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mkb

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

#punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #iancurtis #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd

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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.

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.

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

mkb, to infosec
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OK, peeps, what’s the over/under on the number of days before another vuln with the same M.O. as is found?

And what about attribution? Place your bets!

mkb, to random
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Hey, @ivory, what’s the best way to submit feature requests?

I’d love the reply button at the bottom of the screen to be swappable the way the rightmost three buttons are. Thanks!

(Ivory kicks ass, by the way.)

mkb, to infosec
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Book about analyzing leaked data by @micahflee:

https://nostarch.com/hacks-leaks-and-revelations

mkb, to random
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Democrats keep bringing handshakes to a gunfight.

mkb, to infosec
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Hey and software , does your org use a tool to detect credentials accidentally checked into source control? Which one? Are you happy with it?

futurebird, to random
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"Humans are the only creatures that kill their own in war."

Antkeepers: ...

mkb,
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@futurebird If there has one thing I have learned about the animal kingdom, it’s that statements of the form “Humans are the only creatures that…” seldom hold up.

(BTW, humans are the only creatures that make that particular mistake. 😜)

mkb, to random
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Special for @historyofpunkrock, X as The Warfield right now.

mkb, to random
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New proposed FTC rule:

If your "elevated number of support requests" is more than N days per year, the company is legally required to instead say "We have chosen to consistently underfund our CS team so they are unable to keep up with entirely predictable levels of demand."

mkb, to random
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I am repeating my request for a term to describe the confluence of confirmation bias and schadenfreude.

That is, I irrationally dislike Foo, news comes out that Foo is bad in some way, then I feel smugly justified in my irrational dislike as though I knew all along.

(See Substack.)

Surely someone has already coined a term for this. @grammargirl, have you any thoughts?

Kalshann, to random
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"Hurting fascist's income doesn't work", says the fuckers making money off fascists.

"Blocking or banning fascists just makes things worse", says the asshats who profit off the controversies.

"Fascist speech must be protected because of free speech", says the ignorant bastards who don't care about actual freedom.

I am so fucking tired of these cowardly shit goblins.

mkb,
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@Kalshann @rysiek What saddens me is there is actual research on the effects of deplatforming.

Some of the “deplatforming doesn’t work” arguments are reasonable on their face but research shows deplatforming is effective despite the downsides.

mkb, to random
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Of possible interest to @toplesstopics :

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/twitch-finally-updates-overly-punitive-confusing-sexual-content-policy/

mkb, to random
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Hey people, I'm looking for samples of that classic bell sound that used to be used everywhere. It's the one from the chorus of Siouxsie's "Cities In Dust."

So far my Google skills are failing me. I was sure the DX100 pack by Samples From Mars would have it but no dice.

Help me Mastodon, you're my only hope.

mkb, to KISS
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Are there any fans in the house?

There’s a little stutter in the main riff of “Deuce.” After decades of listening to that album on the regular I still can’t tell whether the rhythm is intentional or they didn’t quite have the chops to play what they intended.

mkb, to random
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1982 me with a brand new computer might have believed someone saying 2023 me would have a computer 6 or so orders of magnitude more powerful.

1982 me would not have believed I’d have that 2023 computer but still be weirdly obsessed with the 1982 one.

mkb, to machinelearning
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With all the hand-wringing about , there's one concern I don't see people discussing:

As we increasingly train using output from other AI, what pathologies will emerge from those feedback loops?

mkb, to infosec
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Hey, folks, the new is out:

https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/

mkb, to random
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I loves me some but am nervous about going this year after they dropped the mask requirement. I can’t find anything about masking for 2023 which suggests they aren’t requiring masks either.

@piebob @darrenbob, are y’all going this year?

I really hate missing the hacker high holidays but don’t want any ronas. Once was enough, thank you very much. Plus I really don’t want to get my parents sick.

mkb, to random
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I know I'm not saying anything new or insightful here but wow, Bobby Kotick is a real piece of garbage.

> Kotick blames scandals on "a very aggressive labor movement"

> Activision Blizzard CEO denies any systemic issue with harassment, says outside forces trying to destabilize the company

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/kotick-blames-scandals-on-a-very-aggressive-labor-movement.

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