Notices by Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)

@irina My passport lists my sex as "X", updating my social security record isn't going to make anything worse.

@drscriptt I am aware.

@riley I don't think so. It probably takes some time to process, and if they were refusing I expect they'd be explicit.

@gsuberland Seems really odd, given that I expect the main issue to be total writes.

@sabik @aris I was thinking of just avoiding border control entirely in this instance.

Alternatively, I'm a US citizen, they have to let me in even if I don't have a passport (e.g. because someone else is carrying it for me).

@astraleureka Yeah, it was a premium-ish drive, but it had weird performance problems from the start.

@drscriptt Yeah, I can boot off an external USB drive. I should have thought of that, actually.

@lexbailey If the cable has a resistor or emarker chip in it, the fact that there's a cable plugged in can be detected. It is then also possible to detect whether there's a device on the other end.

Creative use of this information allows high fuckery to be commited.

Data point: I mailed my birth certificate (Sex: Nonbinary), driver's license (Sex: X), and deed poll to the Federal Benefits Unit of the US Embassy in London on Thursday, with a request to change my Social Security details (name and sex).

I got my documents back today, no letter or anything.

@astraleureka I'm logging to it, but figured it'd be fine since I am only using a small portion of it.

@ab78702 the motherboard has sata ports

A '%' at the end of the format argument causes undefined behaviour since there is no following character. In some locales, it may hide your door keys, while in others it may remove the final page from the novel you are reading.

Oh dear goose, it's possible for two devices connected by a USB C-to-C cable to behave differently depending on which end is plugged in first.

@ab78702 USB-A, yeah. I have several unused SATA SSDs, so USB NVMe doesn't make much sense.

@ab78702 yeah

@ab78702 regardless, i am gonna have to unrack the sucker and it doesn't have rails so that's going to be a pain in the arse

@ab78702 the best option would probably be to just stick a sata ssd in there, but i don't have the mounting hardware for one

@ab78702 I'm not sure there's enough space for the samsung fit plus :-/

@dalias I am vaguely recalling buying a three pack and one of them failing a "write with pseudorandom and read back" test right away, but I think I was short on time or something.

@ab78702 Any recommendations for ones in the "low profile" form factor? It needs be plugged into a vertical USB port on the motherboard in a 1U case.