Notices by Pseudo Nym (pseudonym@mastodon.online), page 3

@inthehands @dch @saper

And please give me a searchable index, with task-based key words. Let me type the desired action I wish to do, or noun I wish to frob, and take me to those bits.

@inthehands @dch @saper

So very much this.

I too grew up with Apple //e documentation.

Late 90s, early aughts had a culture of practical usage focused FAQs.

Not the current marketing fluff of "why is this product awesome?"

@saper @inthehands

Unix "man(ual)" pages, for an entire ATT SVR4 system, printed out, and bound.

Took up a whole, very wide, shelf.

Online man pages for "man <cmd>" were an excellent resource 30 years ago.

Formatted in a similar fashion, told you what all the options and arguments were, and what they did, and how they interacted

Minor annoyance. Ordered food for pick up. Got it home. They forgot the guac. Noooooooo!

@thomasfuchs

I should know this. I lived through that era with that technology, but memories fade. Perhaps $10 a disk, maybe $100-200 for the burner?

The "S" in "IoT" is for "security".

#infosec #iot

I forgot how much I enjoy just browsing book stores. They may be only one tenth as awesome as #libraries , but for a commercial entity, they are still ten times better than most other shops.

#commerce #books

Today's reminder that the "tag manager" tags:

utm_source=
utm_medium=
utm_campaign=

in links are user modifiable text values, and that the value will appear in some marketer's metrics slides.

Use this knowledge only for good.

Remember kids, always validate your inputs.

#infosec #praxis #marketing

All the FAQs I see these days are marketing fluff. I recall actually going through support tickets and pulling out the actual repeatedly asked questions to make those back in the day

#showerThoughts

#forgiveness isn't a gift you give to the one who wronged you, it's a gift you give to yourself. Permission to stop carrying the hate.

But it's your hate, and you get to choose. It isn't about if they "deserve" forgiveness or not. That's not the point.

If you don't want to forgive, don't.

But that shit takes energy. Choose where to spend it. Plenty of things are literally unforgivable, and that sucks, but it's life.

It's up to you to decide how to spend your time and energy.

@az

I'm loving this entire thread of comments.

I recall something similar about anachronistic fonts being used in movies set in a certain time period.

The font nerds would be shouting "that font won't exist for another 20 years!"

Left here without further comment.

https://id.uni-lj.si/DigitalnaIdentiteta/PonastavitevGesla?culture=en-GB

quote:

Your password must also not contain the following character combinations: script, select, insert, update, delete, drop, --, ', /*, */.

#infosec

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/17/comparing-the-1970s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-raspberrypi-hacksterio/

From @thegrugq

1978, the Cray-1 supercomputer cost $7 million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world,” Longbottom writes of the device, designed as the flagship product of Seymour Cray’s high-performance computing company. “The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD Card), weighs a few ounces, uses a five watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1

@SecurityWriter

It's the loss of institutional knowledge, and existing personal relationships between departments that degrades product and process.

That stuff takes time to build up, and never transfers cleanly via documentation

At the History of San Jose museum. They have a number of old buildings from the start of the 20th century and end of the 19th.

The bank is charming, with old manual type writers, and adding machines, and a spittoon.

But along with their "historical" activities, they also demonstrated for the kids "how to write a check"

/me pulls a Crypt Keeper and turns to dust and blows away.

#history

@jackyan

Exactly. I want my printer to put ink on thin slices of dread trees in a pattern I specify, I want my toaster to warm bread the right amount, and my TV to display video signals sent to it.

My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.

"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.

That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.

Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.

I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.

@julia

Was a mistake to trap lightning in rocks and teach them to think.

Hey @web3isgreat think I found you a Christmas present.

#nft #DnD

I've been seeing a number of posts about "if the penalty for breaking a law is a fine, it's legal for the rich" and while I agree with the sentiment, it got me thinking, what's the alternative? Incarceration? Given "acab" leanings, and obvious practical problems with bias, "5 days in jail" won't work for a double parking fine. So what's left for enforcement, if not fines or restraint?

Ideally, fines should be progressive and proportional to wealth, but that's a longer post/discussion.