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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchSysadmin-ish, jack of some trades. Storage, servers, switches, firewalls, PowerShell.
Cymru / Wales / Pays de Galles.
Will try not to let this account degenerate into the Blackadder-fueled cynical cess pit of my "other" account ;-)
Toots are personal & do not represent the views of my employer.
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@deirdrebeth@mas.to @weatherwest@mastodon.social apologies for digging up an old thread, but it seems people are really getting spooked about AMOC. Their is the 2nd fresh article I've seen in the past few weeks:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c992e8g10nmo
@deirdrebeth@mas.to have you got any links to the research you mentioned from 1910?
'A spokesperson for OpenAI said the AISI testing conditions "do not reflect ordinary use"'
Despite being awful at programming, 1 thing that sticks in my mind from my degree 30+ years ago is: white (valid parameters) and black (invalid) box testing.
This quote is not an decent excuse.
ManageEngine Endpoint Central: device x doesn't have software y on it.
Me: pushes out software y. Fails.
MEDC: I can't install software y because the device has it already.
?????????
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@deirdrebeth@mas.to @weatherwest@mastodon.social 's funny but I've had a lot of time on my hands recently (eye operation) and have watched The Day After Tomorrow again for the first time in ages. Re-evaluated it and decided it is a caricature. Yes, lots of utterly ridiculous stuff (for starters an all-American hero like Dennis Quaid would never drive a Honda) but I've been looking at AMOC trends and...yeah. Looks like AMOC is weakening, and has been for decades. And one particular drop coincided with the coldest UK December in 100 years, and a 13cm rise in sea levels in New York.
https://www.channel4.com/news/the-key-atlantic-current-that-could-change-europes-climate-forever
LinkedIn, what's the point in showing me a 2 day old post that was for an event that happened yesterday?
The UK has descended into total chaos in the lead up to tomorrow's elections.
Nobody knows which bins to separate crisp packets and chocolate wrappers into. It's a disaster. Help us Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope.
To all the racist Welsh voters with their hand over the Reform box: you know your iconic Welsh band, Manic Street Preachers?
They've spent their career warning about people like you.
A Design For Life:
"Libraries gave us power/
Then work came and made us free"
Then work came and made us free = Arbeit Macht Frei. The lettering on the entrance to Auschwitz.
I mean, why are there so many thick Welsh voters?
TWV: "I'm voting Reform because they'll sort out immigration."
Interviewer:"immigration isn't devolved to the Senedd"
TWV:"Yeah, well Starmer isn't sorting it out is he?"
You f'in eejut! The Senedd can't impact immigration! Go back to your cave!
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@deirdrebeth@mas.to @weatherwest@mastodon.social one of the darkly humorous things I've noticed reading up on the dire (or not) state of the AMOC is people saying "yeah, but in reality this would take decades, not days or weeks.".
If it's been weakening since the 50s (and that's a big if) then that's lots of decades. Almost 10 of them in fact ;-)
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@Viss and *that* is why I choose Star Wars over Star Trek. Same reason I like Michael Crichton's books. The real world is murky and underhand :)
Only just got the end of the Euro❤️ision results, I just want everyone to know I picked the winner and now it's stuck in my head.
Bangaranga!
Given I support Tottenham Hotspur, this might be the only winner I back in 2026.
Right, please don't ask me if phishing sim emails are safe *because that's the point* - you need to decide if they're safe, if I tell you they are then you might ignore actual phishing emails.
Copilot is just 21st century Clippy isn't it?
I mean, basically it's saying "It looks like you're writing an email. Would you like help with that?"
I think I've just invented a brilliant new twist on the board game "Guess Who?" for UK audiences:
"Are you wearing a blue t-shirt with a white arrow?" "Yes"
"Are you a racist?" "Yes"
"Do I want to punch you in the face?" "Yes"
"Are you Nigel?" "Yes"
For goodness sake, if you're eligible to vote on Thursday and aren't going to vote Reform, vote Plaid Cymru. Voting Labour will hand Reform power.
If you are going to vote Reform on Thursday then...sieg heil?
FFS. Security is a process, not a product. I might seem archaic not using AI much, but if you start relying on AI to do all your security thinking for you then you forget to check the basics.
Why does Windows Mobile still look about 1,000 times better than Android and iOS even though it's been defunct for the best part of a decade?
TIL I learned that the account expiry date in AD is handled slightly differently between PowerShell and the AD U&C GUI tool. The GUI seems to use 23:59:59 whereas PowerShell uses 00:00:00; if you want PS to set the GUI expiry date for a Friday, you have to give it the date of the Saturday...
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@deirdrebeth@mas.to @weatherwest@mastodon.social that news footage I posted really hit me because it's only a month old; this is clearly making scientists more and more uneasy but is relegated below well, almost everything (I only found it because I started following noc.ac.uk on Bluesky).
I've left it far too long to take real notice but this unexpected timeout in my life has woken me up to the realities of what is happening to the AMOC.
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@deirdrebeth@mas.to @weatherwest@mastodon.social thank you so much for this! And the point is people have been flagging this as a potential issue for well over 100 years - so this whole "probably not by the year 2100"...well fine, but are you going to say the same about 2200? 2300? (the establishment "you", not you :-)