https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/verizon-sent-man-a-refurbished-phone-with-mdm-then-deleted-his-data-remotely/

"I lost everything. Contacts, messages, videos, documents, pictures, everything from patient information to the last video I have with my grandmother before she died."

BACK UP YOUR SHIT

I'm not victim blaming. I'm future victim *warning.*

BACK UP YOUR SHIIIIIIIIIT...!

Fuck systemd. Seriously. FUCK THAT SHIT. I am so goddamn tired of it getting its nasty, poorly-coded, bug-ridden fingers into EVERYTHING like some kind of goddamn Microsoft library would.

I can't use the shutdown command anymore, because systemd says "but you have a terminal open! In your own UID! that you're issuing the shutdown command from!" and prevents it from happening.

So I have to instead systemctl reboot -f. And the -f is REQUIRED because see above, re my own TTY.

IT GETS WORSE.

A new #OpenZFS article of mine is up at Klara!

Ever fretted about how to get the most out of your database's storage performance? Here's a nice chewy read to get you on track:

https://klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-openzfs-for-production-databases/

HMMMMM

In related news, Microsoft is offering thousands of its most senior employees an early buyout plan to get them off the payroll.

... only a few months after announcing to everyone how their new focus is QA and making sure everything works the right way, every time, reliably.

I'm sure there won't be any downsides to THAT.

Oh, this is BAD. Slop on the front page...?!

Aurich says an investigation has been opened, and we'll hear the results next week.

(Aurich was also careful not to say slop was posted. Just that there made have been a policy violation. But I don't see any other way to explain the second half of the piece being hallucinatory quotes that were never uttered on the GitHub thread in question.)

I look forward to the results of this investigation.

Well that was fun--my laptop's M.2 drive coughed up a hairball something like thirty minutes into my (storage!) talk at #ato2025 .

The laptop immediately hard rebooted, and I delivered the last fifteen minutes of my talk blind, with "journal recovery aborted" ext4 errors infinitely scrolling across the big screen beside me.

I saw several folks in the crowd snap pics... Can anybody send me one? That felt like for the scrapbook! 😅

https://2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/storage-fundamentals

So I'm a... punk goth?

Well. I'm not gonna argue tbh. Sounds about right.

Today, I had to dig into a senior executive's email to find out why the hell "Otter dot AI" was suddenly invited to every Teams meeting the company had, and was emailing people snippets from what was said, still images of them from the call, etc.

If you sign up for this thing, it starts emailing anybody you've had a meeting with, pretending to be you, giving them a big fat blue button that says "open minutes."

If they do: now it attends THEIR meetings, and emails THEIR contacts as THEM.

An open letter to a billionaire. (Note: might be easier to read from the ALT tag than the image.) #meta #facebook #algorithmicfeeds