Mike Stone @mike@fosstodon.org

I find the number of UFOs I spot in the sky increases dramatically when I'm not wearing my glasses.

Day 23 of the #100DaysToOffload 2021 Series:

I've partaken in some crowd funded projects in the past, and sometimes the patience required is..... a lot. This is what I'm still waiting for.

https://mikestone.me/im-still-waiting/

Customer: Can we encrypt the logs from the DB server?
Me: Sure, we can encrypt the not currently being written to files.
C: And if we need to look at them, we can decrypt those files, right?
M: ........ yes.

Do I need to explain that there's no fundamental difference between encrypting to the point it CAN'T be decrypted, and just deleting the file.

So, hypothetically, if we were to throw some other stuff other than stickers into our store, would anybody care? Like t-shirts, hoodies, coffee cups, etc. Asking for a friend.

What am I doing right now you ask? Nothing much.

#fedora34

Day 22 of the #100DaysToOffload 2021 Series:

Do I really want a Linux phone? tl;dr, yes I do.

https://mikestone.me/do-i-really-want-a-linux-phone/

Day 21 of the #100DaysToOffload 2021 Series:

It's not often I'm excited for an announcement from Microsoft, but this is an exception. It's not great, but it's better than where I am right now.

https://mikestone.me/windows-subsystem-for-linux-gui/

OK, this feels too easy, and so I'm super paranoid about it. Anybody see anything wrong with this? I don't want to blow some of this stuff up.

#!/bin/ksh

ARCHIVE_LOCATION="~/ARCHIVES"
ARCHIVE_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`

find /sftp/* -type f -mtime +365 | while read LINE
do
tar -rf ${ARCHIVE_LOCATION}/archive_${ARCHIVE_DATE}.tar "${LINE}"
rm -f "${LINE}"
done

gzip -9 ${ARCHIVE_LOCATION}/archive_${ARCHIVE_DATE}.tar

Didn't watch the whole event, but apparently Apple invented Tiles and the color purple today.