If your voice conference software shows a list of participants but does not show any indicator for mic volume or usage, your voice conference software is bad and you should feel bad
This post made possible by the "fucking feedback echo went on for 4 minutes before we found the asshole who couldn't figure out what a mute button was" gang
Tech Industry
So I'm at Velocity today... And they gender pronouns badge ribbons including they/them and a plaque explaining how to use them and why they are there.
I think Velocity just became my new favorite conference. It helps that like 60% of the sessions in my schedule are being but on by LGBTQ+ folks
Identity, Cultural Polarization, Rise of Fascist Symbology
Thanks to John Scalzi's wonderful burdsite response to the straight Pride Flag I stumbled across this... and it is really good and worth a read.
https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/
Burdsite link because John Scalzi is surprisingly awesome dude who writes some pretty great modern scifi.
re: Instance Block Recommendation
... The server's already gone down due to an SSL misconfiguration.
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work rant
so ... I spent all of Tuesday working on some static infrastructure deploys with complicated db setups in AWS... and then a good chunk of yesterday.. today the dev team was doing it for looked at it and collectively facepalmed because they uploaded and posted the wrong fucking cloud formation template... and forgot to update the docs with the new parameters they wanted and didn't post any of that in the jira tickets for the deploys... soooo I get to do it all again. On the upside they are groveling ad apologizing.. a lot.
Also... and then my coworker had forgotten to put my keys on a bastion host... and the devs that built the templates for got to add security group rules to allow any access to the dbs... for things like first time configuration.
So much fun but I learned the things... and fixed the things.. and made better documentation for the process and future...
Today... a dragon sent out to deploy two sets of static infrastructure stacks with some fairly completed aurora rsd mysql stuff...
That was 12 hours ago... and one stack is deployed but the databases still need to be built. So... many weird things went wrong... and ughskdfjdf mysql is very weird about allowed password characters... and I WAS BETRAYED BY PASSWORD GENERATORS TWICE!
On the upside... $3/lb is hard to beat for tri-tip... I might have bought 13lbs of it and plan on freezing the second pair of cuts..
gripes, daily, maybe I should get a real alarm clock..
Bleh... my whole day feels off because my phone decided it was update time while I was sleeping... and I woke up 45 minutes late... 15 minutes after my daily standup...
Wobblura is in the shop... various home relationship things are mess because of someone having relationship issues with their other partner and I can't help them... shit just sucks today.. and having a 4 day weekend didn't seem to help.
re: Drug refs, cult bashing
@kelseyhusky @Kyresti and damnit it’s 2019 in Seattle and a “Foundation for Better Life” ain’t even insect spirits, I FEEL CHEATED!
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