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mkb

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

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danilo, to random
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Part of why tech workers at huge orgs like this need a union:

Being compelled to relocate to a forced birthing state is violent as hell

So much more to collective power than just getting paid

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/14/24037904/apple-san-diego-siri-ai-team-relocating

mkb,
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@danilo @irenes Hey Siri, how can I drive away my best staff?

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

mkb,
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@mekkaokereke I suddenly realize I have a different standard for spoken language than I have for code and I’m not sure I can justify the difference.

With code, I assume that a future maintainer will have less context than I do and less knowledge of the language than I do (and that future maintainer might actually be me).

With spoken language I usually assume the listener will either know the words I’m using, or be willing to ask me to clarify.

Maybe that inconsistency is a problem. Hmm…

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.

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.

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.

hrbrmstr, to random
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O_O

mkb,
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@hrbrmstr @thegibson Here’s the corresponding press release:

https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/mitre-response-cyber-attack-one-its-rd-networks

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. 😜)

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.

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?

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.

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.

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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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 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?

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

flockofnazguls, to random
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    mkb,
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    @mrcompletely @flockofnazguls I rewatched it a couple years ago and actually like it better now than when it was new.

    Also, I really want the same production design team to make a movie.

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    mkb,
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    @flockofnazguls I didn’t know it but I needed that in my life.

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    mkb,
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    @defaultmediatransmitter @flockofnazguls They’re both slightly tangental but 20,000 Hertz and Song Exploder are quite good.

    20KHz is about soundesign and leans toward the commercial end. Song Exploder talks with artists to pick apart how a song was made. I find the story-centric ones less interesting but the ones looking at musical or technical decisions are great.

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    mkb,
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    @flockofnazguls That’s a hellofa thing. @scannerdarkly would appreciate, perhaps @historyofpunkrock as well.

    meejah, (edited ) to random
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    I'm producing JSON messages for consumption by other programs running this one as a subprocess. How should timestamps be communicated?

    Aside: do non-browser JS runtimes also suffer from dumb limits (2**53)?

    mkb,
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    @meejah ISO 8601 all the way. It’s human-readable and lexical sort is also chronological sort.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

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    @diazona @meejah I’m also guessing it would be more portable and am curious to know whether that is true.

    mkb,
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    @SnoopJ @diazona @meejah If there is one thing I am absolutely certain of in date calcations, it is the presence of scary wrinkles. :)

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    mkb,
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    @limebar @flockofnazguls Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value!

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