InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Even if your parents weren't truly bad, what was the most narcissistic/narcissist-esque trait or thing they ever did?
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    3 months ago

    Not my parents, but I’ve had a narcissist work colleague pester me about my partner and I not wanting to have kids, trying to convince us I guess, using her ultimate argument…

    Her: But… you need to have kids so they take care of you when you’re old!

    Me: So… wait. Is that the reason you had kids?

    Her: Well yea! (like that’s the only logical answer, duh)

    Me: … wow …

    Fast forward. Her kids are all grown up now, they’ve since cut all contact and she hasn’t seen them nor her grandkids in years. I run into them once in a while and I’ve helped them out with a handful of times with things like moving or maintenance or tax reports or whatever. There’s a few things they never really got to learn growing up and anything they could ever do was never good enough for her, even though she’s terrible at most things.

    Now and then, she’d still complain about them being ungrateful and I’d just ignore her… she’s never once come even close to the self-awareness that she drove them away by being a narcissist asshole.
    She’s retired now, so neither of us have to deal with her now.

    Great fucking plan, having kids to guilt trip them into caring for you…
    They had the guts to move on and I’m proud of them.
    I was probably the first to tell them so, some random passerby.
    Fuck narcissists.

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•How to anonymize logs before sharing?
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•How to anonymize logs before sharing?
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    3 months ago

    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.