If i have extra rj45 plugs or keystones, i never make a mistske.
If I have just as many as i need, I always make a mistake and need one more.
This is suspiciously consistant.
@sep lol, that's tragic
I am nearing the end of the first box I ever bought so I'm finally getting the hang of it.
Hey, Ontarians! 👋
Since y’all are headed to the polls pretty soon here, I thought I’d take a second to remind you that under Doug Ford, the literal fuckin’ ARMY had to go into seniors care homes to rescue your elders from the negligence of the provincial government during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. What our soldiers witnessed in those places has left them with lifelong psychological trauma.
Anyways, carry on.
"It is scandalous. It is shameful. It is shocking," Mitchell said. "Our senior generation is living in that, and that is a national atrocity."
There are many signs the provincial government knew, or should have known, what's happening inside these homes, but it took military intervention to bring the details to light.
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Well, my bosses have decided that even though I can name about five combinations of any two of our retail clients who outspend the entire USGov contract pile, they're going to bend the knee to the EOs and suspend our DEI board.
I need a new job by monday, and at this point I'm willing to wash dishes to do it. But if you know anyone who needs a Principal or Senior SRE, or could use a python dev for some backend-related purpose, I can be found at: mercenary AT arcanalabs DOT ca
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This will (hopefully) hope you expedite the process.
immigration.ca/fast-track-high…
Wishing you the best of luck.
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Ok - I've been told that HTTP 418 belongs in the 400 block because it's the same as requesting a non-existent file. This argument claims that 418 is the same as 404.
I tend to think of 418 as being more analogous to 501. You cannot put coffee in a teapot, which is a statement about the teapot.
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I'm looking at this as a web application returning a response code. HTTP is a protocol; some of the participants of that protocol will be extremely content aware, others less so. The very notion that holding coffee violates a teapot's nature is a philosophical conceit that would be odd for a low awareness system to express in the first place.
On the other hand, I suppose that attempting to french press in a teapot would be my idea of a 500-series teapot error.
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just leaving this here as a useful guidepost to how white-power politics has always worked
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The Trans Journalism Association is looking for a new co-director. 30 hour work week, remote, $80k USD, 401K, phone sipend.
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OK. At the risk of giving "Mishing" more screen time than it deserves, please read my impassioned plea for us, the infosec community, to stop coming up with new phishing name variants.
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I also urge everyone to sign this VERY REAL, and not at all satirical petition on change.org dedicated to this cause --> chng.it/VfxqypJBVH
Wondering what "Mishing" is? Or what other types of phishing terminology means? I'm sorry that you're in that position. But for you, I've also included a very cursed glossary of terms you can peruse shellsharks.com/no-more-ishing…. I very explicity told @cR0w not to do this, but here we are.
Original post of me complaining about this: malici.ous.computer/@shellshar…
Read my blog post. Sign the petition. Join the movement!
No More -ishings!
We as a community must band together and collectively agree to stop creating new phishing name variants.shellsharks
Wtf is "mishing"? Oh god, stahhhp!zimpstage.wpengine.com/blog/hi…
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Prediction: it won't go away, as the very first -ishing after "phishing" offered an irresistible template for cbishing, and is now too entrenched.
(Cbishing of course referring to click bait phishing. Or should that be cbarming? Click this link to join the debate. Argument #3 will blow your mind.)
Disney George who makes 100000 bad star wars a day is just an outlier
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« astroterm is a #terminal based star map written in C. It displays the real-time positions of #stars, #planets, #constellations, and more, all within your terminal—no telescope required! Configure sky views by date, time, and location with precise ASCII-rendered visuals. »
A #planetarium for your terminal!
GitHub - da-luce/astroterm: A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
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ok - so - every Day the shop brings in Customers. The customers need to be managed, with some events - basically Heists. At the end of the day, you get Entanglements - but they're for the shop itself. Indulging Vices is important, but it's things like Rent and Food instead of drugs.
So the person playing the owner gets money and stress, and the shop has a series of dent, damage, and supplies. The owner can move stress and money from the shop onto the staff as necessary to keep it afloat. Removing stress from a staff member needs money of course
Apple, fuck right off. *You* decided notarization would be an approval process, and you inserted yourself in it, which means yes *you approved this app*.
Much like you didn't approve a bunch of other apps, like emulators.
Shame on Apple-affiliated sites for regurgitating this crap, once again. You're knowingly and willingly lying to your readers on behalf of a company that would happily eat you for breakfast
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Apple responds after being forced to approve porn app on EU iPhones due to DMA [U] - 9to5Mac
Both Apple and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney have provided responses below… Apple has been legally required to approve a...Zac Hall (9to5Mac)
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If iOS notarisation was anything like macOS app notarisation (automated, takes literally 1 minute) then sure, I’d say calling it “Apple-approved” would be misleading. But by all accounts, iOS notarisation is not that. It’s app store review without the app store.
Its been a long time since someone wrote shell unportable enough to ruin my day.
If you're gonna use bashisms, don't just huck them into `/bin/sh`
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What is going on in the U.S. with data being scrubbed from their CDC brings back bad memories of essentially book burning. Remember the data the Harper government tossed into the garbage? Physical books etc. ?
Please. Not Again. Please.
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Protests in every State Capitol on Wednesday, February 5th. For State specific info check Redit r/50501.
#resist @lisamelton @GottaLaff @pluralistic
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there was an excellent breakdown of the things that lead to successful resistance movements.
TL;DR:
1. Maximize economic impact. Make it financially inviable to keep doing the wrong thing. Boycotts, strikes, protests that stop business, etc, all impose an economic cost. The state only responds to the rich. If you hurt them enough to stop, the state will respond to their demands.
2. Choose specific targets. The examples from the talk included strikes against GM and boycott of Woolworth's. Both of these were precision economic attacks that cascaded across the market, leading to policy changes.
3. Escalate. The threat of escalation is the real reason the capitalist class gives in. If they think they can wait it out, they will. Ending legally enforced segregation in the US took both MLK's peaceful marches (and boycotts and other actions) and the threat of radical escalation (from Malcolm X). People love to talk about Gandhi, but they always omit the violent protests that were also happening at the same time. Peaceful resistance that works *always* includes an implicit threat of violence. "We're going to march peacefully now, but it will only stay peaceful if it works."
On the 3rd point, IMHO the #50501 movement should definitely intersect with #FreeLuigi at least using some symbolism (#LuigiBloc anyone?). Visible resistance is a *really good* start.
Edit: just to reiterate, it is the *threat* of escalation that works *not escalation itself*. The longer a movement can stay non-violent, the longer it can build. The longer it builds, the bigger the threat of sustainable escalation becomes. A movement that rapidly turns to violence also becomes rapidly isolated and easy for the state to wipe out.
Marketing: “we need you to put this tracking code and analytics javascript on the site.”
Dev: “k.”
Product: “we need you to put this session recording library on the site.”
Dev: “k.”
Legal: “we need you to put this cookie consent tracker on the site.”
Dev: “k.”
Sales: “hey we need you to put this chat widget on the site, every page.”
Dev. “k.”
Leadership: “hey make sure that chat bot is AI.”
Dev. “k.”
Security: “hey can you put this EDR on your laptop?”
Dev: “oh my god that’s gonna fuck up my performance why don’t you people ever think of user experience?!?!”
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Hello world! This status has been posted from a phone booth, using Bell103 compatible softmodem, a lot of magic, and some wishful thinking.
hope this works
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You gotta be kidding me with this bullshit.
"But DeepSeek & Meta’s recent research suggests that more AI capabilities (& efficiency savings) could be gained by going down a more dangerous path — where AIs develop their own alien language."
The journalists amplifying this garbage will not be held accountable when the hype cycle is gone because the next cycle of journalists will do the same thing during the next hype cycle.
I don't want to amplify the article so not posting the actual article.
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“How to care for your about-to-burst bubble”
This interview on the current crisis by OnTheMedia is actually very good:
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Suchir Balaji (November 21, 1998 – November, 2024) was an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and whistleblower who accused his former employer, OpenAI, of violating United States copyright law. His death has drawn international attention.
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ENnies To Ban Generative AI From 2025
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Ok - so - I am finally watching The Mandolorian and holy fuck.
I went into Season 1 trepidatious and the show sold me on its visuals and picaresque style. But now I'm on Season 3 (after a detour through Boba Fett), and I gotta say, if I was handed the script for S3E6 I would have stared across the the fucking desk and fired the writer. Just instantly.
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Thinking about #BSDCan abstracts and falling into analysis paralysis, I've no idea what an abstract *looks* like for this con. How many words? Do you want the talk outline? The topic and that's it?
I dunno - AP is setting in - I want to give a good idea without accidentally writing the entire talk?
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@Hypolite Petovan @pamela Ok so the talk abstract is basically
My goal with computer is to be as stupidly boring as possible, let's talk about how BSD enables that, and what I am currently doing.
The problem is that... that... I don't know. Giving more context is way too much, but it's also not much there.
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@silverwizard A good abstract is like good slides, they give the direction of the talk but not the details.
You aren’t trying to get clicks so you should state bluntly the context of the talk and its conclusion, this lets people gage if they are interested in the “in-between” part.
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I’m going to beat up on #OpenBSD
Not because of the tragedy of sysjail (which I funded)
Not for “just enough file system to load your PF ruleset”
Not for discontinuing CDs and STICKERS…
BUT FOR AN UBERTRAGIC LACK OF @bsdcan TALK SUBMISSIONS!
Some of the single greatest #BSDCan talks have been OpenBSD ones!
Let’s go Fish Linux!
Puffy4Evah!
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This is perhaps a good time to remind potential #openbsd speakers (and others for what it's worth) that the submissions deadline is February 12th, and I for one will respond to any questions or concerns you may have.
The way in: bsdcan.org/2025/papers.html
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I was running a D&D module (Grasp of the Emerald Claw) in #BurningWheel, and they failed a navigation roll, so I rolled on the Random Encounter Table.
It is now over 6 months later and the aftershocks of that random encounter are still pretty major to the campaign.
Dice are wonderful.
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yeah, 2x16's you should have no trouble finding. Those don't load the UMC because even at the 8Gbit dies, it's still 2R total. I'd generally go with G.Skill Ripjaws V or whatever ORDINARY stuff you can find at a comparable price. The 3600 is VERY important, because any other clock *is wrong*.
FCLK is 1800MHz. x2 = 3600. Anything else, you eat a HUGE performance penalty. MUCH bigger than people realize - 30-50%!
So, um, are any #Toronto media covering the PowerSchool data leak affecting TDSB among others?
It's a pretty big deal, with data on all students since 1985: names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, health card numbers (!), and for students since 2017 also principal's notes (!), residency status (!), and any medical information shared by the parents with the school (!!!). Also parent data for students since 2017.
Since it's student data going back 40 years, this is surely impacting at least a third of all people in Toronto?
I got the notification from TDSB <tdsb.on.ca/About-Us/PowerSchoo…> and now Ars has a write-up <arstechnica.com/security/2025/…> but I haven't really seen anything much on local media.
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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Dear infosec 'professionals,'
Stop shitting on the IT team when there's an incident because we didn't/couldn't do everything perfectly. How businesses operate in the real world is completely different than your isolated test rooms. We're only human and even with all the tools to monitor and protect our environments there is a lot of ground to cover. Many of us are a one person operation.
Do not belittle my employees because they fell for a nicely executed scam. They already feel like shit. I will call you out on this at every turn and then treat my coworker to ice cream or the treat of their choice and make sure they are okay.
We know we got fucked and we are asking for help while doing internal damage control and mitigating things to the best of our abilities. Do not talk to us like we are computer illiterate cave people. We already know you are good at what you do, that is why you are here. Do not waste billable hours on calls autofelating yourself over how brilliant you are.
In summary, please act like a professional.
Sincerely,
IT Teams Everywhere
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i'll say it again: fuck everyone who built this world, defended it, normalized it, spread it into critical social infrastructure that will fail us in increasingly disastrous ways as the crises mount. a crime against humanity.
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This quote lives rent free in my head. It should be framed in every school classroom.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Frank Herbert, Dune
People brigading @Cory Doctorow because he supports a thing they don't like.
I get why people proping up bluesky sucks, and why people are mad.
But fucking. Ok. If there's anyone who has earned benefit of the fucking doubt it's Cory Fucking Doctorow. And if you believe he made a bad call after reading his piece on it, I get it, but imagine dismissing him this hard for one bad take. Damn. Fucking bonkers.
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@Hypolite Petovan I mean - the war between millionaires and billionaires is a pretty complicated thing going on.
I'm in a situation where I'm going to become a millionaire at some point by dint of birth, and it's weird, I feel a lot of guilt about it. And despite this - I don't feel any kinship with the idea of a billionaire. Billionaires are these weird *monsters* - they don't feel like people anymore, they're just these warps in reality that reshape our fucking world to their (somehow always Nazi) whims.
But yeah - like - Mark Ruffalo does not have any sort of world shaping money - but has enough to try to make a new social media company - it makes sense - but like - yeah - Mark Ruffalo probably shouldn't be the place we put our trust in our digital future.
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Coming up on Friday, March 14th! A Dying Root (Sherbrooke), Dumbass, The Pox, and D.T. (second show!) at La Biu.
D.T. is one of my partners’ Erin’s (Ratpiss) new bands, in which they are playing drums. They’ve gotten pretty good at it in a short period of time and I am very proud of them. Also my good friends Marshall (Stand Alone) is on bass and Axtmn (Nausia) is on vocals.
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