TIL Gmail assumes any "From" email name of the form "String1, String2" means "Last, First".
So when it shows the "first names only" collapsed list of recipients, any "First M. Last, Title/Honorific" - such as "Trapper John, MD" - shows up as just "MD".
@whitequark Doesn't tarsnap provide the entire encryption layer out of the box, in such a way that not even the provider has access to your encryption keys?
(So if you're someone who can't roll their own encrypt-before-sync layer, tarsnap takes care of that for you)
@robertatcara As someone who personally discovered and fixed Y2K bugs that would have had significant real world impact, it is disturbing to hear someone propagate this myth [that it was a "big fuss about nothing"]. And it is a myth.
The testing methodology insured that these impacts were not hypothetical. At my company, the testing was performed by actually rolling the clock forward to test systems to see what would happen. For example, I discovered that every ATM in the state of Alaska operated by my company would have locked up until a PROM chip was swapped. Someone had to fly all over the state to proactively swap the chip beforehand, to avoid significant customer impact.
And that was just one story. I personally oversaw investigation and fixes for other hardware and software at that company that would have failed.
And that was just my company. I spoke with others in IT at that time with similar stories. And that was just the people I knew.
So no, it wasn't "a big fuss about nothing" - and saying so is both dangerously revisionist, and disrespectful of the work it took to prevent real impacts.
The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). People have stories they can't tell.
At this point, I think enough years have passed that a formal amnesty - to encourage companies to disclose just how bad some of the problems were - would be in our historical best interest.
SREs BORN IN THA 90'S THATS UNDER 25 CAN'T SCRIPT CAN'T DD THEY DON'T WANT TO ADMIN NOTHING. ADMINS THAT'S 31 & OVER GET IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM & WONDER WHY PLATFORMS AIN'T WORKING THAT'S BECAUSE ALL YOUNG SREs WANT TO DO IS REDUCE TOIL, SMOKE WEED, EMBRACE RISK, MANAGE CHANGE, MERGE TO PROD, READ HOT CACHE, CHARGE THEY PCARDS, GET BLUEBLOCKER GLASSES TWERK, BE MULTI CLOUD, EAT BUDDHA BOWL'S, WASH THEY LANYARD IN THA SINK, CRY TAKE SELFIES AND POST S--T ON MASTO CUZ THEY TWITTER NEVER ON
Another approach is to use nothing on the TV itself, and feed video in from another source entirely.
Edit: updated to include the pixel fingerprinting aspects, where the TV will report a fingerprint of what you're watching regardless of source. Not connecting the TV to the Internet at all looks to be necessary (h/t: @sethsec)
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As one of the moderators of the hashcat forums, I recently got a good question - why are LLM-generated answers forbidden?
The answer I gave:
ChatGPT output is often incorrect - sometimes subtly so - for specialized knowledge like technical hashcat work. And the hashcat forum is public, so is used by both humans and by AI. So any posts that are from ChatGPT have to be scrutinized for errors to minimize errors in the ecosystem. And even if someone uses ChatGPT and then reviews and corrects its output, the moderators can't trust that and must duplicate that review and analysis. So it is less effort, and better for the ecosystem, to disallow them entirely.
@patrickcmiller This one is a sponsored post. (Let me know if replying this way isn't useful - for me, it's like noting a paywall or other information that is hard to discern until you follow the link, so replying this way is caching and distributing the effort of someone having linked through)
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