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My server, My rules, but I still follow the covenant.
This is a personal server. It's here because I'm a nerd who likes to play with new technologies.
I'm #ActuallyAutistic and #AnAlly. My personal stance is that everyone is responsible for their own choices, and what/who they want to be/sleep with/worship/etc is none of my business.
Treat me how you want to be treated.
I am a #HAM, #Musician, #Maker, #Tinkerer, #Thinker, #Stinker, #Mechanic, #Electrician, #Builder, #Carpenter, #Husband, and a retired #USMarine #USMC. #AI8W #CW #Digimodes
If most of your traffic on Mastodon is boosting others' toots, please don't follow me - I'm looking to interface, communicate, and create friendships with people, not their boosts, and I can't tell who you are if all you do is boost. Let's keep the SNR at a readable level, shall we?
I love #RetroComputing, #Kits, #ProblemSolving, #Virtualization, #3dprinting, #making, #building, #creating, #cad, #design, #music (mostly stringed instruments, but some woodwinds. Don't have the lips for brass) and basically anything #Geeky and #Nerdy. I Especially love to #HaveFunStormingTheCastle while using #TheForce during a #MindMeld.
I'm currently teaching myself #Java, because reasons.

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jerry , to random
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Today is my last day at IBM.

I joined Netrex in February 1999 as a Unix admin

In late 1999 Internet Security Security Systems bought Netrex, largely for its managed services business.

In October 2006, when I was the director of IT, IBM bought ISS largely for its managed services business.

I was given lots of opportunities at IBM. Twice I found myself in the wrong place at the wrong time and was on a list to be let go, but other parts of IBM decided to pick me up. I once resigned to take a job at Deloitte, and at the time my manager told me that didn’t work for anyone and made it worth my while to stay. For many years, I led an incident response function for the strategic outsourcing business, which was later spun off to be what is now Kyndryl. I learned a LOT. I learned so much, in fact, that I decided to start a podcast in 2012, partly to make myself smarter, and partly in hopes that I could help the industry avoid the mistakes I was seeing our clients make on a near daily basis. I have deep scars from all the big security events of the 2010’s - heartbleed, shellshock, wannacry, notpetya, and many others.

In 2019, I was leading an internal practice around cyber regulations (in addition to the IR role) and ended up helping the cloud business out of a sticky situation. Unbeknownst to me, cloud had been looking to replace their CISO, and in March 2020, they offered me the job. My first big test was leading Cloud through Covid.

I had the extreme privilege to lead a team of 184 remarkably talented professionals. We did some cool things, but I regret the long list of things that didn’t get done.

As well published in the news, IBM took a hard line on return to office, particularly for executives. They gave people like me a choice: relocate to a key site (Atlanta was not one of them) and work from the office 3 days a week (with tight attendance tracking), or be let go. I have been working from home full time since shortly after IBM bought ISS in 2006 - nearly 18 years. I spend about 1/3 of my time at my beach place, which I was not willing to part with. Plus, I fundamentally disagree with the return to office approach and with how people have been treated, so I opted to “let it happen”, and so today is the day IBM terminates me.

I’ve saved up enough money that I can take a break for a while. It’s been 32 years since I’ve had more than a week off work, and at least 20 since I’ve had any sort of vacation that wasn’t disrupted by urgent meetings, crises, and so on. I’m going to spend some time with my family, especially my extremely patient wife, in ways that I haven’t been able to.

I have a very long list of things I’ll be doing during this downtime. I intend to get back into podcasting; I am going to write some including maybe a book; I am going to focus more on the fediverse instances I manage to ensure they are enduring; I am going to way too many baseball games with my wife (she is a mega baseball fan); and I am going to take way too many pictures and hopefully find some creative ways to make money with those pics.

TL;DR: today is the end of a long journey for me, and the start of a new one. And it’s a good day.

admin ,
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@jerry

Congratulations.

admin , to random
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Ok.. So.. Now all I gotta do is figure out how to make the toot-entry column wider...

admin OP ,
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@jerry

Any ideas on how to easily widen the compose column a bit? It's a little too skinny for my taste.

admin OP ,
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@jerry

Nor me... :(

admin , to random
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Server's back up in its old state from a few days ago...

My DB backup is that old, so I've lost some toots, ::shrug::

Thanks to @jerry for the advice on adding the proxy statement. I'll work on rebuilding things here in a few moments.

jerry , to random
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One weird trick ransomware operators do NOT want you to know…

admin ,
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@jerry
Tape Backup devices are often overlooked - especially if they're only connected to the network or backup system while they're in use.

BvlbanchaLiberationRadio , to palestine group
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PHONE ZAP
Call these numbers and demand release

Tulane President - Michael Fitts - (504) 865-5201
Loyola President - Xavier Cole - (504) 865-3847
NOPD (504) 821-2222
OPSO (504)202-9339
TUPD (504) 865-5381

USE THIS SCRIPT
Hi, my name is ________ and I am a resident of New Orleans. I am calling to demand the immediate release of ______(ex: the Tulane protestors). Drop the charges on all protestors.

THERE WILL BE NO JUSTICE
WHERE THERE IS NO PEACE

#CallToAction #Louisiana #activism #NOLA #JailSupport @palestine @noladon

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  • admin ,
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    @BvlbanchaLiberationRadio

    US cops with Russian rifles? Seems legit.

    @palestine @noladon

    rbreich , to random
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    I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

    But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

    admin ,
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    @rbreich

    Wait.. so.. you mean to say that everyone who was screaming about Twitter and Facebook four years ago weren't worried about how those two entities were manipulating the elections?

    jerry , to random
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    A tree just fell on my car 😕

    Fortunately not much damage

    admin ,
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    @jerry

    Microagression from a tree?

    admin ,
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    @jerry
    It appears its bark is worse than its bite...

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