@thund3rh4wk
InfoSec professional, geek, gamer, gardener, avid reader, amateur photographer, occasional world traveler, crochet and houseplant enthusiast, cyborg. Formerly on the dumpster fire site as @Thund3r_H4wk, @jlbuckridge on Instagram.
I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"
Honestly the funniest part of this is that Dunkin has recently come out with a whole line of protein drinks. I would have assumed that since the administration has such a boner for protein (it's one of the main pillars of their updated nutrition advice) they would have been on board with this.
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
I have spent a not insignificant amount of time in mentorship conversations talking younger folks through the fact that they are not failures because they're not making the kind of money that everyone on Instagram and TikTok claims that they're making. This shit really does mess with people.
And why diverse perspectives are needed in that conversation - the worst case scenario you can think of will vary based on your privilege and experiences. This is why we get apps/tech that women immediately clock for potential misuse by abusive partners in ways the men who made them didn't consider.
It is *SO IMPORTANT* to be a Professional Suspicious Bastard.
OSINT/HUMINT - That friend of yours who can find out everything about the cute boy you saw in first period with just a name, or who can figure out who is behind the account bullying your brother by linking it to their other accounts has a skill that can be developed into a job, don't overlook it!
Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
If we have to pay to rent movies again on a subscription service, we should just reopen Blockbuster.
Immediately had a flashback to my trip to New Zealand, where I was floored when they rolled out the drink cart on my 45 minute flight between Auckland and Wellington. I didn't know what to do with myself when they also gave me breakfast. For free. On the cheapest ticket type they offered. 🤣
People do what you pay them to do.
You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products.
You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well.
You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth.
And so forth.
Be aware of what you pay people to do
When it gets stuck the only option is to turn the car off and on again.
Last week, our car's screen hung on the message about keeping your eyes on the road while driving and not getting distracted by the screen. The notification blocks everything else on the screen, and even when it's not stuck, the option to dismiss it is in the bottom corner furthest from the driver.
Begging all of my email inboxes to stop separating out what they think is important. "Priority". "Focus". "Main". In 30 years you haven't managed to come up with a spam filter that actually sorts things accurately and effectively, why would I let you decide which of my emails I most need to see?
I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
not to say they are doing this on purpose but the ram shortage & price spike is certainly playing into the hands of people investing billions into tech aimed at first stealing and then selling every bit of information and knowledge ever created by mankind because they hate open source and open data
...this was not an isolated incident, and the behavior was not unique to that individual.
I was once tasked with coming up with a solution to address a risk that had existed for years because someone important read a random article about it and decided it was the most important thing until they heard how much it would cost and then they stopped caring pretty much immediately.
I do sometimes think that everybody who keeps insisting that this or that is a distraction has never worked a job under wildly reactive leadership where what you're working on may just be based on something someone whose title starts with a "C" read in a magazine that morning while taking a shit.
Tbh you're right and you should say it.
Fun fact you can do everything you want with just HTML tables and people liked that version of the Internet a lot better
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
Everybody’s talking about the destruction of consumer electronics and that’s bad, but basically everything in modern life has a computer in it. Hospitals, airports, transportation, shipping, medical devices, farm equipment, and point of sale terminals had a good run
Fun little update:
The $260 4tb SSD I wanted to buy 4 months ago is now:
$809 at retail price.
So I guess we just don’t get to afford computers now?
I’m in desperate need of good news, man. Watching society rapidly decay is exhausting.
I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us)
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
I am cringe, and therefore I am free!
