Stephen Thorne

Site Reliability Engineer. He/him. @[email protected]

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@ahidalgosre @EnergySRE @sgreenfie @xleem @BlakeBisset @jennski You'll have a better time getting responses from me from mastodon. I only opened this website because I was following a link in a newspaper, and will delete my account as soon as twitter-takeout works again.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

Downloading my twitter data, verifying it, and deleting my account here.

I'm out.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@swearyanthony My old mate @jcsteh works on that kind of accessibility software.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@timfox @GergelyOrosz But if you hadn't opted out of the EU working time directive (assuming pre-brexit): that would be a problem that your manager would be required to solve.

You're not allowed to work excessively that under those EU rules, and it's up to your employer to stop you.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@SiteRelEnby I've got a DR plan, which I have tested, for my home automation system.

I still have no faith it will allow me to control my lights if the unthinkable happens and that laptop dies and needs to be reinstalled.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@stevemcghee No. Please tell the SRE to stay in their lane

But first, let me get ready.

🍿🥸

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@steve_evil @kels_316 They're popular during silly season because you can hang one segment of a 110V light chain the wrong way, and instead of reversing the direction you can use death leads to bridge the daisy chain.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@bogaczio @alexwilliams @IanColdwater Weird. The idea of serving drip coffee at the same place with an espresso machine is ... Not something I expect. Is that normal?

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@bogaczio @alexwilliams @IanColdwater Ah. Right. I read that as an "ordinary cup* because the concept of an "ordinary cup of coffee" is foreign to me. What even is that?

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@kels_316 @egadheg @fictillius I would be happy to answer questions about the spectrum of possibilities for 2FA instead of kels. Nerdy or otherwise.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@hogfish Will the wind or the water be colder? Which will freeze your soul? Let's find out!

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@cdonnellySRE Don't be ridiculous.

I don't live in that timezone.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

I've never seen this before. And three C-suite folks at Twitter in the area of security and compliance just quit.

Coincidence?

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@d_feldman I do not think it is ethical for charities to accept stolen money. If I found a charity accepted a donation like that, I would not think favourably of them.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@dawnstarau I foresee a boom in 79 car parking lots. ;)

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@elchefe Why is there no beetroot?

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@SiteRelEnby @nuetrlp2 Eritrea. Don't forget Eritrea.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@hynek @glyph "only".

Mastodon also needs persistence. And is probably a great platform for text based RPGs.

[Stephen Thorne @Jerub]

@josebiro And four times as undervalued in incident response.

Spend a skilled engineer on taking notes about what happened and what people said in your incident, and reap the benefits when your retrospectives will be more accurate and useful.