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@bruce@darkmoon.social @bob_zim@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange And !$, to repeat the argument from the last command.
There’s a ton of great shell tricks out there.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/117312782106510683
A modest proposal.
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RE: https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/117311695606112636
Perhaps a “allow hunting of billionaires for sport” proposition would be better. You can obtain a hunting license for $50. If you bag a billionaire you receive 1% of their assets, the other 99% is absorbed by the state.
You’re not allowed to taxidermy them. We’re not monsters.
For people who don’t want to kill, they can “catch and release” the billionaire.
Same rules otherwise apply: a successful capture nets the hunter 1% of the billionaire’s assets, 99% goes to the state, after deducting a modest amount to allow the billionaire a stipend to live on, say 1.5x minimum wage in whatever state they live in, plus they can enroll in the least-good health insurance program that they offer to their employees.
Don’t worry, they’ll no doubt use their superior intellect and skills to become a billionaire again in no time - and thus be eligible to be caught and released again! They’ll have fun. They love to say how much other people love to work, so they’ll appreciate both being shown mercy and having the opportunity to win capitalism all over again.
Open quoted postRE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116957223807180545
NeXTSTEP included a Webster Dictionary app as a standard utility. If a user had a picture of themselves tied to their login account, the app would display it in the definition of “gullible.”
As in, “you’re so gullible, if you look up the word it’s got your picture next to it.”
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Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me.
Open quoted postRE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@yrabbit/117272094851952244
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
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In 2019, the ESP8266 cost $3; now, the ESP32-P4 costs $2 and features a dual-core RISC-V processor running at up to 400 MHz, along with 32 MB of PSRAM and 32 MB of flash memory.
I think it can easily handle DNS :) #microPython #mcuhttps://copelandroyall.blogspot.com/2019/08/writing-micropython-pi-hole-for.html
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange One of my favorite sed stories was when I got called in at 2 am because our mail spool had filled up. Someone had mailed a large attachment (at the time, this probably meant a couple meg) to an organization-wide distro and now we had 500+ copies of it filling up the my building’s mailserver.
About 20 min into it, I got a call from the contract PM, checking in on folks working the problem at all our customer’s locations. Most were slowly…well, I don’t know what they were doing. Clearly they were taking the long way.
I told him I had a short script (hell, might’ve been one line) and was excising the attachment from everyone’s spool files. He got nervous and suggested maybe I should take a more cautious approach. Then I told him it was mostly done and all looked good.
I think he was a bit surprised. :)
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange Anyone who at least tries to make really dumb puns (or at least to appreciate them) is usually a positive litmus test for "should I follow them?"
So keep it up. :)
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange (full disclosure: I tried at least 4 different approaches to working "litmus" into a response, and that was the least lame one I could come up with).
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@markwyner Just a reminder that every browser team that *implemented* that capability is equally at fault.
RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/117038826379369323
Good thread!
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look there's a billion other reasons why people are against AI and all but fundamentally the core of my person reason is that I've already spent 30 years learning how to teach computers how to do exactly what I tell them to, so I am exceptionally disinterested in having them do things less accurately by talking to them in a sloppier language
Open quoted postI had an interview last Thursday. Haven't heard anything since (not that I really expected to, but, you know, it'd be nice, and aren't all job-seekers this anxious?)
I sent a note to the interviewer, thanking him for his time (totally lost track of it over a very busy weekend), and within 15 minutes, got an email to schedule the next step.
Coincidence? Probably. But that doesn't make me less happy to have reached back anyway -- this process sucks on both sides of the table. If there's anything I can do to make it easier for them, I'm happy to do it as a human, but also because it may help me.
Now I just gotta prepare for a "live analysis/logic session." Let the anxiety (re)commence!
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@angusm@mastodon.social But let’s remember that the palantiri were not themselves evil. They were created by the elves, perhaps even Fëanor himself, as a way to communicate over large distances.
Over time, most of them were lost, until all that remained were two controlled by evil demigods, and a third used by a human who thought he could hold his own against the other two.
It’s not an analogy for evil. It’s an analogy for social media turning evil in the presence of dominating evil will, alongside a failure of federation.
(Though really, it was used by the company to say they’re basically a panopticon, which clearly signalled evil intent. But I kinda like the failed social media analogy. :) )
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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange @TheWarOnCars@mastodon.social After five times, sure, install the regulator. If they somehow get to 16, I’d expect them to lose their license AND the fucking car.
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@zcutlip@hachyderm.io @corbet@social.kernel.org Maybe write the duress code on a post-it labeled just “emergency” and hide it inside the phone case.
Police seize the device, remove the case, see your “PIN,” say “aha!”, and hilarity ensues.
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot @ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop @catsalad@infosec.exchange "misremembered." heh. At this point, the fact that I remember anything at all about this bit of programming lore, I consider a victory.
(integrating assembly with FORTRAN on a Unisys mainframe was one of my favorite weird assignments in college...)
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@mattblaze@federate.social I’ve got the first Ultra as well and was a little annoyed it won’t get the next updates. But the software updates on the watch has never been as big a deal for me as the hardware updates. I’ll just stick with this until the battery doesn’t make it through the day, or a compelling new hardware feature comes out.
My daughter’s Series 3 finally died - the screen literally popped off because of a swollen battery. I think we got that used / refurb in 2019, so 7+ years isn’t unheard of.
RE: @wendynather@infosec.exchange
This is an awesome thread, in every way.
Definitely gonna have to raise the bar with my own kids.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116894240690171793
Naturally, they use a Tolkien name for their satellite. With a numeric suffix.
(There is only one Eärendil, and he’s still up there!)
Why can’t any billionaire philanthropists use Tolkien for their programs? Flood the market with *good* uses of the names and language for a change?
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The FCC has elected to approve the 'sunlight on demand' giant orbital reflector.
All the while scientists warn of deep disruptions to ecosystems, possibly harming the sleep of millions of people, and as astronomers warn it will make the universe even less visible.
They say it's to feed solar farms, for disaster relief. Other uses? Agri giants beaming sunlight to crops, construction giants to their build sites, concert spectacles, super rich playing god at weddings.
https://ca.pcmag.com/news/16760/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-giant-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot @catsalad@infosec.exchange Especially if the next nested loops are j and then k.
I wonder how many people just use i because it's what they've seen, and have no idea of where it came from...
(IIRC, weren't i, j, k (and maybe l?) specially treated by the FORTRAN compiler to specific data types for speed? It's been a looong time...)
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One for your collection? :) Glen Jean, WV.
OMG, I'm actually listening to the Cisco hold music...on hold! Not sure when I last heard this IRL.
(then again, I almost never actually call anyone anymore...)
I feel like I’ve been nostalgic for a lot of the crazy shit I used to do years ago. Maybe I need to start programming again.
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@Dio9sys@haunted.computer You have lasagna.
Someone gives you more lasagna.
You put second lasagna on top of first lasagna.
How many lasagna?
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116867064657884202
I spent over 10 hours driving in the heavily forested mountains of West Virginia this weekend. I maybe found 3 dead bug splats on the front of my car.
Years ago, it (and the windshield) would’ve been blanketed with dead bugs. They used to sell protective covers for the front and hood area, the bugs were that bad.
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Canada has lost over 60% of its flying insects since the 1970s, leaving tree swallows smaller and less successful at breeding
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/canada-has-lost-over-60-of-its-flying-insects-since-the-1970s-leaving-tree-swallows-smaller-and-less-successful-at-breeding-scientists-found/articleshow/132176920.cms
Birds: 60% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Wild salmon: 89% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Butterflies: 80% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Butterflies: USA lost 20% of butterflies between 2005 and 2025
Flying insects: 75% decline in Germany in 27 years
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@yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org Oh yeah, definitely. But maybe...a cage of cards, with some kind of shared network backplane, and even a shared storage backplane...then each card runs a hyper-specialized set of daemons (like, one's DHCP, one's DNS, etc.), and some single card manages all the rest....
Wait.. Are we re-inventing mainframes? :) (I know not really, but... this thought experiment gets pretty silly pretty fast.)
@message_in_a_bottle@mas.to Remember: tin foil hats have absolutely no effect on whether the government can read your thoughts.
True fact.
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@mattblaze Is there any value to adding image stabilization tech to tripod mounts? or would that just add to the noise?
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@straithe@infosec.exchange Not a name, but a stupid/nerdy suggestion for numbering.
Some hacker cons have taken to indexing from 0, or presenting their ordinal number in hex (it’s SomeCom 0x03!)
My suggestion: present the con’s year number in a numeric base equal to the number.
So Con # 2 would be: 10 (base 2). Event #3 would be 10 (base 3). And so on.
(I told you it was kinda stupid…)
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@jsnell@zeppelin.flights “We’ll see you on the other side.”
(I assume you’re familiar, but just in case, check out Public Service Broadcasting, “The Race for Space.” The Apollo 8 track gets me anxious every time…)
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@mattblaze@federate.social I hadn’t been aware of wet bulb temps until a couple years ago. When they get really high, it’s terrifying. And today approached that point (mid- to high-80s).
Carrot weather (on the iPhone) supports wet bulb calculations and predictions. The next few days look much better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
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@raineer@frontrange.co @ujay68@mastodon.world @nazgul@infosec.exchange And if he’s logged in, they may be able to check his account and know that nobody on their end is currently talking to him.
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@Diami03 @johnvoorhees What's really crazy, is my own blog is nearly as old. Quite a bit fewer postings, though.
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@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social I wonder if the x-ray specs sold out of comic books is included in the ban?
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@ntkramer@infosec.exchange Couldn't agree more! We're trading deterministic, repeatable, and trustworthy analysis for mass-produced vibes. And patting ourselves on the back in the process.
Took a long, scenic route to pick up my son at college. Passed a big black and white US flag sign with “No Quarter Farm” emblazoned on it.
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and here's the section actually in the song.