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@Heidi@infosec.exchange corrected, thnx! I wish the app would keep the full post in view when replying. I have the short term memory of a gnat.

@Heidi@infosec.exchange header text 'How Cyber Works' above silhouette of figure with outstretched arm. Diagram like olfactory system shows chaos goes into mouth, to belly full of spite (and stars), along arm and electric cyber zaps out of fingers. #ALT4you

@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io I absolutely love their commitment.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117335274386590351 how delightful!

@jameshowell@fediscience.org @felimwhiteley@mastodon.social @joeress@mastodon.social it's worth it for the quality show. Best tech podcast, period.

@LovesTha@floss.social @evacide@hachyderm.io right? Butlerian Badger still makes the reference. And for my academic comrades it doubles as a Judith Butler reference.

@joeress@mastodon.social I find it so frustrating. Google used to work like an extended memory for me - I could fire off 'kitchen sink' queries around half-remembered factoids and it'd give me what I was looking for, or the thing would at least be in the first page or two. Now, it decided what it thinks I mean and gives me a page of near-identical, wrong results based on things like location (which isn't even correct because my IP is in a major city miles away) and/or popularity and not my niche interests.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange though having said that, there's also this from openBSD - in short, the provenance of generated code can't be determined so can't be included due to licensing. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2

@robpike@cosocial.ca I had no idea how lucky I was until I saw "see the Milky Way" on someone's bucket list. I can see it on any clear night.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I think netBSD has, the only one I'm reasonably sure of. So yeah I think there was a moment of misplaced optimism there.

@kaidenshi@exquisite.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange damn. That's frustrating and disappointing.

Has anyone got any good resources/articles/videos on licenses and specifically Linux (What are we on now, GPL3?) vs #bsd ?

@industrial_cream@aus.social @mxlinux@mastodon.social KDE now? Shit what have I missed.

The academic integrity professional learning module I'm doing says 'most students want to complete their studies with integrity' is true. Having just marked two subjects, I can assure you that this is not true. More than half the class do not give a shit. Your module is wrong. They say they want to, but they just don't want to get caught cheating and don't want to see themselves as cheats.

Apparently the Duck Duck Go glasses are a legit thing. https://knockaround.com/products/duckduckgo-paso-robles

God I hate these compulsory learning tickbox things. Condescending videos and bullshit quizzes.

@andyjennings@aus.social the wave of racism, misogyny, and transphobia I'm seeing online is just horrifying. The comments on posts about the Odyssey are ghastly.

There's a whole lot of life stuff I need to do that I do not want to do. There are small things, like going to gym and calling a plumber, and big things, like having some health tests, and doing taxes, and applying for jobs. At this moment I can't even muster the will to get off the couch. It's cold. I do not want to do any of this.

@yojimbo@masto.hackers.town yeah that's true. I shouldn't let them annoy me so much - most people just do them and don't care. I take it as a personal affront. That'll be my trait narcissism I guess.

this little laptop only has 4 gig of memory, which is a bit sad. So that rules out KDE Plasma. I find XFCE always feels a little odd, not sure why. However I know it's very customisable so perhaps I can set up the menus and such to suit my taste. 4Gig is really a bit tragic, it's almost getting to the point of being unusable for web browsing. That's fine. have to get my head around using sh instead of bash too.

You young'uns 'ave it easy. Back in my day you upgraded your OS on the command line and spent the next week fixing shit. None of this cute 'gui takes care of everything, just gimne a password' nonsense. 'Just works'. Pffft, you people don't know you're alive. Oi! Git off my lawn!!!

@darfplatypus@infosec.exchange I've never had a bad experience with Steam. On the rare occasion we've needed customer support, it's been good. Have been able to easily get refunds on a couple of games. It makes updates so easy. The only thing that annoys me is when games require additional logins like to EA or something. And that's the developers, not Steam. Like if people don't like Steam... build a better platform? Also GOG is pretty decent.

Went to see The Odyssey. Bloody Amazing. I'm calling it for a swag of Oscars. It was also the most beautiful quality movie - at the standard cinema - that I've ever seen. So crisp and bright. Going to be a let down going back to the usual blurry digital movies.

@ldottxt@kind.social yes and not disabled, but some life stuff gives me a bit of insight.

I wondered about seeing what I could run just from the CLI but really it's 2026, a GUI is the thing, no? So apparently I can use x-windows (fast becoming retro!) and it seems any of the desktop environments will work.

I'm having a big attack of 'leave my cool thing alone'. I think it's not quite gatekeeping, but when something you appreciate gets popular, it gets watered down and misunderstood and attacked. I've been doing quite a bit of defensive 'well actually' this week. Well at least a lot of classical scholars will be getting some publicity on their profiles, and booksellers should be doing a roaring trade.

@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol learning the new jargon seems to be such a feature of some things, doesn't it. When I started learning security, so much of it seemed to be just learning terminology. My institution briefly flirted with an eportfolio platform called Pebblepad, and it drove me nuts because it was just kind of 'different for the sake of being different' and had different naming conventions instead of files and folders. So confusing.

Does anyone still use Diaspora? Going through my old bookmarks and find I still have an account.

Gotta say, the single most useful piece of tech I have is a little Netgear wireless dongle. So often Linux (or now, BSD) doesn't recognise the onboard wireless, but plug this little device in and I have wifi on install. I can then configure the onboard later, usually, once I can download the requisite firmware.

@luxliquida@lgbtqia.space @mttaggart@infosec.exchange heh. I guess so. Though I admit I'm having a sense-of-humour bypass on this - I'm just so disappointed.

Threatening Amnesty International. Just when you think JK Rowling couldn't sink any lower in your estimation, she somehow manages to do so. What a reprehensible person.

@johnnythan@tuebingen.network @saramg@fosstodon.org yes, it's fake - elsewhere in the thread it says it's a faux interaction from a fake AMA meme account.

Watching an almost unwatchable (hyped and choppy) video about deGoogleing and the ubiquity of corporate surveillance. And while I kinda knew most of this stuff at some level, being a keen student of infosec and Doctorow fan, it's kinda depressing when you see it all concisely drawn together. It's inescapable. It really is. Resistance is token at best. I'd argue we're obligated to try. But your life is now corporate property.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116843611946347941 saving this for laters. Oh dear no don't encourage me, I do NOT have time to be messing around with hardware. I gave away a massive box of electronics components a couple of years ago. Do still have a soldering iron.

erm maybe it was netbsd

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I just want you to know that I am SO grateful you are out there doing this work. It's so important and your voice really, really matters.

@yojimbo@masto.hackers.town I understand the requirement for staff training and compliance, and the challenges of limited resources. It'd be nice if the makers were more in touch with the reality of casualisation in modern higher education. They're in fantasy land at the moment. I have to do a cybersecurity one today, that should be a laugh.

@sntx@mastodon.bsd.cafe good reminder, thank you. I'm struggling with all of this at the moment.

A 'stakeholder' in the delivery of education is using an AI scan for keywords to determine the adequacy of our courses' coverage. I'm just aghast. The frequency of keywords deciding whether our courses meet their arbitrary standards. I can't even begin to articulate how nonsensical this is.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@scottwilson/117071188685354534 I feel like I need to go back to my old habit of using a live distro for anything involving finance or personal data.

@tonyg@pubsub.leastfixedpoint.com I don't understand enough about display management to, well, understand this, but I do know my computer runs fast and hot when I try to play games like EVE Online and apparently framerate is the problem, and it's somehow to do with not having enough to render so running too fast. Counterintuitively.

@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol also I love that you're kind of just getting in there and using it. I attempted to reverse engineer a rust program with Ghidra while doing a CTF last year and it was quite fascinating trying to blunder my way around both code and tool that I was not familiar with (needless to say did not capture that particular flag). Nothing like diving in head first.

@timbray@cosocial.ca holy shit that's well written. Almost tempted to cough up the dosh to read the end.

Tools are not morally neutral. Software is not morally neutral.

Sad to learn of the passing of Sam Neill. A glass of red (sadly not from Two Paddocks) and a watch of Jurassic Park will be in order.

@marick@mstdn.social yes, it's fake. Check the comments. A satire/meme fake AMA account.

@eobet@oldbytes.space @robpike@cosocial.ca rural Australia

Well I needed a reason to try a BSD.