Matt Pogue

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Old school hacker, husband, and all 'round scallywag. Science nerd, music nerd, book nerd, general nerd. Proprietor of The Solo Admin blog (https://thesoloadmin.com). Founder of Kyloson Tech. Holding it down in the STL.
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For the love of all things holy, HP needs to just fsck off and die already. They can take their crappy laptops and overpriced toner and shove it straight up their ass! I used to work for on HP servers running HP-UX back in the day and they were solid as hell. What a way to ruin a company.

Just found out the wife and I will be attending the Chicago + Earth, Wind, and Fire concert later this week. We saw Chicago + Doobie Brothers last year and it was the shizz! Looking forward to my first time seeing EW&F too. Today's young cats could take a lesson in showmanship 😎

This one just killed me this morning.

1/As a native Illinoisan, my wife's views on fireworks differ from mine. In another of life's beautiful ironies, J4 in the US combines globalism and capitalism in a big ol' free trade gumbo. For my folks in non-firework states/countries, let me give you the lowdown on 4th of July in the heartland.

Another 4J in the books! We celebrated in true #STL style, by setting fire to $500 worth of Chinese fireworks. I'd show you with a video, but I guess video embed is still a work in progress? Anyhow, 'Murica!

Two stormy mornings in a row, in Missouri, in JULY no less? God smiles upon me 🙏

Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans. On this day, it's important to remember that July 4th is not about laws or politics. Yes, it IS another word for nothing left to lose, but it's not about that either. What IS it about? Jerry Garcia and the Grateful mf'ing Dead of course! Wave that flag!

1/Not just for the nerds: there's a glaring omission in my posts about hackers which I will remedy by talking about Mr. Linus Torvalds. Of all the OG hacker legends, Linus is without doubt the most impactful, not just on tech, but on capitalism itself. Without Linus, the world of 2024 doesn't exist.

1/Here comes SCOTUS with another kick in the balls. Now they've decided - contrary to 40 yrs of precedent - ALL Fed gov agency regs are within the purview of the courts, rather than deferring to the agency creating the reg. "But Matt, what does that mean?" I'm glad you asked, hypothetical person!

SCOTUS' Chevron ruling could weaken federal cybersecurity regulations, as FCC data breach reporting requirements and other rules are likely to be challenged (Cynthia Brumfield/CSO) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Coffee, smokes, and a beautiful early-morning thunderstorm here in the #STL in July. What more could you ask for?

For my IT peeps: I'm guessing if you're in the SysAdmin/DevOps world, you've heard about the "regreSSHion" vulnerability by now (if not, check out - blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit...). There's also a site that allows you to perform testing against your endpoints: regresshion.io. Stay safe out there!

regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server | Qualys Security Blogblog.qualys.com The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems. CVE assigned to this…

1/In Doctorow's most recent post (pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/d...), he brings up the subject of tech debt, which I would guess, has played a starring role in the ransomware attacks of recent years. For non-IT folks, here's how it works, starting with in-house systems...

Pluralistic: The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net

THE creepiest country song (or maybe just "song") of all time, "Psycho" by Eddie Noack - youtu.be/BtDLN4LoPZA?.... You have to love the delivery, and the trad country switch from a minor chord flavor back to major when he's delivering the most sinister lines. Noack had his own demons, dying in 1978.

Eddie Noack - Psychoyoutu.be

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🏺🤭 so beautyful !

A necklace with lotus-shaped pendants, made of faience. Lotus was an important symbol in ancient Egypt. It was associated with rebirth and rejuvenation.The plant was also valued for its pain-relieving properties. Ca 1,400 BC, from Theben. On display at Neues Museum/Berlin 📷 me AncientEgyptBluesky

1/Great, great article on the Ludicity blog (no, I didn't spell it wrong) about AI from someone who's deep in the field - ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-.... He makes a brilliant point - MOST orgs implementing AI don't do the basics right and they don't *need* AI. They're jumping on the bandwagon.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

It would be cool if someone did a "liquors of the world" website about the (hopefully odd enough to be interesting) drinking habits of various cities and regions, examining why certain liquors are popular in certain places. Add a dash of tongue-in-cheek to the whole affair and I smell a winner! 🤔

i don’t do shots anymore EXCEPT when it’s an obscure central/eastern european liquor beloved by a midwestern city

New issue of 2600 is here. Aww yeah 😏

1/Saying goodbye to a legend in #STL news, Elliott Davis is retiring from Fox 2 in August - www.facebook.com/100044145698.... For those not from here, Elliott Davis is a class act and a reporter who, I feel, truly loves St. Louis and the people in it. His "You Paid for It" series is classic.

Elliott Davis FOX 2www.facebook.com All Good Things must come to an end...Retiring from Fox Two I’ve had a truly great run at Fox Two News. But now it’s time for that race to end. As such I am retiring after 45 years at Fox Two News, a....

Another cool account - @oldbaseballnews.bsky.social (Old Baseball News). It was the norm in the early 20th century for each team to have hometown umpires who generally ruled in their favor. Baseball was also largely attended by gamblers because you could bet on ANYTHING as the game wore on. 😏

Seems like if you think the umpire is making the wrong calls, you wouldn't want to make his vision worse, y'know? Washington Times, June 30, 1924

1/One #developer "experience" I don't miss? Browser rendering differences. When I did the 1st version of my app, IE was still very much in play (IE 11 was new). Even though I was using jQuery, I refused to support anything less than IE 10, blocking it with an "upgrade your browser" msg.

1/Venturing back into #developer territory, I had a thought about experience in relation to programming. I'm rewriting an app I began developing in '08 that's expanded over the years as the business changed. I've been a solo dev for the duration so all the good ideas - and mistakes - are all mine.

Amen!

It’s not being stated clearly enough for my liking The current Supremacy Court is pushing “regulating femme bodies should be up to the states but regulating societal destruction by corporations should -not be up to the agencies designed to be experts about that industry- be up to…companies”

1/I haven't commented on the debate, because...why, but it was - I thought - a very funny moment when Trump had to deny having sex with a porn star (1st time for THAT in a Pres. debate, altho "star" is being generous). It hearkened back to a past WH sex scandal - youtu.be/_aGbdni7QNs?...

This Day In History: Bill Clinton says "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"youtu.be On January 28, 1998 President Bill Clinton publicaly denied his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers and Kristine Johnson take ...

Starter Packs are a cool new BSky feature, designed to help folks dive into a topic with a quickness - bsky.social/about/blog/0.... [Pokémon theme plays] "Create some, join some, Starter Packs!"

I'm so happy to be included in this starter pack!!! I'm imagining it is where so many of yall came from, so hello to everyone, and thank you Davis for the shoutout!! 🖤🖤🖤

Introducing Bluesky Starter Packs - Blueskybsky.social Create a starter pack today — personalized invites that bring friends directly into your slice of Bluesky.

1/Very cool (and looong) piece about the aircraft industry and the buildup before WW2 - open.substack.com/pub/construc.... For those less nerdy than I, the TL;DR is that America once had the mfg capacity to massively retool from producing pretty much everything to making stuff for war.

How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Yearsopen.substack.com It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ wort...

1/God bless Cory Doctorow. He's the best around right now and he rips into THE problem with our economy - pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/d.... He says it better than I ever could, but I'll try to sum it up for the TL;DRs in the crowd: we're fucked. Why bother being polite about it? He's right, you know.

Pluralistic: The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net

1/One other Dotnet feature I want to highlight is Language Integrated Query, aka LINQ - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet.... LINQ is an amazing tool for #developers. The beauty is that you can query just about any type of collection - including the DB - using the same syntax.

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) - C#learn.microsoft.com Introduces Language Integrated Query (LINQ) in C#.

Not the first person to post this, but RIP Martin Mull. Another eminently recognizable character actor, even though character actor doesn't really describe someone as well known as Martin Mull. youtu.be/fuQIuUVZr-8?...

Lonesome L.A. Cowboyyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaLonesome L.A. Cowboy · New Riders Of The Purple SageThe Adventures Of Panama Red℗ 1973 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Mu...

1/This article is definitely a hot take, as the kids say, but I'm posting it because of the valid points made - blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a.... In all my code I strive for that perfect balance between read/maintain-ability, conciseness, and simplicity. Fewer libs = fewer lines of code.

A Rant about Front-end Developmentblog.frankmtaylor.com I am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn't about you personally. It's about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choi...

RIP to the unique and controversial Kinky Friedman. I don't agree with many of his positions politically, but you have to admit he was one of a kind. My favorite quote from the post: "If elected, the first thing I'll do is demand a recount."