Notices by Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥 (saraislet@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc @drsbaitso I FOUND THE STRUCTURE PURIST INGREDIENT REBEL

JUST NEED THE STRUCTURE REBEL INGREDIENT PURIST AND WE CAN MAKE A WILD PIZZA SANDWICH WITH VEGAN CHEESE

WHICH RYAN WOULD PROBABLY EAT

IT DOESN'T COUNT AS A TWO PIZZA TEAM OF IT'S TWO TEAMS EATING TWO PIZZAS AND HALF OF THEM DON'T EAT PIZZA

@sophieschmieg finally agreeing with me: "sometimes the extra delta-V is worthwhile to launch someone into the sun"

(because it costs square root of two less delta-v to reach escape velocity from the solar system than to launch someone into the sun — but sometimes, it's worth it)

@catsalad @sophieschmieg if we only take their heads we could fit a few dozen in there and launch them all until the sun!

Yeet the rich!

The whole England/Britain/UK thing is a load of bollocks. You can't have a country INSIDE of a country!

And then the whole "British Overseas Territories" mess, and the British Commonwealth. And Scotland is an "independent country" but it's part of the UK country so it's not independent, while Ireland is genuinely independent, but Northern Ireland isn't even a country even though it clearly is.

And don't get me started on Wales, which is somehow more independent than Northern Ireland while being about as independent as a cat's tail is from its spine.

@mcnado Health insurance not covering preventative care would be financial suicide. Health insurance will cover preventative care regardless of what the Supreme Court rules.

What health insurance would love to remove is the requirement to provide insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions.

Preventative care is covered because it saves money. Pre-existing conditions are covered only because it is required by law, because that's expensive and makes it harder to make money. Preventative care is profitable, because it reduces the average cost of care if they can convince people to take preventative treatments they otherwise wouldn't.

Remove preventative care and insurance companies would lose their underwriters, because the actuarial liability would be astronomical

@mekkaokereke In the Midwest, we do controlled burns of prairie land every year, because that's what we learned from Native American experience and practices.

It's mind boggling that despite the obvious price of not doing this, Western US states are overall massively underinvested in managing our forests

@klausfiend @mekkaokereke though crepe batter should sit ten minutes in the refrigerator to get the bubbles out

We really got the computer-human relationship all wrong: it should be a model of consent, rather than about restraining bolts, governor modules, or the Three Laws of Robotics

I was thinking about this excellent speech by Martha Wells on her Murderbot diaries being stories of bodily autonomy and slavery, and about the fantastic video on The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars by Pop Culture Detective.
https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2UrB7zepo

Martha Wells spells out how wrong the Three Laws of Robotics are in stipulating a subservient relationships for robots to sacrifice themselves on behalf of humans, built around fears or assumptions that robots would inherently act to harm humans (or not act to save humans) and that therefore robots should put humans before themselves.

#ThreeLawsOfRobotics
#MurderbotDiaries
#ArtificialIntelligence #Al

@skinnylatte I'm allergic to summer, is there a way to remove moisturizer from my body when I travel to warm places?

What charities or nonprofits do you give money to, and why?

If you had a thousand dollars that you had to give away to an organization or person that you don't personally know, what would it be and how would you decide that?

Would you give that money to one place/person, or ten different places/people?

#Giving

There's no point at which I as a White person am magically "safe" for Black people.

I still have lingering racist misunderstandings from racist lies I was told by racist textbooks, let alone the inherently racist things that people say everyday that I have to recognize and dismantle.

I'm still capable of great harm as a White person, and regularly I have to recognize moments when if I don't put in the effort then I'm perpetuating racism.

There's no point at which I as a White person am magically "safe" for Black people.

Hey folks, we don't ever fully unlearn racism, misogyny, misogynoir, or transmisogyny. There's no "done" point at which we stop.

Unlearning systemic oppression is a lifelong investment because it's all around us. It's in every language I've ever learned (and that's a lot). It seeps in and becomes part of us that we have to clean out regularly like dust bunnies.

The first major unlearning is the hardest (and most important) — but it doesn't stop there.

★ Do you get excited or upset about AWS SCPs, or GCP Org Policies?
★ Do you have experience solving cloud security challenges to enable software engineering teams?
★ Do you downplay your cloud security knowledge but actually you know a lot of niche oddities of cloud IAM?
★ Do you like working in diverse security teams that care about your wellbeing?
★ Do you want to get paid to work on cloud security for one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world?

This may be the right role for you! I'm hiring a Cloud Security Engineer (L5) for Netflix Cloud Security.
https://explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers/job/790300140296
#Hiring #CloudSecurity

The key words "TRUEISH", "FALSEISH", "IT DEPENDS", "IT'S COMPLICATED", "YEAH NO", "NO YEAH", "🤷🏼♀️", and "🥺" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC UWU.

@endali

@GossiTheDog where'd you find that mug? It's in Starfield, right?

@ryanc Does that apply equally to all passwords for all systems?

Do all passwords need to be "secure"?

Not that I would (abusively) treat someone badly or manipulate them to show them how much "better" they have it than if they were in an (abusive) relationship

but like...should someone be aware of that? or prepared to think carefully about how someone might abuse their trust?

How would I raise a femme child who likes straight men, knowing that they're dangerous and knowing that teaching them creates the hypervigilance I'd prefer they didn't have to experience

@paul_ipv6 right, but do I need to teach folks on my team to carry mace or brass knuckles and be afraid of what may lurk in the darkness even though I also want them to feel safe in the darkness on my team?

I had the worst thought today:
Am I doing a disservice to an early career person by not preparing them for the realities of abusive managers?

#PeopleManagement