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LinuxAndYarn

@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social

🐧Linux sysadmin, infosec aficionado, occasional writer, genx emo kid, 🏳️‍🌈️old lesbian marrried to https://journa.host/@Chrisblue, 🏳️‍⚧️️24 years post, ⚾️Phillies phan phorever, ⚽ever hopeful WNBA & NWSL will give us a franchise. she/her/yo 💙️💛️ Black and trans lives matter. Full stop.

I am avoiding birdsite trauma and will reject follow requests from people who have no posts. Don't take it personally.

infosec on-topic account: https://infosec.exchange/@linuxandyarn

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LinuxAndYarn, to random
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I know it's in poor taste, but I really want to see JT crush a ball.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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So what are y'all thoughts about the Philip hue lightbulbs? I'm thinking about picking up a few but not connecting them to the Internet because I'm paranoid lol.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Ikeep thinking to put together a hone automation wifi network that doesn't connect to anything else.

My mom had hue bulbs connected to Siri, and all her problems are with Siri afaik.

LinuxAndYarn, to HashtagGames
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Ray Walston was actually a Romulan. His laid-back sense of humor came from being raised by dissident expatriate parents on Risa.

#FakeSitcomFacts
#HashTagGames

davidho, to random
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The kind of people who would modify their car’s exhaust to be louder also scored high on the “psychopathy and sadism” scale.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60983144/study-loud-exhaust-psychotic/

LinuxAndYarn,
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@davidho I've always suspected this was true.

But given the population surveyed, business school undergrads, i would expect a majority to score high for "psychopathy, narcissism, [and] manipulativeness" even if they drove a Prius.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@gnate @davidho Probably having a parent who owns a Toyota dealership. If a b-school student really is interested in electric cars, they're probably driving a Tesla, or a BMW.

gwynnion, to random
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Nigel Farage deserves a lot worse than a milkshake thrown at him.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@gwynnion The right wing doesn't care about norms. They don't give any deference and respect to others, just demand it for themselves.

I imagine Lauren Boebert's bar being the sort of place where Matt Gaetz is the dim barman, MTG is the blonde waitress, and Louis DeJoy sits in Cliff Clavin's spot reading a hagiography of Anthony Comstock.

In walks George Wendt.

"Norm!" They all cry, and they all rush to stab him like Caesar.

(Obvy, stabbing is fantasy and literary license. They'd shoot him.)

RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@RickiTarr My dad was a firefighter and I spent a third of my career in healthcare. You can't fool me with your "want of a nail" bullshit, Mr. Applebee's Manager.

LinuxAndYarn, to random
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I swear, sometimes I'm in the middle of a thing and just go completely blank, like Kate Reid transfixed by a blinking red light in The Andromeda Strain.

the_etrain, to random
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Autocorrect wanted to make peanut butter jelly time into peanut butter Jesus time and I'm about to start a new religion.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@the_etrain

Your own peanut butter Jesus
Someone to fill your bread
Someone to spread

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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I really wish people would start throwing porridge at Farage, just so I can think 'Nigel Porràge' when I see it.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@TheBreadmonkey I'm all for Faragé eggs.

LinuxAndYarn, to retrocomputing
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84-24 is a beautiful -- both technically and visually --account of restoring an original #Macintosh. A good cozy engineering read for first morning coffee.

https://84-24.org/

#RetroComputing #RightToRepair

selzero, to random
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THIS MILKSHAKE FIGHTS FASCISTS

The fascist is covered in milkshake!!

LinuxAndYarn,
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@selzero With his name being Farage, I really feel there's an opportunity to throw bedazzled eggs.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@Rhodium103 @selzero You mean a Wendy's Frosty?

LinuxAndYarn,
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@madjo @selzero I'm also impressed that she would do this wearing white and not appear to spill any on herself.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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You can feel the fear in the air as we approach sherlocking season.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@Migueldeicaza June is not scarf weather in the northern hemisphere.

LinuxAndYarn, to gaming
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I thought #Nightingale was supposed to have a #steampunk/Victorian motif. Why does crafting a basic leather-and-fiber outfit make me look like an extra in The Flintstones?

#Gaming #GamingOnLinux

LinuxAndYarn, to random
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Does anyone else who lives in have trouble with their eyes shying away from video calls when there are a bunch of people with white backgrounds? I keep having this thing where half the people in my calls have these stark white virtual rooms, and my eyes just keep finding phantom hairs and reasons for me to take my glasses off when that's not the way I am off these calls.

It's even worse when there are more than six people on, and a lot of head movement.

CaptAntagonist, to random
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Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for fifth of mayonnaise

LinuxAndYarn,
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@CaptAntagonist A fifth is too much. I only drink it out of those little airplane bottles.

IveyJanette, to random
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Dude please.

#blackmastodon https://www.mediaite.com/tv/eric-trump-tells-fox-news-the-black-vote-is-swinging-over-to-donald-trump-in-spades/

LinuxAndYarn,
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@IveyJanette Ten Black people in Manhattan say they will vote for Trump. Headline next day is "Trump support in Harlem nearly doubles."

emptywheel, to random
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"Swept Up!" The Russian Payments that Led to Trump's Felony Conviction

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/02/swept-up-the-russian-payments-that-led-to-trumps-felony-conviction/

LinuxAndYarn,
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@emptywheel The idea that someone who worked for Bill Barr would "warn" us about the power of an Attorney General is laughable at best.

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2020/10/ag-prosecutorial-power/

ChrisMayLA6, to ukteachers
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I agree with Kenan Malik; behind the increasingly instrumental view of university education (that it should be judged by what it does for your subsequent career & earning potential), lies a class-based assessment of who should benefit from education at all.

The working class do not deserve the humanistic value of education but rather must be trained in work skills... while the privileged should be able to buy the benefits of enlightenment!


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/02/the-affluent-can-have-their-souls-enriched-at-university-so-why-not-the-poor-as-well

LinuxAndYarn,
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@ChrisMayLA6 "[T]he privileged should be able to buy the benefits of enlightenment," and they will be used the same way most people use an exercise bike: as intended perhaps twice a year, and the rest of the time ignored, perhaps to hang things on.

randahl, to random
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Guilty as charged! 🔥

This new anti-Trump video from The Lincoln Project deserves a thousand boosts. 🙌🏻

https://youtu.be/FwcjDO6JCVQ?si=SQun3oGdi0sjFtfZ

LinuxAndYarn,
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@randahl Give them 60 seconds of respect; just don't give them any money. Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson have plenty of reach into deep pockets, and their opsec leaves a bit to be desired.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-stole-35k-anti-trump-super-pac-lincoln-project-report-2024-4?op=1

Viss, to random
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video/mp4

LinuxAndYarn,
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@Viss Kraftwerk died for your sins. Wait, did I say "for?" I meant "from."

dangillmor, to random
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I've been using the Chromium browser for certain websites, and that's about to end.

Google's greed-fueled moves -- this time to disable vital extensions that provide better privacy and security -- are unacceptable to me.

The stakes here are quite high. If Google succeeds what it's attempting to do -- forcing us to use only Google-approved privacy and security choices -- we're in trouble.

Firefox looks like the best way forward at this point.

LinuxAndYarn,
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@dangillmor If only the corporate portal at my job didn't force me to use chrome-based browsers for a handful of things, I'd be able to do everything in Firefox. But I'm moving from actual Chrome to Chromium.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

LinuxAndYarn,
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@GossiTheDog I'm thinking the rave in Fall of the House of Usher would be even more appropriate.

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