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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not-…

fox13memphis.com/…/article_ea59fe96-79df-11ee-847…

bloomberg.com/…/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-c…

dailyjournal.com/…/377206-23andme-accused-of-havi…

The usual warnings about “anonymized data” and “data aggregation” apply.

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People don’t use turn signals, speed through residential neighborhoods, change lanes in the middle of intersections, it’s insane.

It’s been like that since I was a kid in the 80’s.

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Thanking? No. That would be impolitic.

Quietly using? They’d be foolish not to.

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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I was working on my final project in a class in undergrad on the campus VAX. VMS had a versioned filesystem, which is to say that every time you saved a file (like your source code in LSE), it would create a new file (e.g., FINAL.COB;23). I was getting confused by all of the versions of my project so I decided to clean some of the older ones out:

DELETE FINAL.COB;1*

DELETE FINAL.COB;2*

I had to run to the data center the VAX was in halfway across campus to beg the sysadmins to restore $STUDENTS:[DRWHO.CS1337]FINAL.COB;* from the hourly tape backup (at least there was that) and re-debug the last two functions so I could hand it in before midnight. Lesson learned: Don’t worry about cleaning up your workspace until after you’re done.

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That’s more than a reasonable period of time to wait.

Can you run a SMART check on the drive from a liveCD? memtest86?

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)

“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”

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I think yinz missed the sarcasm in the comment you’re replying to.

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It’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/

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I was just about to ask if anybody else had been “advised” through the usual social back channels to not consider hiring anyone on that list. I got a couple of messages last night from folks I used to work for about that.

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It’s not an actual list. There’s no GDoc that gets shared around or anything. People talk to people. Folks who used to work together who kept in touch sometimes give each other “a friendly heads-up - that guy at the protest? He’s getting fired. Don’t hire him.” Then e-mails to recruiting addresses get deleted or a resume’ gets dumped in the recycling bin, and that’s that.

It’s the same back channels on LinkedIn and Skype chat groups (yes, they’re still a thing) that are used to organize parties at RSA and shit like that.

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Madness!

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Still not fixed: Video playback temporarily disabling the screensaver.

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Exactly. It’s still not working. At least, on Linux boxen. It’s been broken for the last few releases.

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The only fix for that is for nobody to communicate, ever.

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Locksport.

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If you look at it from the perspective of “we are not allowed to have nice things, power is the only thing that matters,” it not only makes sense it’s predictable.

Edit: “victus haze”

“defeated haze”

Somewhat misused Latin? On point.

Descriptive of what is likely to happen? Also on point. .gov never disappoints.

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That is why we took our time when designing the new Find My Device, which uses a crowdsourced device-locating network to help you find your lost or misplaced devices and belongings quickly – even when they’re offline.

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More like, already deployed, this is just the announcement.

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Pay up, Fastjack.

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That is a very important lesson to learn early, because the same applies when you’re grown up.

Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux (www.techpolicy.press)

The promise of AI, for corporations and investors, is that companies can increase profits and productivity by slashing their reliance upon a skilled human workforce. But as this story and many others show, AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced...

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I can confirm this.

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How much oil do you have?

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How expensive do we have to be for them to actually listen to us for a change? Or do you mean “expensive consultants?”

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Then, nah.

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Shit. I’m going on travel in a month or two.

Should You Pay For An Identity Theft Protection Service? (blog.thenewoil.org)

Identity theft is a common cause of anxiety in modern society, and it’s pretty justifiable. According to a recent survey from US News, almost three quarters of adults have experienced at least one case of identity theft, and 27% have experienced more than one. In 2022 there were more than 1.1 million reports of identity theft,...

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Data breaches are so common, and so many people have been caught in them, why bother paying for ID protection? It’s granted a year at a time (for whatever that might be worth) for nothing to everybody caught in it. At this point, we may as well try to leave all those years of ID theft monitoring to our grandkids.

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