Notices by abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange), page 2

Due to a case of the “sorry I can’t hear you, I am aging with autism” I’ve been using Windows 11’s on-device real time audio transcriber. It’s definitely better than nothing, but it has a long startup time and a habit of informing me it’s giving up and to please reduce workload on the computer, when the only thing the computer is doing other than the transcription is the very video call I need it to transcribe.

Also, most of my coworkers and customers have names that aren’t common in the US/UK, and it gets every single one of them spectacularly wrong 😂 please meet my colleagues, Period and Fickle

Someone who’s always there for you, even when the internet isn’t

I have seen many odd things in my years as a professional third party code reviewer but today I am looking at code where someone has meticulously hand-terminated all their strings with a \0 in case the C compiler forgets to add one

please don't ask me if xyz edge case counts, I'm not google and the announcement was not exhaustively technical on exactly what does and does not count as logging in. if for any reason you are not sure, just take the thirty seconds to do it in the way that obviously counts.

this is your reminder to log into that secondary gmail account you have and reset the new two-year deletion timer. you might want to make a recurring calendar event for every six months or so.

How it started / how it’s going

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

And if you’re wondering what it IS then, I would describe security review as more like mapping a cave system than reading a document.

I would like to impress upon product managers that a code security review does not consist of me sitting down with the files in alphabetical order and reading each and every line exactly once in order and checking off whether it is or isn’t secure

euro truck simulator 2 has an absolutely staggering amount of hand-laid-out scenery and in particular the recent DLCs absolutely knock it out of the park with an enormous amount of detail to Just See if you take the time to look

and I particularly appreciate that I can just zoom in on this random gas station and clearly make out every postcard and road map they are selling

#ets2

photo of South Amsterdam I took this morning while walking Odin

#amsterdam

you ever suspect that the IT team you're dealing with is being judged solely on absolute numbers of tickets closed without factoring in work to prevent tickets needing to be opened in the first place

this is your rare notice of Bandcamp Friday a day BEFORE it happens, as opposed to the usual day AFTER it happened.

the world is improved by people who understand that there won’t be a sudden overnight revolution just because they’re right, and that change is effected through long-term work across a series of small wins peppered with setbacks

It absolutely guts me to see artists posting like “please commission me, I’m so desperate for money, my cat will die if I don’t come up with $100 this week” and then they charge $20 for what is clearly at least $200 worth of art that would take a minimum of several hours to make

that is self defeating! you are not going to make it up on volume! there are only so many people on the lookout for commissioned art and most of them have more than $20!

@condret you are looking at this completely backwards.

Art is, by definition, a low volume, high value specialty good that is completely non-fungible. It does not matter how low you set the price, you will still get roughly the same amount of commissions as if you set it at what it’s actually worth in terms of time and skill. Lowering the price does not cause more commissions to appear.

One commission at $200 or one commission at $20, for the same amount of effort.

I had a dream that programmers said something was “all wangled and wuffed” when they finally got it configured and running properly.

My employer got acquired by a slightly bigger employer. They sent us new laptops. The instructions say to remember to export your PGP private key from your old computer and import it on the new one. With a USB stick, presumably, since any other method would be unhinged.

Every USB stick in this lab is supposed to be encrypted with the PGP key of its owner. The one that needs to be imported before Windows can mount it.

I went around begging until someone slipped me an unencrypted USB stick. It’s named “CONTRABAND.” 😂

multiple people like “I thought NL had a normal amount of Starbucks”. No. My native New England has Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts like the Netherlands has friet stands.

There’s only a few Starbucks in the Netherlands, and the workers there keep complimenting me on my innate American ability to rattle off all the information they need to punch in the order

Hello friend, do you also need to top up?