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elfin

@elfin@mstdn.social

I make things, I fix things, and quite often break things. A Silicon Valley refugee living in the Pacific North West.

Three decades in the world of computers and most of it developing the Internet (largely as a Web Thing, but not really).

#Carbs #Salt #Sugar #Caffeine #SysAdmin #Dogs #Outdoors #Food #WestCoast #Seattle #SiliconValley #SantaCruz #UNIX #OpenSource #SelfHosting #UrbanWalking #WiFi #CafeComputing #Geekosterone

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hacks4pancakes, to random

If you like donuts and live in the US can you maybe help our team out? https://grouprai.se/krispykreme11022ma

elfin,
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@hacks4pancakes Can you do the same with White Castle to the West Coast?

Asking for a friend.

elfin, to random
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Well this is nifty...

juliewebgirl, to infosec
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WAIT! WTF??

When did it become law to require if customer info is on a server??

Alternately, what companies are making that shit up so that they can force 2FA??

And stop this madness convincing people to use 2FA when they don't even know what it's called or how it actually works other than "they send a code to your phone"!!

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@mjgardner @juliewebgirl I can't find it yet. Looking. Might be a rider.

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@mjgardner @juliewebgirl Huh... interesting.

elfin,
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@mjgardner @juliewebgirl The company in question is an auto dealership, not a weapons contractor.

elfin,
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@mjgardner @juliewebgirl I'm not looking for executive orders... Julie specifically said this was Washington State As Far As She Knows.

Wouldn't surprise me. King County, WA State is actually More Liberal than my humble home of hippies in the Socialist Republic of Santa Cruz California.

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@mjgardner @juliewebgirl So that HIPAA thing that should be a thing but isn't really a thing, how does that work out?

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@mjgardner @grumpybozo @juliewebgirl Yes, they have.

elfin,
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@mjgardner
@juliewebgirl Perhaps you need to understand the thousand ways HIPAA is walked around every day.

AND a refresher on Corporate Lobbying, How loopholes work (this part of the business is HIPAA compliant, but this part of the business is selling your data out the back door by the Exobyte), and a final refresher on the U.S.'s exciting history of Actual Enforcement.

I don't like your tone, in my battle space at that, in short.

stux, to random
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Ugh, antivirus on Windows keeps trying to manage the settings for me but I'm perfectly capable of that myself I only want it to scan for viruses and not for it to be my assistant

elfin,
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@calculsoberic @stux I'm betting you don't run Windows.

elfin, to random
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@toxic

What the actual fuck?

The University of California Santa Cruz is condemning recent antisemitic and anti-LGTBQ actions, including an event to celebrate Hitler's birthday | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/us/uc-santa-cruz-antisemitic-anti-lgbtq-incidents/index.html

elfin, to infosec
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"Another way of thinking about this is that if a company can only stay in business by externalizing the cost of security, maybe it shouldn’t stay in business."
-- Bruce Schneier : Click Here To Kill Everybody

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@ceresbzns Raises Brow

Bruce and I don't always agree. There's latitude in this space. I'm listening.

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@ceresbzns I SUPER want to address this, and we're on the same page but I got a few things to do [real estate agent things]. DO NOT LET ME FORGET to address this!

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@ceresbzns RIGHT as I'm dealing with the effing REAgent.

That's wrong.
I'm sick of calling hre Real Estate Agent because I don't type if I don't have to.

REAgent is a chemistry thing and she's sooooo very far from that planet it doesn't work.

Hmm.

I can summon two dozen ideas, none of them politically correct.
[I get mouthy when I get moody]

elfin,
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@ceresbzns Bruce...ah, yeah. So in my Copious Free Time I've been reading "Click Here To Kill Everybody..."

Let me tell you some things about Bruce.

  1. I scruffed Julie and made her go to a symposium in Seattle. His stuff was base and prosaic. My better half is more psychotic than I am about privacy, and the symposium bored her (and me) BECAUSE it wasn't designed for "Us".

I implement, Bruce's job is to "Explain".

AND we don't always agree.

oliphant, to random

I got told the other day, by someone who doesn't live in this country, that things probably aren't as bad as I think they are.

I'm white het cis male. They are almost certainly even worse than I already know, and I know a lot.

elfin,
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@oliphant I have slightly good news...

Technically this would be Nazi 4.0 or the Fourth Reich.

The First Reich (Heiliges Römisches Reich) lasted about 1000 years (800-1806).

The Second Reich (1871-1914) lasted 47 years.

The Third Reich adopted by the Nazi Party to 'legitimize' their sovereignty lasted from 1933 until 1945, or twelve years.

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