He said Melania had the glow of an expectant widow. You know, because trump is an octogenarian, and Melania is younger than Kimmel.

Yeah… Markets do tend to peak just before a crash. The only problem is knowing when the leak finally hits, since the market can be irrational longer than we can be solvent

TLDR they’re not doing basic cleanup and auditing of their DNS records.

The key phrase in their statement is ‘pseudonymous interactions’, which is what we have right here. We are not anonymous, because we each have a username and we can develop a rapport of sorts based on who we see around in various threads. What you’re thinking of is anonymous interactions, where there’s nothing to associate a post to an individual, which are toxic. The surprising thing seen, is that tying your real name to your post actually leads to less civil interactions than pseudonymous nicknames, with the possibility that people are less civil because they’re effectively playing it up for their social circle. [Source]:

We built a data set of 45 million comments on news articles on the Huffington Post website between January 2013 and February 2015. During this period, the site moved from a regime of easy anonymity to registered pseudonyms and finally to outsourcing their comments to Facebook. This created three distinct phases.

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We looked initially at the use of swear words and offensive terms – a crude measure of civility. We found that after the first change the use of these words dropped significantly. This was not just because some of the worst offenders left the site. Among those who stayed, language was cleaner after the change than before.

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Our results suggest that the quality of comments was highest in the middle phase. There was a great improvement after the shift from easy or disposable anonymity to what we call “durable pseudonyms”. But instead of improving further after the shift to the real-name phase, the quality of comments actually got worse – not as bad as in the first phase, but still worse by our measure.

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What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts. The online comment management company Disqus, in a similar vein, found that comments made under conditions of durable pseudonymity were rated by other users as having the highest quality.

Accountability for thee, not for me.

I was running it on a couple hundred Mbps up for a while, and gig up is fine

in fact if you’re going to install insecure services you definitely want to containerize them,

While this is true, if you’re running a platform that is root by default (looking at you, docker), you’re not shielding yourself as much as you might think you are.

If you’re running an insecure app as root, you better hope they don’t also have an exploit to get out of the container after the app is popped, otherwise you’re fucked.

every service is running without any containerization and there is a single database for everything… and it all runs on a single host and I didn’t read one word about a backup strategy or disk encryption.

Man, a paragraph that can give someone some serious PTSD flashbacks…

The number of times I’ve had to clean up a customer’s environment after they let little Billy play corporate IT and things went boom…

Sarcasm is rather hard to detect over text, especially when I don’t add sarcastic quote marks…

Wow, must be bad if even the fascists are seeing the ‘descent’ into fascism as a bad thing.

Smart to leave tide pods off that list, since they’re already edible.

You mean that free snack they send with the things I buy?

No, that’s not even close to how bad it is now. Hell, I bought a car that’s a decade old and the fucker yells at me for being to close to the lines, yells if I’m approaching a stopped car “too fast” (which means it freaks out even when I’m slowing past 25 with 4-5 SUV lengths ahead of me), when I back up and there’s anything remotely close off to the side (remotely close is the 2.5 ft on either side of me as I back out my driveway), and it gives me an extra special freak out if there’s any possible cross traffic to 4 houses on either side of me. That last one is a nice warning the few times I’ve needed it, but more often than not, it’s spazzing out over the neighbors taking their dog out on the other side of the street.

I bet he thinks ice cream is correlated with the violent crime too

Oh, tell me about it. When I was working for a local school, we ended up replacing a TON of LJ400s that were still running like champs and refused die, but it was a pain in the ass to source/config the aftermarket card that let it run on the network while we still supported them.

I fucking hated when places like HP stopped putting out basic drivers and forced the bloated print and scan app on everyone who wasn’t using it over the network

Can’t confirm, my 12 yo HP LJ still spits out pages as expected, and doesn’t even complain about the aftermarket toner carts I use.

I would say I miss when printers were good, but they never were… Just less awful than they are now.

Edit: totally forgot, the printer was single sided for the first 10 years I had it, and I have no idea why (other than windows windows-ing) it suddenly started printing duplex after I migrated to Linux!

Not for long, weaponized incompetence will solve many problems.

Should I also watch Loose Change because it’s compelling and would leave me flabbergasted if I didn’t do any other research?

One of the two kids who the documentary follows makes an outrageous claim that we already know is fake based on the word of the person who allegedly experienced it. Just because you enjoyed it doesn’t mean it’s accurate.

I don’t even have any skin in he game (I don’t like Jackson’s music, personally), but the rhetoric around the man has always been contentious, and not always consistent. I’m not going to waste tons of time on a subject I don’t care about by watching a documentary that I already know includes a major falsehood from one of the primary subjects.

Honestly, I wasted more of my life on this subject than I wanted just responding here, so duces.

It matched the description of his dick, except for the question of whether he was circumcised. Prosecutors also raised concerns that Jackson may have altered his dick during his “media break” in Europe, when the allegations of molestation emerged.

Lol, you sound like a conspiracy nut. Sure, it matches the description of a penis, just not one of the most easily noticeable features of his penis. And that’s easily explained by a ‘modification’ that has been asserted by people known to lie to win cases. Iron clad logic there, Sherlock.

The fact they only “raised concerns” about it, despite nothing of the sort being mentioned in the autopsy, should tell you all you need to know. If he had surgery to alter his dick, they wouldn’t have left out that shit, especially since his penis was going to be a subject of interest for this exact reason. Prosecutors can ‘raise’ whatever concerns they like, that does not mean the concern has any merit aside from trying to shape the narrative.

To expand on this point, do you think Renee Goode was trying to run over the ice officer just because that’s the way the state portrayed the event? Was Alex Pretti a threat to the officers when they disarmed and murdered him?