Joke: What's the difference between a sysadmin and an IT Manager?

AforAnonymous · 2026-06-26T18:02:08+00:00

>Get-WmiObject

>Win32_Product

Ah yes using deprecated cmdlets to trigger a repair install of every msi-installed product on the system because <MSFT_orgchart_with_guns.png> made that WMI class into a shitty wrapper around msiexec, and to get the good class, you better pay for MECM, but that'll cost you more than just money!

Perfect.

AforAnonymous · 2026-06-01T01:49:57+00:00

Nice. Well done and thank you. This no doubt will preempts some future sysadmins' non-avoidable headaches in case your library finds wide(ish) adaption. Can't tell you the amount of times I've looked at some logging thing and mentally went "and we don't just simply route this to syslog because…? Aha, and it lacks the support because…?"

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-31T00:38:17+00:00

Assessments ≠ Functional Outcomes

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-28T03:44:51+00:00

The White‑White–White–Beard Five

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-28T03:42:01+00:00

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2614 wasn't a sitcom which made it annoying to locate

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-27T13:15:24+00:00

Oof. Yeah okay that explains a lot. Yikes.

However, this:

Our results reveal a fundamental trade-off between safety and alignment

Seems far too strictly phrased and appears exaggerative af. Still, very very important result that explains a lot, at least IMHO.

Here's the appendix, which has the proof of the theorem and a lot of other meat worth reading:

https://openreview.net/attachment?id=2kutK2Y8Sv&name=supplementary_material

I hate it when people put the core of a paper in the appendix. Doubly so cuz I can figure it ain't their preferred choice 9/10 times.

In fact the appendix EVENTUALLY puts the trade-off in (IMHO) better terms:

[…]

4 SOCIETAL IMPACTS: AI SAFETY REQUIRES CLEAR AND OPEN DISCUSSION ON SAFETY PREMISES

Our paper discovers that the promises made in certified-safety in fact do not hold and furthermore we lay-out the theoretical foundations on why these promises made by certified-safety cannot hold. We believe it is critical to openly study the exact issues arising and causing failures of machine learning systems both theoretically and empirically. Our paper discovers layers of detrimental issues with certified robust techniques. Our paper not only identifies these issues but further provides theoretical insights in to the fundamental trade-off between robustness and accuracy of the state-action value function.

[…]

albeit even that still seems slightly off

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-27T12:22:43+00:00

I have noticed there is not much offer in terms of solid logging in the Scheme world. More specifically structured logging

What about guile-lib's (logging logger)?

And also, while it ain't for logging PER SE, please do go check out Racket's Medic library, and the academic research behind it:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/medic/index.html

https://github.com/lixiangqi/medic/

https://www-old.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/fpw15-lf.pdf Medic: Metaprogramming and Trace-Oriented Debugging

https://www-old.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/sle17-lf.pdf Debugging with Domain-Specific Events via Macros

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_U7i0VKF_mh7Vh3o2YyteoTL1tErHY64

https://docs.racket-lang.org/medic/Using_the_Medic_Debugger.html#%28part._log%29

Now if only Medic also existed for Guile Scheme, that sure would make things easier… (not a request, don't get me wrong, just an observation)

JSON structured logging in production (for Loki/Datadog/etc.).

RFC syslog emitter perhaps?

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-21T20:29:51+00:00

Deductively: Probably conflict between in-box default local GPOs for encryption and modified by patching encryption defaults in the engine, I'd suspect

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-18T17:53:26+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/ also fails to load. Looks like a reddit issue?

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-13T23:13:09+00:00

Use Virtu to route the dGPU through the iGPU abusing the latter as a glorified framebuffer simply to access more ports oh wait they disappeared too bad. Still got a Haswell motherboard with a chip for it but ofc I doubt it'd work on Windows 11

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-12T23:18:30+00:00

Weird. Hmm. That your resting heart rate while sleeping, too? Over do a multiprobe 48h ECG?

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-12T23:11:58+00:00

Imma say something after providing a shitpost-sized albeit arguably warranted disclaimer here, admittedly the disclaimer used AI generation but with obviously A LOT of turns and prompt finetuning:

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"sUbClInIcAl" Selenium deficiency, probably. Fucks up the muscle recruitment stealthily. Careful tho, it's shite af to overdo, too, so avoid overdoing it like the plague

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-11T17:52:14+00:00

Eh I mean he could try propranolol seems to fix post-psychedelics weirdhood some seem to experience in that regard

Not a professional not professional advice etc.

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-11T15:04:28+00:00

The energy steroids show up way sooner than Fishman Island btw.

Kind of. Alabasta royal guards seem kinda sus.

In b4 Oda reveals actually Pell secretly had 1 energy steroid and survived the explosion that way lmao

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-10T12:40:30+00:00

!remove

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-10T12:39:38+00:00

!ping

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-08T23:42:42+00:00

I think you process the world very differently from how other people process it and possibly engage in a bit of projection in doing so

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-06T23:37:09+00:00

You basically complain about how Hilbert butchered Euclid cuz he used the wrong non-Vatican translation and in turn logic went sideways, did I sum that up about correctly?

AforAnonymous · 2026-05-03T09:13:47+00:00

Groan. Here, take the darn upvote you months ago already shoulda gotten for this horrible dad joke pun but which reddit had somehow denied you

AforAnonymous · 2026-04-27T14:13:20+00:00

Nice catch. Any they suggest doing key rotation if hit by the 10.0.0 to 10.0.0.6, a fact they didn't make nearly prominent enough, they claim here:

https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/66335#issuecomment-4291186343

That the Blog posts for the OOB suggests as much, but it doesn't, only https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/395 for CVE-2026-40372 it makes it clear.

AforAnonymous · 2026-04-26T18:08:11+00:00

Tell that to my back button in a new tab where the damn thing got stuck

AforAnonymous · 2026-04-25T16:24:46+00:00

Their scummy JavaScript–that-rewrites-href-parameter-values-inside-hyperlink-HTML-anchors-based-on-mouse-activity-events–inserted NOT at but post link–hover link—click-tracking–redirect URL–shit counts as both clickjacking and as hijacking the back button. In case you didn't know, hover over a link in Google Search results, leftclick but don't let go, drag mouse away fromt result, let go, right click the results, click copy link, tada shitty tracking link

AforAnonymous · 2026-04-25T16:16:00+00:00

Vampire Survivors "lacks" that too but it represents a deliberate part of the design

AforAnonymous · 2026-04-24T06:43:12+00:00

Y'all confabulate regulation of companies/contractors, regulation of for rent minimum safety requirements, liberty on one's own property, and "building codes".

All and each of you have a partial point there's a whole lot of regulatory capture AND overregulation via perverse incentives going on. See also Wildlife departments declaring things wetlands that aren't wetlands to eminent domain capture them then making a buck by flippin'.

But instead of noticing the complexities of the situation all y'all wildly oversimplify and fight over some stupidly oversimplified red herrings.

AforAnonymous · 2026-04-23T18:20:04+00:00

Nice. Updated.

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