Zack Williams

Tending lots of irons in lots of fires.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@migueldeicaza I assume this is an ansible cowsay joke, and I truly appreciate how deep a cut it is.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@scriptingosx @MagerValp @rtrouton @marczak @MacAdmFound If people don't mind highly transparent, have the "I want a free license" process be users creating a patch on a repo with a list of all public licensees, and handle approvals via code review.

If money changes hands, privacy might be a paid benefit.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@MagerValp @scriptingosx @rtrouton @marczak @MacAdmFound One option would be to have a business unfriendly license by default (AGPL, BSL), but also offer friendly licenses for specific users. Consultants and MSPs can get cheap/free licenses, commercial vendors have per-seat licensing, like Docker does for their Desktop software.

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Recapped a Brother HL5250DN printer that was in the garage broken for the last few years. Works perfectly now! Made in 2008, so height of the capacitor plague.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

I went back and found the first patch I ever submitted to another project - this tiny patch that added the `-F` option to the LAME mp3 encoder back in 2000, which fixed VBR encoding minimum bitrates for the wonky DVD player I had at the time: https://t.co/sFIu1iYO6e

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@evandeaubl I tended to view it more as needing some automated check (VINs are public information, could check against a database, some have a check digit like CC numbers), or removing the human element from data entry. This was 15+ years ago, so predated the former.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@evandeaubl I once had my license plates taken during a minor traffic stop because the car's VIN number didn't match the insurance VIN. This was discovered to be because someone wrote it down manually and swapped a 1 for a 7, but I still had to go to court to get it dealt with.

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@etherealmind There are a healthy number of working group across multiple vendors: https://t.co/tLHAh0K5Ua

(full disclosure, I was part of the ONF -> Intel transition)

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@ioshints @AngeloLuciani Remapped to Escape, which makes it useful as a Vim user.

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Wordle 204 6/6

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Wordle 203 3/6

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Wordle 202 4/6

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[Zack Williams @zdw]

@yaelwrites That's a pretty good list. Putting on my sysadmin hat, properly configured DNSSEC offers almost no benefits and lacks transparency, and if improperly configured is weird failureville. Wish DNSCurve took off more than it had - the problem it solves is more practical.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@yaelwrites That privacy and security aren't binary and have considerable nuance and perspective. One example: DNS over HTTPS breaks legitimate functionality like "Split Horizon" configs and re-centralizes a decentralized internet: https://t.co/F3zfmHNNNF

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@yaelwrites Not sure on that term, but I've heard of taking offense (real or feigned) at other people wearing stuff like this called "comfy-shaming" before.

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@yaelwrites This is really nice!

[Zack Williams @zdw]

@zachportman Where do I got to set up a splinter group of Zac/Zack's whose names follow basic and well established rules of pronunciation?

[Zack Williams @zdw]

Using the python Requests library is a code smell.

If you want to waste a developers time, fill in a ~/.netrc file and watch all their auth related code break.

Plain urllib does exactly what you want, no more, no less.

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At the vampires again

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On the blood donation bus!