Josh

Pro #democracy, #Gay, #Tech enthusiast #bro. Soft spot for #law! Death to #Facebook! #totk is my happy place. #fediverse! Proud husbro to Jose (npub1zg6…l0cz) and puppers dad to Harley (npub17dl…2xyn).

Loops: @hactivedirectory
Words and junk: https://wordspew.com/
Madeja lookatt: DeEZ nuTz
Zenful Bliss: Doggo and husbro <3

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josh_at_hactivedirectory.com@momostr.pink

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2025-01-16 17:46:36 UTC

“The company was found to not have this asset appropriately air gaped.”
Ladies and gentlemen and smizmars, I finally found a way to legitimately work a goatse reference into a work meeting

2025-01-12 00:23:57 UTC

It’s 2025. The internets been around in its current form for more than three decades.
If you are a person at this stage of development who still provides URLs using the word “backslash,” your internet operators license should be revoked.
ITS A GODDAMN FORWARD SLASH.

2025-01-05 18:44:57 UTC

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Slack is owned by Salesforce and Salesforce is all about the A/B testing.

2025-01-04 23:16:25 UTC

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It's a joke see? :D

2025-01-04 23:04:57 UTC

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It's pronounced "illiterati" thank you very much

2025-01-04 21:31:55 UTC

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There is no “Oxford comma and I will fight you to the death on this” option?

2025-01-04 21:29:18 UTC

Me looking back on my career and realizing as a young PM I used to write “steakholder” on official documents. Hee.

2024-12-28 03:25:16 UTC

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Humans: the goal is to be all powerful muahahaha
Also Humans: I have no control halp I need adult!
Every big business is libertarian in net positive years and socialist in their net negative years. Idiots, we are.

2024-12-26 19:25:10 UTC

I just want to take a moment to call out one particularly great contributor to the Fediverse, @npub1q3u…r5gz (aka @npub1xsv…q6he) and just say that Pixelfed and Loops are just great. Thanks for doing what you do and being who you are!
If you want to know about Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org) or Loops (https://loops.video) check out their respective websites and send your props to Dan!
#fediverse #pixelfed #loops #socialweb #socialmedia

2024-12-26 01:51:49 UTC

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🤔

2024-12-26 01:41:04 UTC

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So like, you can rig it so after someone’s just gotten into the shower it can shut all the lights off? 🤔

2024-12-21 18:18:54 UTC

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This ham radio is missing a kitteh.

2024-12-19 03:34:40 UTC

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Yeah but that bitch still got preggers.

2024-12-06 13:47:58 UTC

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Honestly you have such great content I feel like others would pay for a supporting membership.

2024-12-06 13:38:38 UTC

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Donate to a pledge drive! They'll give you tokens of gratitude usually, and *those* make great gifts!

2024-12-06 13:37:53 UTC

Aww I just donated to WQED for their pledge drive and they wrote my name down as "Tosh".
Eh, close enough, but I was hoping the TRYPO conductor Brian Worsdale would see the tag "former TRYPO cellist" while he was there. Oh well.
Pledge if you can! QED is a great gift to Pittsburgh -- and even my mom who lives in Texas now can listen on streaming worldwide!!
#trypo #pittsburgh #wqed #classicalmusic #pledge

2024-11-30 16:51:25 UTC

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Hmm. Did you enjoy yourself?

2024-11-30 15:42:31 UTC

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I... wow. Da sneaughx izz biiiiig.

2024-11-28 20:45:29 UTC

I was trying to document our building management's incompetence with the Paxton fob system
(hurray we locked all the doors for the holiday and sent the guard home! yes good job but all the fobs are in "normal Thursday, unlocked" mode still you property management rocket surgeons...)
And I couldn't get one without my dog looking cute, which is irritating because I'm trying to document being mad.
Grumble grumble, stupid cute dog.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogsoffediverse #dogsofthefediverse #dogsofpixelfed #buildingautomation #propertymanagement #pittsburgh #fail #failtech
https://hactivedirectory.com/files/b6c1c62d-da8e-4b6b-a77b-e466bafb59c6

2024-11-22 00:37:56 UTC

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He’s saying “explain fraught” isn’t he.

2024-11-21 20:11:29 UTC

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I don't think we can be friends anymore.

2024-11-21 19:14:02 UTC

Yes, and for my salad I would like a bowl of ranch dressing, with a single arugula leaf float.
And a straw.

2024-11-08 22:57:48 UTC

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I can’t think of a more ridiculous panacea.

2024-11-05 03:17:03 UTC

I just heard “boners for democracy” and you know what, I’m going to post it, because anything truly for democracy has to be a good thing and have its place.

2024-11-03 21:52:23 UTC

Fax machine noises

2024-11-03 18:00:33 UTC

I think the marketing here is a tad off...
https://hactivedirectory.com/files/webpublic-51db18d3-8a26-49c1-b4b1-4619383ae8a5

2024-10-30 21:54:08 UTC

BRING BACK THE SURFACEBOOK!!1!
Seriously, I love my SB3 and its weird hinge design. It's a great laptop, a great desktop, and a great tablet, and I've never met any touchscreen that is as awesome as that device. I'm glad I bought the most powerful one I possibly could before they discontinued them.
#note1uwa…0zus

2024-10-29 01:59:46 UTC

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What’s you do, pull the hairpiece off?

2024-10-14 23:15:05 UTC

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https://hactivedirectory.com/files/f06a4be6-d8b9-4296-94b8-264aaf845e6e

2024-10-13 21:07:05 UTC

Donde esta la discoteca?

2024-10-11 23:50:49 UTC

Have you tried fucking off and then fucking back on again?
#techsupport #support #agent #callcenter #work #infotech #it #iit #infosec #systems

2024-10-11 23:44:29 UTC

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I seriously haven't used it in a decade but there's this "but what if I ever have to change jobs and it's not up to date" which isn't active FOMO it's ... like what, first degree derivation FOMO? FOMO's FOMO rate of change?
God that's disgusting.
If you really want to hate it even more than you already do, I'll tell you that LinkedIn's financials are reported under Microsoft's Productivity and Business Processes segment. Which is grade-A vomit inducing in my book.

2024-10-11 23:30:55 UTC

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I hate LinkedIn so much. Like, I just loathe it. I'd rather use the DMV to conduct business communications.

2024-10-11 22:19:39 UTC

Five is a four letter word.

2024-10-02 21:45:50 UTC

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Absolutely they do. ~10% of Americans are "undecided." Like, wtf bro, how? I mean, Harris is the clear, non-nazi choice here, but who *could possibly* be on the fence after this long? Bro what are you deciding between bro?!?

2024-10-02 21:39:31 UTC

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Yeah I had this same thought because no one had to say "excuse me sir, no one is 'eating the dogs...'"
But I'm honestly not sure which I hate worse: a maniac maniacally screaming about incoherent insanities, or an educated, well-mannered sociopath calmly and politely whitewashing the former's rantings in the most gaslighting way possible.

2024-10-01 23:54:13 UTC

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Not on purpose! Not by choice!! You did this!

2024-10-01 23:42:19 UTC

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Jesus. TIL.
> Skin & bones are left in because there is no waste in canned salmon

2024-10-01 19:53:16 UTC

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Is… is this a thing? Like it’s normal? Because yeah little round crunchy things.

2024-10-01 17:36:19 UTC

This canned salmon contains an impressive amount of bones.

2024-09-27 01:41:50 UTC

Ya know that thing where you’re a climate science denier and then you’re all omg about Helene? 🤔
#florida #helene #hurricane #weather #climatescience #globalwarming

2024-09-26 22:17:54 UTC

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cleanup responsibilities* -- except when it's Florida and Texas.

2024-09-26 01:07:46 UTC

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God I wish that worked IRL

2024-09-16 18:38:04 UTC

Pretty sure I said the words “I don’t have a horse in this fight” in a meeting today.

2024-09-15 22:06:55 UTC

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100% the same. Literally couldn't pick her music out of a lineup of similar artists but she just seems like such an awesome person AND she seems to wear stardom with responsibility.
Plus, in the episode of Family Guy where Chris says "you dance like an unattended fire hose!" I'm pretty sure milk came out of my nose.

2024-09-15 19:07:56 UTC

Head of the Secret Service has stated that they're no longer comfortable having open-air outdoor events (like MAGA rallies) in open carry states.
#guns #usa #2a #shooting #shootings #gunviolence #secretservice #trump #maga #gop #republicans
https://hactivedirectory.com/files/webpublic-29f58e68-5dad-40e8-a2d4-54b2c06dc1d1

2024-09-14 02:03:26 UTC

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"Charlie the Chauvinist Brain Worm" is totally an account I'd follow.

2024-09-14 01:43:26 UTC

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Actually you know what, what was super insensitive to the brain worm. I retract the unwarranted insult comparing the two.

2024-09-14 01:42:53 UTC

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This actually assumes that the worm is actually more worm than RFKJR. Jury's still out on that one.

2024-09-11 21:55:06 UTC

Hey, citizens, particularly if you identify as "Republican," or even "undecided:"
I want you to go into a job interview for a C-level position, at the world's largest company (or near as you can find), for a job you've already had, that will be make-or-break for the entire company, its employees, customers, and stockholders, and when they ask you a strategy question that you have been loudly opinionated on prior to your previous employment, during your previous employment, and then after your previous employment as well, I want you to look irritated and say directly to the interviewer's face:
I have concepts of a plan [for that], and you'll hear about it in the not too distant future."
Try that. See how that works for you. Oh, you don't have to because you know how abjectly, insanely unprepared you'd sound, how nakedly absurd it is that this would be your answer (and has been all along, even when you called for votes to dismantle it and were asked "but what would you replace it with?"), and at what volume you'd be laughed out of the room?
Yeah. Me too. That's why when the guy who wants to be your POTUS says it, you should do that very same thing.
THAT. ANSWER. WAS. JUST. AS. RIDICULOUS. AS. HIS. ENTIRE.
CANDIDACY.
#trump #potus #election2024 #uspol #politics #harris #healthcare #ushealthcare #debate2024

2024-09-09 11:54:15 UTC

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((hug))

2024-09-08 21:24:12 UTC

I took two days off from work a week or two ago. They were marvelous -- I woke up and was energized and even got a few things (not as much as I wanted, but more than I normally do) done.
I was encouraged that I would be on a positive trajectory to not just constantly and consistently feel like absolute garbage by the time the weekends roll around, and that I'd continue my energy, my not feeling sick or unwell or painful (or at least, to a more tolerable level), and that I'd get a few things done on the weekends. Perhaps even start turning over a new leaf.
Nope. All weekend. Felt like absolute ass. Tired, exhausted even. Just want to sleep.
I have no explanation for this, and I'm kind of disheartened by it. Why does it take me half a day to feel functional?

2024-09-04 15:49:59 UTC

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Sorry, not tryina get all up in your business, but I'm definitely willing to go to bat for you. Probably some automated risk assessment software that never got properly fine-tuned.
Hmm, he's non-profit but he's not a super-PAC so, yeah, better make sure he goes out of business just in case. Or whatever.
Or maybe they just indiscriminately shoot every fifth customer in the back of the head now?

2024-09-04 15:48:00 UTC

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Wait, they WHAT??? Did they even give you a crappy -- nay ANY -- reason why?

2024-09-04 00:35:11 UTC

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"Here's the deal on the 'YubiKey cloning attack:' there exists a series of quantum entanglements that, if you're struck by lightning at just the right time on five different occasions throughout your life, this is a legitimate attack."
FTFY.
This sh!t is ridiculous.

2024-09-04 00:27:31 UTC

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Bitwarden also.
And email. And SMS. And Yubikey (*goddamn three of them*). And Microsoft Authenticator (non-optional for one E3 account). And Google Authenticator. And my phone has a hardware security key built in.
This is starting to get private school janitor-level of keys on the proverbial keyring but for accounts.

2024-09-04 00:17:11 UTC

It's 2024, and this is the majority of 2FA in a nutshell:
Institution: I'm sending you a code I need you to put into this form.
Institution: Also don't give it to anyone.
Institution: Oh except me.
Institution: Oh except for these other codes which we'll send from the same shortcode but will never ask you for.
Institution: Don't get confused or hacked lol
#infosec #security

2024-09-03 18:37:05 UTC

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Yes, yes, I love this, hashtag accurate. <3

2024-09-01 20:30:09 UTC

Bwahahahahahahahahaha
https://hactivedirectory.com/files/f0d92bb3-038f-43fc-87fd-67f736cdbdd9

2024-09-01 14:36:43 UTC

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I don’t know if that’s actually right or not because I was 6months old when Reagan took over.
But I know that, my dad for instance, doesn’t recognize the Republican Party (my mom is an evangelical trumper but they are divorced) and the one thing that *I* have seen shrivel in my lifetime is policy positions.
I think Reagan was great at delivering policy positions. Most of them have turned out at best to be wrong and at worst hot garbage, but they were arguments for positions nonetheless.
I still have policy debates with my dad. Not because I’m dyed in the wool blue but right now the democratic party makes up a huge portion of my values — but we haven’t known a real policy debate in this country in years.
Gingrich helped seal that deal. And then we birthed Steve Bannon who popularized “flooding the zone with so much sh!t” and here we are with Trump as Jesus and everyone in their corners and the first sensible — not great — just the first actual attempt at a border bill getting shot down because it would make reelection a problem.
I hate this. I want a forum of ideas. I want to hear from the communists and the anarchists and the left and the right and the really left and the centrist who compromises on everything to get to the long run.
We don’t even know how.

2024-08-29 00:34:39 UTC

Lemme see your hands up if you can backspace a whole friggin' sentence to correct a small typo faster than you can mouse/keyboard to the error and correct it
Woo!
#stupidshit #mouse #keyboard #typo

2024-08-22 23:48:45 UTC

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“snapper” is a meaningless measurement unless there is banana for scale

2024-08-22 23:47:49 UTC

Real question: if defeated, will Trump run again in four years?
#trump #uspol #potus #uspresidents #election2024 #election2024usa

2024-08-13 18:25:41 UTC

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OH MY GOD THAT LOOKS SO GOOD. #nomnomnom

2024-08-06 20:59:35 UTC

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JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST that was like 20 years ago I swear to shiva...

2024-07-31 21:44:22 UTC

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2:59am: *
3:00am: WAKE UP DINGDINGDINGDINGDING!