Septimaeus

@Septimaeus@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like a reference to a streamer video I’ve never seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe getting clowned on will snap them out of it. Regardless, love the bit. Long live rabbi rabinowitz!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol rabinowicz is Slavic for son of the rabbi so “rabbi rabinowitz” sounds like a character from a Bourekas comedy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds bullies have more children than non-bullies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Each has a strong inverse relationship with socioeconomics.

  Note

  I am not saying being poor makes a kid a bully. My parent was poor and I only ever bullied bullies (and stopped when they stopped). It’s just a nondescript statistical relationship. As to why it exists, I don’t know. My guess is greater baseline stress, less emotional support, and higher chance of domestic violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking, and to a lesser extent non-combustible nicotine use, is associated with higher levels of alcohol consumption and risky drinking.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t envy researchers tasked with validating common sense conclusions, but someone has to do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  YHWH (“Yahweh”) was the storm God of the Canaanite pantheon likely referred to in the Old Testament book of Job. El was the head of that pantheon. When gendered in the text, both were male.

  While Judaic tradition championed YHWH above the others, perhaps due to the oral tradition of the parting of the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) in Exodus. The other gods in the pantheon came to be regarded as false/pagan gods, and their worship was considered idolatry (religious infidelity), but these older religious traditions proved difficult to stamp out, with numerous examples of return to the old gods.

  One such instance of idolatry in the book of Hosea (echoed Isaiah and Jeremiah) detailed an old (idolatrous) tradition of offering “sacred raisin cakes” and “flagons of wine” to an unnamed god. This god was almost certainly Asherah, YHWH’s sister and the wife of El, whose religious tradition featured the baking of raisin cakes in the shape of her body and the pouring of wine into the earth.

  So to answer your question, while none of the Abrahamic religions officially worship a god with a female gender identity, their holy books technically recognize at least one female god: Asherah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a viable path to redemption. In fact I think spending one’s life repairing damage done is only the minimum expectation.

  Also to be clear, I’m talking about common voters, rank-and-file conservatives. Public figures on the other hand, especially those active in the current administration, must be imprisoned, and many of them for life, if only to demonstrate to the world the severity of their crimes against humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Input sanitation typically handles this as a string that only includes characters supported by the data type of the table in question. While in transit, the strings might be escaped at certain stages, such as via URL encoding. Though this is considered poor practice in many applications, it’s not uncommon to see. The point, however, is to prevent the evaluation of inputs as anything other than their intended type, whether or not reserved characters are present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But don’t you see? Some conservatives haven’t even been alive for decades. Some don’t even truly understand why they were handed that banner in the first place.

  I’m not saying there shouldn’t be accountability. I have friends and relatives I’ve had to place in various stages of social probation due to their politics, but for each I’ve had to consider what redemption and rehabilitation would look like. If there is in fact no redemption for any of them, where would I draw that indelible line?

  Though I’ve not voted Republican, I’ve often been wrong in my life about many things, so I’m certain I would need to include myself in that group or irredeemables. Honestly, who would survive the culling of those who’ve been wrong? Would you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saying individual people can change. They can learn and grow.

  You can stay mad at the conservatives of today, but you must let them “defect” when they’ve matured enough to do so.

  Otherwise there’s no point to any of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not a monolith. Political ideologies gain and lose members every day.

  The kid who kicked the ball over the fence today is never the same one from last time. The kid from last time is more likely to volunteer to fetch the ball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Though the artist appeared to draw η (eta) rather than n which could mean they’re using learning rate to compute the bounds of some other value. I’m more curious what y-base log they’re taking and why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the theory group. My people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly iconic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we’re not talking about mutually exclusive properties.

  Whether a paper is more or less dry and whether it’s more or less accessible to newcomers is separate from the quality of the contribution.

  You can have both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OMG the perfect reference!

  For those interested, there’s an episode of Star Trek the plot of which revolves around an extreme example of this style of high context communication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I get that it’s easy to burn out on all the goofy titles. For example, in machine learning there’s a model architecture called BERT so there’s hundreds of papers with wordplay referencing a character from an old US children’s educational TV show Sesamie Street. Similarly a bunch of NEuroMOrphic computing models are named Nemo with titles referencing the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Of course, any joke can be tiring with repetition.

  But good papers are accessible to a variety of audiences, including visitors in the space, and the point of that technique is to offer a “hook” (to borrow a term from music) that makes the material more approachable and fun to the uninitiated.

  TLDR: I empathize but yeah dude’s wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re referring to the implicit exclusion, since it amounts to an “inside joke” which lends to cliquish social dynamics. Gatekeeping proper usually connotes more intentional and targeted action, but I think that’s what they mean. Personally I try to be more selective than I once was, when using references in groups, for that very reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol “please please tread on me”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t the Gadsden flag anti-colonialist originally? Or is there a deeper history here I’m unaware of, like that it was only championed by wealthy slave-owners?

  I assume you’re not referring to the fact that systemic oppression coexisted (which included slavery and genocide) since by that measure no liberationist symbol in history would survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And really, can one ever have too many rodents opining posthumously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you assume this has intrinsic value?

  I assume they’re making a point about hard assets versus pure speculation, like comparing real estate to crypto coins, since only markets based on pure speculation nose-dive at the first bad omen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I only used mqtt because it’s a common low-level protocol in smart appliances that’s comparatively simple. A more accessible example might have been Smart TVs being half the price of dumb ones (if you can even find them now) since the principle is the same.

  I agree that support is one of the main things cloud legitimately makes easier. Support personnel have more reliable case data, more robust central control, and so forth.

  And I think you’ll agree many smart home folks already have/had hubs and bridges (servers) floating around that obfuscate most of that complexity without the need for always-on WAN access. Remote maintenance (patches, firmware updates, etc) don’t necessarily preclude a plug and play experience.

  Whether this accounts for the cost and complexity differential consumers experience can be debated, but my point was simpler. Cloud-based products are artificially subsidized in at least two ways. The first is that they’re a loss leader facilitating platform lock-in, but the second is that rich usage data from intimate user contexts is quite valuable to the endless parade of marketing voyeurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying, but I’m not talking about SaaS products. I’m talking about physical things on local networks that don’t need cloud access.

  For example, a common wall switch may use mqtt internally, but inexplicably railroad all commands through the online Tuya platform. The device requires a beefier ESP chip as a result. It must be capable of ethernet and async workflows for client platform auth, token refresh, and so forth. It may even cease functioning when it can’t reach the servers.

  By comparison, the strictly intranetwork equivalent has far simpler hardware that can run for months on a watch battery. And yet, the cloud-based product will basically always be cheaper, in spite of being more complex and requiring cloud infrastructure.

  So, how come? Yes economies of scale might apply to the hardware manufacturing, but certainly not to the cloud requirement. No economy scales quite like 0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be nice if grid tied inverters weren’t such a regulatory PITA. Micro-deployment solar, and more importantly distributed energy storage, makes so much sense and could solve a lot of grid-related problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything related to consumer IoT is more expensive and/or difficult to implement as a local-only service.

  But that doesn’t make any sense. Why would cloud access make anything cheaper?

  Hmmmmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York state bans DeepSeek from government devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP, IP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but outside CS the word has come to refer to a certain brand of complex heuristics or ML inference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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! ✨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you could at least

  Note: here “it would be nice if” is more polite, since the least one could have done is always