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The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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Lain Iwakura posted:

ayyy lmao

but yeah. i came out in april and sort of disappeared for a while because of it. will be kicking rear end soon enough!

oh that was why you changed your name? fwiw i tried to get away from my old forums name too and people insist on using it when they quote me anyway :(

congrats friend.

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Lain Iwakura posted:

i've always liked anime. i just never really post about it anywhere anymore

the intersection of IT, anime, and trans women is an extremely busy intersection indeed. hard to give a gently caress if people judge you for anime, lol.

plus lain is good. one of the few animes i actually own on dvd.

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syscall girl posted:

things i like about anime include everything kurosawa has to say on the subject and little else

and cb, and gits and well the old stuff

but they are bad and i should feel bad

i like evangelion and the trigun comic book and cowboy bebop

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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anthonypants posted:

cylance works

you contradict yourself :v:

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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cinci zoo sniper posted:

i use keepass too, "official" windows client with key file in onedrive

same but dropbox for syncing.

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Jan 6, 2012


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isn't that the manufacturer's own drat fault for setting price points so low for so long that people expect that? if they want to be profitable they need to bite the bullet and raise prices.

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Jan 6, 2012


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oh is that why my kindle lockscreen is always ads for lovely books? i didn't buy it so i assumed that was normal. they don't show up anywhere else so who gives a gently caress.

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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at my previous job just about everybody had direct access to customers live systems containing millions of patient records with phi yet id constantly see unlocked computers in empty offices with the door open. shameful. at some point you have to just fuckin enforce a screensaver+lock timing with gpo.

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Jan 6, 2012


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mrmcd posted:

Get Global Entry. It comes with PreCheck which means you get to skip the pornoscanner, and go through the super fast line where you keep shoes on and don't unpack all your electronic poo poo. Also super fast through passport and customs coming back on international trips.

I mean sure it's hosed that the government is basically asking for a bribe to treat you with basic human dignity.. but like $20/yr to sail through... Cheap bribe.

my old employer eventually paid for global entry for all the transgender employees because the madison airport TSA just couldn't wait to get their hands up some transgender skirts for some loving reason.

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JewKiller 3000 posted:

if you're walking down the sidewalk on the vegas strip, every block you will encounter a click-click-click hooker card person. they will try to push the card in your hand, and they're making eye contact, and they're making a noise. only people from big cities know how to properly ignore this behavior. for folks from the polite parts of america, having to say "no thanks" every 30 seconds while you're just trying to gawk at casinos gets pretty irritating

Seriously, the did that poo poo to my wife and I, even going so far as to grab my arm and shove a card in my hand. Like, we're two women, what interest do we have in hiring victims of human trafficking. These guys will literally assault you to get you to take a card.

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Schadenboner posted:

It strikes me as strange that Milwaukee has three good-to-great roasters: Colectivo, Stonecreek, and Anodyne. Is that normal?

I think colectivo actually really tanked in the quality after the alterra brand was sold off. Caribou was the best chain in Milwaukee but they're dead now. It's all about indie shops now.

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Daman posted:

I'm glad security doesn't have a gender problem like the rest of tech and their ten page manifestos

hurry up boys let's think of a way to anagram something into a dick joke for our next tool

some folks here think im the no fun zone sjw joke police, but honestly I don't have a problem with dick jokes as hack tool names. dicks are funny and nearly always unwelcome so it fits. if they called it the oval office buster 5000 then there might be an issue

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Jan 6, 2012


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Phone posted:

also don't trust anything laura loomer says, she's the moron with the dry rotted "slashed" tires from last month

what?

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Jan 6, 2012


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BangersInMyKnickers posted:

hahahaha ooooohboy you are in for a treat

i saw ppl accusing a woman of not understanding tires and assumed the usual twitright misogyny but the real story is way funnier.

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Jan 6, 2012


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mdl posted:

commercial pilots who crash a plane aren't generally given second chances. startcom/wosign flew their plane into the WTC of trust models. is the bar so low that nobody from CAB is even blinking at the notion that a closely affiliated company (and i am being generous) is allowed to simply "reapply"?


i don't know what to say. if the bar is this low and the people responsible for vetting CAs don't care, then the trust model for browsers is a total failure

how is ur reading comprehension this bad?

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mdl posted:

let it be known that Wiggly Wayne DDS, authority of good posting, has deemed a massive potential security risk for anyone using a mozilla product or a piece of software that depends on ca-certificates unworthy of discussion in the security thread

how do you not understand that "you're welcome to reapply" is code for "gently caress off and ask me in a way where I can say no without wasting my time"? mozilla isn't doing anything and you're chicken littleing over nothing. subjunctive literally said that but you're too busy hyperventilating to read sentences correctly.

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ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Hard to say about him being murdered by the state, especially since it happened 2 years after the conviction and sentence. (why wait so long? why kill him in the first place?) Since he died from cyanide inhalation and there was a source of cyanide literally in the same small room with him means that while cyanide poisoning/murder would be obvious in other circumstances, in his specific circumstances accidental death seems more likely.

But obviously I'm not taking into account the geo-political realities of early 1950's UK, so who knows, maybe MI6 decided that his homosexuality and knowledge of UK encryption was a liability against he Soviet Union?

how are you this fuckin dense dude

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Jan 6, 2012


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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

lol goddamn this did not get enough love, holy poo poo


also the goddamn firewall letting you through as long as you know the MAC address:

This is why I always operate my own devices off of my own router set to dmz and only connect the cable company's devices to their lovely router.

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ate all the Oreos posted:

She's trans so no













You have to enter it on the taint instead

as a trans person i say that the best unlock security is a phone unlockable only by your own dick swiping a difficult pattern

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wolrah posted:

PINs and patterns are relatively easy to shoulder surf and/or guess based on smudging on the screen, especially compared to these examples:

For patterns its hard to evade the smudge thing but for pins you just make it long with repeated digits and you increase the number of orderings and lengths they have to try by a lot.

fingerprints might be more trustworthy on an iphone, but surely not in Android land where the most popular OEM stored the finger prints as high resolution raw files in world readable storage.

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duTrieux. posted:

my degree is in literature but my job is primarily in tech. somebody's degree doesn't necessarily indicate whether they're good at a given job, just that they were academically trained in that subject.

same. my degree certifies me to write deece poems but instead i make deece figs

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yeah sure, you somehow managed to engineer a system that flawlessly executes even with a critical component unresponsive but you are dumb enough not to engineer it to not issue certs when that component is unresponsive.

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ate all the Oreos posted:

are they a label, i thought they just managed youtube for other labels who can't be assed

Yeah they're a YouTube cdn so they basically just manage artists youtube presence and handle monetization of content and whatnot.

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ate all the Oreos posted:

i think twitter already has plenty of white space :rimshot:

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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its p lol they refer to the victims as customers when the reality is more like "persons enmeshed in our panopticon because they attempted to participate in the us economy"

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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neat, but lol at the man with kinda bad english writing thinking that putting a period inside the quotes at the end of a sentence was incorrect and worth putting in his FAQ.

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ate all the Oreos posted:

yeah, though there's a function that turns sound into vibrations so sort of??

you can also pair it with your spotify account and stream music directly to your rear end

God bless you.

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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Grey forum Firefox thread is advocating using insecure branch "waterfox" again because dammit the new version of Firefox broke their extension to "unfuck the ui"

Imagine being so afraid of change that you'll forgo security updates and trustworthiness of the browser you run just so you can have square tabs in the bottom of your screen.

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fishmech posted:

Waterfox isn't insecure its just lost its reason to exist when Firefox finally started issuing official 64 bit builds that didn't require alpha channel fuckery.

It's insecure in the sense that your trusting non Mozilla devs to always rapidly pull in security fixes and never do anything shady in their fork.

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Perplx posted:

apple knows everything but at least they aren't in the business of selling it

Apple also takes pretty great pains to only ever store data in a non reversibly anonymized format.

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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Google just constantly has a traffic update in my notification tray and it's always "it bad". Thanks Google.

The MUMPSorceress
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ate all the Oreos posted:

i just never actually pick up unless i recognize the number, cuz if you pick up (even to hang up immediately) it shows them that there's a person there and they just double down on everything.

if it's actually real and important they can leave a message (which the bots never, ever do)

I get dozens of 2 second silent voicemail a week from spam numbers I've blocked. It's crazy. I suppose that's what I get for having the same number since I was 13.

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All my friends think I'm a square for using hotels instead of air bnb. I can't seem to get through to them that gig economy apps are really just a platform for selecting rape victims en masse.

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my bitter bi rival posted:

there are a bunch of stories like this and i dont think i could ever bring myself to use airbnb. too suspect.

right, and it's only the idiots who are being super obvious who are getting caught. there's plenty of ways to hide a camera that arent as conspicuous as GIANT POD ON WALL

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Lain Iwakura posted:

there's a defcon 604 meet once a month that may or may not be good. i have been interested in attending but because i haven't been before i am unsure how much fun i'll have considering other events' gender imbalances. it's really annoying because there are good people but i've always gotten on better with women than men and i feel like that this may be a challenge for me

also sup fellow divorce(d|ing) friend

I also don't like hanging out with men that much. I basically avoid it outside of work obligations and it has significantly reduced my stress level.

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spankmeister posted:

Imagine if your job is creating fart apps but for airline entertainment systems :gonk:

an ex manager at my old job was a test engineer for airline entertainment systems and he was far and away the worst programmer and manager ive ever met.

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Ripoff posted:

Yeah it’s gonna be a haven for creeps tracking down women that turn them down in messages. friends have shown me the creepy messages guys send and sometimes how they get pissed off when getting shut down or ignored. now imagine that weirdo knowing your real name and googling you to get “revenge” for shutting him down after he compared you to his favorite my little pony character.

if I were a woman I’d be getting out of okc immediately

Yeah, the level of stalking that's gonna result here will be terrifying.

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I just want to remind everyone that merely having a Facebook or Twitter account as a woman basically deputizes a Mongol horde of creeps to send you threatening and disgusting messages unprompted, and if they can attach your name to that account they will absolutely mail you poo poo, call your work with made up accusations, and phone in false reports to your local police.

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ate all the Oreos posted:

a lady friend at my last company made the mistake of making her steam handle incredibly vaguely feminine and boy howdy does she get the most vile loving poo poo whenever she plays any game. like it's not even very feminine it's more neutral than anything but jfc do nerds pick up on this poo poo like sharks smelling a drop of blood from miles away

she finds it all hilarious and sad and just blocks em' or leaves so at least it's not causing her actual problems irl :sigh:

This is why my steam handle is the name of a male character I played in a cyberpunk campaign in college.

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wyoak posted:

Doesn’t Tinder / Bumble already require real names (or at least facebook-real names)?

Still, the old account thing could screw people-hopefully they’ll do something smart like forcing you to opt-in before you show up on and can use the site again

Those apps at least require you to be in geographic proximity, rather than some mra unabomber from the internet.

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