spurgelaurels

Joined 9 years ago

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Sep 29
Petticoated swashbuckler
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Comment · 5 months ago
Fun game, but it showed the lack of security hygiene employed by the game writer. It said `cat ~/.zshrc` was bad because it would share tokens and secrets, but I would never put secrets into my shell rc.
Comment · 7 months ago
Clever name!
Comment · 8 months ago
This is a secret? I've had this baked into my muscle memory for decades when an SSH session hangs.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've gone back to reading paper books.
Comment · 2 years ago
Headline should be "Man ghosts 4,999 women and met his wife"
Comment · 4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms I think maybe you should read this.
Comment · 4 years ago
You do realize that this wasn't simply about "discourse", yes? This was about active doxxing and swatting of real living human beings. Being transphobic might be just an (ignorant) opinion, but actively working to harm people needs to be shut right down.
Comment · 4 years ago
This wasn't just due to Twitter outrage. People are actually being targeted and harmed through this site. Hate and harm are not covered under free speech.
Comment · 4 years ago
Whenever I buy a new laptop, I install OpenBSD (and inevitably despise the experience), then install FreeBSD (and remember how I need some things that simply don't work in BSD), then end up using Arch.

This last FreeBSD install was working perfectly, but my wifi card had a breaking bug so I went to Arch. I've been waiting for almost 3 years for Arch to break hard enough to need a reinstall so that I can go back to FreeBSD (now that the wifi card is fixed). But Arch just keeps on tickin'

Comment · 4 years ago
Is this an MLM spam post? It smells like one.
Comment · 5 years ago
If "whistleblowers" are an item on your risk assessment sheet, you might want to rethink your methods.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's a middle ground between accepting and paranoia: secure to best effort.
Comment · 5 years ago
Type 1 is a point in time, and it expires. Type 2 maintains it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Domestic partner aggro.
Comment · 5 years ago
Victim blaming won't help here. Ransomware is generally a sophisticated attack by groups that tend to have the finances, skills, and resources to stay ahead of 80% of the companies operating today.

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