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Kirk Zurell

@kzurell@cosocial.ca View on cosocial.ca

Working in computing and information technology in Waterloo, Ont.

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Jess👾 @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange

More "boring" service providers who are content with a modest profit margin and slow organic growth, please. I don't even care if the UI looks "dated" and new features take a long time to be built. Traditional boring bare metal, only add new customers when you have capacity to support it, whatever.

A company of 50+ year old tech veterans who have been laid off and left behind from age discrimination just looking to keep the bills paid until retirement.

Run it like a co-op, like a little credit union that isn't looking to expand quickly, just serve their little niche of the community.

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David Nelson @dmnelson@mastodon.social

pfSense Plus and CE will be unified into one release beginning with 26.10! This should be a relief to people who have felt the community edition was lagging behind and not getting enough attention. #pfSense #pfSensePlus #pfSenseCE #Netgate netgate.com/blog/pfsense-at-20

pfSense at 20 Celebrate 20 years of pfSense® software. Release 26.10 unites CE and Plus into one edition. See what's coming.

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Kirk Zurell @kzurell@cosocial.ca

@Drayson This does not exist. We do not sell it; we will not help you find one. We do not recommend that you use one if you find one.

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Kirk Zurell @kzurell@cosocial.ca

So the #waterlooregion #municipal #election happened, but the appointed regional chair is pending.

#LocalDemocracy could do the #funniestthing of the millennium.

When the #provincial appointee is strolling into their first December or January council meeting, just…slam the doors shut on them.

Make them knock. That’s all, open the doors, let them in, let them take their #appointed place, get on like nothing happened. Except it did.

I do so love a bit of #theatre. And #tradition.

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Kirk Zurell @kzurell@cosocial.ca

#fedihire when do we realize that it's actually our #money that is lying to us?

We learned better than #gold 'cause #idolatry (it took a while).

We're learning better than #fiat 'cause #stimulus e.g. #COVID

But nevermind, here, work for a king's ransom for a business losing billions.

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Kirk Zurell @kzurell@cosocial.ca

Reminds me of the person who hacked their library card into Apple #wallet ‘cause they didn’t want to carry the physical card anymore. (I looked for the original story but couldn’t find it, maybe I imagined it, but wow there’s a lot of similar efforts since then.)

Anyway, good luck to #ontario with its digital IDs, at least Ford Nation insisted on still having cards while they’re still around.

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Kirk Zurell @kzurell@cosocial.ca

So I made it home without confrontation: the “no really we’re gonna do it!” increased-fines #fareinspection never made it to me.

If you leave your mobile #browser on Private mode day-to-day, view and activate the #gotransit pass (through “mozio.com”) and then lose your session for whatever reason, you’re guilty of a fare evasion(?)

It’s probably cookies or similar, a facile and brittle approach to a line-of-business problem.

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Kirk Zurell @kzurell@cosocial.ca

On the #kitchener #gotransit train, and they have repudiated their $10 weekend pass. It doesn’t appear as activated any more on my phone. I can guess why, but they won’t. Just leaving a message in case they ship me off to the gulag. #banaldystopia

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