DarraignTheSane @lemmy.ml Anti-fascist, anti-Trump, anti-Putin, anti-CCP; but I repeat myself.
It became easy to not open Infinity once I read they were going to start charging a subscription (something I don't fault them for, per se), and I uninstalled it.
Always a good time to remind everyone that the FBI (rightly) recommends the use of ad blockers for security purposes while browsing the Internet:
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221
Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others.
Infinity was a good replacement when Sync did its redesign, which I didn't care for. Ah well. I don't blame them of course, but reddit isn't something I'm going to pay a subscription to access on a 3rd party app on my phone.
Lemmy's "block" is essentially a "mute" function, too. It makes it so that you don't see any more content from a user, but they can still make comments on your stuff.
Converso doesn't care about privacy or security!?
Officially Lemmy just calls them "communities", but I figure that you can call them "subs" because you subscribe to them.
Well, 81 vehicles stolen by the city and 350 expired tag violations. But yeah, definitely some bullshit.
On Lemmy, if a community on another server doesn't appear when you search for it, you can use the syntax "[email protected]". Your login Lemmy server will then go out and index it and it will appear in the search a few moments later.
Is there a way to do that on kbin? I've tried every syntax for a Lemmy community that I know of and nothing seems to work.
[email protected]
/c/[email protected]
server.name/c/communityname
@[email protected]
etc.
Just curious as to what everyone's using for MFA in their environments. Duo? Microsoft Authenticator? Okta? A jumble of different solutions depending on which system needed to be covered at the time and with no additional budget?
This is a comparison of Duo and Microsoft Authenticator. Learn more about their key differences, features, security, and performance in this in-depth analysis.
> Duo uses push notifications, time-based, one-time passwords, physical tokens and biometrics to verify the identity of users at login. Similarly, Microsoft Authenticator uses push notifications, one-time passcodes, and biometrics for authentication and can integrate with Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory. While both 2FA options share some similarities, there are still key differences that can sway your decision to choose one over the other.
And that's only for the personal OneDrive service. Business accounts are "https://YourOrg-my.sharepoint.com" for OneDrive access.
St. Louis-area public libraries say they have never offered obscene material, but they are scrambling to tweak policies regarding a new rule from Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1188374
> Bonner said that even if librarians and a library board confirm a book is appropriate, the Ashcroft rule might “give them a path to appeal to the Secretary of State’s office or use the language of the SoS rule to sue in court.”
> He said: “The rule is not about making libraries shelve materials in appropriate areas. Libraries already do that. They’ve been exceedingly conscientious about this issue since before I was born. No library I’ve ever worked at or used has what a reasonable person would call pornography in any kids’ area, or what the Supreme Court has determined would be ‘obscene.’ This rule corrects a problem that only exists in propaganda.
> “The rule is about forcing librarians to conform to the views of a subset of the community instead of trying to serve the whole community, by increasing the leverage of that subset and by making librarians fearful of angering that subset.”
> He also has told his board that “there is no way to be safe from challenge and still be a library,” referring to library goals to offer books with various viewpoints and to serve diverse patrons.
It's infuriating that we're letting these christo-fascists determine how the rest of us are allowed to live our lives. I wonder what it will take for us to reach that "Have you no sense of decency?" moment with them. But of course they don't, because that would require a conscience.
St. Louis-area public libraries say they have never offered obscene material, but they are scrambling to tweak policies regarding a new rule from Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.
> Bonner said that even if librarians and a library board confirm a book is appropriate, the Ashcroft rule might “give them a path to appeal to the Secretary of State’s office or use the language of the SoS rule to sue in court.”
> He said: “The rule is not about making libraries shelve materials in appropriate areas. Libraries already do that. They’ve been exceedingly conscientious about this issue since before I was born. No library I’ve ever worked at or used has what a reasonable person would call pornography in any kids’ area, or what the Supreme Court has determined would be ‘obscene.’ This rule corrects a problem that only exists in propaganda.
> “The rule is about forcing librarians to conform to the views of a subset of the community instead of trying to serve the whole community, by increasing the leverage of that subset and by making librarians fearful of angering that subset.”
> He also has told his board that “there is no way to be safe from challenge and still be a library,” referring to library goals to offer books with various viewpoints and to serve diverse patrons.
St. Louis County town tows cars from driveways with expired tags
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1188319
> Calverton Park’s ordinance ‘prohibits property owners from having an unlicensed and/or inoperable car on the property.’
> The city confirmed that since December 2020, there’s been a total of 350 violations and 81 vehicles towed away. If the vehicle is towed away, the city will also issue an abatement fee.
> Attorney Jeff Schwartz said Missouri law clearly states that a car can’t be towed from private property unless it’s a safety hazard, or at the request of the property owner. He said trying to argue an expired tag is also a safety hazard is a stretch.
St. Louis County town tows cars from driveways with expired tags
> Calverton Park’s ordinance ‘prohibits property owners from having an unlicensed and/or inoperable car on the property.’
> The city confirmed that since December 2020, there’s been a total of 350 violations and 81 vehicles towed away. If the vehicle is towed away, the city will also issue an abatement fee.
> Attorney Jeff Schwartz said Missouri law clearly states that a car can’t be towed from private property unless it’s a safety hazard, or at the request of the property owner. He said trying to argue an expired tag is also a safety hazard is a stretch.
Juniper Networks introduced its own cloud-based, Mist AI-driven NAC solution and also enhanced its Marvis with the ChatGPT integration.
> Juniper Networks takes on complex legacy network access control (NAC), introducing its own cloud-based, Mist AI-driven solution. It also enhanced its Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) with the ChatGPT integration.
> Traditional NAC services built using on-premises overlay hardware are often complex and brittle to deploy, operate and authenticate the devices, while lacking agility and ability to scale, noted Christian Gilby, senior director of product marketing at Juniper Networks.
> Juniper’s Mist Access Assurance service is built on the technologies from its WiteSand acquisition. The networking vendor bought the cloud-native, zero-trust NAC startup last year and integrated the technology into its Mist portfolio in a bid to compete against Cisco’s Identity Services Engine and Aruba Networks’ Clearpass NACs.
Today’s 400G data centers are not fast enough for many emerging applications. The networking industry is looking toward 1.6T network speeds.
> For the last 30 years, modern society has depended on data center networks. Networking speeds must continue to increase to keep up with the demand caused by emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles (AVs) and artificial intelligence (AI). Further innovation in high-speed data will enable 800 gigabits per second (800G) and 1.6 terabits per second (1.6T) network speeds.
Nothing. Literally, they just need to change nothing, to do... nothing. It is their actions that are driving people away. Today as of this moment, reddit is working the same as it's done for the past several years.
Then again, I'm defintely enjoying my time here on Lemmy much more than I was at this point on reddit. This feels more like the early days of reddit, where you have more meaningful engagements. You don't show up to a thread only to find 1,000+ comments, and likely one toward the top saying the exact same words you intended to say.
Good fucking riddance. Scroll down to just past the halfway mark in the article (beginning with "At times, his on-air pronouncements drew criticism.") where it recaps everything you actually need to know about this shit human being.
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has died. He had an enormous impact on American politics and religion. Robertson turned a tiny Virginia television station into the far-reaching Christian Broadcasting Network, where he hosted the flagship “700 Club” show for half a century. Robertson ran for pres...
> Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
> Robertson’s death Thursday was confirmed in an email by his broadcasting network. No cause was given.
Yeah that'd be smart on their part. They're already paying for the server space and the moderation team.
All of the main servers I've seen have a no porn rule. I suppose it's only a matter of time until someone's willing to stand up their own Lemmy porn server and take on the responsibility of moderating that.
Yeah I figure no need to discriminate at this point, anyone in the field of administering any IT systems is welcome here. If Lemmy really takes off and sometime down the road there seems a need for it we might establish rules for what's appropriate to post here vs. other tech subs, but I don't see the need for that now.
Well yeah, Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter. Never cared for Twitter pre or post-Elon.
Feel free to use this space for networking related posts as well. Not all of us have the fortune of being able to wear a single hat, and I know I'm just as interested in networking news & discussion as anything else in the IT space.
Cole County Judge Jon Beetem heard arguments in a lawsuit alleging the Missouri AG illegally blocked a fiscal note on an abortion amendment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174730
> Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s attempt to increase the cost of an abortion-rights initiative petition was unprecedented and illegal, lawyers for the Missouri ACLU and state auditor’s office argued Wednesday in Cole County Court.
> ”No attorney general has ever attempted to exercise this level of discretion,” said Robert Tillman, deputy general counsel for Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.
> Meanwhile, the attorney general’s office contends it was simply exercising its authority under state law when it refused to sign off on a fiscal note summary crafted by the auditor that said the abortion-rights initiative petition would have no cost to state or local government.
Cole County Judge Jon Beetem heard arguments in a lawsuit alleging the Missouri AG illegally blocked a fiscal note on an abortion amendment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174730
> Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s attempt to increase the cost of an abortion-rights initiative petition was unprecedented and illegal, lawyers for the Missouri ACLU and state auditor’s office argued Wednesday in Cole County Court.
> ”No attorney general has ever attempted to exercise this level of discretion,” said Robert Tillman, deputy general counsel for Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.
> Meanwhile, the attorney general’s office contends it was simply exercising its authority under state law when it refused to sign off on a fiscal note summary crafted by the auditor that said the abortion-rights initiative petition would have no cost to state or local government.
Cole County Judge Jon Beetem heard arguments in a lawsuit alleging the Missouri AG illegally blocked a fiscal note on an abortion amendment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174730
> Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s attempt to increase the cost of an abortion-rights initiative petition was unprecedented and illegal, lawyers for the Missouri ACLU and state auditor’s office argued Wednesday in Cole County Court.
> ”No attorney general has ever attempted to exercise this level of discretion,” said Robert Tillman, deputy general counsel for Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.
> Meanwhile, the attorney general’s office contends it was simply exercising its authority under state law when it refused to sign off on a fiscal note summary crafted by the auditor that said the abortion-rights initiative petition would have no cost to state or local government.
Cole County Judge Jon Beetem heard arguments in a lawsuit alleging the Missouri AG illegally blocked a fiscal note on an abortion amendment.
> Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s attempt to increase the cost of an abortion-rights initiative petition was unprecedented and illegal, lawyers for the Missouri ACLU and state auditor’s office argued Wednesday in Cole County Court.
> ”No attorney general has ever attempted to exercise this level of discretion,” said Robert Tillman, deputy general counsel for Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.
> Meanwhile, the attorney general’s office contends it was simply exercising its authority under state law when it refused to sign off on a fiscal note summary crafted by the auditor that said the abortion-rights initiative petition would have no cost to state or local government.
St. Louis County Library will introduce social workers at five branches to help people access vital services like mental health, housing and other social service programs.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174678
> St. Louis County Library will introduce social workers at five branches to help people access vital services like mental health, housing and other social service programs.
> “It’s hard to come in to seek assistance and be told, well, you have to go ask someone else,” said Kristen Sorth, the director and CEO of SLCL.
> Now they’ll have social workers to help answer those questions at Florissant Valley, Lewis and Clark, Natural Bridge, Rock Road and Weber branches.
St. Louis County Library will introduce social workers at five branches to help people access vital services like mental health, housing and other social service programs.
> St. Louis County Library will introduce social workers at five branches to help people access vital services like mental health, housing and other social service programs.
> “It’s hard to come in to seek assistance and be told, well, you have to go ask someone else,” said Kristen Sorth, the director and CEO of SLCL.
> Now they’ll have social workers to help answer those questions at Florissant Valley, Lewis and Clark, Natural Bridge, Rock Road and Weber branches.
Wesley Bell joins Lucas Kunce in the August 2024 Democratic primary. The nominee will face U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174661
> St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he is a candidate for U.S. Senate, setting up what could be an expensive intraparty battle to take on Republican incumbent Josh Hawley in November 2024.
> In a launch video released Wednesday morning, Bell said, “We need leaders who try to help — unlike Josh Hawley, who’s in a rush to be famous and pretending to be tough while showing the world how weak he really is.”
> Bell, 48, would face Democrat Lucas Kunce, who hauled in $1.1 million in the first fundraising quarter this year, in next year’s August primary.
Wesley Bell joins Lucas Kunce in the August 2024 Democratic primary. The nominee will face U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174661
> St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he is a candidate for U.S. Senate, setting up what could be an expensive intraparty battle to take on Republican incumbent Josh Hawley in November 2024.
> In a launch video released Wednesday morning, Bell said, “We need leaders who try to help — unlike Josh Hawley, who’s in a rush to be famous and pretending to be tough while showing the world how weak he really is.”
> Bell, 48, would face Democrat Lucas Kunce, who hauled in $1.1 million in the first fundraising quarter this year, in next year’s August primary.
Wesley Bell joins Lucas Kunce in the August 2024 Democratic primary. The nominee will face U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1174661
> St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he is a candidate for U.S. Senate, setting up what could be an expensive intraparty battle to take on Republican incumbent Josh Hawley in November 2024.
> In a launch video released Wednesday morning, Bell said, “We need leaders who try to help — unlike Josh Hawley, who’s in a rush to be famous and pretending to be tough while showing the world how weak he really is.”
> Bell, 48, would face Democrat Lucas Kunce, who hauled in $1.1 million in the first fundraising quarter this year, in next year’s August primary.
Wesley Bell joins Lucas Kunce in the August 2024 Democratic primary. The nominee will face U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
> St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he is a candidate for U.S. Senate, setting up what could be an expensive intraparty battle to take on Republican incumbent Josh Hawley in November 2024.
> In a launch video released Wednesday morning, Bell said, “We need leaders who try to help — unlike Josh Hawley, who’s in a rush to be famous and pretending to be tough while showing the world how weak he really is.”
> Bell, 48, would face Democrat Lucas Kunce, who hauled in $1.1 million in the first fundraising quarter this year, in next year’s August primary.
Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDG
Brush up on your coding – more tech jobs are going to be hybrids that mix ops and software, or require AI skills
> System administrators and IT operations pros might want to rethink their careers, because analyst firm IDC is predicting substantial drops in the number of people employed in such roles.
> The firm this week published its first "Worldwide xOps Census and Forecast" – a study that predicts "a substantial shift in the responsibilities of IT professionals will occur over the next five years."
> "IT professionals in the most purely operational roles are facing a transition to a more technical or focused role that very often may involve some level of software development work," the firm asserts.
You can’t walk out of your front door these days without tripping over someone ready to tell you about the next great thing in artificial intelligence. And, hey, it’s for good reason. T…
> When asked to comment by Kotaku, Cyan Worlds made the point that all of this went through human quality control, and even that much of the content wasn’t wholly, or even mostly, derived using AI. For example, the voice narration in the game was written and performed by human beings, but an AI tool was used to modify the audio of that narration for pitch, timbre, etc.
>But in the end, the things about the game customers are talking about hating is the content that has been in some way touched by AI.