Notices by mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) (atax1a@infosec.exchange), page 2

@a1ba our home lab looks a lot like an early 2000s university network

an "ai browser" isn't for users. it's a circumvention device for training the slop machine against the wishes of people who don't want their work ingested as grist for the Content mill

christian blogger fred clark was talking about the left behind series when he said that american evangelicalism puts a cap on your skill level as an artist, since it suborns your skill into being a prop for evangelism, and but also we both agree that this extends to other fields. jars of clay would make better music if they didn't have to also make it "proper christianity"

@clarity it sucks extra-hard because a bunch of white people see our light skin color and assume we're also white and therefore they can't be racist to us. :)

@clarity we've had a white pnw trans girl tell us that it's our problem that she is unable to politely disagree with us about matters of race, because we're hostile and entitled. i think that just about sums it up

@clarity i don't see the "but" here, though — it seems like we're describing the same thing?

@clarity yep

@clarity they're not afraid of being racist, they're afraid of being called or seen as racist

oh my god it just hit us that the protestors are the prophesied plague of frogs

cool smartd trick that people don't seem to be widely aware of is that you can schedule scans in smartd.conf: DEVICESCAN -a -m smart -s (S/../../6/06:001|L/../../2/03:008)

this schedules a short test every saturday starting at 0600, waiting an hour between drives, and long tests every tuesday, starting at 0300 and waiting 8 hours between drives.

@dangerdyke no, why would you

@pikhq fascism is a politics of aesthetics, so the people who are suddenly shocked by this are telling on themselves, fwiw

we used to enjoy the phrase Thank you for your attention to this matter. and we're sad that the fascists have ruined it

@Pinchy63 spottacus, the furry who pioneered the green-light blood-ox/pulse-rate sensor, died recently, and his feed was full of stuff about how he's interested in prolonging his life by swallowing a kojillion pills, and we scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and saw no masks

gee everyone on the timeline who has done unmasked travel recently seems to be getting sick with "not covid", "probably just strep"

this, above all, is an unspeakable root of transphobia in cis men: an innate terror at the idea that someone they thought was a guy, safe to express all their misogyny around, is, in fact, one of those crazy bitches

men who abuse women tend to get along great with other dudes! abusing women is normal to dudes! we should know! we used to be one! we know how you all act when you think there aren't women around!

imo some people need to learn that defending a guy from accusations of being abusive by harping repeatedly on how he's your friend is really, extremely, not helping your case

one thing we like about this hell universe is that at least we get weird bastard fruits like pluots and apriums. thats actually pretty nice