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PSA: if you're in infosec red teaming an evil maid attack and you are not wearing a maid outfit while doing so, you may not be in full compliance with security standards and best practices

do remember that some industry regulators additionally require testing with cat ears for full certification. some organisations opt to further demonstrate protection against against the ‘moe moe kyun~’ blessing of a machine to auditors, but this is not currently mandatory under any scheme

pretty based ngl

Some day we're going to have to give all the loanwords back, and english is going to collapse like a house of cards.

a huge formative experience happened when I was 16. I was brought into my mother’s office and hired to compell a guy to use his computer who was refusing to use his computer, and exclusively used his IBM selectric.

First up, the guy was an unlikable jerk. However, first thing he does when I get there is refuse to even talk to me about the situation until AFTER I read The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman.

It’s a good book I cannot summarise in the 50 characters I have left in this post

Idk who needs to hear this but "Lone Wolf" assassin's don't hide their intentions and delusions behind encrypted iCloud accounts and impenetrable firewalls on their lappy.

They write rambling manifestos. Make lengthy wild eyed vlogs staring directly in the camera. Create hundreds or thousands of posts and replies on the internet bemoaning the target of their obsession.

Crazed political extremists don't keep their persuasions clandestine. They tell the whole fuckin' world. Anybody who'll listen.

Do you post to a non-fediverse social network in addition to posting to the fediverse? Please boost for reach (or not, I can't tell you what to do)

everybody wants to be good at programming but nobody wants to suck at programming for 5 years so they can be good at programming

As it’s that time of year:

"How does AI impact my job as a programmer?": https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job-as-a-programmer/

This is a brilliant piece told from the perspective of a Computer Science teacher.

It really hits in all the right places and mirrors a lot of my issues.

I appreciate the pragmatic approach of not fighting but letting folks see how it fails on interesting problems.

The article does not hesitant to point the finger back at the programming culture itself.

infohazard heuristic: if it gets over 20 reblargs and updoots it's a psyop

If AI was really as good at satisfying literary whims as some claim, I would even now be holding in my hands a copy of Shakespeare's _þe Lamentable Tragedie of Saruman þe White_.

Q: Where can I find old API documentation on your website?
A: Those APIs are obsolete and should no longer be used. Use the latest documentation only.
Q: How can I migrate my code to the new APIs when I can't check the old documentation?
A: ...

The reason why catgirls dislike Java, is because they have vertical pupils, and thus need to rotate their head 90 degrees to take in the long class names.