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SonOfSunTzu

@SonOfSunTzu@mastodon.social

"External security brain": providing Decision Support and Cyber Security Strategy over at https://www.pathdependence.co.uk .

Epistemic Trespasser, Analogy Overlord, Tsundoku adherent. LGBTQIA+ ally.

Hermit extrovert.

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SonOfSunTzu, to random
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This has been in the freezer for a year, should I eat it?

antlerboy, to random
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Being as I am now Old, I have Varifocal lenses in my glasses.
One set is set to, um... normal? And the other is for a 1m focal distance, for my computer screens. Identical frames...
https://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/glasses-lenses/varifocals
Buggeerd if I can tell the difference (though there is a difference).
Can anyone advise on how to tell which is which?!

SonOfSunTzu,
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@antlerboy how do you get on with those and computer screens? E.G. from a ergonomics perspective, your screens should be in the "intermediate" not "near" sector?

I should sort out my eyesight at some point, might just wear three pairs at all times...

Theorem_Poem, to random
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Can we reclaim "jugaad"? It's taken on such a pejorative meaning of late. People use "jugaad" to mean solutions that cut corners or use unethical means....no no no no.

When we used old bicycle spokes to fix a TV antenna, that was jugaad. Finding a carpool when your taxi cancels is jugaad.Stitch- binding loose pages out of a book is jugaad. Jugaad is the spirit of DIY-ing yourself out of a tough situation. Let's bring it back. I'm haryanavi and we are the people of jugaad. 😁

SonOfSunTzu,
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@Theorem_Poem @simonzerafa the positive or negative connotation of "hack" depends on who's saying it about what.

With my wikipedia level knowledge of "jugaad" it appears that it's used much more often in a positive light, and there's an emphasis on frugality, whereas for "hack" the emphasis is on cleverness, or maybe the "neatness", of the hack.

A very useful word, and an interesting concept, thank you for sharing.

SonOfSunTzu, to random
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If Cassandra ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor) ) and the Cassandra Complex applies to prophets of doom who aren't believed, what's an appropriate equivalent term for someone who advocates for positive change for improvement of a situation, rather than to avoid tragedy, but also isn't believed?

( Thinking of old conversations with @neil specifically... )

Faintdreams, to poop
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I just thought of a mashup.

Barbie and Bladerunner.

The Original Barbie hunts down rogue dolls and repackages them.

https://dice.camp/@Faintdreams/111312586908781382

SonOfSunTzu,
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@Faintdreams but Barbie doesn't realise she's also a rogue doll in some way?

And... "Barbrunner"? "Blade-ie"?

SonOfSunTzu, to random
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YouTube on my Roku, connected to my TV, plays entire music videos - quite old videos - as advertisements, interupting whatever I was watching.

Do any of you have any idea why?

Is this another way for YouTube to try and get everyone to pay for YouTube premium? And further from that, will the "ad-supported" levels due on platforms such as Netflix and Disney go the same way?

Faintdreams, (edited ) to random
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YouTube (via roku so on my TV) keeps trying to insert entire 3 - 4 minute music videos as ads inside the video I actually am trying to watch.

WTF ?

🤔😖😑

[please note this is not a request for info on how to block those ads via router or a pi-hole. ]

SonOfSunTzu,
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@Faintdreams how can we make it clear that I'm interested in that option, although I'm pretty sure it's impossible.

Can you filter replies?

Faintdreams, to random
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There are rumours that a Biopic of Liz Truss - from birth to up to her disastrous stint as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - is in development, and the front runner to play Adult Liz is..

Lady Gaga.

This. Is. Bonkerballs. Unhinged. Cuckoobananapants.

SonOfSunTzu,
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@Faintdreams Not the film we want, but the film we deserve.

bloor, to random
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I keep hearing suggestions the recent air traffic control problem may have been caused by a “bad actor”.

I had no idea Laurence Fox was capable of such a thing…

SonOfSunTzu,
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@tony @bloor I've not seen any valid explanations of how this incident would be explained as the actions of a bad actor.

Is there a term for the opposite of Hanlon's Razor, where everything that goes wrong with anything involving computers must be attributed to the enemy of the week?

( yes Bloor, I am going to take your throwaway joke overly seriously... )

SonOfSunTzu,
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@tony @bloor ITYM a "sophisticated domain expiry" carried out by "advanced cyber attackers using whois".

nf3xn, to random
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    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @nf3xn what do you mean by the "host" key? Is this the same as the "tmux prefix"?

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @nf3xn ok... meanwhile, I thought the default for the command key was always Ctrl+B ?

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @nf3xn I do, so that's.... one 🙂

    SonOfSunTzu, to random
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    This description of a recent scam attempt is worth reading carefully: https://social.coop/@BjornToftMadsen/110971514208956658 - and interesting example of scammers authenticating themselves to the victim with data they've created.

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @sarajw just anything that works, I've not heard of anyone restoring shredded documents unless it was academic research, or you're an interesting target. Although the risk is low - and might not be a factor in that thread - definitely shred rather than don't.

    SonOfSunTzu, to random
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    You should read this, it is delightful: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/110927904628701918

    gsuberland, to random
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    Operation Lazy Gardening has received its first supply shipment.

    This is the smaller of the two shipments.

    Bags of seeds on a counter top. Crimson clover green manure, red mustard, rosemary, scarlet sage, broad leaf sage, wasabina mustard, spearmint, and thyme.
    Yet more seeds. Lobelia, rokita peppers, sweat pea, cornflower, English wallflower, french lavender, cubanelle peppers, sapigloss sinuata, lobelias.

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @gsuberland @jimfl insurance policies tell you what you can grow in your garden?

    I may not be as familiar with that as I need to be...

    JamesBaker, to privacy
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    So it appears the entire UK electoral roll has been hacked. That’s over 40million records of people’s name and addresses, and possibly email as well. They didn’t tell us for nine months either! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66441010

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @gsuberland @JamesBaker Graham, if memory serves, wasn't similar information stolen from Bulgaria?

    I haven't researched this ( it's dinnertime ) but I feel that that wasn't too big a deal either...

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @GossiTheDog @steve doesn't that delay between discovery and notification feel much more like "NCSC investigating a compromise by a suspected state actor", and all the possibilities that might result from that? Rather than the ICO or the Electoral Commission being particularly slow?

    SonOfSunTzu, to random
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    @antlerboy did LinkedIn eat your latest post?

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @antlerboy ah, that's it - I must have been looking at the copy when it was deleted. I wondered for a moment if had breached some LinkedIn rule about commenting about the platform on the platform....

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    No Megan Rapinoe slander will be tolerated. None, you hear me? Rapinoe was the first white football player to support Colin Kaepernick. Soccer is football.

    I'm scared of France, Netherlands, and England. The US didn't get much worse. Everyone else has gotten a lot better.

    The "I'm a Fox watcher that can't name 3 players in the US Women's Nation Team" to "I'm now an expert on women's soccer, and make more misogynistic comments about the USWNT than Alexi Lalas" pipeline is always in full effect.

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    I was going to ask you for a reference for that "most dominant" statement, because I figured it would be nebulous or difficult to quantify... but finding online references was surprisingly easy ;)

    augieray, to random
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    From Lancet Respiratory Medicine: “can have a devastating impact on individuals' health, wellbeing, daily activities, and livelihoods. WHO announced that no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. However, the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 are a growing public health crisis on a global scale that demands a focused, well-resourced, and patient-centred response.”

    Anyone see that happening?

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(23)00268-0/fulltext

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @augieray thank you for sharing this, much appreciated.

    To help put this into context for myself and others, and to save me from the perils of looking this up online, can you recommend any sites to show how many people are infected from similar diseases? Just to get an idea of the scale ans the risk, the cited 65 million is a lot less than the "1 in 10" I've seen elsewhere...

    neil, to linux

    What was the first distribution you installed / attempted to install?

    For me - a Debian user - it was gentoo, around 2003, which was a mistake.

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @neil Slackware, 1995, from floppy disks, onto a laptop made of the working bits of two insurance write-offs. Which I thought was particularly unusual until I read through this thread...

    antlerboy, to random
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    New journal from UK Cybernetics Society: Enacting Cybernetics https://stream.syscoi.com/2023/05/28/new-journal-from-uk-cybernetics-society-enacting-cybernetics/

    SonOfSunTzu,
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    @antlerboy interesting... thank you for highlighting it. And it looks like another reason to get my RSS reader situation sorted...

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