Notices by tautology (tautology@infosec.exchange)

@HauntedOwlbear it was a surprising drop and definitely a banger.

Enjoy seeing them!

@ryanc Is it wrong that my first thought was "who pissed you off that much"?

@gsuberland @ryanc I'm not a cat girl.

@HauntedOwlbear For pirate metal wanking innuendo I prefer Ye Banished Privateers' Rowing with One Hand. For full impact you need the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-Ylb7NlCY

@ryanc there are much worse cursed units. Look at physics, I mean the barn unit of area makes sense (1 barn = 10^-28 m^2).

But then we get the Jansky, which measures spectral flux density and is 10^-26 W m^-2 Hz^-1, but is commonly referred to in 10^-23 ergs s^-1 cm^-2 Hz^-1, because when you're measuring distance in parsecs, then cms matter.

@HauntedOwlbear The evolution of Scandanavian metal bands: holding cheap swords, lost in the forest, in LARP gear, lost in the forest again, child carrier, lost in the forest, no make up and looking like a normal meyal band, lost in the forest, middle-aged body squeezed into clothes from their 20s, lost in the forest.

@GossiTheDog Is this the time to admit that I set up a lot of the co-op Internet; including a lot of the sendmail configuration, firewall and proxy server?

Of course this was last millennium when it was called CWS and had no computer security function. I can still remember the firewall's root password!

@ryanc I do think some people just require different amounts of sleep, I pretty much average 6.5 hours of sleep a night and have done since I started wearing a smart watch at night (~2019). T'other half gets over 8 and I know people who seem to need 10.

I'm not too fussed: I go to bed when I'm tired and don't use an alarm for 3 days out of the week. It just means I get a couple of hours of "me time" every day.

@ryanc tech's version of Poe's law?

@HauntedOwlbear With my back I just get the bad aches.

@HauntedOwlbear yeah, not for me. I have a face for radio and a voice for print.

(Saying that I've done one TV interview recently and have one lined for this week.)

@HauntedOwlbear I've been messing with using a lavalier mic and one single earbud in. Having over the ear headphones either makes my voice sound funny (even with passthrough) or presses on my glasses in a way that gets painful quite quickly.

Just to be difficult I attached the mic to my clothes instead of holding in front of me like a lot of video makers do for some weird reason.

@ryanc I was on tenterhooks and now I feel all let down.

@HauntedOwlbear there are places for keyword searches. My degree's final project was on the similarity of exosolar systems to our solar system, and there's a lot of weirdo language used in academia.

Though it was the child in me that put in a paragraph about why "Neptune-like" is preferred over "Uranus-like". I even ended the last sentence with an interrobang.

Thinking back the last sentence probably dropped me a few marks, but it was worth it.

@ryanc Anybody who's tried to get a web page working on all browsers will have voted CSS.

It makes even the most complex cryptography look simple.

@HauntedOwlbear Character's always earnt my "most meh DT" album award. Dry Run, Lost to Apathy and One Thought are the high points.

It's saying something when the B-sides on the Lost to Apathy single were (IMO) better than the album versions they are based on.

@ryanc @gsuberland @munin my family believe it's just a plot to get more presents.

I mean, I'm on my fifth birthday so far this year!

@HauntedOwlbear Haven is one of my favourites too as it was the first DT album I bought just after it came out out.

My previous experience of DT was a taped copy of the Gallery that someone who I shan't name sent me.

Haven is really the album that resparked my interest in the band.

@neil I used to be a "no" until the last time I flew for work, where you have to take you laptop out and put it by itself in a tray. The person next to me in security had the same model of laptop.

So I added just one sticker to make a simple identifier.

@HauntedOwlbear I forgot about the release just listening to it now.

I also wonder how many anglophones will call it "grief" instead of "greif".