Apparently people need me to be more clear after some of the replies.

I don’t care if you self censor or not.

I don’t want to see folks getting vanned for their loose mouths.

Have those discussions in private preferably with locals.

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@TheGibson That's because running an instance is freaking HARD.

Hats off.

@TheGibson Is thought leadership a title one bestows on one's self?

@thegibson Everyone who told us the blockchain was the future?

The Crypto bros who thought money grew on electronic trees?

The AI crew who thinks ChatGPT will save the world?

Or Sam Altman, who invests in the most oppressive technology to keep us serfs?

@thegibson trans pride masto theme when

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@thegibson JM is sharp

@thegibson If you were designing our PKI system to enable governments and other shady entities to surreptitiously insert themselves, I'm not sure what you'd do differently.

And let's not forget Google's role in ensuring that remained the case by refusing to implement DANE.

@thegibson useless to you maybe, but that's, uh, not who you should be worried about

@thegibson set a cron to * 12 * instead of 0 12 * and sent an email to all my clients 60 times in an hour
OTL

@TheGibson Reading through the replies brought a couple of my own to mind:
I wrote a script on a Sun workstation in our lab that would play a cuckoo sound on the hour. Something was off in my logic and I came in late the next day to the box incessantly cuckooing and my coworkers very irritated.
Even earlier in my life, my boss wanted some free space on the main work computer. This was 1992/1993 timeframe. Turns out that Windows really dislikes it when you delete all of System32.

@thegibson I once double booked 200+ credit cards of our customers - that was after I accidentially deleted all stored "valid until" dates from our customers credit cards. Magic

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That's the meme I wanted to see