davep

@davep@infosec.exchange

Does IT stuff.

Likes permaculture, infosec, Tranmere Rovers. But mainly bad jokes stolen from https://www.justthetalk.co.uk/thehaven/17468/urgent-i-need-a-good-joke-right-now

Missing my Dad and little brother.

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Someone took out an enormous short position against Israeli stocks five days before the October 7th attack, orders of magnitude bigger than normal trading activity and big enough to have made billions of shekels when the market crashed.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-04/ty-article-magazine/.premium/did-hamas-make-billions-betting-against-israeli-shares-before-october-7-massacre/0000018c-348d-d5f2-a5cc-769d7bea0000

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Just got barred from the restaurant.

I only said to the waitress "I'd like to ask about the menu please".

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Me to friend: "I love Beyoncé."

Friend: "Whatever floats your boat."

Me: "No, that's buoyancy."

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"The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C"

Why is this dangerous man hosting COP28? Ok, apart from trying to destroy our future to protect his interests.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

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And now for the top prize in the Palindrome Awards, we open the Reward Drawer.

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Interviewer: "Can you perform under pressure?"

Me: 'No, but I do a passable Bohemian Rhapsody'

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How did I only just learn about Slow Horses? Just binged season one and it's brilliant!

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A man picks up a scruffy-looking lamp and gives it a rub. As is usual in these circumstances, out pops a genie who tells the man he has three wishes.

''Ok", says the man, "I wish there was no such thing as lawyers."

"BOOM! Done. You now have no more wishes."

"Hey! You said I had three wishes! I want my other two wishes!"

"Meh. Sue me, dickhead."

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You think you had it bad as a child?

When I was a kid I'd get home, open the front door and get a plate of spag bol right in the face. I'd go to the bathroom, open the cabinet and get a tuna salad flung straight at me.

I literally didn't know where my next meal was coming from.

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Has anyone ever actually bricked a computer by not wearing one of those antistatic wristband thingies?

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It's November 23rd and we've just had our first frost at 700m altitude in the Massif Central.

Welcome to the new normal.

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Recycling ingenuity!

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Yay! After my RPi SD card bit the dust (after eight years) I've managed to get a slightly older version of my shonky server-side password generator up and running on an RPi 4, which is blindingly quick in comparison. https://penfold.fr/

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And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God committed it to GitHub before forgetting all about it and moving on to more interesting projects.

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I'm sharing a house with the matron at the local ursine hospital, and it's full of inflatable sofas.

It might not sound great, but it's got all the bear nurse air settees.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns the relevant entry and, sure enough finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

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Dark matter? 80% of the universe invisible? It's just silly because boffins can't account for all that gravity. Here's my long-held hypothesis (beware, I'm not in any shape or form qualified to bang on about this...).

I just reckon there's loads of universes, as I'm not into the idea of a single big bang (in the same way I don't like the assertion we're the only life in the universe). Again, what's the chance of this one-off exceptionalism? The fact it's accelerating means it's not a closed groundhog universe, constantly reliving the big bang and contraction cycle. It also hints at gravity around it pulling it apart, which could explain dark matter better than dark matter does. This then could mean at some higher level our universe is just interacting with other "particles" as they pop into being and dissipate, suggesting a bigger universe and so on.

It's probably impossible to even start going beyond hypothesis as there's doesn't appear to be any way to observe it, but it makes more sense than just coining those unknown gravitational forces "dark matter" (80% of the sodding universe, for fuck's sake) because we don't know what causes it.

Anyway, that's what happens when you take too much acid as a teenager, kids.

I guess the nth generation humongous hadron collider may one day reveal enough about interactions between iddy biddy particles to create the turtles all the way down link with a model for how our universe could be interacting with other stuff. But advanced society's probably not going to last long enough to get that far. Ho hum.

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Asked the missus when her birthday is and she said "For God's sake, March 1st!" so I walked round the room and asked her again.

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Great. Multiple mRNA vaccines can make your immune response worse rather than better.

If you caught Covid before getting the mRNA vaccines, this isn't the case. And AZ vaccines don't have the same issue. Luckily I caught Covid after my two AZ vaccines, before my three Pfizer ones. Apparently the IgG4 antibody increase, which is what causes the reduced response, is dose-dependent. And the bivalent and Omicron ones were high dose, potentially leading to this outcome for older people and generally those with comorbidities.

"Importantly, in patients who had a previous COVID-19 infection (before vaccination), IgG4 did not rise, even after mRNA injections, implying that those with higher IgG4 levels are uninfected people who were immunized with mRNA vaccines before having their COVID-19 infection"

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991

This is from about six months ago so I'm a bit behind the curve on this.

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I have an EpiPen.

My friend gave it to me when he was dying, it seemed very important to him that I have it.

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Have you heard about the corduroy pillows that are making headlines?

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A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Where's the bar tender?"

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Yorkshire proofreaders - fighting the war on t'error.

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My old Mum has taken to sending me "hilarious" TikTok videos. I guess this means the kids have moved on.

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