It took me a while to realize those were computer monitors.

Clean your fucking screens, that shit is disgusting 🤢

Brother you just became a war criminal by starting a war. Nows not the time.

Yeah… No

I didn’t mean RFC Base32.

I meant human-safe alphabets.

Base58 or Crockford Base32 that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1 (which is distinct from “base 32”).

RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.

To be clear the (vanilla) base32 version of the aforementioned string:

“I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc”

Outputs:

“JEQGI33OOQQGM5LDNNUW4ZZANNXG65ZANRXXI4ZAN5TCA3DMNRWGYSKJJFEUSSLMNRWESSKJEBSXIYY=”

You can use cyberchef to check for yourself.

This does not solve the problem.

I meant what I’d said: base 58.

As a job title: sysadmin

Loathe.

Every now and then there crops up the situation where there is no copy/paste from host to host. And when that involves a fucking product key or some shit… Mother fuckers just base 58 that shit.

What would you rather read and type?

Product key: “I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc”

Or…

Product key: “CqiDNKttsj1NUubpbVJ2VJL9eMEpRvRFMV3hNPRxtUX7SMox5UQjeEZX3DqqHNAfkSE”

I rest my case.

Jfc you just do both at the same time.

“Hey, I’m reaching out with regard to ticket 27472. I’ll need to remote into your device. You’ll see a notification that it’s happening. I just wanted to give you a heads up that the notification is expected behavior. Let me know if you have any questions!”

One message.

Do work.

“Hey again, the .zip is benign. Thanks for reaching out! Feel free to open it.”

They respond “thanks sorry I was at lunch”

“👍”

Never speak again.

American Hero.

Did you talk about this with your therapist? Bc you should.

My old therapist would refer to frustration as a resource we hoarde. We dump our frustration into a little water bottle, and when we’re not using adaptive coping mechanisms, we table it. But then later something frustrating happens (like your webcam experience), and though it is (truly) a minor setback, you’re stuck with this huge reaction. You got a stop hoarding your frustrations and learn to dump that water bottle out before it overflows.

This imagery is for me helpful because it helps me understand some disproportionate reactions I may have, and also quite clearly doesn’t shy away from negative emotion. Get angry, hell yeah. When it’s… Adaptive. This wasn’t adaptive.

Tomshardware.com whois:

Registrar: Lexsynergy Limited

IANA ID: 1466

Email: [email protected]

Abuse Email: [email protected]

Abuse Phone: +442031370459

Some poor web developer was told to implement this against their will. Hopefully they raised the concern. Report the site as abusive until their registrar takes them down. Should make for a fun week for that POS project manager.

So if she weighs more than a duck… She’s a witch!

Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes

Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal / I

walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library

Line up to the mind cemetery now

What we don’t know keeps the contracts alive and movin’

They don’t gotta burn the books they just remove 'em

While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells

Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells.

It, like the moon, will be made of cheese.

With encryption? Just delete the key and you are done.

This is true. For now…

Is your server not run by 6 cats?

I had a coworker, about 30 years old… Who taught computer science at a college prior to us working together… Who said to me “Command line? That stuffs ancient, man.”

Just in case you were thinking about spending money on college tuition to learn computer science…

My MX master thumb wheel scrolls the wrong way on one application and I can’t fix it. Good and mild. Every time ‘ugh, fucker.’

lol good point.

Listen, the only folks you put your black hat on for are folks who try to phish you. And you report your findings anonymously to CISA.

That’s how the recent USPS scams, the EZ pass scam, and the AAA scam got untangled. Be safe.

You put on your black hat at work when your boss tells you to do so on objects under your teams ownership. Don’t be stupid.

Other than that, don’t be an idiot. Stick to BBPs and VDPs, Educational labs, shit you own, etc. Nothing more than a totally unglamorous fine, or worse, awaits you.

Sincerely, a veteran of cybersecurity.

Linus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written .

Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…”

It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned.

Linus hints to him it’s about Musk.

“Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”

When a huge company pulls out if a country due to its laws affecting their ability to make money, it should tell you that the company in question only has its status due to exploiting something that should be being regulated.