RollAHardSix

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Information Security & GRC Implementation Director

Looking for my next opportunity! Seeking technical & non-technical security and operations roles.

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Comment · 9 months ago
Trying to make a media player, media server, all by using ffmpeg and a pre-built media streaming engine as it's core. Python and SQLite. About a week's worth of effort every time until it begins to go too far off the rails to be reliable to continue to develop with. It never did get the ffmpeg commands right, I had to go back to crafting those by hand, it never did get the streaming engine to play in the browser's video player in the supported hls and dash formats. Asked it to build a file and file metadata caching layer and then had to continue to re-prompt it to poll the caching layers before trying to get values from the database. Never even got to the library, metadata, or library image functionality. Had to ask it to create the rbac permissions model I wanted despite it being very junior-level common sense (super-admin, user-admin, metadata admin, image admin).

Not exactly world-class software.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is great stuff. I fell away from web dev for a very long time because I have always been a developer who focused on building from the database first and outwards while using very light amounts of business logic. This feels very old web and I encourage others to try this approach. The lightweightedness of the approach is the beauty of it and you will get much, much better at your database language of choice.
Comment · 1 year ago
I created an account and tried it but it didn't detect any issues with, SAST/cpp/posix-buffer-overflow.cpp

I also don't see anyway to verify its reasoning for its output so I'm left skeptical of its effectiveness. Maybe that's what the downloaded report is for but thats a premium feature so that's not helpful if so. Cool idea, but monetization of this seems like it will be very difficult for you.

Comment · 2 years ago
Go check out the cybertruck forums, you'll see plenty of owners have issues with their trucks and some who have pursued their state lemon laws, guess those are all made up. Guess the NHTSA investigations, or the dead families are all made up too.
Comment · 2 years ago
Certainly correct. My old Prius made it like 14 years so yes. vehicles should be looking at ten years, I just threw out five years out of irritation or even a worst case scenario. I just meant our absolute minimum expectations were fove years.
Comment · 2 years ago
VA so unfortunately we it requires contiguous time in the shop. Very much appreciate the input though, I know other owners in other states have pushed back with the lemon law.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wrong. Check their warranty online, they- like most other warranties- very deliberately leave out tires, vandalism, and problems with the electrical system.
Comment · 2 years ago
Emotionally unstable people. She was at a bloody hospital out of state and someone slashed her tires in the garage there. We can't speak to their motives but angry at musk or angry at the appearance of wealth wouldn't be too big of a hypothesis.
Comment · 2 years ago
My girlfriend owns one so to share our experience, the cybertruck is an unreliable POS. She's had it three, four months now & we have had it in the shop for suspension repair, an ECU computer which fried itself at a charging station (2k), a coolant leak part replacement from the cyberbeast rear engine (1400), the passenger window falling inside the door after the wire used in the gear window retraction snapped or tangled in the gears (450). We have gone through something like 8-10 tires and rims because they can't handle a pothole, or slice themselves after some tech put the wheel cover on wrong (tried leaving it off but a tire caught debris and was punctured that way too).

She had about two or three tires slashed or had the air nozzle cut off and sentry mode didn't catch anything except the back of the persons head. The self-driving jerked itself into a barricade on the interstate when someone cut her off, she wasn't able to stop it from doing so fast enough, it was all just faster then her reaction time (thankfully the other driver admitted fault but if they had contested I wouldn't put my faith in self-driving laws to side on a drivers side in a dispute). We have put roughly 10k into this truck for service.

We bought the truck because she lives in the mountains, she drives 200 miles a day for work if not more 5 days a week (regularly up at 4am on the road at 6am and home around 7pm - 9pm depending), and its probably the biggest purchase regret of our lives.

She needed a vehicle and I just spent 15k on a used RAV, we made the decision for her to get the truck because self-driving sounded very exciting (its all 'corporate puffery' now though), and her being in the mountains left us looking at roughly 80k vehicles anyway so we figured let's take a chance on the truck and self-driving. I mean most cars you get a good five years out them anyway right? Turns out that paint it black tesla ad was even faked, and my personal opinion is Tesla used the reservations to get this news piece.

I truly don't see the cybertruck as being desirable for the average American, I believe it's a novelty which will die once Teslas early adopter advantage for self-driving dies up. I believe it should. We are currently looking to buy her a 8k commuter beater for local 60 - 120 mile work days and using the cybertruck just for the work out of state. We'd sell the truck but its depreciated so much and she still travels out of state once or twice a month minimum and all over the place once there so we still want something electric for those trips. We would sell it if I had about another 50k in the bank to be comfortable with taking the quick loss from doing so, we still might once the relatives house sells. Don't buy Tesla, that's my advice. We never will again.

Comment · 2 years ago
I guess I should post...something. Lack of relevancy. I don't watch the news, don't even watch the weather, I don't vote or care about politics, I don't listen to the radio in the car, I went years without even looking at Hacker News, don't use reddit outside of work-related subs, don't use facebook, or other social media. I don't even use youtube except when I want to see some highlight video of Iverson or Pippen or a player soccer highlight (but not match recaps), or the occasional music of an artist stuck in my head. Why would I? The news isn't going to mow my yard, politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work. There is just nothing in the news for me. I suspect this feeling will continue to grow sharply with the youngest generation (I'm mid thirties personally but my teenage daughter has shared her classmates feel apathetic towards current events etc).
Comment · 2 years ago
In this particular case dd did not accomplish what I wanted & mkisofs is for ISO's which doesn't encapsulate all cases. Dd also has a particular drawback in that running it incorrectly can wipe your entire hard drive...oops I guess... Linux is like this everywhere- rough & poorly designed from an end user standpoint. In no world should I be using, or even able, to run a command so freely which could f up my system without not only elevated permissions but also confirmation of the very bad thing I'm about to do. That conceptsfollows into package managers with a dozen random dependencies to download or setup some utility you are likely downloading to solve some other problem. Like I said, linux suffers from a poor end user experience & that is their biggest failing...next to the absurd file system standard- thankfully some distros are moving away to something more sane but that will likely be ten plus years before it sees better adoption. Linix should have focused on the desktop environment long ago & as a community stopped looking at distributions as 'a hundred ways to do the same thing' to instead focus on a more cohesive operating system. I could go on but that's enough, they just don't have a great vision & their claims of server OS dominance mostly have to do with it being free more then anything else.
Comment · 2 years ago
Did you check SPF, DKIM, DMARC?

I worked for a strategic marketing consultancy & I couldn't tell you the number of times I saw the above properly misconfigured for clients or government tourism entities. Like 90‰ of what I ran into.. luckily for them configuring SPF, DKIM, & DMARC is like the one thing I'm actually good at in this computer career thing

Comment · 2 years ago
I now use Windows professionally & use Debian on my older home laptop (and server), & I previously used a Mac professionally--last year. My thoughts can be summed simply, Macs are toys.

Windows is the king of business productivity; I've never seen someone with a mac do what I qualify as real business work using any applications outside of the Adobe ecosystem- If you took someone who works heavily in Microsoft & gave them a Windows machine, they'll be vastly more productive then they are in Mac OS even though Microsoft works on both platforms.

I suspect this is a core design issue more then anything as in Windows the work you do is forefront, in Mac using the Mac OS is forefront, and with Linix open source is forefront. I can tweak my Debian all day long but it won't ever run Rufus; while my Mac might run some windows applications it also won't give me the same terminal power as Debian will. Debian however won't allow me to run windows apps, will have driver issues (like my completely incompatible-still audio drivers for a laptop from 2008). Package management is and likely always will be a nightmare in Debian. However if I baby Debian and focus on particular workflows, I can set up a workflow for what I want-aka a writing environment or my golang environment but it lacks the robustness of jumping between applications seemlessly like Windows has. Linux continues to fail by not providing a superior desktop environment, however I'll still take Linux over Mac OS for any real work.

My next personal desire is to move my home computing towards purposed servers- one for writing, one for programming, etc while going either super-light laptop or portable screen & usb keyboard / mouse for maximum flexibility. That way I can setup at the multi-monitor command center if I want, or move out to the porch lightly.

I'd even go so far as to say that with the exception of gaming setups, beefier laptops / desktops isn't needed at all- just build home servers.

Comment · 2 years ago
So much wasted effort. Just create an account on Upwork, play by Upworks rules & get complete unferreted access to any number of servers and websites run by small businesses and marketing consultancies. Sure you might have to do a bit of Wordpress dev to keep the illusion going but...there you go.
Comment · 2 years ago
One meter. She has a barn with putside light on a seperate meter but those charges were seperated on the bill.

Her January bill listed 222.84 in generation services. 188.86 in fuel factor at 0.0413900 per kWh. 176.04 transmission services 101.02 distribution services

Some taxes etc and a final charge of 1359.78. I'm remembering now that they did overcharge her & we talked about that w the power company getting a credit for the next bill. My mistake on that. But for the last several months her bill has consistently been extremely high, 900 this past month, 1100 a prior month.

Her kWH usage is 4562 per month & I'm really not sure how she gets to that, she literally drives between 1 & 2 hours to work and back every day depending on location so she's only home in the evenings.

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