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Erik Ableson
@Erik Ableson

I like solving interesting problems and understanding how things work.

Dual citizenship #Canada/#France.

Independent IT #consultant focused on #infrastructure, with an ongoing hobby horse of #backups, data protection and availability.

Either a dilettante or a polymath - it's hard to tell some days.

Core skills: troubleshooting

He/Him

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Recent Notes

Stefano Marinelli · 21w
"I need the full DevOps workflow to publish the site." "It's a static site. Here are the SFTP credentials to upload the files you have, which were generated by the client's SSG." "You don't understa...
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@nprofile1q... This has these vibes all over it. And I feel your pain seeing clients try to apply solutions suitable for Google and Meta scale infrastructures to the most basic problems.

Schools aren't helping either. It's one curriculum for everyone and little or no attempt to contextualize when to use which tool

abadidea · 23w
here I've been combing for old documents and stuff to free up disk space on my laptop, when all I need to do is do a little file system surgery to make sure Chrome will not be able to successfully red...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... 😳 so basically Chrome is hacking the filesystem ACLs in order to force download the model file? That's...not good

Note to self: check on the machine with Chrome to see what it is doing (only around because Proxmox consoles don't do extended chars on non-US keyboards on any other browser)
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abadidea · 23w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqtg75dq4vrzf34cz6rstg54sx6928zt3luxxrgd7xax6y7t69gznsgpw4ek nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9dtz5045lnpakgchhjfnxkpzm32zhxer8q7enqtg7k4mxauwwkrqxazaxj no no no, Chrome wasn't doing anything weird to the ACLs, *I'm* doing s...
Li Chen · 32w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqtg75dq4vrzf34cz6rstg54sx6928zt3luxxrgd7xax6y7t69gznsgpw4ek I sneak into your house and cuddle them when you’re sleeping 😼
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File systems are a useful abstraction and should be taught to anyone using computers.

*Hiding* filesystems should be punishable by flogging.

Non-techie client that has lost some files and it turns out they were stored on OneDrive...except that they don't have OneDrive installed. Doesn't stop Word from using it as an online file system 🤦‍♂️

Only visible by going back through recent files 😤