.
Ubiquiti unifi: pretty preformant while being dead simple to set up. No licensing fees but upfront price is steep. If you really get into networking you will find their hardware and software stack limiting especially if you need speeds greater than 25 gigabit.
Mikrotik: single handedly the best value out there. Their OSes can be confusing at times and you may need some CLI skills to do everything but it’s a good learning platform.
Opensense: highly flexible where you can tailor your experience to exactly what you need. If you are the type of person who wants all of the bells and whistle along with fine granulated controls this is your option.
Openwrt: a good choice if you already own a supported device but I personally wouldn’t go out and buy hardware for openwrt when opnsense is a better option.
Cisco: there are two types of people who buy Cisco, those who are obtaining their CCNA and those who have their CCNA.
tp-link omada: directly marketed as a ubiquiti unifi competitor but cheaper. Being a new line of products it’s not really time tested. I’ve heard very polarizing opinions on them so your milage may vary.
meraki: Cisco’s other brand. Sometimes you can get their hardware for free because they make all of their money off of the licensing fees.
This is a new risk I’m just hearing about. Do they not configure them strictly enough?
ISP security is clown shoes at times. I was reading a blog post of a dude who played with their ISP APIs and was able to make changes to his own router because authenticated API endpoints returned data unauthenticated multiple times because they could just send the same request multiple times until it returned data. They fixed it quick, but still …
It’s fascinating how these guys think. There’s so much inferring what might have been done behind closed doors, and correctly.
I’m also surprised that one of these threat-detection things people talk about wasn’t triggered when he was literally sending with “123456789” in most of the fields of a request.
I’m also surprised that one of these threat-detection things people talk about wasn’t triggered when he was literally sending with “123456789” in most of the fields of a request.
Considering their systems allowed data return just because they got asked repeatedly, I’m not surprised at all. You’d be surprised the seemingly important metrics that don’t get monitored and reported on during day to day operations.
A Relevant YouTube video was just posted a few hours ago about this by LowLevelLearning.
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pirate: My dreams concern ccy off ramps. Remote work is our future.
At all costs, never ever answer any kyc/aml questions:
- What’s your name?
- How old are you?
- What country are you from?
- Where do you live?
- Can i have your phone number?
The truth is vastly overrated concept.
openssl rand -hex 20<-- memorize this. Adjusting integer affects output length. Try it now. Now try is 20 times in a row. This is your name and password generator. My name is a71fe7b7ec46e0ae0a191004509af262cb2bbe99Outing your identity has HUGE financial and legal repercussions. Not outting your own identity saves on: stress, time, filling out forms, and you can keep your income and house (a motel is insurance). There will be fees to be paid to ccy off ramps, but they are nothing in comparison.
If anyone insists, insist they give you their credit card. Then keep it. This is an important life lesson. Anyone can be de-systemed. And as soon as you internalize that … the better. If you are not de-systemed, consider yourself de-systemed. Plan accordingly. I know folks who are de-systemed.
Make a telegram group for onboarding. Create invite links as needed. Then no need to exchange phone numbers. I’m ok with Russia viewing my communications. In fact, that’s hilarious. Could use e2e encryption. Boris is busy anyway.
If you talk about coding always, you’ll become immune to censorship. Normies brains cannot withstand such punishment. They’ll find someone else to censor.
This entire thing reads like a Trump speech
Are you having a fucking stroke mate?
CCY = Currency KYC = Know Your Customer AML = Anti-Money Laundering
What? I can read the words but it’s not making much sense to me.
Hey im a bit confused, you are saying to randomly generate information like personal details whenever signing up for anything? Is this better than using a made up real sounding name?
It’s okay to not start in your ideal job on day one and to take sideways shifts to get closer to it. I went from phone monkey in a call centre, to a letter monkey, to a software tester, to a software business analyst (all at the same company), to a software product owner, to a software product manager. I gravitated back towards my stronger IT oriented passions over time.
Self-storage. Try not to start rental during the summer/spring, prices are way higher than winters. If you’re storing short term with items that are easily bought new, I would suggest just getting rid of them and buying new. I see a ton of people who store thinking they’ll be out in 3 months and end up staying a year and spending way more than the items were ever worth. This is especially true for home renovations, those take up at least 50% more time than you think they will. If you smell something funky throughout a large part of the floor, don’t store on that floor. It’s most likely caused by mouse issues. Try to store in an elevator access unit instead of ground level. They’re usually more secure, tend to not have mouse issues, and end up cleaner because they’re lower traffic.
I hate that just throwing out all your shit is more cost effective
… Also would be pretty true for long moves.
Possible partial solution: Just minimize the shit you own.
You have to have a lot of money to live a minimalist lifestyle.
Maybe if you aim for the absolute bottom, but…I inherited my grandmother’s house and belongings when she passed away. I own at least 90 towels, 20 sets of bedsheets, 6 sets of dishes including the sacrosanct “We don’t even serve meals to god himself on those plates” “good china”…There’s a lot of shit you can do without, or without as many of.
She might have come from an era when people were turning flour bags into dresses. At that time, you kept every scrap of decent fabric you had.
The dirty secret that nobody wants to talk about. Sometimes, stuff equals capability. This is especially true with tools, renovation supplies, and hobby supplies. That old drain snake in the garage? $350 plumber call. Rarely used winter gear in a closet? No $$$ rental on the occasional ski vacation. Sewing machine and supplies? Now you can alter or repair your clothes.
It can also be resiliency. All those extra Christmas candles? Great for a power outage during hurricane season. Buying, preserving, and storing summer produce can save money later in the year. A deep pantry can be a critical safety net for some people with job insecurity.
Of course, there’s still a lot of crap we can get rid of, like old hand-me-downs and things we’ll never use.
It’s really a balancing act between the cost of maintaining capability and the cost of paying for outside services. For me, I basically add an entire room to my house for $150 a month, and still get to keep the ability to do the things I love and have some resiliency in my life.
HVAC, most maintenance check ups are scams. Very little in residential air conditioner/heat pumps needs any up keep. All the motors are sealed and you’re better off not putting gauges on a system unless there’s an actual issue.
Change the air filter every three months, and in the spring shut off the outside unit, and hose off the coil fins of any debris trying not to spray anything electrical looking. Wait a couple hours and turn it back on. YouTube probably has videos.
I would add water softeners to this. Just installed one for a mate and bloody hell they’re so low maintenance. Step one, add salt. That’s it.
I know of three other people that are locked in to maintenance contracts for the next three years
Can I pester you with a question? Feel free to tell me to get bent because I know your time is worth money and this is just the internet. We have a new Trane system that was flawless when it was first put in, but over the past five months the blower has started making louder and louder vibration noises. Almost like it’s slightly off balance. If it was an older system I wouldn’t think twice, but it was dead quiet at first, just the sound of moving air pretty much.
Part of me wants to open up the cabinet and just see if there’s some sort of vibration pad that’s gotten loose, but I also don’t want to to void a warranty, or something. It seems so trivial a thing. We live in the boonies and a service call is pretty onerous for a tech. I thought maybe there could be balancing weights, like a car wheel or a lawnmower blade, but your comment about motors being sealed is making me think twice.
Opening up the panel to the blower area won’t void the warranty. ( not that I would tell anyone you opened it, because disreputable companies will make a stink even though its legal.)
It’s possible a mounting bolt came loose (simple fix). There isn’t anything to balance on any of the blowers I’ve ever worked on. So that leaves a bearing going bad in the motor. Or the set-up being out of balance and it destroyed the bearing. Either way, you should put in a call to a company that is authorized to do warranty work on Trane. If your not sure call their 1-800 number and ask them to recommend someone in your area.
Now, if they recommend only replacing the motor I would ABSOLUTELY make them show you the blower running after they replace the motor. So you can see for yourself that the blower isn’t out of balance. I’ve known way to many lazy mechanics that would just replace the motor, because replacing the whole cage is a royal PITA.
Theatre tech. Show up on time. Sometimes shows don’t take late comers even with a bought ticket. And it’s bothering everyone else, artists included.
If the venue has a bar, stay for a drink. Like everyone else, artists (and techs) love to have a drink after a hard day at the office.
Comstruction:
If you want to build the best building you gotta know every detail about how it’s made, which you can only get close to by hiring competent consultants (i.e.: architects, engineers, etc) Because if you’re not specific about what you want, you can bet your ass you’re getting the cheapest version.
The first rule of comstruction: attention to detail. Got it!
