Septimaeus
@Septimaeus@infosec.pub
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 2 days ago:
Interesting. He had a resurgence of popularity in the ‘10s. Watched some of his new content and remember being surprised by this egotistical, dysregulated old grump on screen, who was in a lot of ways the opposite of the man I watched on PBS as a kid. I kept it to myself but it seems every time I bump into him online it just solidifies that impression. Hope he gets the help he needs to get better.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 3 days ago:
you could at least
Note: here “it would be nice if” is more polite, since the least one could have done is always
- Comment on Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number 4 weeks ago:
As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number. The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that Americans are phobic to mandatory census.
Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.
- Comment on her favourite colour is blue :) 5 weeks ago:
That’s what they want you to think!
- Comment on Literature reviews be like 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I like it. Instant Sean Connery voice.
- Comment on Literature reviews be like 5 weeks ago:
And if you Xroom in, you might eventually solve it.
- Comment on her favourite colour is blue :) 5 weeks ago:
How could they activate chevron 13 otherwise?
- Comment on rollin' deep 1 month ago:
“Ow, my all of me!”
- Comment on Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?) 1 month ago:
- DNS resolver, like pi-hole, unbound with adguard, diversion, etc.
- RMS server: a lot of Remote Desktop software has the option to install a listener on a low power device elsewhere on the network that can use wake-on-lan to access computers within the network without keeping everything on 24-7.
- Log aggregator: would be useful for anyone who troubleshoots stuff regularly, but historical info of any kind can come in handy to many.
- Simplest form might be a scribe server. Network gear often has an option to send logs to a particular URL, so if you added the scribe server IP/port to the field you’d have historical network logs.
- Additional loggers could also be run on-device, such as a wifi connectivity checker or a Fing server.
- If you have a smart home setup, you could also log state data or energy monitoring history at a particular interval.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 month ago:
Haha nice
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 month ago:
Whoa lol
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 month ago:
Dude smh
- Comment on This technology will change video games forever... 2 months ago:
How does Meredith Brooks find the time to be a bitch, a lover, a child and a mother?
- Comment on Ask Ouija is just a very slow distributed LLM 2 months ago:
E
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 2 months ago:
The latter, for Roth IRA.^A^ If you haven’t set one up before, it’s pretty straightforward.^B^
^A^: There is such a thing as a Roth 401(k) which if offered should definitely be your top priority up to employer contribution match.
^B^: Vanguard is often recommended for simplicity and low fees. You can pick your funds when contributing. Typical starting funds are VTI and VOO (or the mutual fund equivalents with slightly lower fees, VTSAX and VFIAX).
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 2 months ago:
Roth grows tax-free and has more long term flexibility. It’s better for most.
- Comment on English Ivy 3 months ago:
Depends on adhesive and era but today mostly yes
- Comment on Closure of exponentiation of real algebraic numbers. 4 months ago:
ℕ
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 4 months ago:
Not all but most, yes. But TBF, sites that still function with JS disabled tend to have the least intrusive telemetry, and might pre-date big data altogether.
Regardless, unless the extent of a page’s analytics is a “you are the #th visitor” counter, all countermeasures must remain active.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 4 months ago:
Theoretically, I would say yes it’s possible, insofar as we could break down most subtasks of the development process into training parameters. But we are a long way from that currently.
- Comment on How is it that we still cannot combine wifi networks to increase bandwidth, is there someone working on that? 4 months ago:
Mmm, understood. Antiheroics are especially well-regarded. I’ll be sure this is accurately reflected in the report.
- Comment on How is it that we still cannot combine wifi networks to increase bandwidth, is there someone working on that? 4 months ago:
In case you’re wondering about the downvotes, using any search index verbification other than “Google” demonstrates greater techno-activism than pointing out that DDG uses the Bing API. Your effort has been noted, however, and will be evaluated at the next summit.
- Comment on bought a gas dryer thinking we had a gas connection... is this it??? 4 months ago:
(Guessing the entire argument below is based on lexical ambiguity in English)
- Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 4 months ago:
- Comment on There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. 5 months ago:
IIRC “something so damned simple” is a fragment or dependent clause, unless “[it is]” was somehow implied, in which case an em dash may be more appropriate. A simple comma might also suffice, since the clause modifies “this” from the next phrase.
- Comment on Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. 5 months ago:
Concur. Most FERPA violations are similarly mundane snafus.
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 5 months ago:
Droney McTinFoil von Transformer Optimus prime’s HS nickname
- Comment on Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back 5 months ago:
I think you can also register 10 years in advance, or maybe more depending on the registrar, which would cover all other potential snafus like expired card info.
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 5 months ago:
IANAMD but simply using various accents, by itself, is perhaps less relevant clinically than the emotional disregulation and socially maladaptive behavior you describe.
Unchecked, compulsive aggression with fixation that requires coworkers to physically extract themselves (harassment) is certainly diagnosable, but not by us or by you.
This should be addressed formally by a superior, if only so that your coworker has the documentation necessary to get the help they need. Your coworker will not remain so for long if this continues.
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 6 months ago:
Three sheets to the wind
