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When your dungeon begins with a Sphere of Annihilation they call that an antichamber


Coming around to thinking of my home LAN as "my local data forest"
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@silverwizard For me it's more like "my local data landfill".
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@Hypolite Petovan I definitely manage the local auths, the servers, and the DNS. But eveything inside the lines I draw are wild and free


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We're down to the last day of the Kickstarter for Magical Kitties Noir! Also ending with the campaign is the special 20% off coupon for our website that can be found in the first backer-only update. kickstarter.com/projects/atlas…

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@John Nephew I somehow just sent $30 to Atlas Games in order to finish my unknown armies collection because I'd backed a kickstarter at the Deluxe level.

And all of this because of spending $200 at a spring cleaning sale.

This has to be a plot!



The best thing a website can give me is a "session has expired" popup - but before I logged in

Good job

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“You must rotate your credentials every 60 days.”

*takes USB-C YubiKey out of slot*
*turns it upside down*
*plugs it back in*

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turn over to side be and insert to F%$&ing box XD different time, same means of storage X3
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@luna tbh I'd love to have a hardware token that adds the time it has been continually unlocked into the signature.


Thinking about running #DeltaGreen in #UnknownArmies instead of Call of Cthulhu - completely normal secret agents trying to deal with that bullshit

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Who called it Westworld and not Wyatt ERP

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FUCK FUCK FUCK FCUK FCUKFCUFKFCUFKCUFKCUFKCUFKCUFCKUFCK

I just saw someone talk about their mechanized X-card for the Cipher game Flesh Pit

They were like "you can spend an XP and the scene is over" and explicitly called this out as their version of the X-card

GROSSGROSSGROSSGROSS BLAHBLAH FUCKING FUCK


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People making fun of babies for liking peekaboo 🤝 people misapplying their theory of mind and losing reverse-peekaboo to ChatGPT
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Not trying to be mean

Both you and the baby aren't stupid (if you do this), theory of mind is literally empathy so if you misunderstand chatgpt as human-like, that's probably because empathy.

But if you make fun of babies I will cut you


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Anyone else considered running Postfix from an android phone? Specifically incoming
in reply to Resuna

@Resuna Man - I've not used qmail in a decade and never want to again

I've been OpenSMTPd enlightened but I bet I can get postfix to do something stupid more easily

in reply to silverwizard

About 5 years for me.

github.com/resuna/amber




So I use castget gratuitously to the point of madness. But my biggest problem with it is that sometimes people completely garbage out their RSS feed and it detects as all new.

This isn't CastGet's fault - and this isn't a complaint.

I just downloaded The Exploding Helicopter Podcast to the start of history and am sad


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A knight is, at their core, a student, a lifelong learner undergoing a journey of many phases, however it isn't until they achieve a certain understanding of gallantry that they can take the final step to knighthood

This final act of knighthood is formally known as the Dub Step


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Imgur: Those who cannot remember the photobucket are condemned to repeat it.

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So we have to do a bunch of security trainings again in August or whatever - and I know I hate all of the security trainings - but I was wondering about fairly seriously suggesting doing an Engineering Wide "Watch the training and mock it" session
The actual goal being to have people discuss the modules and what we think is good and bad about it - and why we think things are bad/irrelevant in a productive way, with an informal feel - in order to get real security awareness training done but without making it feel as bad
How do you feel about that?


Well, I just made this suggestion to my other half in management and see if I can get this to be formal policy

in reply to silverwizard

We don't *make* security training
We make FUN of them

I feel bad for the security training companies - they're impossible to do a good video for, it's an impossible job, and I'm sorry this is my best solution to make it engaging

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@Psychotic Network Ferret Come work with me and you can join in the snark?

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In a conversation on reddit today someone asked if other languages have phrases like "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" to remember which way to turn screws/lids/etc. And one person answers that in Spanish, the phrase is:

"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera."

or:

"The right oppresses, the left liberates."

(Now I kind of want to put this on a t shirt)

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Honestly, "Rightie Tightie, Lefty Loosie" is terrible, because there is still ambiguity. Right from the top of the bolt, or the bottom of the bolt? From your face, or the bolt's face?

There is generally a better frame of reference: Clockwise (and Counter Clockwise), since it's defined already by a standard.

Thus is born, CCW = OFF, CW = ON (unless you have an infernal left-handed screw, but those are quite rare).

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Three years ago I made this.

If you want to translate it I can put somewhere the Inkscape SVG file.

[EDIT] Since this toot is more boosted than the last of the thread the SVG is here:

cicles.cisti.org/v/aYVjHjM66k/…

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Most linux frontends I use seem to have strongly disabled the "middle click to paste selected text" and also generally "selecting text sends it to the selection buffer", and I presume this is a paranoia thing, but it's also a huge pain because there doesn't seem to be an option to change it. And it has cratered my workflows.


I think I'm going to have to accept I'm not running a single user vanity instance since we now have our 6th user @MatchaZed


Got a bunch of stuff from a contractor, including a blob of terraform.

TIL that RFC 1918 lists 100.0.0.0/8 as a private IP block!

in reply to silverwizard

You mean 10.0.0.0/8 as a private IP block, right?

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…





Sandman's Shittyness and abuse

Ok - so full disclosure - I hate American Gods - it's a Bad Book (imo)

But I read up to the end of the City of Glass issue yesterday, and I feel like Neil Gaiman's Sandman is just... trying to shock me repeatedly, and its calls to empathy refuse to not try to make me feel bad for my empathy by revealing a secret that the person I was empathizing with *suuuuuucked* retroactively. "You think this woman is bad?! Well she's a lesbian! HA! You empathized with her for being a lesbian! BUT SHE'S PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE HA!", and like, that's bad empathy, and bad storytelling, and it's not *fun*.

And uh- question - Morpheus definitely is implied to have forced himself on Nada? Right? That's what the closing paragraph says? I'm supposed to like this shitty person? Or like, at least think he's worth following?

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Sandman's Shittyness and abuse

@The Corodon alright, the second half of Volume 1 had things I didn't like, but I loved most of it

The resolution of the Doll's House arc kinda made me trust more

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Sandman's Shittyness and abuse
@The Corodon honestly, just, it stayed horror, it stayed intense, but good things happened!


I am running a Cyberpunk game where a corporate has their headquarters outside a city, but few onsite apartments, so the people who are *in power* all do what is known locally as The Commute, a two hour traffic jam.

The world is making it clear that there's off-road public transit available, and there's an economy of people doing bike food deliveries, prostitution, and busking along the track for the four hours a day people are spending in traffic.

All for the right to drive to work in their own car.

And - Cyberpunk hurts me

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You'd think the CEO would jack into his (inevitably his) in-office meat-puppet if he needed to actually be there...
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@Darcy Casselman @silverwizard Interestingly enough, most Cyberpunk universes I know are pretty concerned with having diversity among soulless corporate officers.
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@Darcy Casselman No no - these are VPs and stuff the CEOs are just flying

And yeah - there's a room in the basement where people do offsite meetings.

Meaning yes, these people are commuting 2 hours to be in the office to work remotely

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At least the SVPs get self-driving cars, so they can join meetings during their commute (and get hijacked by enterprising hacker PCs...)
in reply to Darcy Casselman

@Darcy Casselman Definitely! (Shadowrun - all cars are self driving, so all applies)

The PCs are meeting their contact in their car during his commute, because they can pose as delivery people, and it's a space he can trust!

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To my players, "Yeah, looks like his headware was installed before he was grown enough to not have it hurt him. Kinda like a 10 year old who has botox scars from beauty pageants."

My players didn't know how toxic pageant parents are...


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Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to publish her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.

Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place.

Those banning books know publishers like Scholastic pull this cowardly bullshit. It's their game plan.

prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4…

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Followup story in the New York Times.

Paywall-free link: nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/s…


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The whole "Gex X, Gen Z, millennial" thing is stupid. I've never liked it. I find it to be divisive and not only unnecessary, but I believe it also creates unfair stereotypes.

And the way people treat it like it's some kind of "science" annoys me to no end. These terms were invented by JOURNALISTS. Not any social scientists or historians. REPORTERS who were writing an article and came up with these arbitrary names on arbitrary dates.

I don't use them. It's toxic.

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I agree. I also think "Karen" is toxic because it's become sexist. People don't now use it as it was first intended.


Hey #OpenBSD people - are you getting perl errors after upgrade to 7.3?

I've upgraded 3 servers successfully so far, but bringing up my webserver gives me:

web$ sudo sysmerge
doas (silverwizard@web.obscuritus.ca) password: 
web$ sudo pkg_add -u 
Zlib.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got first handshake key 0xec00000, needed 0xeb80000)
web$ 

CPAN and CPANm both give me the same kind of errors. perl-migrate-modules gives a similar error. I rolled back the update and pkg_add work, and I ran perl-migrate-modules to try to get XS versions and things correct, and then I ran the upgrade again, with same issue.

web$ env
_=/usr/bin/env
LOGNAME=silverwizard
PWD=/home/silverwizard
HOME=/home/silverwizard
MAIL=/var/mail/silverwizard
PATH=/home/silverwizard/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games
TERM=vt220
SHELL=/bin/ksh
USER=silverwizard
web$ 

My env is pretty empty, and I've tried deleting my perl5 directory, and other site packages (pkg_add explicitly no_libs them but you know).

Anyone else seeing this?

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This file: github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ma…
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@Andrew Hewus Fresh yeah, Perl migrate modules is for migrating your installed modules to a new Perl binary apparently, but yeah

Yeah, I nuked my perl5 dir and it definitely no_libbed

It definitely is weird because Zlib wasn't there but I've installed three servers successfully from this install73.iso (but used the http mirror to get the files... On all servers), and it's persistent on this server and only this one...

It's super odd



They didn't invent words for how much I love being a dad and love my kids

I can be a grumpy nerd with a beard at computers, but kids never!

in reply to silverwizard

I've been a dad for not even three months, and I feel your first sentence so deeply.
in reply to Spencer

@Spencer I know right!

I know not everyone is a good parent, and that's ok, and it's important to highlight. But literally, my most treasured memories are holding my 1 month old child.


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cities love to be like, "we're gonna end homelessness by paying a cop $200,000 a year to throw your tent in the dumpster every few weeks"
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@Toot Uncommon As Finland learned, the main barrier to addressing the underlying problems homeless people have ... is that they don't have a home.

oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/f…

@Jess @Jude

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Shitting on anti-homeless policies
That, performative cyclical "shelters", and ~feelings~


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I wrote like a three page diatribe to my reps detailing all the stuff Instagram calls home about since one of my locals is sponsoring the US bill to axe tiktok and I'm sitting there thinking "do they even know, or what?"
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@pamela :flan_butterfly: I know that on the legal end it's entirely about locus of power and racism. But I just got an email from a Security Company telling me that TikTok is fine (I am on too many Security Company Spam lists that I can't leave...)

But yeah! it would be so nice if this unified with the privacy law work being done!

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@Jonathan Lamothe It's entirely a Locus Of Power/Racism thing


I have hit the point where I can guess the producer of a kids show after watching a few episodes

This is.... a skill I never suspected I would have



Does anyone want someone to run a bug bounty program and security awareness strategy? I love doing this shit, and reporters keep being happy to have me receive their report, so I feel like I'm good at it.


I love the actor Nigel Bennett! But basically everything I've seen him in is real bad.

It's very frustrating



One of the hardest part of my job is that I have to estimate how long it will take for me to even figure out what's going on, what I need to do, and then do it
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@Martijn Vos @Ji Fu Yeah - that makes sense - it's just super hard to even figure out what I want to work on when the environment is so weird
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@Ji Fu @Martijn Vos Sorry, want to in the sense of "I am doing this project and every time I do something I find a yak to shave"


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@Rivetgeek Good - I am just .... so frustrated - I don't want to change everything in my new job - but Datadog is so bad

I have CloudTrail for logs - and I wish we'd either double down on it, or stop using it. But I really wish I wasn't getting garbage shoveled into a slack channels without a link to the actually actionable information damnit.

I wish... I could just... get alerts that meant there was a problem and had info about where

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@Rivetgeek I just had a massive "change every tool we're using" sweep which kinda sucks, so I'm gonna hold off, but I'll definitely give it a look for when my political capital refreshes