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  Me: “make sure you're logged into the right server!”… them: “yup, absolutely! This is the right one!” Me: “Are you 100% certain? Be certain." <provides instructions on how to be certain> them: “Yup! Definitely the right server!” Me: <takes backup knowing that many #edtechs are idiots> Me: “OK, go ahead and do the destructive thing you wanted to do.” them: “OK. Running it. Everything's deleted! Great. Oh… oh no. Wait…” Me: *sigh* them:...

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  oh it's my favourite thing: teaching ed techs how to use SSH keys ... again.

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  So is now a good time to mention that it looks like tridge also made AI-powered commits to #ardupilot last month, in additon to #rsync? I don't see anything particularly wrong with those ardupilot commits, but now I'm wondering how I feel about AI writing code for open-source drone projects…

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  I'm not a huge fan of most kinds of SportsBall, but I did absolutely enjoy watching Belgium beat the US yesterday. Well done!

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  JFC... me to client several months ago: "Do you have any idea how many concurrent users access this server you're migrating?” Client: “No, we don’t.” Fast forward several months… Client: "We're running load tests on the new infrastructure and it can't handle the 2500+ concurrent users that we expect to see.” Wait... what? You can measure concurrent users today no problem but you had no clue when provisioning the machine earlier this year? Come on. I...

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  I’m going to make sure to teach every fellow #Canadian I know how to use torrent apps (if they don't already know). Very handy for downloading large files (Linux distros and such)