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Software developer. Sysadmin. Into: interconnection, telephony, net engineering, comm. infra., security, snark, birds. 🦝 Also @mdhardeman @infosec .exchange

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@jennabohenna I kind of love this because I feel like it will, by proxy, raise awareness of building window safety for birds. The fix is the same: little dots/patterns on the glass to provide a visual interruption.
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@mikeapedia101 A young coworker came across a stray ancient 3.5” floppy disk in my office and said “Oh, cool, you 3d printed a Save Icon”.
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@JoeAlderman11 @wildtiktokss Sperm is viable for as much as 48 hours after death. But you couldn’t extract it via the natural route. There is a medical procedure to recover it though.
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@mikey_hub @JoeAlderman11 @wildtiktokss There was a scandal some years back in the military over army wives wanting access and paying for it. That’s how I heard about it.
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@thecaptain_nemo They used to make someone accountable for murders, even if the person held accountable didn’t do it.
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@LymphoBitch @buckIeydiaz Something is leaking wine, and things are getting a bit gay.
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@SwiftOnSecurity I love that tabloids are real in the UK. Or maybe all the UK is just a tabloid.
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@RyanMarino @SonyaShaykhoun Does she really think the health department’s food service inspectors are sampling tubs of ground beef for human DNA?
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@wideofthepost I’m more intrigued by the BBC’s correspondent here. What’s the backstory? How did he get exiled to Pennsylvania? He asked for coffee, didn’t he?
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@skooookum My theory is that she found herself holding one of her children, and she asked aloud, "Does this spark joy?" When she admitted the answer was no, she realized her philosophy would require her to commit a crime, and so abandoned the philosophy (rather than the child).
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@olivekosheluk @IwriteOK Right? Do we really want to have to wait to be backed into a wall or a corner or taken to the floor to respond? Because all of those reduce your odds.
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@AriSchulman As a much broader topic, does anyone track murders between academics where the motive was eliminating a prominent academic who supported the other position?
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@coffinsneeze @pvineetha Actually criminal that the ears don’t double as flush handles.
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@coolmom42069 I see nothing wrong with her 4th of July werewolf. It’s patriotic.
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@mike27356894 @EverythingOOC Almost as if it’s…entirely out of context.
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@PanderShirts As a gay (and formerly slutty) man who has also been in mens' locker rooms, nobody is gayer than straight sports-bros.
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@segalmr These claims are ridiculous. Gifting people the ability to vote is not the same thing as buying a vote. They're not obligated to vote and if they vote, they're not obligated to vote any particular way.
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@argvee Indeed it is not. Instead it's an opportunity to take hostages and extract the value you implicitly earned. I jest, but only a little. The world that borrowed your work isn't owed your loyalty, your consideration, or any ongoing duty that they're not paying for.
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@J_Hol95 @PaschalHL @sciencesloth How is a Facebook search for a person you’ve interacted with in real life any indication of murder? How is a medical record of a case you worked on a trophy?
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@guydebort @MT6572A It’s got to be a joke. Why is the “O” all red and inflamed looking?
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@Webster_Duck OMG here’s the same guy that was saying a machine generated email to his kid is potential harm to his child celebrating some else putting an actual child’s info and home address and encouraging randos to send you guns to the child....
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@OwenBenjamin There is definitely radioactive fallout and you can even use steel metal and a sensitive Geiger counter to see it even today. Pre-atmospheric-testing steel is now extremely valuable - to the point that pirates scavenge it from old shipwrecks.
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@Angry_Staffer Ultimately, it’s a gift to the pro-choice side. It provides concrete evidence of how and why “exemptions” in abortion laws never pan out for those needing them. The poor lady will need to travel to another state while there’s time. This letter should be in political ads.
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@EmilyDreyfuss They weren’t really sounds, though, until something was able to perceive them as sounds. They were just pressure waves.
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@RayRedacted If we just fill it with seating and people, we’ll have a vision of how it might look shortly before crashing. 🤣
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@Chinchillazllla @brondotcomputer Where? How? Why? Did the cat consent to this?!?
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@NomeDaBarbarian @voretaq7 We need to fine tune this message and bring it to the masses, including to gay AND straight men: “They’re coming for your blowjobs.”
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@Spilling_The_T @McClellandShane I love how Christopher (19) is “terrified of food poisoning”. I’ll bet there’s a story there with all kinds of unresolved trauma.
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@_Archesuchus_ Is THIS what that lady saw on the plane?
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@RyanMarino As an Alabama native, and not reproductively interested gay man, I’m still morbidly curious how this will go. Will they change course when they realize this has wrecked fertility treatment availability or will it be a double-down on “the infertile are just not chosen for kids”.
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@MattWalshBlog About 85,000 per year. That’s .025% of the total population. 20 individuals is too few to change even the most trivial of policies for. 20 individuals is insufficient for a public service announcement.
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@politicalmath I can only assume this is engagement bait. This teaching is extremely common in evangelical Christian teachings in the southeast US at a minimum.
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@dtemkin While I have no love for Parler or its users in particular, there is a sort of bitter irony in that the places one goes to on the Internet to publish extremely controversial content inevitably hinge on relationships in Russia and/or China.
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@patio11 I know it’s juvenile but I can’t skip over the name Rich Handler. Is this a gentleman of significant wealth who manages things?
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@Webster_Duck What’s wild is the parent has to agree to both the fact that they are disclosing to the child and that Google may directly contact child about the service during the onboarding. Do these sanctimonious folks not believe in keeping their agreements? What faith is that?
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@JoniKletter @ebottcher Heh. Maybe “Victoria’s [real] Secret” is her man is gay.
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@Webster_Duck I wonder if anyone has done any research comparing the difference in risk elevation to a child who a) receives a privacy notice email from Google versus b) is individually profiled online, with home address, and a plea to please send toy guns. I suspect option B is worse.
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@DrEricDing I strongly encourage those concerned about such subpoenas and/or warrants discovering this sort of thing to advocate for end-to-end encryption in messaging services. The messaging apps / services can’t provide records they don’t have, and end-to-end encryption achieves that.
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@OwenBenjamin Modern steel has tiny amounts of radioactive decay from radioactive particles dragged into it in the atmosphere during the manufacturing/ steel firing process. The low radiation steel is valuable for industrial and scientific applications requiring extremely low bg rad noise.
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@Ogiel23 @AshlingDennehy @ph3n0m This. The power to summon birds to annoy, maim, or defecate on enemies is about as good as it gets.
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@RyanMarino Is this a pathway to a documented workplace injury or something that later advantages them in the long term picture?
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@freeone3000 @bascule @socrates1024 The peril of all this ML stuff is that its biases are hard to catch, have real impact on what is visible, what gets promoted, who makes bail... and it’s just good enough that it gains mass adoption before doing real harm.
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@InternetH0F I always heard that immediately after the shower, you’re the cleanest thing in the house, so every time you rub on the towel, you’re actually making the towel cleaner.
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@Webster_Duck @MT6572A I support the parental controls AND the parental spying features but am vehemently PRO disclosure like this. Any target of these tools (child or adult) should be made aware of who is watching and what they’re watching.
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@the_aiju This remains one of the simultaneously funniest and hardest replies I’ve ever gotten.
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@mdhardeman This account does not reflect the views of the Moving Picture Experts Group, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Electrotechnical Commission, ISO/IEC JTC 1, or its subcommittees. It does however attempt to reflect reality.
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@the_transit_guy On the other hand, this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is probably legal to build in OKC.
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@georgebsocial They should just adopt the basic model of Unreal Engine's pricing (straight royalty once past a de-minimus point) and charge a lower percentage than UE. Tie the money out to the money in, not install events neither party controls.
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@MattWalshBlog Hear me out: maybe it’s a conservative point of view. Work with me here for a moment. You’re proposing major government intervention — deprivation of private property at a minimum — for a cause of 20 deaths total yearly in a nation of hundreds of millions?
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@LAuerhahn @GregBensinger @Uber What they’re really saying is that the whole business model isn’t worth it to them if they have to pay those wages. They believe that riders won’t pay for it and so no one gets paid.
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@Hamb0w0 @jonjones Hmm… Let’s see if 1000 uncommitted, independent large cats can come together in voluntary structures to build a product which requires significant alignment and purposeful interaction with a strong decision making capability.
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@girldrawsghosts As someone in the telecom business, I promise you that even the gentlest among us is way more mercenary than that.
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@ASFleischman On the left and it’s so not-even-close that being dead doesn’t disqualify him.
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@StudentsDemand @Everytown Doesn’t Twitter actually have an anti-doxxing policy?
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@Jack2LOneill @JHU_CGVS Meanwhile P90 enjoyers can avail themselves of a convenient, non-obtrusive factory brass catcher accessory hanging onto the bottom eject port.
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@yazicivo @ariadneconill Can you name and shame who uses that ridiculous substitution feature (and recursively)? Who’s the influential user who needed dynamic pulls from JNDI binds in their logs?
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@doesntswallow @uncledoomer They just knock down / plow through most successfully. Approximately 75% must be killed annually in order to make their next year population level with the pre-cull population. They breed so fast.
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@KarlGarfx @MattWalshBlog No it’s statistics and constraining the heavy hand of governance to policy interventions that matter statistically rather than based on feelings.
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@91whskyDean @GoodReddit I saw a video somewhere of a man who filmed himself…going off…while doing hanging crunches in the nude. Apparently he discovered he could do that accidentally and decided to show it off…
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@fasc1nate I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest he’d look far older if he [still] lived in the present.
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@socialistdogmom @Artist_HB As I understand it, this position doesn’t require a license in most places, as it’s not actually practice of medicine and they’re not directing care for a patient. So probably lots of suspended/revoked doctors.
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@AtJamz I like it when a game I’m playing gives the feel of being a character in a world with environmental object permanence and visually obvious physical laws.
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@AriSchulman I feel like historians probably kill each other more often than other academicians.
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@randomstring729 When I was of the target age for this ad, it might have literally given me a smoking habit.
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@TedMielczarek @AnsgarTOdinson I have a strong preference for draconian solutions that don’t require further admin time and site visits.
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@robotfactory @bjnord @PragmaticAndy I’ve always assumed because it was first and carries essentially all of their technical debt.
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@eyeslasho The only thing missing is a Bald Eagle swooping through above.
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@SwiftOnSecurity Why did they do it this way with so many individual condensers?
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@QueerArmorer Yes. I find also that there’s a great deal of overlap between this attitude and the ones making noise about “birth rates” and “white replacement”. In essence, they see their particular belief system and culture as being endangered and they view their children, essentially, as
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@Sarcsnarks @AnthonyAspres @stillgray What the kid did is dangerous. This isn’t thievery, the kid approached an adult with a sharp cutting instrument and used it to damage a personal accessory right by someone’s neck. If he had shot the kid in the confusion I’d be voting not guilty.
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@LeciaToshi @EmilyDreyfuss @ChaoticGoodest It really depends on how we define sound. But consider: we call pressure waves oscillating at frequencies below human hearing infrasound, not sound. That distinction is merely perceptual. We don’t call it sound because we don’t hear it.
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@netcapgirl You know…. You can make his version of the equation work out if we simply recognize the value of AI in this context as zero.
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@femacampaunt Isn't this just a new strain of ringworm which can be spread by any kind of skin on skin contact? I think it used to be a big deal for wrestling teams and other contact sports.
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@QueerArmorer I’m here for it, it fucks. But only because it brings a very “meth is the new cocaine” vibe to the P90 discourse.
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@AndyinBrum @J_Hol95 @PaschalHL @sciencesloth The report indicated she had records for many other cases as well, and I agree it sounds like a records management / privacy issue, not a murder issue. Also, not weird to keep stuff from a horrid case where you wonder what you could have done differently.
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@_UncivilServant @ComradeEevee My computer doesn’t run software, software runs it.
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@NaviGoBoom @BarrettRifles @NIOA_Australia Sigh. This is what happens when a private business’ succession plan is “I’m ready to exit, get me the highest dollar value possible for the whole operation.”
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@marklewismd The legal industry still uses it too.
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@fullfringal @islandthembo OMG yes! Now I just need to figure out how to do a meme image of weighted blankets as a “gateway drug” to…this.
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@AndroidArts Stargate SG1 was a spectacular series with so many great small plots and seasonal & series arcs. Starting from season 4 episode 8, It also famously cemented FN's P90 / PS90 as the canonical "space gun".
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@Angry_Staffer A lot of them claim that the layers of earth and atmosphere and all are merely a result of “density” and that gravity isn’t real. Never mind that gravity is the force that causes things settle per density.
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@mitsuhiko The JetBrains people have taken Java desktop UI to its heights.
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@whstancil What if...what if the "online left" actually IS upper-middle class consumers?
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@Spilling_The_T @McClellandShane Spoiler: They’re still a mess.
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@matttbastard I definitely don't know her story, but it might plausibly involve meth & dicks. Who could say?
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@JoeAlderman11 @wildtiktokss Which of you pervs bookmarked this?
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@JackStr42679640 I love how in your conspiracy the power is going out AND they’re broadcasting “training” 24/7.
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@SwiftOnSecurity The REAL crime was believing the risk of Flash was risk-unacceptable while simultaneously believing that Adobe Acrobat & PDF were risk-acceptable.
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@FPCAction Oooh, thoughts on same but for meth?
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@scuzzoO @IbaraEleven And yet, I can still subscribe and/or view RT News and other foreign networks in the US.
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@ericmigi One of those is reverse engineering a data structure. The other is abusing a service’s APIs to register an unauthorized device and user to receive ongoing service from a platform that is hardware subsidized.
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@fromabovewithin @mikeapedia101 It actually did. I’m PRAYING that they saw the gag somewhere and just recognized an opportunity to copycat it. Because this person isn’t usually very witty so if it’s not that, they may honestly believe it.
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@notuskforelon @RyanMarino The trouble is that wealthy religious conservatives have a bad habit of traveling to various “dens of sin and iniquity” to get their “legitimate” problems solved quietly.
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@__hand_banana There are many areas of risk management where this is entirely correct. This is why active red/blue teaming is a useful technique in infosec. Teams excel when they have adversaries, even “friendly” adversaries.
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@lftovrpizzaclub @RyanMarino I mean, if she wanted a sane argument, maybe the lettuce is at the wrong temp and breeding E. coli, but… not whatever that was.
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@annwitbrock @robbystarbuck @Google I think most everyone thinks parents should monitor children’s internet use and devices. They just also think that it should be disclosed to the child being monitored. The parent is still in charge, they just can’t hide that it’s happening.
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@Kingcannibal12 @olivekosheluk @IwriteOK If they behave aggressively like that, I’m not seeing a downside.
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@amansaiofficial @gunsnrosesgirl3 Yes, up only. From the top, it’s easier to attach a large parachute to the vehicle for the short trip down.
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@growing_daniel Something that many people miss is that it's also not unusual to have quite several large suitcases when checking in to a vegas hotel room -- it's conference city, year 'round. Lots of people bring their booths and displays that way.
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