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I would never feed the beast to attempt that, but if anyone would, I’d be interested to see the plan it generates and if the fediverse is a part of that.

Yeah, I think that’s it. This is the lowest hanging fruit with an <input type="text" field that gets picked up by LLM scrapers. :sigh:

Yeah, I just avoid all communities that start with “Ban” or “Fuck”. Life is much less irritating that way.

Good luck un-seeing this:

In a sane world, this would be a “You’ve won a free boat! Claim your prize at the police station” trap, but such is not the world we’re living in.

What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they’re not performant workhorses. They’re great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you’re just practicing; they’re a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

And I responded to that. This is a SC case, so there is no parliamentary procedure shenanigans they can pull and nothing to filibuster.

Exploit every parliamentary procedural, deny unanimous consent, ACTUALLY FILIBUSTER, etc

What would they exploit or filibuster when this is a Supreme Court ruling?

Name one thing they can do with minorities in both chambers of Congress besides send a letter. One thing that is within their constitutional power to do. One thing that the political savants on Lemmy will deem sufficient.

I’ll wait.

It just boggles my mind how people can be here 1 - 3 years or more and not bother to read the rules even once.

Remember when we “couldn’t” help Puerto Rico after Maria because Puerto Rico is an island, surrounded by big water, ocean water?

Trump on Friday said the disaster relief effort in Puerto Rico is complicated because it is “surrounded by water.” “This is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water,” the president said during a speech in Washington on his tax plan.

I was about to dive into that, so thanks for the breakdown. My fear was someone could just add a comma to any SSH cert and gain remote root.

Technically, yes. But colloquially, when we’re talking about “analytics” we mean embedded 3rd party trackers that feed to Google or another outside entity. Those are embedded much deeper in the application and track things much more invasively such as how long you hover over certain links, how you move your cursor around the screen, your viewport size, browser fingerprinting, and more.

The analytics I’m utilizing and referring to here are passive in that they’re collected anyway as part of the standard logging that happens when you access the webserver which is also part of our basic security posture. They’re not as granular or invasive but can still give you useful information about what parts of your site people use the most, how many clicks it takes a visitor to get from the homepage to where they want to be (by following the IP, URI, and seeing where that ends), how many visitors the site gets per day/week/month/etc, and such.

Logging is standard practice if you give even the slightest damn about security (read: you should), so I don’t see it as a problem. It’s what you use those logs for, how long they’re retained, and whether you sell them off.

So as long as you’re only using them for security auditing and website analytics and don’t keep them forever and don’t plan to sell them to data brokers, there’s really nothing to fret over. A good place to disclose how you use the logs, how long you retain them, and what is logged is in the site’s privacy policy.

I do the occasional website for local businesses, and I never add any analytics code/trackers. One: they rarely ever ask. And two: the one time someone did ask for it, they never once logged into it or asked for trends. Three: I’d prefer not to unless they demand it.

However, since I’m actually hosting the website for them, I can get decent heat maps from the access logs since they have the IP (which can be roughly geo-located), which URI’s are accessed (and those map to pages, and pages map to products/services), how often those are accessed, which page linked them to it or if they came directly to it (by checking the referrer header), which are most accessed (by count of the URI in the logs), and whether they’re accessing the site from desktop or mobile (via the user agent header). That can also be combined with any data from their “Contact us” form.

One reason they’ve probably never asked for it is because I provide a quarterly report for them using that passive data, and they seem happy with it.

[Hits bong] Over water, a boat going too fast becomes a plane and a plane going too slow becomes a boat.

I don’t even like the few phones I had with the headphone jack on the top.

This would be a good post for [email protected] as long as you expand on why you think that.

You do realize who would appoint his replacement, right??