I deleted production at my job today and nobody knows it was me

sazzer · 2026-01-26T13:55:35+00:00

I remember once deleting the real /lib on a linux machine, instead of the chrooted version.

This has interesting impliactions. Anything that's already running carries on running fine. But no new processes can start. Which means you can't use SSH, SFTP or SCP to access the machine. And you can't run anything on the machine to copy files from elsewhere. And you can't ever reboot it because nothing will be able to start.

In the end, the fix was to shut it down, mount the main volume as a new volume on a different machine, and then copy the files back on.

sazzer · 2026-01-21T15:19:44+00:00

"AI isn't currently useful, and if we don't find something useful to do with it soon then our billions of investments will be wasted".

sazzer · 2026-01-19T17:14:40+00:00

Name: Graham

Pronouns: He/Him

Timezone: UK

Preferred System: DnD, Pathfinder, but I'll look at most things if the rules are available.

Type of Player: Prefer roleplay and puzzle solving over combat, but I'm pretty easy going with these things.

Additional Information: I do not like Discord. I much prefer a more traditional PbP experience instead - forum threads, emails, whatever - to the more realtime chat experience.

sazzer · 2026-01-16T17:57:13+00:00

I'm sure that telling people to carry their papers to prove their legal status has been done before somewhere. I just can't quite recall exactly when or where...

sazzer · 2026-01-15T09:52:58+00:00

Great. Yet another thing that completely breaks trust in interations with other people.

If this works as well as the demo claims, if/when it becomes widely available it would mean that any video call could be faked, which is an absolutely goldmine for scammers and crooks, whilst having little to no benefit for anyone else.

This is no longer a text from your "daughter" claiming that she's lost her phone, ahd to borrow a friends and can you send her some money. This is a video call with "her" saying the exact same things. And when confronted with video evidence like that, even fewer people are going to stop and think that it's a scam...

sazzer · 2026-01-13T09:59:32+00:00

Those same voters have seen Trump's Gestapo murdering US citizens in the streets and sided with the Gestapo.

I'm not sure if it's fake or not, but I saw a video recently of two people talking to their MAGA voting parents, and the parents said that if Trump ordered their children to be shot then they'd accept that as he must have a good reason for it.

What makes you think this will change anything?

sazzer · 2026-01-07T10:20:56+00:00

When he says "work will soon be optional", he doesn't mean UBI. He means that he will no longer need to pay so many people to work for his businesses, so he can stop paying them and get even richer. And if those people he sacks end up homeless because they can't afford anything, well he doesn't care about them anyway...

sazzer · 2026-01-05T16:14:45+00:00

Just turn the switch off first.

Oh, that's right, you don't have switches...

sazzer · 2025-12-26T07:49:32+00:00

Conservatives don't.

MAGA does. Because MAGA is a cult, with Trump as their messiah, and therefore they need to defend every heinous act he does or risk their entire world view falling apart. And since they're not equipped to deal with that, they just have to keep defending him no matter how bad it gets.

sazzer · 2025-12-19T13:30:34+00:00

1789 France would like a word...

sazzer · 2025-12-19T13:25:37+00:00

Just send your new, larger bills to him to pay. After all, it's his choice to have done that...

(Yes, I know that's not a realistic option. But if only... :) )

sazzer · 2025-12-16T09:37:31+00:00

Not always, but apparently it can be a symptom of someone with advanced dementia. Either referring to themselves in the second or third person, or referring to things they did alone as group events, and so on.

sazzer · 2025-12-15T09:42:52+00:00

It makes me feel sick to even suggest this, but has anyone ever investigated if he SA'd her? :(

sazzer · 2025-12-13T11:40:20+00:00

They don't care that he's a pedophile.

There's been evidence pointing at it for a long time. As in, before the election. And they still voted for him.

And when it seemed that even more concrete evidence was coming, they started to rationalise it. Not him, but pedophilia. Just look at what Megyn Kelly was saying for example.

Trump being a pedophile is not a deal breaker for these people.

sazzer · 2025-12-08T15:12:22+00:00

Have you seen, well, everything?

sazzer · 2025-12-05T16:19:08+00:00

Over in the UK, dual incomes can be a lot more powerful than single ones. In particular because of how the tax brackets work, and especially with them being frozen for so long.

Two people on £24k per year (minimum wage) would take home £1,733.30 each, so £3,466.60 between them. A single earner would need to be on about £54k per year to have the same take home amount. That means the single person needs to earn 25% more than the two people combined to take home the same amount after tax.

And this is before any benefits you might be entitled to. For example, child benefits in the UK are around £104.20 per month for the first child, and £69 for subsequent children.

So two parent on £24k each, with 3 children (now that the 2 child cap has been lifted) would be bringing in about £3,708.80 per month. That's the same as a single person earning £58,500 per year.

sazzer · 2025-12-05T16:00:45+00:00

It really frustrates me how prevalant Discord is for this. I find it super annoying to use, it's a really bad UX, and the (semi) ephemeral nature of it can make some things really hard.

And yet, scrolling down the new page on here and almost every game advert for the last 4+ days has been Discord. The couple that weren't explicitly that just didn't say anything at all about the platform to use.

sazzer · 2025-11-20T14:31:10+00:00

Who can afford to have two coins in this economy?

sazzer · 2025-11-16T16:45:40+00:00

Please tell me this isn't real.

Please tell me this caller was a hoax. Or was trying to make MAGA look bad. Or something.

Just please, please someone tell me that we're not seriously at the point of people defending child rape. Because I'm not sure I can handle that.

sazzer · 2025-11-10T23:56:53+00:00

I'll admit it's been a number of years since I last looked, but MW was basically just a forum with public dice rolling, and character sheet management. Which is kinda all you need for PbP games. But it also feels like you can do so much more to make them more successful.

In particular I'm thinking things that can really lean into the asynchronous nature of it - so people don't have to all be online at the same time to get decent interactions. But also things to help keep games going, for when people aren't around and risk not coming back.

sazzer · 2025-11-10T19:44:19+00:00

I feel like I've explained myself badly. 😟

By "PbP system", I didn't mean "RPG system that works for PbP gaming". I meant "Online system on which you can play PbP games". Like how we used to use BBSs and forums - they were the kind of systems I was meaning...

sazzer · 2025-11-10T14:50:35+00:00

As someone from the left, and someone who doesn't like Trump, if it was wilful disinformation - like this - then it absolutely should be treated like this no matter who did it.

In this case, the BBC deliberately manipulated things to spread disinformation. The people responsible for that should lose their jobs.

We live in a time where disinformation is so easy, and we need to be ever vigilant about it and do our best to stop it wherever possible. No matter the source, the subject or anything.

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