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"My boyfriend works with software security and he doesn't let us use torrents"
ma'am your bf is a scam sorry to break the news
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My wife is excited about a Fantasy Ball and now I'm looking for resources for customizing N95/p100 masks? Any good cosplay tips?
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I can highly recommend magnets and lacey fabrics as good ways to decorate or customize respirators, specifically the disposables.
The Dräger 1950 N95 is arguably the best on the US market right now, and it has the most robust structure to handle added decoration without collapsing. The plastic anchors for the headband on each side also allow for hanging/mounting decorations.
For magnets, there are lapel pins and needle minders, but to customize/add on to, look at hijab magnets.
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PS: the Dräger 1950 is what I'm wearing in my profile photo - along with a magnetic lapel pin.
Also, the small size of the 1950 fits the most people
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I chatted with these picketing OPSEU members outside an LCBO in Waterloo. I support them, and am grateful that OPSEU is pushing back against the Ford government and its corporate partners. Greenbelt, Ontario Science Centre, Ontario Place, a preoccupation with booze — these are all signs of the same privatization zealotry that all conservative governments love.
#LCBOWorkersFightBack #LCBO #Ontario #WaterlooRegion
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More information about the LCBO strike is available from OPSEU.
#LCBOWorkersFightBack #LCBO #Ontario #WaterlooRegion
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opseu.orgOPSEU/SEFPO represents more than 8,000 workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) divided among 42 locals.
In addition to supporting OPSEU members in their strike against LCBO, I like to support the wonderful craft breweries in Waterloo Region and nearby Guelph. Today’s cycling trip was to TWB Cooperative Brewing in Kitchener, one of my favourites. 🍻🚴♂️☀️
#CraftBeer #BikeTooter #LCBOWorkersFightBack #WaterlooRegion
I hate when people talk about hobby tools as like "if you value your time"
1) fixing is a skill you should hone
2) fixing can be fun
3) hobbies are not something to optimize
Discussing valuing someone's time spent on hobbies in dollars is the worst grindset babble imaginable
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I sell products ready-assembled, and do-it-yourself kits for building the same products. Some of my customers buy the kits because they really like building kits, and that's great.
But others buy the kits because they think they're entitled to the finished product at a lower price, and they begrudge every second of effort they must put into building the kit. Those people really exist and they are the market for tools that purport to save "the value of your time."
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@Matthew Skala Yeah, that's valid. If you're doing it to save money - that's fine.
But this is a criticism of the *argument*, not the sale. People can and should sell preassembled things, kits, and more! Not everyone wants to build! But if someone is building on purpose, don't tell them to value their time.
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@Hypolite Petovan It's just fucking weird.
Why are they doing this?! my rep wont tell me!
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once, years ago. I think they sent an email out a few days later saying sorry it was a bug. That obviously doesn't stop the panic.
Can it be translated and tied to a legitimate communication that got hit by a similar bug?
@j_angliss So they've done three in simplified Chinese so far, all with an English translation. They're about changes to Lambda in various APAC regions.
I don't know why as we have those regions disabled and nothing in use in them - but I definitely freaked the hell out.
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@Hypolite Petovan The normalization is mostly a matter of fighting the process of seeing security as a cost center and underfunding it.
So - the core thing is complexities around risk and access. Part of corporate culture is risk appetite. Corporate culture loves accepting risk, and so security teams kinda don't have a lot of leverage. And that's where the problem is, ya know. I don't know how to fix that.
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If the Ontario Science Centre was a sports stadium Ford would have had the money to repair it immediately.
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Google Docs has been randomly deciding to not let me copy/paste. I use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and it pops up the popup that tells me I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste.
This feels like another anti-competitive thing against firefox.
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> Google Docs has been [...] not letting me copy/paste. I use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and it [...] tells me I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
I've been getting that for months. My solution is to switch to @nextcloud with @collabora as soon as this organization acquires another #SelfHosted server.
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Google docs spreadsheet used as a database
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Been there. But #SpreadsheetAsDatabase isn't Google's fault, and won't get fixed with @nextcloud
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V ≠ Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V *is* Google's fault, and can be fixed by eliminating Google.
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You can't scale a single-threaded process by adding more logical CPUs.
Why is this something that confuses people?
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out of order operation isn't just about changing the order of the operations. It lets you (sometimes) pre-compute the result of future instructions as long as they're not based on the output of the previous ones enabling you to parallelize what would otherwise be a single execution thread. I imagine there's a point of diminishing returns though.
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all the out-of-order execution occurs inside a single CPU
adding more CPUs won't help speed up a single-threaded program
picture a call center
an attendant is like a CPU
the attendant can pay attention to one customer at a time. the customer may issue multiple requests/instructions, and an attendant with out-of-order operation may be able to look into and satisfy some of the requests before other earlier ones
however, adding more attendants wouldn't help this one customer get faster service, unless the customer started multiple calls (threads or processes), or the attendants could pass customer requests and context on to each other (that's not permitted by the call center design; they can only transfer entire calls)
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The ISO 7 layer model as actually encountered:
1. Radio transmitters with buggy firmware.
2. Things pretending to be ethernet.
3. Networks broken by NAT.
4. HTTP.
5. Other protocols layered over HTTP.
6. Reliable connections implemented using other protocols layered over HTTP.
7. (Soon) HTTP over HTTP.
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my friend wrote a really good article about this
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Shut down your PagerDuty account, unless someone will die if you don’t answer it.grimoire.ca
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@Alex P. 👹 Ooooof I felt that blogpost hard.
Today it was literally "the entire devteam is down, but the CEO doesn't like how a document that's gone through three approvals and been in use for two years looks, so that's higher priority".
So kinda the opposite
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#ticketmaster
#cybersecurity
#credit
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the horror of it is, to make it possible for you to register for the service using your sensitive information, some of that sensitive information has already been shared with additional third parties. No GDPR for the US.
Worst breach I ever got notified of was from a law firm who had been retained by a medical provider who got breached, to represent them in the breach; and the LAW FIRM had copies of my PII that was then compromised. They never should have had it.
Forever Knight (1992) was a better show than Moonlight (2008)
But seriously, they are very similar.
I think I like Moonlight better, but I want a LaCroix show rather than a Nick Knight show.
@Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas Are you thinking of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonligh… I've never seen it
I was thinking of imdb.com/title/tt0955346/?ref_…
If you are thinking of Moonlight I gotta admit I missed the Shakespeare episode >.<
The problem with the Eulogy for DevOps is that the last 20 years has been a series of ways of defining sysadmins away and then having them re-emerge from the muck.
We'll never have DevOps disappear because it'll just be yet another beast.
Sysadmin, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineer, it's all the same thing, it's just that people need to try to put us in new boxes to try to get around the fact that *making your systems reliable* is a hard and different job.
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I've been at the same place for the past 4 years. My title has changed 3x. I'm still doing essentially the same thing, just on a different level of abstraction.
What makes it even funnier is that you haven't even listed my current job title: Platform Engineer. What will it be in two years? Who knows, it's all based on vibes.
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We are delighted to announce the release an initial playlist @bsdcan "low hanging fruit" Videos.
We have 6 videos in need of additional work and expect them to be released in the coming month.
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Brooks Davis Address Space Reservation talk from BSDCan 2024 posted:
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NetBSD on RISC-V - It Finally Runs NetBSD By: Dylan Eskew & Dr Phil Nelson
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Hot cross builds: cross-compilation in pkgsrc by Taylor Campbell
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Got my Stadia to connect to my Mirage Solo VR
Give me a few more days and I'll be able to run my entire computing life off "things google made, abandoned, and tried to turn into ewaste and I bought for $10"
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"Well, sure, but anyone can edit code," said the managers who have never read a line of anything more complicated than a 'Hello, World'.
In python.
Attention: #PandoraHolmes has disappeared.
On Tuesday, she was originally expecting to leave hospital for her new flat, but this was not ready, so instead she was allowed to go home to her current flat for the day
Her cat, who was being looked after by a neighbour while she had been taken, escaped yesterday and she spent the day looking for her. She overstayed the time she was meant to be back while looking for her, and her last message was that police had been sent to get her.
She has not been heard from since around 18:30 yesterday UK time. It is now 14:30 the next day.
Continued next post
#FreePandoraHolmes #transhealthcare #nhs #forceddetransition #FreePandoraHolmesNeg
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I just got off the phone with the ward. They confirmed #PandoraHolmes is there and said she is "ok". No definition of what that means.
When I asked about her going silent, they said it's her choice not to respond. I asked more directly if she had her phone and was allowed to communicate and the nurse wouldnt answer me.
Call +44 115 969 1300 and ask to be put through to Highbury hospital, Rowan 2 ward. Ask after her, ask why she has not responded, if she has her phone, if there are any restrictions on her communication.
Bury them in calls.
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US EPA Enforcement & Compliance conducted 3 onsite inspections of Apple's fab facility in 8/2023 + 1/2024. US EPA noted at least *19* potential violations of the RCRA hazardous waste statute.
I just posted US EPA's report for public access. Dropbox link: dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqvretg7…
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After discovering what Apple did, I then spent three months requesting records & digging through regulatory filings to learn more - which led me to file a complaint to US EPA in June 2023. I met with EPA's investigators & sent them everything I discovered.
I told EPA I didn't want my whistleblowing to be anonymous, and instead, that if EPA shows up to inspect the plant, when they do, please have the EPA cops tell Apple: "Ashley says hi." 💀
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- illegally treating hazardous waste
- illegally transporting hazardous waste to disposal facilities
- illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows)
- leaving stockpiles of extremely dangerous chemicals unattended on weekends
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Because Apple wasn't monitoring its solvent emissions, & had no permit, its unclear just how much toxic waste Apple dumped into our bedrooms.
Also, it gets worse. Between 2020-23, Apple did monitor the air for vapors with an ad hoc, handheld, calibrated gas detector...ONE TIME.
Apple failed to calibrate the tool in all other tests. However, Apple did calibrate the tool a few times, but each time Apple then failed to actually use the tool to test anything. Great work, Apple.
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We previously discussed how Apple didn't change its carbon filters for around five years (per Apple's manifests); so those filters were probably useless and doing nothing to control the gas/vapor emissions.
But there's more! US EPA also noticed that when Apple did start changing the filters in 12/2020 (after I reported my chemical induced illness next to the building), Apple then unilaterally claimed solvent drenched charcoal is not haz waste, & proceeded to illegally dispose of it.
We're not done, you guys. There's more!! However, if you feel like you just got a strong whiff of Apple's poison gases & you need a moment to catch your breath; I'll just leave this right here as a reminder of how important it is that we look out for each other and feel a sense of duty to the community around us.
It's a tale as old as time that industry will poison communities as much as it can, as long as it can, until every day people come together to demand to not be slowly murdered.
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The US EPA inspector noticed Apple had a 55-gallon container of corrosive liquid chemicals sitting in Apple's "Chemical Bunker," & the container's cap was removed
EPA said: hey Apple, why is that haz waste container left open?
Apple responded: its open so the vapors can vent, you know, so it doesn't explode
EPA said: you need to buy containers designed for these types of chemicals
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If you're thinking, ok that all sounds very dangerous, but I'm sure Apple was keeping an eye on things...
The facility operated 24/7 but only M-F.
On the weekends it was unattended & Apple didn't monitor their waste or waste treatment systems.
Apple also stopped their weekly inspections in Feb 2023 after I learned what they were doing at the factory.
Finally, lets talk about Apple's factory exhaust into the ambient air next to thousands of homes and two public parks.
Much of Apple's solvent exhaust was vented out "as is" (unabated) from the main system.
The illegal solvent treatment tank exhaust did go through the untested carbon boxes, but then it was released out of a tiny vent pointed *down* at the building. Any gases heavier then air would be directed to the ground level to pool into toxic vapor plumes.
There were no permits.
My civil lawsuit against Apple includes 2 toxic tort claims for what theyre doing at this factory. I alleged Nuisance + Ultrahazardous Activities. The US Judge is letting me proceed with both claims.
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Apple can keep flailing around, but we're in US court now & they will be forced to face the music. I'm also waiting to hear from US Dept of Labor Judge if I can add RCRA, Clean Air Act, & TSCA retaliation claims.
Finally, its also possible DOJ could pursue criminal charges.
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Apple has $67bn in cash just sitting around. You'd think they could be nice to their neighbors
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Please consider signing this letter to the Ontario government to preserve the Ontario Science Centre and, if you are able, attend the rally on Sunday.
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The Ontario Science Centre (OSC) has been underfunded by the government for years. And now its very existence is under threat.act.newmode.net
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The two protocols I need better tools for are RSS and IRC
I hate irssi and I don't want a webapp for RSS
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@hotsoup RSS to an IRC room would be great, if I had a good rss
IRC over RSS sounds like a bad enough idea for me to take it seriously
I have invented a drink I call the St Lawrence Crossing
It's absinthe with maple syrup instead of sugar. (See - it's a Canadian Ferry and absinthe is the Green Fairy)
It's tasty
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My head hurts.
Years of screeching about how depraved christofascist Republicans are going to unleash the next Hitler and a real-life Handmaid's Tale age of nightmares...
But if we wish any harm upon their hatemongering, eugenics-advocating, genocidal, rapist leaders that are getting poised to destroy the world, that's... rude?
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