Deborah Pickett @futzle@aus.social

#introduction #introductions
Hi, I’m Deborah (Debbie, Deb), I live in #Melbourne, Australia. I am a Gen X parent to 3 #cats and 2 #dogs which I toot about liberally.
I am the sysadmin at a plastics company. You can follow the saga at #SysadminLife (or mute if you’re just here for the pets).
I write #MicroFiction short stories at @FutzleFiction, posting 2-3 times weekly, with a SF theme.
Interests: #TextileArts, especially #quilting, #crochet, #embroidery; #VintageTech, #electronics, #maps, #WordPuzzles, #BoardGames, #sf; #music, especially #synthesizers; #pets.
I am trаns but I seldom talk about that.

I always CW these topics: food, medical, politics, eye contact. I always describe images. I may add image descriptions to your posts so that I can boost them.
I have a very long list of muted terms. Thank you for using them consistently and CWing your posts.

Followers with no profile and no posts will find themselves softblocked. If your posts are set to followers-only, I suggest interacting with me first. No flirting, please.
I block users who post: white supremacy, racism, queerphobia of all kinds, anti-vax and far-right political content, porn.

I’m surprised I’m not seeing more overt misogyny and racism with respect to the PM and the Chancellor. Assuming it’s there (it must be, right?) am I just experiencing my own media bubble?

@aeduna Hello there, you found me! <inserts Goon Show reference>

Maybe it's time for me to change all my domain controllers to think they are in UTC.

I know they say you shouldn't run a domain controller inside a domain-connected Hyper-V server, for this (among others) reason, but to do otherwise is to duplicate server hardware and Windows Server licences, and for this rare event, compounded by a time zone change, it's not economical for a satellite location such as $site.

Also, as recently mentioned, if Windows stored its real-time clock in UTC instead of local time, this would not have been an issue.

Spectacular. Our Windows domain controller at $site was down for four days because the Hyper-V server it was on had a broken power supply. During this time we had a time zone change at the site (daylight saving, have I mentioned how annoying it is today?). So when it all came back up:
- The Hyper-V server had no domain controller to connect to because the time was wrong.
- The domain controller thought it was an hour ago.
- Everyone's Kerberos tickets were invalid because they were out by an hour.
- I couldn't log in to Hyper-V manager because the Hyper-V server changed its firewall profile to Public instead of Domain.
- I couldn't log into the domain controller to set the time, because the Kerberos tickets were wrong.

In the end I had to:
- Remote desktop to the domain controller using its IP address, ignoring a warning about certificates.
- Set the time manually with the DOS "time" command.
- Remote desktop to the Hyper-V server and restart the Network Location Awareness service so it would know it's on the domain.
- Reboot everyone's computers so they got updated Kerberos tickets.

Sheesh.

I’m watching a TV series on cryptanalysis and it covers the usual tales of the Allies decoding German codes in WWII. But no one ever talks about whether Germany cracked the codes of the Allies. Did they? Or are there no such stories because no Allied codes were cracked?

Cursed alphabetic entry keypad.

It’s called “single sign on” because there is a single point of failure—the authentication server—that can break everything if it is down.

[2023] US plans to switch to permanent daylight saving time. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

<scary Halloween laugh> End thread

[2018] My Cyberpower UPS lets you set a time zone, and daylight saving rules, great! Only, it crashes mysteriously on the first day of the year because no one thought to check (1) UTC offset > 0, (2) DST starts in a later calendar month than it ends, so the year begins inside DST. I have this UPS now set to UTC and it is happy. Wrong, but happy.