mike_jones

@mike_jones@bluelupine.social

Grew up in the South, came to the Albany area in 1978 to go to RPI. Stuck around, mostly. SE for Cohesity.
Red Sox fan. Straight but not narrow. He/him.

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briankrebs, (edited ) to random

I've grudgingly come around to the notion that there is only one way out of the ransomware problem: Make paying a ransom illegal. This is not very different from laws that make it illegal for US companies to pay bribes to foreign officials.

I really don't see any other way out of this mess. Yes, some victims will unfortunately ignore any laws that say they can't pay, but enforcement probably will not be hard.

What will be difficult are the situations where peoples' lives are at stake in ransomware incidents This sounds callous, but we can't afford to take the short view here anymore, and our other alternatives aren't great either.

I'm quite certain this is an unpopular view, but we have already seen the cost of doing nothing. At least in the interests of congruity for our financial sanctions vs Russia, we should probably make this change sooner rather than later.

mike_jones, (edited )

@RandomDamage @briankrebs
Since data can’t be changed on the blockchain, the method of updating information works be replacing old items with new. What’s going to stop the hackers from putting bad new (superseding) info on the blockchain?

mike_jones,

@RandomDamage @briankrebs
That’s pretty hard unless there’s only one copy of the information, which includes not having backups.

cstross, (edited ) to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Woke up, read the news, now fantasizing about Ken Paxton waking up tomorrow and discovering there's a ~16 week old anencephalic foetus in his abdominal cavity, with its placenta nicely bedded into the wall of his colon.

(How long do you think it'd take him to get a surgical abortion?)

mike_jones,

@cstross
Once again, where’s Rod Serling when we really need him?

mike_jones, to random

As we're in the "gets dark early" part of the year here in the northeast, a friendly reminder: you will not get a prize for being the last driver to turn on your headlights as night approaches.
Also, your DLRs do not turn on your taillights.

mike_jones, to random

At the set break at the Mike Doughty/Ghost of Vroom show at Lark Hall and holy shit it’s amazing.

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

Tom Nichols gets it 90% right in his latest @TheAtlantic post: If democracy dies in the next several years, he says, blame Trump, his democracy-loathing cabal, the Republicans in general, and feckless voters who miss what's at stake.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/11/trump-plot-military-election/675922/?utm_source=press.coop

But while he mentions the press, he doesn't assign nearly enough responsibility to its cowardice and willful refusal to a) recognize what's at stake and b) actively fight to save our system.

(Wishing Nichols would leave deadbird site...)

mike_jones,

@dangillmor @TheAtlantic
He’s on Bluesky, which is somewhat better.

jeffowski, to mentalhealth
@jeffowski@mastodon.world avatar

mike_jones,

@jeffowski
It me.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Seen some distinctly odd toots appearing from accounts in the western US (since roughly start of waking hours in California) saying "battery-electric vehicles are a dead end, the future is [OH LOOK A WOOKIE]". Not people I've ever engaged with previously.

I suspect the petrochemical industry astroturf bot farms have finally reached Mastodon ...

mike_jones,

@argv_minus_one @mattmcirvin @cstross

Tap water is safe in most of America.

jeffowski, to random
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https://lifehacker.com/how-to-befriend-crows-and-turn-them-against-your-enemie-1849393502

mike_jones,

@jeffowski Unfortunately, it says I need to be a member of the blog to read that piece which otherwise sounds potentially very useful.

davidaugust, to Futurology
@davidaugust@mastodon.online avatar

NYPD robot cop can't go down or up stairs by itself, but "patrols" the subway. I put it in quotes because it seems to need 5 human cops in order to be out in public.

It's like they never even watched the movie robocop: https://youtu.be/_MS4sLIBvbE

mike_jones,

@davidaugust @cstross

…or Doctor Who.

Daojoan, to random
@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

mike_jones,

@Daojoan

Possibly the most annoying thing about it is the way it changes the focus from “this is how the job should be done “to “this is how I do it “.

jeffowski, to random
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mike_jones,

@alison @jeffowski
Same.

CultureDesk, (edited ) to languagelearning
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"Address terms" — the words we used to address people — are becoming more inclusive. For @TheConversationUS, linguist Scott F. Kiesling analyzes the different terms that are emerging, their origins ("dude" comes from the "doodle" part of "Yankee Doodle Dandy"), and why we can say gentlemen, but not ladies. Which do you think is the most inclusive address term for a group?

https://flip.it/byg.FG

mike_jones,

@CultureDesk @TheConversationUS

I’ve mostly switched to “folks” or “y’all” informally.

jeffowski, to random
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I'm a severe Night Owl and tend to do a lot of my best work between 10pm and 2am.
Mornings before 10am are awful experiences.

mike_jones,

@jeffowski
I’m not a morning person. Some days I’m not an early afternoon person.

joeo10, to music
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If you're using , I would strongly advise getting two external hard drives depending on your size and download your purchased ASAP since the new owners are a marketing B2B company and I know where this is eventually going. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/28/epic-games-is-eliminating-16percent-of-its-workforce-and-selling-bandcamp.html

I would not be surprised if Songtradr is going to push the button on it. https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition/

mike_jones,

@joeo10 @cstross

I always download music I buy from anywhere, because I know that if I don’t I’m really just renting it.

infrequentbrilliance, to Amazon

The Washington Post this morning calls out what @pluralistic has already pointed out… is in full mode.

https://wapo.st/3ryUgUD

mike_jones,

@TonyJWells @ErisCaffee @SidFudd @infrequentbrilliance @pluralistic

This is why I go to Monoprice initially for cables instead of Amazon.

Sherrinichols, to random

Anyone have a bsky invite code to share? I’ve tried the waitlist, and nothing happens, and I’d like to check it out.

mike_jones,

@Sherrinichols
If you haven’t gotten one yet, here you go:

bsky-social-vurl5-3lri2

mike_jones, to random

Seen at lunch today.

TechDesk, to threads
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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over its Threads platform. In a letter obtained by Semafor, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of engaging in "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property" and said that Meta had hired dozens of former Twitter employees who had access to confidential information. Meta's communications director says the accusations are baseless.

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

mike_jones,

@TechDesk

mike_jones, to random

@Gustodon @cstross
As a younger man, I had two baby boys. One of them was a quiet child who sometimes seemed unhappy for no reason.

One day that person went away.

And then I had a daughter, who is finally comfortable as the person she’d wanted to be her entire life.

Conservatives want to eradicate my daughter. I’m here to say that’s not going to happen.

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