InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

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  • I hear ya.
    I get 1-6 meetings in the same time slot, people don’t care to check so I don’t care to show.
    I decide which meetings are important for actually moving stuff forward and screw the rest.

    There’s only ever one guy who complained to my boss…
    I didn’t show up for a meeting for a Friday 7pm, invite sent at like 4:58pm the same day for some inane and absolutely not urgent subject.
    I saw that invite come in, chuckled, closed my laptop, went home and ignored it.

    Later that night, the guy went nuts and CC’d everyone’s bosses because he had wasted the full hour and obviously no one showed up to his meeting “even though I made sure to check everyone’s calendar and everyone was available and you’re all unprofessional”.

    I don’t do emails notifications on phones as a rule unless you wanna pay my rate 24/7, but I had forgotten to do my time sheet so I was logged in doing that…

    I dabble in a bit of passive aggressiveness in the face of corporate bullshit, so I finished my timesheet and hit propose new time… Sunday 3:21 am…
    “Checked your calendar and it was available. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
    Closed my laptop and fucked off.

    The guy went nuclear over several emails.
    Sent a quick email to my boss “Just a heads-up, I think I angered someone by not attending their 7pm meeting they sent at 4:58pm and proposing an equally ridiculous time”

    Never heard from the guy again and the next week he wasn’t in the company AD anymore.

    Probably went full tilt cookie monster in the coke jar or something.




  • The problem is there’s likely not a universal solution that’s guaranteed to clean everything in every case.

    Cleaning specific logs/configs is much easier when you know what you’re dealing with.
    Something like anonymizing a Cisco router config is easy enough because it folllows a known format that you can parse and clean.
    Building a tool to anonymize some random logs from a specific software is one thing, anonymizing all logs from any software is unlikely.
    Either way, it should always be double-checked and tailored to what’s being logged.


  • It depends a lot on what the application is logging to begin with.
    If a project prints passwords in logs, consider to just GTFO as it’s terrible security practice.
    There might also be sensitive info that’s not coming from a static thing like your username, but from variable data such as IP addresses, gps coordinates, or whatever thing gets logged.
    Meaning a simple find&replace might be insufficient.

    When possible, I tend to replace the info I remove with a short name of what I replaced out as it’s easier to understand context when it’s not all ********** or truncated.
    example:

    proxy_container_1     | <redacted_client1_ip> - - [17/Aug/2024:12:39:06 +0000] "GET /u/<redacted_local_user2> HTTP/1.1" 200 963 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.4; +<redacted_remote_instance3_fqdn>"
    

    keeping the same placeholders for subsequent substitutions helps because if everything is the same, then you don’t know what’s what anymore.
    (this single line would be easy enough either way, but if you have a bunch and can’t tell client1 from client50 apart anymore that can hinder troubleshooting.

    regular expressions are useful in doing that, but something that works on a specific set of logs might miss sensitive info in another.

    I’m sure people have made tools to help with that, possibly with regex patterns for common stuff, but even with that, you’d need to doublecheck the output to be 100% sure.

    It helps a lot when whatever app doesn’t log too much sensitive info to begin with, but that’s usually out of your hands as a user.




  • The router polling integration is probably a bit superfluous for devices that have the companion app installed.
    Although, it’s still helpful for other devices like guests’ phones, or non android/ios devices.

    Not sure how helpfully to your use case these will be, but a few ideas…

    It’s been a while since I tinkered, but I think you can also assign multiple devices to a person and track the person’s presence instead of a specific device.
    You can also create a group of persons, which is handy for some use cases.

    As an example, I have a group.us which contains person.me and person.mypartner. The group’s status is home if either of us are home and only changes to away if neither of us are home.

    Similarly, I have a group.guests which contains guests who sometimes spend the night.
    If any guests are home, my goodnight automation ignores the bathroom and the guest bedroom lights.

    group.guests:

    entity_id:
      - input_text.manual_guest_tracker
      - person.guest
      - person.fren
      - person.otherfren
      - person.olefren
      - person.stepbro
      - person.nephew
      - person.cousin
      - person.niece
    order: 3
    icon: mdi:bag-carry-on
    friendly_name: Guests
    

    I have an input boolean that changes input_text.manual_guest_tracker to home/not_home if we wanna enable “guests mode” without having to track a device.

    Single person with multiple trackers:
    person.fren:

    editable: true
    id: fren
    device_trackers:
      - device_tracker.applewafren
      - device_tracker.iphonefren
    friendly_name: Fren
    
    

  • In the companion app, where you choose the update interval, there’s a banner of text that explains it.
    Some sensors update instantly (such as connected WiFi SSID), others update on an interval (such a battery level or pressure sensor).
    The maximum update interval applies to non-instantaneous sensors.

    Sensors will update either instantly or on a defined interval. If the sensor supports instant updates then it will always receive instant updates. View the sensor details to learn which sensors update instantly.
    If the sensor does not support instant updates then it will update based on one of the below selected options
    You must restart the application when you make any changes to this setting

    When you select which sensors to enable you can see whether it’s an instantly updating one or one on a timer