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- Comment on party poopers 1 month ago:
Cut myself with a microscope slide. Didn’t realize the lens would drop far enough to break it. Whoops. Ended up nicking my finger getting the slide off.
My proudest science lab injury though, was with a plastic butter knife. Don’t ask me how I managed, but I did. It was an ugly cut too.
- Comment on Study that asked people to count squashed bugs reveals worrying results 2 months ago:
We have geckos local here.
If we didn’t have cats, I’d put a few in the house.
Problem with cats is, you either find the head, or the rest of the body. Never both halves of the gecko.
- Comment on Google fixes two Pixel zero-day flaws exploited by forensics firms. GrapheneOS discovered and reported these flaws. 2 months ago:
I need a slightly less secure walkthrough to allow, essentially, android auto and google maps to operate.
I did without for a while, and it wasn’t pretty.
Lets just say I went from a sketchy hospital district to a very sketchy dead end in a neighborhood that had lookouts. Working nights, this was not a great time to drop in unannounced.
- Comment on Choose your ultimate lineup! 4 months ago:
Yeah, Dave Stage made that band what it was.
I didn’t get the chance to meet him, but when I was active in the metal community I heard nothing but good things. I guess I should say Drowning Pool was a local band before they blew up.
- Comment on Appalachian Momma 4 months ago:
I knew a Bubba. Legal first name.
He had a rat tail, of course.
Went to play at his house one day (fourth grade), and it was a typical suburban house. I rode past it on my bike to get to school.
Not a hint of white-trash about the situation.
It still perplexes me.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 4 months ago:
Kali is still around, I last did an install ~6 months ago, I think?
That got put on the back burner though, not because of the flipper, just life.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 4 months ago:
I have one.
Its fun.
But on the subject of rolling codes, I was able to get through a security gate that relies on, essentially, a garage door opener.
The exploit relied on the ridiculously low amount of rolling codes it cycled through.
Capture one, and try it a few times to get through.
Cars are more robust. Despite tinkering with it for about 8 hours, I wasn’t successful with defeating it. That being said, I picked up the device, in part, to start messing around with various signals as an educational tool.
- Comment on TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app 4 months ago:
Time enjoyed is not wasted.
- Comment on Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang 4 months ago:
I personally dislike the freewheel scroll overall.
Then again, the only time I’m really thinking about what features a mouse has, it’s for gaming so I like a little more precision and tactile feedback.
For everything else I do, a mouse is a mouse.
Unless it’s one of those BS apple ones with no right click. Those make me unreasonably upset.
- Comment on Call me an idiot, but I would die laughing even if something like this happened to me 5 months ago:
I don’t.
I don’t think they even sell winter tires here.
And if winter tires are the little studded ones… Yeah, those aren’t street legal here.
That being said, we tend to shut down the state if someone drops an icecube.
- Comment on Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off 5 months ago:
Get to vantage point.
Explore actionable map points.
Go to next area.
Repeat.
Which game am I talking about? Doesn’t matter, it’s the Ubisoft formula these days and has been for a long time.
Wake me up when Ubisoft metaphorically burns to the ground, or they do something innovative.
- Comment on Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off 5 months ago:
Makes one want to sail the high seas out of principle.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 5 months ago:
Don’t forget the long winded tales of how their distant relative they never met gave them the recipe from the “old country” or some shit.
Dude, I just needed to see what temperature to set the oven to.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
I have a relative who did it.
But they are super into genealogy.
At this point, to go deeper, they would need to learn a new language and travel half way across the world.
I was not consulted before this was done. I would have cautioned against it.
- Comment on Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50% 5 months ago:
This makes me miss a bar I used to go to, and was the favored watering hole for most of the staff at a previous job.
It had had several owners, and it’s name changed on official paperwork every time. Locals still called it Big Tree.
Why?
It was built around a big tree that went out of the roof lol.
It was bought and demolished, the tree removed.
Nothing has been done with the lot since, and it’s been a couple years.
Damn shame.
- Comment on How do people understand each other? 6 months ago:
The same technique works back home in the US too.
Foreign immigrant, but they’re not brown enough to shoot on sight? Louder and slower while you assess the foreign devil… Just because they’re white doesnt mean they can’t be a commie.
This was meant as a joke, but living in the south this has certainly happened recently somewhere nearby.
- Comment on Screensharing mistake gets Nvidia sued over alleged stolen trade secrets 7 months ago:
The only code I fuck with is my own. I’m not a Dev, but I write things for my convenience.
Sometimes it gets the attention of those above me, and I get some sweet sweet time off the phones, blasting whatever music I’m in the mood for through noise canceling ear buds while I add a little form to the function, so to speak.
So mostly, its a challenge to myself while working night shift, also part of why I enjoy night shift.
- Comment on A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved 7 months ago:
That’s a symptom of capitalism as a whole.
The whole perpetual growth, and being legally bound to try to provide that to shareholders, means only “safe” ideas are given any traction.
The only time any “innovative” comes out is when billionaires have a pipe dream.
However, they lack the skills or expertise (or even common sense) to execute them.
Musk had ideas, bought his way into leadership, and essentially had to be corralled by handlers while other people did the actual hard work.
Then, at the platform formally known as Twitter, with no handlers… Well, the world has seen how an unleashed Musk handles that. Spoiler: not well.
- Comment on Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home. 7 months ago:
Slower? Sure, I’ll grant you that.
However, there are some things in life I’d rather not do, even if it resulted in being bored out of my mind.
And I hate, hate, being bored.
- Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. 7 months ago:
I nearly killed a group of people one night.
Full on slamming of brakes and trying to not have another sort of accident.
Roughly 3am, a major major highway, and a group of people decides to dash across.
Dark clothing. Crossed between where any lights were.
Everyone involved was very lucky in that moment.
- Comment on How are 144hz screen possible? 7 months ago:
You didn’t clean them weekly?
Man I did, but they were hockey skates (ice was not a thing here at the time) and I wanted to get every ounce of performance out of them.
Cleaning bearings, rotating wheels, relacing them cause my feet grew crazy for a while.
I was a weird kid though. Now I’m just a weird adult.
- Comment on Why aren't they using drones and more automation? 8 months ago:
Why invest in tech when there are so many red shirts around?
- Comment on Police officer demanded school uniform sex images 8 months ago:
So why not explore the mental domination subset of BDSM with a consenting (and of legal age) partner?
- Comment on Anyone have good memories of (or still belong to) a gaming clan? 8 months ago:
Everquest, the original.
Two guilds come to mind.
I was younger, too young to work, so one summer break I joined up with a European guild to raid with. Lots of fun, learned a but about British (primarily) culture. Lots of fun, even when I joined another guild I raided with them from time to time.
The other was a family guild. It eventually fell apart as the adults got busier with their careers and kids and shit. But the inner circle, so to speak, were invited to a bulletin board and we all talked for years after that. Eventually lost contact with them as I grew up and got busy with life.
Lots of fond memories, and a couple not so fond (RNG hates me, in every way). But they were along when RNG screwed me time and again, and were always willing to try again. Lots of love for those folks.
- Comment on Server Hardware? 8 months ago:
Performance isn’t key. But I like performance, lol.
I’ll have to check out the HP mini. As I said, just barely scratched the surface on researching this, and its more of a thought than a project at the moment, lol.
I just can’t afford (and cool) enterprise level stuff at home. It was free (to me) so no big loss other than buying a better CPU used ~50 bucks. I’ve spent more on worse ideas lol.
- Comment on Server Hardware? 8 months ago:
Cost and a personal bias, also I’ve seen more helpful communities amongst Linux and FOSS advocates than trying to deal with a big brand.
I’ve done a lot of IT stuff in my life, even before working in IT.
I’ve seen too many issues from big brands, and its usually caused by the company.
I have a Pi 2 from way back. I’ve thrown so many distros at that thing over time, and without fail I don’t run into any problems I didn’t personally create while learning or through human error.
I understand all too well that those big brands have support for businesses, warranties, etc. It makes them cost effective long term for business. At a personal level I just don’t see the benefits outweighing the negatives.
Again, personal bias. Same core reason I avoid apple products, bias, though I mainly dislike apples cost combined with their closed off, well, everything.
- Comment on Server Hardware? 8 months ago:
I’ve got enterprise level hardware, rack moubtable all that jazz.
Between the cost of power, and the heat it generates (which uses more AC and thus power) its not feasible to run it.
I’m looking into clustering some raspberry pis for a more power (and heat) efficient hardware as my next project. Barely scratched the surface of research though.
So hey, if anyone has any tips or links, it would be much appreciated.
- Comment on how to repair a RJ45 cable? 8 months ago:
Personally I prefer simple connectors, but I’ve been making cables for 20+ years.
I understand OPs frustration though.
Then again, I’m the type to put in my own drops at home, and include a service loop so I can repunch/crimp whatever I need to without yanking the cable from upstairs to down lol.
- Comment on Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit 8 months ago:
And as a former admin for okta (as in admin access within a enterprise) I can also say their implementation can be a pain in the ass, especially if you adopt the system after someone else was fired for, in part, screwing it up.
- Comment on Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption 8 months ago:
As my grandfather was wont to say, locks are for honest people.
Most forms of security are theater and used as a deterrent.
If your door is locked, and your neighbors isn’t, well your lock deterred them.
Then again, if someone means you in particular harm, they’ll get in, bricks are cheap and most home windows are focused on limiting thermal transfer, not being overly durable (say under an attack). It may not be quiet, you may be able to defend yourself or run or whatever, but the lock was not a deterrent.
So yes, lock your doors, encrypt everything you can, keep devices updated, etc. But it won’t stop a determined bad actor if they have reasonable capabilities to do you harm.
The problem with security, especially cyber security, is that you have to find a medium between secure and usable. Most companies, in my experience, tend to loosen security in the name of usability.
I’m not an expert, but I’m studying in that direction with my limited free time (and more to the point, energy and mental health)