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cks, 21 hours ago to random

In re comparing fire drills to phishing tests[1], if phishing tests were like fire drills, they would test the response to a successful phish. Was the person phished able to rapidly report and mitigate things? Do the organization's phish alarms work and reach people? Etc etc.

Current "phishing tests" are like testing people to see if they accidentally start fires if they're handed (dangerously) flammable materials. That's not a fire drill.

1: https://infosec.exchange/@sambowne/112513766095541271

mhoye, 3 days ago to random

I do love this city in the summer tho

cks, 4 days ago to random

Pretty much every time I change the time of an alarm on my phone I am irritated all over again at the fundamental laziness and robotic computer-ness of time controls. What I want to do is move the time forward or backward, not to separately change (or set) the hours and the minutes. But separate 'hour' and 'minutes' spinners or options are the easy computer way out so that's how UIs implement it.

cks, 5 days ago to random

Dear self, just because you have finished listening (once) to all of the new music you picked up last BC Friday is no reason to go pick up more. Among other things, you still have ~400 or so releases not listened to from two 'buy our 250-release catalog for cheap' offers in the past. So at least listen to some more of them before giving in to temptation. (Yes I have a 'to purchase' list.)

(Normally I would hold off for the next BC Friday but that's not going to be for months.)

cks, 6 days ago to random

It's surprisingly difficult to bicycle at 10 km/h and no more, at least on my bike with standard 700c wheels. It generally feels like if I sneeze I'll go clearly over and it's easy to drift into too fast.

(Toronto's Mt. Pleasant cemetery has an official bike speed limit of 10 km/h. One of my personal perverse acts is that when I go through it riding by myself, as I did today, I try to stick to this speed limit. It's absurdly hard to go that slow but oddly fun.)