gaudystead
Joined 3 years ago
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Comment · 20 days ago
Thank you for asking, and thank you to the two people who responded to you (within a minute of each other!). I was unaware of this "infamous" comment, but it's interesting to see how it's aged over the past 19 years. Times sure have changed.
Comment · 2 months ago
Cool project! I wanted to make something similar, but for archiving bathroom graffiti! Yours is a better implementation than I would've accomplished though, so I'm glad you did it!
What was your original goal(s) for the effort?
Comment · 2 months ago
I was going to comment this same thing until I saw yours. I miss degaussing... Especially after holding a magnet to the CRT to get it to display fun colors it wasn't meant to and crossing your fingers that the degauss would fix the damage you'd wrought.
Comment · 2 months ago
Regarding the honeypot allegations, I'm guessing they're referring to the connections between 4chan's founder, Christopher Poole, aka "moot", and Jeffrey Epstein:
https://www.ms.now/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-4chan-chris-poole
Comment · 2 months ago
Hell hath no fury like an inconvenienced power user.
Comment · 2 months ago
Your username betrays you, because this is indeed a good idea. Thank you for sharing! I'd never heard of this, but now have some cool gift ideas for family & friends. :)
Comment · 2 months ago
The operators of the phone system are consenting to the call being recorded by informing you that the call is being recorded. You are consenting to the call being recorded by continuing with the call.
How is that not two party consent?
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm sure some businesses are considering moving back to on-prem, but for many, I suspect the cost to find onboard, and pay the SMEs to keep those systems running well enough to not fail due to one reason or another isn't as appetizing to them as the ability to offload that work, along with the legal responsibility.
When something goes wrong, pointing the finger at someone else is far easier for most than pointing it at yourself.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can I offer you a SomaFM[0] in these trying times?
They're entirely listener supported and the music they play is - to my knowledge - entirely human curated. I've found many tracks and artists new to me, with some artists not even having a presence (or a very small one) on Spotify.
Their curation is so good that they've become a significant resource I go to when seeking out new music. It feels like a warm hug from people who probably were also users of what.cd back in the day. Some of the humans who make up their team are the ones who play the music at DEF CON each year, so I take that as a good endorsement that they are well equipped to have good taste and be fellow music nerds - a compliment of the highest regard.
They're worth your time (and money, should you choose to donate).
Comment · 3 months ago
Can confirm... Was flying back home and during a layover in Mumbai I grabbed some food from the food court. It was only after having sat down and eaten most of my food when I noticed that there were pigeons roosting directly above where my meal was purchased from, with their poop stains dribbling down the raised walls directly above the food. That was a particularly rough set of flights back home, but I lucked out and had a fairly empty flight for one leg of it that offered a full row of empty seats for me to lay down in and disassociate from the pain on.
(for anyone who is unaware, the airports - the ones I passed through, at least - in India are fairly open air, so birds were a common sight within them)
Comment · 4 months ago
Minimum Vibeable Product
Comment · 4 months ago
For anyone reading the above comment and wanting to see what the commenter might be referring to, here is the first YT video I found on that channel that is relatively brief but has an example of the techniques involved:
Comment · 5 months ago
I recently discovered openevidence.com, and it's apparently what many doctors have started using for diagnosing patients (with or without their consent). It could be worth looking into for trying to find an explanation of symptoms that might not have a clear diagnosis. It may also just be the new WebMD once it gains more popularity (or even already), but may be another tool in your arsenal all the same.
Comment · 5 months ago
That's assuming the attacker informs Creative of the attack. A malicious actor could go to the showroom, update the firmware on all devices, and simply let them continue on as normal, waiting for a future opportunity to strike.
Let's hope Creative patches things before something like this happens.
Comment · 5 months ago
Any chance you'd be willing to share a template of your spreadsheet?