Activity Log
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 00:25
Having a lot of fun tuning the Django admin for this thing, and a lot of buyer’s remorse about the clunky butt admin panel I put together for the user side of things.
We’ll call it a learning experience.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 09:21
Needed the right music for waking up to critical data issues.
#NowPlaying
Electric Wizard – Black Masses
https://album.link/us/i/965391185
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 14:15
Watched manager copy / paste from Django admin to Excel yesterday, so last night I installed an export module and this morning demonstrated usage. He sounded like it was Christmas.
I don’t always know code, but I know flow.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:04
We seem to have collectively settled on letting them refer to information security as “cyber” in non-technical, government, and MBA circles.
sigh
fine.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:04
thank goodness for delete and redraft on toots
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:07
@nomad Same. So you know my confusion when some business or government office makes a statement about their cyber policies.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:07
https://hackers.town/users/Ventronik/statuses/105398271389101289
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:10
@nomad @thegibson it would certainly explain why IT at @IamMrsGeek’s heavily Microsoft shop got so cranky today.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:22
@lightweight @nomad @thegibson @IamMrsGeek I dunno it’s kind of nice when I want my printer to work.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:23
@lightweight @nomad @thegibson @IamMrsGeek which to be fair is only about twice a year. But that’s why I dual boot.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:24
@vortex_egg Similar, honestly. When first heard about cybering I thought “cool!” but then I learned the truth and “oh.”
It’s like I get to live that moment all over again.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:26
@lightweight @nomad @thegibson just poking a little ^_^ I don’t mean to kink shame, my apologies.
It’s just that I haven’t felt like evangelizing FOSS since ~2002 or so. I use it because I like it, but have no illusions about “many eyeballs” being any better than “many dollars” when it comes to security.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:34
I remember my testing mentors telling me not to fuss with testing my model definitions and constraints.
But that’s always where I find the gaps that bring the whole dang thing down.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:42
@djsundog @thegibson being the most qualified person logged into the system comes with certain responsibilities, regardless of the circumstance.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:45
@lightweight @nomad @thegibson I’m too tired for schadenfreude, but by all means enjoy yours!
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:50
@lightweight @nomad @thegibson with my love of novelty and knack for chaos, I’m a bigger threat to my systems than any outside entity could ever dream of being.
But yes it’s a valid concern for more organized individuals and collectives.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 17:54
@lightweight @nomad @thegibson usually thank goodness
but the last time I melted a database accessed by a few million app instances was quite a rush
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 21:40
Good idea to put the database constraints in before you use it for several months.
hackers.town: 2020-12-17 Thu 21:48
two hours of working and learning to remove nine rows
but i didn’t know there were only nine rows at the start
and they were very naughty rows