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mkb

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Infosec, privacy tech, modular synths, gaming (many flavors). Oakland, CA. 🧷🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

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br00t4c, to random
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Democrat Punished On House Floor For Accurately Saying Trump Is On Trial

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-democrat-punished-for-speaking-about-trump-trials_n_664e4b2ce4b0347b28fbf9a4

mkb,
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@br00t4c @DemocracyMattersALot We’re so fucked.

eyesquash, to guitar
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Somebody else's #guitar #pedal on loan.
I want one. The Jag sounds/feels like it's alive through this thing. I hear some people don't like these?
#fuzz #muff

mkb,
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@eyesquash @flockofnazguls Guitar tone is so subjective. Especially in the distortion family, there will always be people who dislike a particular pedal. That’s fine. If you find your bliss, you won.

futurebird, to random
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The company that's contracted to do security education has these little multiple choice tests, and it annoys me that they are confusing on purpose ... or they require you to listen to the wording of their videos carefully. eg:

Which URL is suspicious?

a. http : //www.gmail.com
b. https : //www.google.com/email

Um. The domain is valid for both. https is nice, but the later is a google 404... the former will re-load as https:

They wanted you to say the second one? Bad question.

mkb,
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@futurebird Ooof. Who is the vendor?

(Part of my job is getting people training which sucks less.)

mkb,
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@futurebird Now I’m curious whether retention of security awareness material among an office population is better with text or video. Just this morning a mentee was asking me about research topics for tieir masters program so your timing is excellent!

In general, the field for awareness training is pretty bleak. There’s a lot more bad than good.

mntmn, to random
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there's a MNT Pocket Reform and a MNT Reform both installing more MNT Pocket Reform motherboards.

mkb,
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@mntmn It must be really satisfying to reach that stage. Congrats!

girlonthenet, to random
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OK, who's playing Patreon bingo? I got my first smack on the wrist.

It is for an story which was posted on Patreon at the end of last year. Before their guidelines changed.

So yes, they are applying their new rules retroactively. Naughty past me! Should have been able to see the future!

And the reason they've removed it? They think it portrays 'real sex acts with real people.'

Story in next post, I'll let you lot judge.

mkb,
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@girlonthenet One thing to keep in mind is companies like Patreon seldom spend enough money on moderation teams. Teams are too small for the workload, not trained well enough to be consistent, and not paid enough for senior people to want to stay. Many teams rely too heavily on automation. One industry analyst found Facebook mods get fewer than ten seconds per item to review. At that pace, nuanced issues will often be missed and anything that even hints of a violation is treated like one.

mntmn, to random
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me, procrastinating to go grocery shopping

mkb,
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@mntmn

video/mp4

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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The Dead Kennedys singles collection from 1979 to 1982.

Hardly any band has produced more socially relevant songs than the Dead Kennedys

What is your top single from the band?

For me it’s definitely “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”

#punk #punkrock #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory

mkb,
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@historyofpunkrock OK, I need to re-learn how to play Holiday In Cambodia. East Bay Ray for the win.

derekvanvliet, to cycling
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riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1354

mkb,
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@derekvanvliet This is glorious!

lolgop, to random
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If the reason The Times covers Biden with a scalpel and Trump with a feather duster were because Biden won’t do an interview, that would be nice. The truth is they also try this. Gore, Clinton, now Biden. And it’s because they sincerely think their job to make every election look like a coin flip.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/two-of-greatest-100346837

mkb,
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@mcc @lolgop What’s frustrating is some of their reporters like Maggie Haberman have been doing amazing work but the NYT’s overall editorial framing is so damn timid and both-sidesy.

Someone on Masto put it really well: If one side says it’s raining and the other says it’s not. Your job as a journalist is not to repeat both statements, it’s to look out the window and see who is right.

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

mkb,
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@Npars01 @StillIRise1963 Aye. Someone expressed it better than I ever could via cartoon.

box464, (edited ) to infosec
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I don’t know what is more disappointing. Batgirl’s “hacking” skills or Batman’s password choices.

mkb,
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@box464 Disappointing, but hardly surprising. :(

whitequark, to random
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if HTTP was so good why didn't they make HTTP 2

mkb,
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@whitequark The Threadening!

historyofpunkrock, to punkrock
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44 years ago today
Joy Division have their last concert at the University of Birmingham, May 2, 1980, two weeks before the death of singer Ian Curtis

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mkb,
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@historyofpunkrock I’m always struck by how clean cut they looked. It’s hard to imagine those young men in collared shirts producing Disorder or Shadowplay.

UnicornRiot, to random
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Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment With Weapons

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/masked-israel-supporters-attack-uclas-palestine-solidarity-encampment-with-weapons/

mkb,
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@UnicornRiot "Police didn’t intervene until the fifth hour of the attack." Holy shit.

ai6yr, to privacy

Just a privacy reminder: if you're going to post a picture of your mail, make sure to blur or remove any barcodes on that mail. Every piece of USPS mail has a bar code with your full address on there. Zip Code + 4 extension (which is your neighborhood) + house # (which translates to your exact house).

mkb,
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@ai6yr Zip+4 doesn't necessarily specify a particular house but yes, it certainly can.

mkb,
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@ai6yr The specificity of the +4 varies widely. Yes, sometimes it is an entire neighborhood. In other cases it is a single recipient. One can even apply to get a distinct +4 code.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

mkb,
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@statsguy @TCatInReality @benroyce @GottaLaff Exactly. Nothing anybody can say about Joe is as bad the other guy attempting an armed insurrection.

mcc, to random
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Unpopular opinion: A lot of y'all are describing your (neurotype / algorithm / chord / biohazardous rocks) as "spicy" when what you really mean is some other taste qualia such as "tangy"

mkb,
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@mcc Zazz.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho5Pt4pPKsg&pp=ygUNRGV0aGtsb2sgemF6eg%3D%3D

mkb, to Metal
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Helmet dishing out the at The Fillmore. \m/

mkb, to VideoGames
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This week NPR’s podcast The Indicator From Planet Money has two episodes about . I’m especially interested in the Designing For episode. It’s cool to see more and more
affordances in games.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1197964005/the-indicator-from-planet-money-the-last-of-us-accessibility-gaming-04-23-2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1197963994/indicator-from-planet-money-live-service-games-warframe

lzg, to random
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“no ordinary love” is such an incredible song https://youtu.be/_WcWHZc8s2I?feature=shared

mkb,
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@lzg That subtle bassline grooves deeper than the Mariana Trench.

mcc, to random
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The miserable screamy feeling when you have an error in a program, you alter the source code, you run it again, it fails in the same way, then you look at the error message and notice the line numbers have not changed and therefore the change you made was not actually incorporated into the version of the program you ran and you don't know why

mkb,
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@mcc Often for me that was forgetting to save in my editor before going to the shell window to run. Eventually I had to configure every editor to auto-save when it loses focus. My favorite version of the problem is accidentally editing an entirely separate version of the source code.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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1977 was a great year for punk rock releases and the year that opened a new (music) world to me

Do you have a favorite among these mega releases?

mkb,
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@historyofpunkrock What’s that in the bottom left?

hrbrmstr, to random
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O_O

mkb,
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@hrbrmstr @thegibson Here’s the corresponding press release:

https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/mitre-response-cyber-attack-one-its-rd-networks

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