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[04:09:06] login what a meme gun i've got

[04:11:38] login that would get you arrested in london at least

[04:12:48] login but, if cars knew bicycles could have these, they'd be more respectful of the cyclist's space

[04:13:20] login it evens the inherent imbalance in power between the car and bicycle on the road

[05:28:43] login Nimko: if you think facebook is extreme, look at LinkedIn

[06:13:30] login Nimko: i'm login; tr is just the TechNet relay

[06:13:55] login it's best to keep your irc identity and real-life identity accounts separate, and not to mix them

[06:14:10] login however, anyone with IP logs can associate those if you use the same device

[06:15:16] login each website, if they keep a log of who's accessed them, has that information for their own website's visitors

[06:15:32] login another way would be through DNS

[06:16:26] login your ISP would know, but so would the DNS server your computer uses to translate the domain name to the website's ip address

[06:16:52] login most VPN apps would also route your DNS queries through the vpn

[06:17:30] login and if you don't use DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS, then your DNS queries would be in plaintext

[06:17:58] login i.e., any router on the path between your computer and the DNS server will be able to associate your IP address with the website you're trying to visit

[06:18:34] login yeah, using encryption

[06:19:20] login in that case, even the contents of the website would be transmitted over plaintext

[06:20:36] login yes, the hoster of the website can see your IP address and what you're doing on the site (if they track it), Nimko

[06:21:00] login The danger is that there are governments that are definitely tracking DNS queries and IP addresses

[06:21:31] login And others who want to doxx you could do it too

[06:22:13] login With your ip address, they could find a way to get through your firewall too, if they're sophisticated enough or if you've allowed inbound connections (which is usually not the case except if you're running a server at home)

[06:23:05] login yeah

[06:23:15] login well, not 'see', but know

[06:23:34] login they could, if they had a device in between, even modify the content of the website and you wouldn't know

[06:23:58] login correct ^

[06:24:17] login but the premise was 'happened to not be secured with HTTPS'

[06:25:05] login Yes, you should be provably be sleeping

[06:25:21] login But they'd have to, if not modifying what was sent to you, know what the website was sending back and reverse-engineer that

[06:26:00] login but the biggest risk is something on your own computer spying on you

[06:26:27] login it should say tr_ <+login> my actual message

[06:27:02] login But yes, if you have an open port on your computer, they could send information to it from the outside

[06:27:08] login if they had your ip address

[06:27:29] login and if the software was buggy, could gain the ability to do whatever that software is allowed to do on your computer

[06:27:40] login Zoom got in trouble for this

[06:27:50] login Peorth: lol

[06:28:05] login that IP address is in the reserved range for local area networks

[06:28:26] login Not even Zoom bombing

[06:29:02] login But that Zoom was creating a server during installation, and that the server had a bug that allowed outsiders to, by crafting the right information to send to your ip address at Zoom's port, do everything Zoom could do on your computer

[06:29:18] login ^ i wouldn't be able to tell

[06:29:37] login yes

[06:30:32] login 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address, which is just used to refer to oneself without leaving the local area network

[06:31:05] login Isn't it interesting that the original advice on the internet was, don't use your real name

[06:31:15] login And then the advice is, don't use an email address that is *not* your real name

[06:31:38] login And now many people put all their real information and face and photos on the internet

[06:31:50] login Especially if they want to gain employment

[06:32:16] login You could get a Pi hole, which could sit in between your ISP's router and all your other connections

[06:32:36] login A raspberry pi computer that acts as a firewall

[06:32:49] login https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-hole

[06:33:15] login Yes, the router itself also has a firewall

[06:33:19] login But so does your computer

[06:33:34] login And they're software

[06:33:57] login Yes

[06:34:19] login Even your phone has a firewall

[06:34:53] login But it wouldn't help much, especially if you already block inbound connections (which most firewalls do)

[06:35:11] login is it broadcasting it?

[06:36:16] login it's like multiple layers of swiss cheese

[06:41:36] login Getting past your router's firewall is what all websites do when they send information to you

[06:42:09] login One can only send packets through your router's firewall

[06:42:49] login Gaining remote access past your router's firewall would be something that would be the end all be all

[06:48:33] login yes

[06:48:50] login but many isp routers don't allow you to 'bridge' the router with the pi-hole

[06:49:33] login and there would be a question of how to make wifi go through the pi-hole

[06:53:46] login but many ISPs won't let you configure another router that way

[06:58:57] login yes, that makes it harder

[06:59:22] login you would have to find out how to make the ISP think your router is their router

[07:00:23] login You'd have to find out about the TR-069 protocol

[07:11:54] login yes, they try to lock it down because sometimes botnets are able to find insecure routers (how often does your router update its firmware?) and make them a part of their botnet

[07:14:02] login and the physical installation would be to instal the ONT

[07:14:19] login optical network terminal

[07:14:38] login i.e., where the fibre optics end and electrical connection begins

[07:15:11] login It's not even for censorship, which they are not allowed to do, but for fair use reasons

[07:24:46] login Came across a good quote: "An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered and an inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

[08:25:43] login The queen of England's poop could have fetched some money at Christie's

[09:57:55] login once you get our help, will you be using the bot for spam, mozambique?

[09:58:29] login how does one learn new things when one does not know them? reading the IRC specifications? Reading the bot's source code?

[10:15:42] login Hello Frogorg

[10:15:55] login I came across this https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5031.html#comment-37427

[10:16:01] login but i can't understand it

[10:36:53] login Here's a draft article on military procurement in the US: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/06/04/quietly-expensive-desperation/index.html

[10:37:58] login drive in your open-source car to the open-source market... oops, those are not open source

[10:38:45] login Would a totally open-source country be good? No secrets at all

[10:39:08] login Who is Linux's proprietor?

[10:41:08] login Who decides what gets mainlined into the linux kernel?

[10:42:14] login well then, a linux distro = a distribution with the kernel Linux?

[10:43:12] login They don't know any better

[10:43:25] login GNU/Linux doesn't have systemd

[10:43:29] login s/$/?

[10:44:04] login so you use initd?

[10:45:02] login Unfortunately, where software meets hardware, things become proprietary

[10:45:04] login !bang

[10:45:17] login thank you, MAGIC

[10:45:56] login intel wifi for example

[10:45:58] login s/$/?

[10:46:23] login and what about the trackpad etc.

[10:46:34] login in a laptop form factor?

[10:46:52] login and does it do palm rejection?

[10:47:22] login that's the problem i get when booting from linux

[10:47:33] login from Ubuntu*

[10:47:46] login lots of phantom taps

[10:48:06] login Yeah, that could work

[10:48:18] login But should not be necessary

[10:49:21] login Or learn how the Synaptics driver works and add trackpad rejection to it

[10:49:26] login *palm

[10:49:42] login That is the best thing about free software: one can fix it oneself

[10:50:07] login Software provides near infinite leverage

[10:50:12] login The only barrier is time

[10:50:26] login the cost of one's time, as measured by their maintenance cost

[10:50:53] login e.g., how much makeup do you need per week, food, grooming, shelter, clothing, electricity, water etc.

[10:51:02] login !bang

[10:51:09] login !reload

[10:51:42] login on my current OS, palms are rejected but I can still move the cursor with one hand while typing with the other simultaneously

[10:52:16] login i don't want to disable the touchpad, jmjl (i am ~login btw)

[10:52:32] login i just want it to "work" well

[10:52:38] login yeah, it might just be a skill issue

[10:52:59] login you're surprised?

[10:53:09] login yeah, that's cool jmjl

[10:53:29] login not much annoying?

[10:53:54] login Here's another thing I've tried: using the palm to move the mouse

[10:54:04] login it just doesn't move the mouse at all on my current OS

[10:54:19] login but using that Synaptics driver, it definitely would have

[12:21:39] login Another highly biased article, but worth reading things from those with the opposite bias: https://medium.com/@slkanthan2030/secrets-of-chinas-economic-growth-cc8b7ac10f6e

[12:26:32] login The June 4th incident (tank man) happened in 1989

[12:27:48] login mao zedong had died only 2 years before 1978

[12:34:30] login > Similarly, China is poised to surpass Germany this year as the world’s second largest exporter of cars. -- this is due to Elon Musk

[12:45:32] login Kowal: very

[12:46:38] login the same article was posted by the same author on substack

[12:46:51] login and there is a chart copied from The Economist with no attribution

[12:47:23] login a map showing the countries coloured by their largest trade partner

[12:47:33] login in 2000 vs the present

[12:48:37] login The problem with them is hierarchy - the higher-ups will take credit their reports' innovation

[13:44:14] login It's because the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next is suboptimal

[13:47:35] login It's actually quite hard to run even a McDonald's successfully

[13:48:06] login you can't control the recipe or anything... the only thing you can control is location, and even there, the franchisee has to pay rent to the McDonald's Corporation

[13:48:18] login and make all suitable employment decisions

[14:09:13] login irish666: oh no

[14:09:23] login that was poor on their part

[14:11:13] login They say healthcare is a calling

[14:11:38] login And that doctors want you to heal well enough to never come back

[14:12:58] login Do they teach about how to prescribe it at school?

[14:15:54] login Their licensure might be affected if they misprescribe

[14:17:22] login So they're taking a political view on it

[14:19:41] login The doctor can tell if the prescription is bogus or legitimate, can't they? From patient history

[14:20:06] login Are they supporting prohibition without actually wanting to prohibit it?

[14:21:03] login !bang

[14:21:12] login Codeine is much worse

[14:21:39] login System is broken if they don't go through the board for codeine beyond a certain minimum

[14:21:47] login or outside of emergency

[14:22:22] login So many horror stories with morphine

[14:22:43] login ^ yeah

[14:23:11] login ^ True

[14:23:22] login But the chronic back pain one should go through a board

[14:23:37] login outpatient usage of codeine and morphine should go through a board

[14:24:46] login Are the doctors sophisticated enough to mask the numbers well?

[14:25:07] login If it happens at a systematic level, it should show up in the statistics

[14:25:23] login But the lobbying is too powerful

[14:25:39] login to make the regulator look at and question it

[14:26:53] login I thought it was just disallowed

[14:27:32] login They were incentivised to not prescribe cannabis by the pharmacy?

[14:28:21] login The whole enterprise seems to have the effect of reducing trust in the medical prescription system

[14:29:26] login Why doesn't it get reviewed when it has such a reputation

[14:29:57] login So it was psychosis?

[14:30:07] login caused by tramadol?

[14:30:40] login So max 2?

[14:31:05] login I hear some good doctors ask their patients about the prescription after a couple of weeks

[14:31:31] login And gain an on-the-ground understanding of how often it works

[14:32:03] login seizures, hallucinations, why even keep it in the market?

[14:32:30] login Once the pharma company has put billions into commercialisation, there is such a strong need for it to work

[14:33:06] login Why is there no feedback review system like there was for vaccine side-effects?

[14:34:01] login Can it still be prescribed if one is suffering from those? It shouldn't be

[14:34:11] login I used to get migranes too

[14:34:18] login They called it 'textbook' migrane

[14:34:32] login Mine was fixed too, i don't know if it has to do with food or something else

[14:34:57] login It didn't take a week for it to go, maybe a couple of days

[14:35:31] login I used to just press my head and use balm

[14:35:35] login the one that stings

[14:35:58] login Does it show up on those?

[14:36:36] login Hmm, I don't know if i had those

[14:36:53] login It could be blood clots, mine used to modulate in pain with my heart beat

[14:37:07] login If I held my breath, it would subside

[14:37:19] login ^ but by heart was still beating, wasn't it?

[14:37:51] login I should have checked that, never checked blood pressure during the migraine

[14:38:08] login They made a bad assumption - they should have asked

[14:38:46] login differential diagnosis, isn't it?

[14:39:13] login Maybe the headache is actually a microstroke, who knows

[14:44:45] login Pretty difficult way to live i imagine

[17:50:54] login I remember the days of dialup when being always online was just not affordable

[17:51:07] login turn on internet, do your internet work, turn off internet - that's how it was

[17:54:00] login !bang

[17:55:07] login How much climate change will these forest fires cause? That's a LOT of carbon turning into CO2 and other stuff

[18:01:23] login It's terrible that fires in Canada are raging so much that even northern US air quality is so deeply affected

[18:04:06] login Does the wind flow that way?

[18:04:39] login There is a pattern to it, depending on the latitude (due to the sun) + the earth's rotation

[18:04:52] login but those are high up in the air i think

[18:05:42] login If the fire is hot in Canada, then air should be moving from around the area into the fire

[18:11:57] login lol, implying Mikoolo?

[18:12:30] login lol, implying (Mikoolo)?

[18:12:52] login lol Mikoolo, implying?

[18:13:22] login lol... implying?

[18:13:59] login lol, implying?

[18:14:20] login Yes, English.

[18:15:06] login It's the only language I know well enough, so I might also just be learning to communicate better.

[18:16:53] login I did not imagine Pawn Stars would know how to value Nintendo games

[18:17:02] login surprising

[18:21:10] login You could join TechNet and find out

[18:21:35] login tbh, wouldn't anyone be happy to have a boyfriend like ComputerTech? Young, carefree and smooth?

[18:23:17] login He's in a business family, being nice opens doors

[18:23:22] login especially to those that others aren't nice to

[18:23:35] login Oh yeah, forgot about that

[18:23:41] login he's tres mignon

[18:24:29] login I would be wary of crossing him, or making him angry - would be hard to tell

[18:24:51] login the kinder he is, the more reserved one must be with him

[18:25:08] login there is so little information on what his boundaries are

[18:25:29] login he won't even drop hints on his boundaries in conversation

[18:26:13] login !bang

[18:26:33] login oh hey, you bought liability insurance

[18:26:38] login !rearm herald

[18:26:46] login ^ doesn't work over tr unfortunately

[18:36:41] login Mikoolo: now vietnamese tell chrome there is a security bug in their software and get a payout

[18:39:52] login north korean special forces are more impressive

[18:52:27] login make saving a hobby

[19:07:51] login alpine linux

[19:08:02] login no key?

[19:08:04] login !bang

[19:08:46] login how is the spanish nje?

[19:09:40] login is it not like nokia?

[19:09:45] login but like news?

[19:10:53] login whole family or alone?

[19:11:57] login mum and two sons sounds good

[19:12:38] login toma toes

[19:13:07] login deadly: only i got your humour

[19:14:13] login in europe<--

[19:14:22] login it would be mao if - in the world

[19:15:49] login why is germany so wealthy?

[19:16:22] login belarus

[19:16:41] login hungary?

[19:17:07] login turkey?

[19:18:02] login which eastern european country is rich in weapons, tanks and artillery? moldova?

[19:36:48] login but his mum is with him

[19:37:08] login no way is he going to a polish brothel or anything like that

[19:39:09] login and leave their mum alone? is it even worth that?

[19:39:53] login someone has to look after the business after all

[19:40:51] login how good is the GBP PLN exchange rate, i imagine...

[19:41:15] login Poland is a conservative Christian society, is it not?

[19:41:47] login And that's where the most notorious camp was too

[19:42:06] login heineken?

[19:42:16] login too woke?

[19:42:46] login which german beer brand has not been bought by InBev?

[19:43:12] login These are good examples

[19:43:19] login I mean that genuinely

[19:44:08] login Do they try tweaking it?

[19:44:38] login Tweaking the brewing while keeping the same brand seems like a recipe for disaster

[19:45:22] login is it Turkish for 'rum'?

[19:45:31] login ooh

[20:07:27] login PapaFrog: you have one drink, they don't call you a teetotaler

[20:08:35] login enjoying life, Chiester?

[20:09:12] login you're allowed to drink at those? i thought you couldn't

[20:09:50] login oh, so there's no 'don't dress 18+ unnecessarily' rule?

[20:10:25] login full latex is alright though

[20:11:17] login have fun Chiester, don't go overboard lol

[20:14:31] login + = voiced

[20:14:40] login <login> = nickname

[20:15:06] login Who else used it?

[20:15:25] login Yeah, it was one other person

[20:57:39] login nice link, Frogorg

[21:04:05] login how far do you need to get back?

[21:04:18] login you're recording YT videos of yourself getting back to calculus?

[21:04:28] login multivariable or single variable?

[21:04:45] login vector calculus can be difficult, once you get there

[21:05:04] login You have to start with limits

[21:05:07] login and continuity

[21:05:20] login You're a high-school teacher?

[21:05:38] login Are you going back to it? Teaching?

[21:05:51] login Are you alright with trigonometry?

[21:06:39] login for e.g., i forgot that the derivative of tan(x) was sec^2(x) (although it can be derived easily)

[21:07:08] login 3b1b does it well though

[21:07:36] login and PBS Infinite Series was doing math

[21:07:46] login DSP using the z-transform?

[21:07:54] login maybe he'll cover it eventually

[21:07:59] login he's getting pretty close to it

[21:08:14] login How LTE works could be a very big video series

[21:08:40] login Esjay: how do you find 3b1b?

[21:09:26] login The thing that really amazed me was how the uncertainty principle was just mathematically expressed as that only the fourier transform of an infinite sinusoid can be a single frequency

[21:10:01] login i.e., if the sinusoid is of a certain length of time, it cannot have just a single frequency

[21:10:24] login and how that was equivalent to position-momentum uncertainty

[21:11:21] login A full explanation of how something on your phone works from photon emitted (result) to touch input

[21:11:33] login that would take up a 50+ hour series if you had to explain every component

[21:11:39] login LTE would be a subseries of that

[21:12:27] login TIL what turbinates are

[21:13:14] login !bang

[21:13:17] login !relaod

[21:13:19] login !reload

[21:13:21] login !bang

[21:13:27] login thank you, Dento

[21:13:45] login sorry to hear that wof

[21:14:23] login Yeah, they were 'brave' to remove the Save button

[21:14:31] login even made a LinkedIn Learning series on it

[21:14:57] login wof: check if there is a backup excel file

[21:15:19] login I'd be surprised if Box can do well without integrating with MS Office itself

[21:15:51] login Saving it and doing it again will yield a better result, because of the time crunch

[21:15:58] login save as xlsv first

[21:16:14] login tbh Excel should warn you if your colours are not getting saved... big oversight on their part

[21:16:41] login Maybe the temporary save file (for recovery) is still there with all the colours

[21:17:51] login Frogorg: do you look forward to the time when AI can create that video for you, in an editable format, just from your prompt about the idea?

[21:18:01] login It won't come soon

[21:18:22] login i assume no non-encrypted backups, then?

[21:18:54] login That would have been quite some work

[21:19:10] login If you also had to set up the on-prem hashicorp vault

[21:19:57] login So their passwords are in an on-prem hashicorp vault now?

[21:20:42] login so it's still on the internet

[21:21:13] login and how do they store their aws credentials, i wonder

[21:21:20] login ;) lol

[21:21:36] login you are joking obviously

[21:21:57] login 2fa using sms or phone app?

[21:22:06] login or physical totp?

[21:22:38] login that is cool

[21:23:45] login i'm surprised nobody at microsoft has ever had this excel colour unsaved thing happen to them

[21:25:07] login The right idea would have been to create a new column for it

[21:26:00] login didn't know google drive supported rclone

[21:26:03] login !bang

[21:26:06] login !reload

[21:27:01] login but have a hook to check if passwords are being saved before anything gets uploaded to a github server?

[21:28:00] login github

[21:28:10] login you can still use a login, but you have to make an app password for it

[21:29:19] login it's not that dumb, but key management is less ideal

[21:29:30] login it's not like everybody uses yubikeys or anything like that

[21:29:45] login and per-device keys that don't expire = a different kind of pain

[22:21:41] login at least she went to bed relatively on time

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