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[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 20 points 1 week ago

Came back to my car the other day to find one of the trucks parked to me. Could barely squeeze into my car then it was 2m longer than my car and so much higher i literally couldn't see a thing to drive out.

Had to creep forward but i had zero visibility until my driver window was past the front of the truck. It then stuck out the space so much i needed a 3 point turn to get around it due to cars parked opposite.

I was at end of the row so had to turn across it to get out. Just totally unsafe for anyone not inside it!

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Years ago now, they pushed an offer for lifetime subscription onto my server. I clicked it, went through to their website and bought it, paid, the subscription activated and worked.

The next day they emailed to say actually i wasn't eligible for the offer, they cancelled it and refunded me and said it would actually cost $30 more.

I installed Jellyfin that same day, it was pretty buggy back then but was definitely the right decision.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yes, you need the sandboxed Play services and have to gove it a few extra permissions but it works fine after that.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

Helped a disabled pensioner recently with her phone that kept plaging loud obnoxious ads at her even while locked.

She had 4 different "virus scanners" that were all fake adware.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I speed ran this. First job right out of uni, the team lead went on holiday 2 weeks later and never came back. Everyone else was gone within 3 months.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bought a new dryer recently and ended paying more for one that didn't have internet connectivity. It's entire operation requires physical presence, why would i need ever need remote access. It's just something else to go wrong.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

It doesn't say that. The potential fine the higher of 23M or 10%. Not that 23M is 10%

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, maybe the contractor thought he'd get more work fixing it but he was long gone by the time I got it so i never met him

One of bugs I got was performance because the search didn't work, with about 600,000 assets in database it would timeout searching for one by exact match on ID. It took 45 minutes to return 1 result.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I got dumped with fixing some bugs in a project written by a contractor who had literally done this but with extra steps.

Backend was sql server and c#/asp.

There was an api endpoint that took json, used xslt to transform to xml. Then called the stored procedure specified in request passing the xml as a parameter.

The stored procedure then queried the xml for parameters, executed the query, and returned results as xml.

Another xslt transformed that to json and returned to the client.

It was impressive how little c# there was.

Despite holding all the business logic, the sql was not in source control.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Came here to say this. Scariest encounter I had was earlier this year with a stag. He was standing on a footpath, it was dusk and he was shadow so I didn't see him until I was 5m away. I'm 1.9m and he was looking down at me. Had another 1m of antlers. Then my dog started barking and he just turned and walked away into the trees.

Same dog once tried to fight a pair of geese, she's similar size to them, they didn't back down.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was wondering about this, I'm in UK, I could just make my own instance, I'm the only user so I verify my own age, federate with everyone. All good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah, people trying to downplay it are as "just a tweet" are also pieces of shit. The way she said it is irrelevant.

What is relevant is that as she was calling for hotels full of people to set on fire, there were people trying to set hotels on fire.

She called for people to be murdered, then others attempted it, she got off lightly.

 

We're using Terraform to manage our AWS infrastructure and the state itself is also in AWS. We've got 2 separate accounts for test and prod and each has an S3 bucket with the state files for those accounts.

We're not setting up alternate regions for disaster recovery and it's got me wondering if the region the terraform S3 bucket is in goes down then we won't be able to deploy anything with terraform.

So what's the best practice for this? Should we have a bucket in every region with the state files for the projects in that region but then that doesn't work for multi-region deployments.

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