IphtashuFitz

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IphtashuFitz ,

Always with the negative waves, Moriarty. Always with the negative waves.

IphtashuFitz ,

What’s your name soldier?

Number two, sir!

IphtashuFitz ,

That would surprise me. Companies like Akamai maintain very up-to-date lists of Tor exit nodes, commercial VPN exit nodes, etc. My employer uses Akamai and blocks all traffic from Tor given the huge volume of malicious traffic coming from it. It would be trivial for us to block VPN traffic as well if we wanted to. Those blocks occur on Akamai’s systems before it ever makes it to ours. No browser-based tool is going to get around an IP based block like that.

No idea if Reddit is doing something similar here, but my guess is they are.

IphtashuFitz ,

Yeah, but enough of a turn-off that they will actively vote for Biden when the time comes, and not just sit it out or cast a third party protest vote?

IphtashuFitz ,

robots.txt is 100% honor based. Well known bots like Googlebot, Bingbot, etc. definitely honor them. But there are also plenty of bots that completely ignore them.

I would hope the bots used to collect LLM training data honors them, but there’s no way to know for certain. And all it really takes is one bot ignoring it for the content of your website to end up in a random set of training data…

IphtashuFitz ,

First there were sharknados, now there are bearicanes. Where will it end?

IphtashuFitz ,

Sponsored by Red Bull?

IphtashuFitz ,

Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/NShNn

IphtashuFitz ,

You get that with virtually any domain/registrar these days if your contact details are public for any amount of time.

IphtashuFitz ,

I’m looking forward to seeing how the judge addresses all these rants at his sentencing.

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One can only hope!

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Mike Wazowski!

IphtashuFitz ,

So prison it is then!

IphtashuFitz ,

Government won't allow him to go to a prison. It would be a liability for nation security.

In what way? He’s already bragged about and shown off countless classified documents, and potentially given or sold some of them to US adversaries. If he’s put in prison he’ll likely be put into protective custody for the safety of both him and his guards.

Foreign Entities would go crazy for the chance to Epstein him. It would de-stabilize the US for a decades

I find that extremely hard to believe. He’s a private citizen and now a convicted felon on top of that. He may have a small but rabid fan base, but even if he died under unusual circumstances it wouldn’t destabilize the US. The worst it might do is further fracture the GOP, but given what it’s turned into over the past decade I don’t see that as a bad thing.

IphtashuFitz ,

I really hope Judge Merchan goes hard on the sentencing due to trumps public actions afterwards.

Not just afterwards, but during as well. How many times was he held in contempt, warned, etc. And after Trump got nervous that he was going too far, he enlisted others to carry on attacks against the judge, prosecutors, jury, etc.

IMHO (not a lawyer) I think the judge would be well within his rights to throw the book at Trump for all his behavior.

IphtashuFitz ,

He certainly won’t need it if incarcerated. Prisons have a lot of experience segregating high profile prisoners for the safety of both the inmate and the guards.

IphtashuFitz ,

Somebody please pour some sealer over that chalk before it rains…

IphtashuFitz ,

As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.

I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.

Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.

IphtashuFitz ,

Even if one does have money for EV, charging stations are extremely rare and you WILL find yourself stranded if you attempt any long drive unless you have a "old" combustion engine car or an hybrid both affected by the higher prices.

Bullshit. My wife and I did a two week road trip up/down 2/3 of the east coast in our Tesla last year, and not once did we have a problem charging. Half the hotels we stayed in had level 2 chargers that didn’t cost us anything to use, and Teslas SuperCharger network was perfectly reliable. We also found more than one parking garage with free chargers while parked.

Now that NACS has been adopted as the open SAE J3400 standard and most EV manufacturers have announced support for it, the rollout of more third party fast chargers should start ramping up soon. And with Tesla open up Superchargers to other EVs it’s getting easier and easier to charge.

IphtashuFitz ,

As long as those people actually vote for Biden and don’t waste their vote on a protest…

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Tesla also has a gigafactory & Supercharger factory in China. If Musk pissed them off, China could slap huge tariffs coming out of those factories.

You're a time traveler, what would you do if you went back in time to make the most of it? ( kbin.social )

I'd go back to the 1970s, the dawning of personal computer growth in it's beginnings. I'd take every single idea and patent from today and collect them all in a multiple series of binders. I would spend weeks holed up in some apartment, jotting notes, re-directing credits to me....

IphtashuFitz ,

I’d mail my younger self a list of dates when I should invest in various stocks, and when to sell.

IphtashuFitz ,

Make the Boeing CEO and other executives be the first human guinea pigs in this thing.

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Getting rear ended on the highway by a drunk driver. Had all of about 1 second of warning when she slammed on her brakes and started skidding.

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....

IphtashuFitz ,

My favorite when debugging some code for a memory manager, written in the days of DOS extended memory, was shit_cookie_corrupt.

The original author called blocks of memory “cookies”. If too many cookies were corrupted then eventually the function ohShitOhShitOhShit was called, which shut everything down.

IphtashuFitz ,

Quick! Change all the textbooks to “clay tablet theorem”!

IphtashuFitz ,

As opposed to the innocent civilians in Ukraine that are being raped, tortured, kidnapped, and murdered by Russian forces?

IphtashuFitz ,

We use Akamai where I work for security, CDN, etc. Their services make it largely trivial to identify traffic from bots. They can classify requests in real time as coming from known bots like Googlebot to programming frameworks like python & java to bots that impersonate Googlebot, to virtually any other automated traffic from unknown bots.

If Reddit was smart they’d leverage something like that to allow Google, Bing, etc. to crawl their data and block all others, or poison others with bogus data. But we’re talking about Reddit here…

IphtashuFitz ,

If this was Boston then parking enforcement would descend on it almost immediately.

IphtashuFitz ,

Trumps lawyers get a chance to question her in order to make the jury question whether her testimony is truthful or not. They’re likely going to drag out her entire life story as a porn star to try to make her look bad.

Then the prosecution gets to redirect.

Having sat on a jury myself I can tell you that the whole process is very time consuming. Lawyers raise objections, stopping everything and requiring the judge to make a ruling. Occasionally an objection or something else can result in a sidebar where the judge & lawyers huddle to discuss details before the judge rules on something. And there are times the jury may be removed from the courtroom so some issue can be discussed/argued at length, after which the jury is brought back in and the judge then might explain why they were removed and the results of their discussion.

IphtashuFitz ,

Not to mention they don’t want politicians telling them how to do their jobs.

IphtashuFitz ,

Send ‘em to Ukraine instead.

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By sending thugs door to door demanding “papers”…

IphtashuFitz ,

My last breakdown was when all the transmission fluid in my car drained out because the mechanic that did my tuneup didn’t replace the drain plug properly. What tools should I carry in my car to do a complete transmission replacement while on the side of the highway?

IphtashuFitz ,

We’ve had an induction cooktop for about a year now and love it. That old adage that a watched pot never boils went right in the trash alongside the old stove. Put a pot of cold water on and turn it all the way up and you’ve got boiling water in about a minute or two.

IphtashuFitz ,

Yeah, it really surprised us how quickly it will heat up.

IphtashuFitz ,

How do you know? Were you there?

IphtashuFitz ,

Saw Queen perform with Adam Lambert a few months ago. They played one or two pieces written by Brian May that really tied those two professions of his together. It blows my mind that he’s worked with NASA and the like quite a bit over the years.

Trump Lawyer Makes Disturbing Immunity Claim Before Supreme Court: Apparently, John Sauer thinks staging a coup should be considered a presidential act ( newrepublic.com )

Donald Trump’s lawyer pushed an outrageous line of thinking on Thursday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether the former president has immunity for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election: that a U.S. president could order a military coup d’état with almost no chance of repercussions. ...

IphtashuFitz ,

I saw a post somewhere else suggesting Biden should deploy a SEAL team to just hang out at the steps to the courthouse in NYC where Trump is on trial, and a second one to the steps of the Supreme Court. No orders beyond just being there for the time being.

The minute the SCOTUS hands down its decision issue new orders to the teams…

IphtashuFitz ,

My email address is literally registered on dozens of websites. I use a different completely random password, generated by a password manager, on every one of those sites. How would I know which website and which password was compromised based on this message?

IphtashuFitz ,

Yeah I know about that trick. I’ve run into problems using that in the past because the + notation isn’t universally supported, and also some companies sell their customer lists to other companies. I forget the specific details because it happened years ago now, but I found one of my + addresses signed up to a mailing list I didn’t want to be on. The form used to unsubscribe from that list considered the + an invalid character, so I couldn’t unsubscribe. As I recall it took a week or so of emails to various contacts at that company to get me unsubscribed.

Besides, it wouldn’t help at all in this particular case. Look at the screenshot. It’s redacting everything in the email address before the @, so I still wouldn’t know which one they are referring to.

IphtashuFitz ,

I’ve had my identity stolen multiple times over the years and had everything from fraudulent tax returns filed to get refunds, to credit cards taken out in my name. I was one of the victims of the federal governments Office of Personnel Management data breach 10 years ago (think the HR department for the entire US Federal Government). That resulted in me getting what amounts to free ID/credit monitoring with a really good company for the rest of my life. They send me alerts similar to this one fairly often, and it’s also next to useless. My guess is it’s based on lists of usernames & passwords stolen from websites and offered for sale by scammers. It’s not uncommon for those types of lists to have been collected from multiple websites, and merged into one giant list since lots of people still use the same password everywhere. So there’s likely no way of knowing what website a given set of credentials came from.

As for the masking of the email address, seeing that different monitoring services are doing the same exact thing it makes me wonder if either these are all coming from the same third party service, or if there’s some sort of law/regulation that is requiring them to mask it…

IphtashuFitz ,

“The buck stops at my paid employees, not me”…

IphtashuFitz ,

You forgot the part where Trump reneges on paying the lawyer that $5 million, forcing that lawyer to spend his own money to sue Trump as Trump finds another lawyer to string along and defend him, until it’s time to turn his back on that lawyer, and so on…

IphtashuFitz ,

I thought the world’s oldest active duty warship was the USS Constitution in Boston. It has a full active duty US Navy crew…

IphtashuFitz ,

Makes sense.

IphtashuFitz ,

When I sat on a jury a couple years ago the judge & both attorneys knew my employer as part of the juror selection process. It was one of the questions on the questionnaire we had to fill out. The defense attorney did ask me one or two questions about my job before agreeing to have me as a juror. But there was absolutely no need for that information to go anywhere beyond those few people.

IphtashuFitz ,

Voting in person in the US usually involves a checkin process where an election worker looks up your name and address to 1. Confirm you are registered to vote, 2. Confirm you are in the correct location to vote, and 3. Confirm that you haven’t already voted.

After voting you follow a similar process to check out, so they have a record that you checked in, voted, and checked out.

Point 2 is because in larger towns & cities there are often multiple voting locations, and voting locations are based on where in the town you live. For example in my city I vote at a church two blocks away from my home. If I tried to vote at a different location in my city they wouldn’t allow it, and would tell me to go to that church. (I think I could cast a provisional ballot at an alternate location if I provided sufficient ID, but that vote would only be counted after the election ended and records showed I didn’t vote at my usual location.)

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