Notices by tautology (tautology@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc how does the snow plough driver get to work?

@ryanc As my home network is a mix of wireless and cat 6, there's no point in the cat 6a as the slow bit is the wireless bridges.

One of these days I'll actually get around to running cable all over the house ...

@HauntedOwlbear is this a game that would make my astrophysics brain twitch by showing an unrealistic implementation of black hole gravity?

@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!