Notices by abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)

if you think you saw Odin, no you didn't.

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If you see someone who’s questioning Elon Musk for the first time because he obviously lied about having a top account on Path of Exile — do not mock them, do not shame them, do not complain that they should have figured this out years ago. That would just be pushing them back into the radicalizing environment they’re currently standing on the edge of saying “wait a moment…”

Radicalizing environments and cults pull people away from their friends and family and tell them that they’ll be mocked for embracing the truth but it’s worth it. The mockery then pushes them into the arms of the ones saying “shh shh, we understand… don’t worry, you’re the smart one here, they’ll be sorry.”

Yes, obviously lying about Path of Exile doesn’t even make his top one hundred worst sins. That’s not the point. The point is that this one is clear as day to the exact demographic he’s targeting — lonely young men. Once you conclude for yourself that someone is irrefutably a liar, it becomes easier to revisit what they said before and reevaluate it.

Odin had a good morning and hopes you do too

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in the Netherlands, we all turbo-ontdooi our brood. Americans can’t even afford decent brood or a normal amount of ontdooi

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For every decent selfie I get with Odin, there’s five to ten blurry ones

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🐾🐾🦴🦴ODIN FAQ🦴🦴🐾🐾

- Odin is our Newfoundlander. He was born in January 2024 in the Netherlands; he is nine months old in the attached photos.

- Yes, he is very, very, very big. He grew indescribably quickly and yes, he is still growing. We expect him to top out around 80kg.

- He is incredibly sweet, loving, and kind. He has never once shown aggression towards another dog, even though many have tried to preemptively fight him off. He rarely barks. On the other hand, he has no social graces and cannot take a hint when another dog tries to tell him to leave them alone.

- He's an enormous cuddlebug and I have the scars and bruises to prove it.

- We live on the edge of an enormous park, he gets plenty of time to go outside. Newfies are not very high-energy, we don't need some sort of mansion with a private meadow to accommodate his movement needs.

- What he does need is thorough grooming every single day. Yes, he sheds absolute mountains of hair.

- Yes, he inhales thousands of calories of food a day. It will decrease when he's no longer growing like a black hole.

- The drool. You cannot imagine the drool.

- My husband and I love this dog with all our heart and soul. We're often asked "did you realize he'd get this big?", and trust us, it was the most intentional decision of our lives

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Science can’t explain how Odin just. keeps. getting. fluffier

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Sir. Sir. Do you have a moment to talk about your lord and savior, Odin

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@perplestuff well, if Someone lives in Amsterdam, that’s probably us… otherwise, please show us Other Odin

@Ange this won’t be news to file format fans, but back before free cloud storage was a thing, people would distribute books by appending the pdf to a jpeg of the cover and posting them to image boards. It was a lifesaver for poor rural student me

online subscription service: hey you need to renew and update your card info

me: okay. here are my magic numbers.

service: no. this card is European

me: yes, I rather went out of my way to pay extra for a mastercard after moving to Europe because American sites take those without being weird about it. yet you’re being weird about it

service: because the last time you renewed, you paid in the currency trusted by God Himself, the American dollar. Now you claim to only have socialist Euros

me: yes?? so?? do you think I got an account with a European bank to defraud you, a sixty dollar annual subscription service???

service: you can’t say you’re in America one year and in Europe the next. that doesn’t make sense. no one has ever done that

me: … can I gift a subscription to myself?

service: yes of course. thank you for gifting a subscription to this stalwart American, mysterious European lady

Desktop screenshot! ☺️

Got a big honking vertical document tray for my desk in an effort to stop books and notebooks piling up horizontally. Fortunately, they make big honking vertical document trays in cute colors and even included cute stickers

@dalias SSH is a lot more flexible than most people realize

here's a little story to brighten your day

Some LLM True Believer generated nonsensical pull requests against like 80 different github repos (mostly games) and became very angry and combative when told that they were just spamming, saying spiteful things like "this is why your project is so stagnant, if this is how you react to contributions."

Someone in my discord took the time to file a spam report against them, and github actually banned them 🎉 I imagine they're seething on reddit right this second.

⚠️ If you use iTerm with the SSH integration functionality: some debug code accidentally shipped to production and it may be logging the entire session to /tmp... on the REMOTE server. If you SSH to shared hosts with iTerm, you'll probably want to look into deleting that as quickly as possible https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_11.changelog

how it started / how it’s going

Odin will be one year old next week

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a better view of Odin's very dignified bow tie.

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Happy New Year from A Bad Idea and Odin the shiny Arcanine

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@evacide here’s Raymond Chen explaining the multiple diplomatic crises caused by the Windows 95 timezone map https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42823

It never stops being funny to me that I can see horses grazing across the street from my apartment tower in the business district of a major world city. This is peak Netherlands urban planning