#mistake
This week, we discovered that #GitHub.com’s #RSA #SSH #private #key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub #repository.
Source: https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
A quotation from Gracián, Baltasar
The greatest of sages can commit one mistake, but not two; he may fall into error, but he doesn’t lie down and make his home there.
[En un descuido puede caer el mayor sabio, pero en dos no; y de paso, que no de asiento.]
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 214 (1647) [tr. Maurer (1992)]
#quotation #quote #error #experience #learning #mistake #progress #self-correction #self-improvement #wisdom
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/55994/
A quotation from Hogan, Robert
There’s a reason narcissists don’t learn from mistakes and that’s because they never get past the first step, which is admitting that they made one.
Robert Hogan (b. 1937) American psychologist
In Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door, ch. 6 (2014)
#quote #quotation #admission #confession #error #growth #learning #mistake #narcissism
Sourcing and notes: https://wist.info/hogan-robert/55980/
team, team, team team…
In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams.
teams not necessarily help each other
the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, no body cares) dokuwiki”
often they also work against each other
so actually there are no teams
without social skills and development as human being
the only interface that still exists is text and money
“give me that, here the money”
a “helpful” “community” isn’t it?
which reminds me of:
have no problem with that, just please do not raise any expectations that it might be otherwise.
“we are a hip, cool and fun company” (no)
just say it out loud: “we are a boring company, our systems are a grown mess and we are about to lose control, want to fix it?”
well if you read & understood K.I.S.S (simplify, simplify, simplify, standardize, automate) it could be fixed over the course of several years, if not: no.
to ignore K.I.S.S means: leaving behind an badly documented mess, either for others to fix or to die (delete & restart).
Any newcomer’s motivation will die fast, when being stuck without help and with outdated documentation.
Aka: the company is doomed to die in a self made mess. (Don’t tell me i did not warn ya)
Some will ride the rainbow, until it dies.
You just killed your own company and your job, but not in the way McIlroy envisioned it:
“As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.”
(probably quoting JFKennedy)
PS: those guys at ubuntu surely also never have heard of K.I.S.S
the only reason ubuntu is still a thing, is that it is based on K.I.S.S respecting Debian
also: systemd has become “creepware” (it used to do startup, now it also does network config, WHY? WHY? (because it want’s to rule them all)
#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #team #teams #it #crowd #company #germany #error #mistake #unix #kiss #simplify #simplicity #rant
Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2021/11/10/rant-system-philosophy-it-that-ignore-unix-k-i-s-s-will-die-in-germany-there-are-only-one-man-teams/
system philosophy: IT that ignore UNIX K.I.S.S will die - in Germany there are only one man teams
team, team, team team…
In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams.
teams not necessarily help each other
the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, no body cares) dokuwiki”
often they also work against each other
so actually there are no teams
without social skills and development as human being
the only interface that still exists is text and money
“give me that, here the money”
a “helpful” “community” isn’t it?
which reminds me of:
have no problem with that, just please do not raise any expectations that it might be otherwise.
“we are a hip, cool and fun company” (no)
just say it out loud: “we are a boring company, our systems are a grown mess and we are about to lose control, want to fix it?”
well if you read & understood K.I.S.S (simplify, simplify, simplify, standardize, automate) it could be fixed over the course of several years, if not: no.
to ignore K.I.S.S means: leaving behind an badly documented mess, either for others to fix or to die (delete & restart).
Any newcomer’s motivation will die fast, when being stuck without help and with outdated documentation.
Aka: the company is doomed to die in a self made mess. (Don’t tell me i did not warn ya)
Some will ride the rainbow, until it dies.
You just killed your own company and your job, but not in the way McIlroy envisioned it:
“As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.”
(probably quoting JFKennedy)
#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #team #teams #it #crowd #company #germany #error #mistake #unix #kiss #simplify #simplicity
Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2021/11/10/system-philosophy-it-that-ignore-unix-k-i-s-s-will-die-in-germany-there-are-only-one-man-teams/
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British fabulist
Neil Gaiman’s Journal, “My New Year Wish” (31 Dec 2011)
#quote #quotation #attempting #endeavor #error #failure #fear #learning #mistake #resolution #risk #striving
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/50545/
Newly #revised charts & table. Previous data I posted under-reported deaths by 54% & misattributed the majority to Pfizer instead of AstraZeneca in the UK.
#Apologies for the #mistake. I'm not a #statistician, just a #layman trying to compensate for the lack of #transparency from #corrupt #government.
#vaccines #vaccination #pfizer #moderna #astrazeneca #oxford #mrna #mrnavaccines #information #vaccinedeath #vaccineinjury #ukdata #vaccinedeaths #vaccineinjuries #UK #statistics #stats #data #graph #chart #charts #USA #australia #newzealand #canada #covid #covid19 #coronavirus #vaccine #adversereactions #covid #covid19 #coronavirus #pfizer #astrazeneca #moderna #mrna #mrnavaccines #graphs #medicaltyranny #experimentalvaccine
The moment an artificial #intelligence accidentally wiped out #humanity...
The following section is taken from the #essay by #BruceSchneier about The Coming AI Hackers:
Imagine a robotic vacuum assigned the task of cleaning up any mess it sees. It might disable its vision so that it can’t see any messes, or cover messes up with opaque materials so it doesn’t see them.72 In 2018, an entrepreneurial—or perhaps just bored—programmer wanted his robot vacuum to stop bumping into furniture. He trained an #AI by rewarding it for not hitting the bumper sensors.73 Instead of learning not to bump into things, the AI learned to drive the vacuum backwards because there are no bumper sensors on the back of the device.
source: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/coming-ai-hackers
This means, in its #consequence, that AI would unhesitatingly wipe out humanity if that would bring it closer to the programmed #reward. We could not even call this AI #evil, because it has no emotions at all and knows no human #morality. Ultimately, it would not be the AI's #mistake either, but in fact the fault of unclean, incomplete programming. Now look at the quality of today's software with Trojans, viruses, backdoors, spam and all that crap. Does anyone seriously believe that the #military and intelligence services do not use all the software possible? Against fully autonomous #combat #robots, one can only defend oneself with combat robots. Either with quantity or better AI. Once #Skynet is activated, the solution could be to wipe out humanity, because without humans there are no more conflicts on Earth and world #peace is, after all, the highest reward for such a combat #robot.
#software #problem #ethics #future #bug #hack #hacker #conflict #war #science #emotion #defence
