IphtashuFitz

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

IANAL, but I believe these laws cover audio recording only. OP shouldn’t have an issue if they use something that records video only.

Think about it a second. I live in a two party consent state, but I see security & surveillance cameras everywhere. If two party consent was required for video then they wouldn’t be there.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I’m over 50. I never answer unknown numbers. I also never click on links in text messages from people I don’t know.

Politicians are largely to blame for both. I get so many calls & texts from local, state, and national political candidates begging me for money…

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Professional hitmen don't actually exist.

Sammy “The Bull” Gravano would probably disagree with you. He’d likely consider himself a professional since he admitted to involvement in 19 murders. Granted they were all mob related, and not “for hire” by anybody with a pile of cash and a grudge…

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The linked article quotes somebody as saying the dropped weights were most likely to slow the descent as they approached the ocean floor. They just dropped a little weight, but not enough to start ascending again.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The investigation will also examine whether there is any evidence of misconduct or criminal acts in connection with the incident

What is the legal definition of misconduct anyway?

Given that Rush seemed to willfully ignore warnings from experts and fired people unwilling to do things like sign off on the safety of the sub I think there’s definitely a case for misconduct, at the very least.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

DigiCert recently was forced to invalidate something like 50,000 of their DNS-challenge based certs because of a bug in their system, and they gave companies like mine only 24 hours to renew them before invalidating the old ones…

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

My employer had an EV cert for years on our primary domain. The C-suites, etc. thought it was important. Then one of our engineers who focuses on SEO demonstrated how the EV cert slowed down page loads enough that search engines like Google might take notice. Apparently EV certs trigger an additional lookup by the browser to confirm the extended validity.

Once the powers-that-be understood that the EV cert wasn’t offering any additional usefulness, and might be impacting our SEO performance (however small) they had us get rid of it and use a good old OV cert instead.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Back in the 90’s before the days of Windows 3.0 I had to debug a memory manager written by a brilliant but somewhat odd guy. Among other thing I stumbled across:

  • A temporary variable called “handy” because it was useful in a number of situations.
  • Another one called son_of_handy, used in conjunction with handy.
  • Blocks of memory were referred to as cookies.
  • Cookies had a flag called shit_cookie_corrupt that would get set if the block of memory was suspected of being corrupt.
  • Each time a cookie was found to be corrupt then the function OhShit() was called.
  • If too many cookies were corrupt then the function OhShitOhShitOhShit() was called, which would terminate everything.
[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on a large part how deep the water is right at the edge. The bows of the boats are largely on top of the surface. The stern of the boats sit lower in the water, and when lowered the outboard motors will sit a foot or more under the surface. It’s very possible that at low tide the prop could hit bottom when backing in…

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you have ssh open to the world then it’s better to disable root logins entirely and also disable passwords, relying on ssh keys instead.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Port 22 is the default SSH port and it receives a TON of malicious traffic any time it’s open to the whole internet. 20 years ago I saw a newly installed server with a weak root password get infected by an IP address in China less than an hour after being connected to the open internet.

With all the bots out there these days it would probably take a lot less time if we ran the same experiment again.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This reminded me of a glass artist named Josh Simpson who is known for his glass spheres he calls “planets” that have amazingly complex scenes in them. For over two decades he’s had what he calls the “Infinity Project” where he encourages people to hide them out in the open where folks are unlikely to find one. If you submit a proposal to him that he likes then he’ll send you two of his smaller planets, one for you to hide and one to keep for yourself.

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