Much that happens in California is quite clownish.
Annoying
All Kindsa Wrong
This is an actual question on the official study guide of a cert (CISM) I am studying for. And it is egregiously, laughably wrong in every aspect. (The bolded answer is what it thinks is correct.)
1) “IP Security v6” is not a real protocol name. There is nothing called that anywhere in my field. There is IPSec, which applies to both IPv4 and IPv6.
2) The explanation about source and destination IPs being inside the encrypted portion is false in general. Too detailed to go into here, but it just does not work like that at all.
3) MITM resistance in IPsec comes from authenticated key exchange and integrity, not from hiding IP addresses.
4) Even good ol’ IPsec does not prevent MITM in all deployment types. Pre-shared keys, for example, are vulnerable such that an MITM attacker can obtain an OTP and log in as the remote user. Also, pretty-common NULL-authenticated IPsec completely does not protect against MITM and should be treated like plaintext traffic in almost all cases.
That question is just wrong in fifty-eleven different ways. Amazing that is on a study guide. But networking is usually the worst area on anything like this as no one knows what the hell they are talking about ever in that field (see the clownishly asinine NAT ISN’T A FIREWALL AND OFFERS NO SECURITY bullshit the Hacker News-type doofs always spout).
Market Fit
Got in a little trouble at work because I refused to let the marketing department make any changes to the technical documents and info I send to customers.
But I don’t care. Nope, not gonna do it, never gonna happen.
It’s Final
You do have to wonder what kind of ridiculously strong crack they are all smoking.
Bisc
Every political side has quite a few absolutely tardbiscuit beliefs that they just cannot give up.
The left:
1) Binary sex isn’t real.
2) No evolution occurred above the neck.
3) Humans are a blank slate (and all related to that).
The right:
1) Climate change isn’t real.
2) Vaccines don’t work.
3) Markets automatically solve everything.
No side has any monopoly on truth or thinking coherently. Which is why I have no side.
Overstart
We’ve been told women never do anything like this. The reality is they do violent-ass destructive shit quite often, but are very rarely punished for it and don’t receive nearly the disapprobation that men do for the same things. Because they are “not a threat.” (Right.)
My own mother was the violent one when my parents got divorced, so I know this is true. She attacked my dad several times and destroyed a lot of his stuff. Some of which I used, so it pissed me off too.
Men only wish they could get away with the absolute bullshit many women do.
Pow Du
I think the most hilarious and pathetic part of the failure of feminism in the 2020s has been the ludicrous attempt to stigmatize and illegalize attraction. Not doing anything about it, or even stating it, but just the “violation” of being attracted to some woman or other.
That’s powerful dumb.
Crimin’
To those doofs, everything but an actual war crime is a war crime. Our press is just genuinely terrible.
Plane Facts
Ha. Any time it’s needed. Planes can be replaced if you’re fuckin’ rich (we are). Europoors could never.
No Soar
Accounting for inflation changes the picture a lot from this senationalism of “soared.” Nothing “soared” so far:
| FY | Nominal | Real (2025 $) | Real YoY change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $582B | $791B | — |
| 2016 | $584B | $783B | -0.9% |
| 2017 | $590B | $775B | -1.1% |
| 2018 | $623B | $799B | +3.1% |
| 2019 | $676B | $851B | +6.6% |
| 2020 | $714B | $888B | +4.3% |
| 2021 | $742B | $882B | -0.7% |
| 2022 | $751B | $826B | -6.3% |
| 2023 | $805B | $851B | +3.0% |
| 2024 | $850B | $872B | +2.6% |
| 2025 | $893B | $893B | +2.4% |
| 2026* | $962B | $936B | +4.8% |
| 2027* | $1.5T | $1.425T | +52.3% |
* Projection-based rows.
If the 2027 rise occurs, though, that will be “soared.” Motherfuckers do not do their homework. And they should.
Not Knowing What
People in white-collar jobs who claim AI does not and cannot help with any part of their role are those who are most likely to be replaced by AI.
Sorry not sorry, but you just don’t know what the fuck you are doing or how to use the tool.
Walk In But Don’t Walk Out
Man Walked Into My House to Use My Bathroom.
Do you like being dead? Because doing this in my house is a good way to become dead.
What in the hell was that mook thinking? (Most likely was casing for a future robbery and got caught.)
Only Worse
Mostly agreed. Whatever Europe had, they’ve lost it. They are allowing third worlders to invade and take over and they are just losers all around. It’s only going to get worse for them.
Multiple Clown Levels
As usual, the person in the post below exhibits several different layers of clownishness.
Which pilot do you think will perform better, will take more risks, will be more likely to get the mission done?
1) The one who knows he or she, when shot down, will be abandoned and left to be tortured or killed by thugs?
2) The one who knows that thousands of people will put in every effort to get you back, to save you from that fate?
Hmm, I wonder. I mean, to me it doesn’t take a genius to determine which pilot is likely to do a far superior job, to have much better performance as a pilot. But most people can’t think, and those who can rarely do. Like a lot of the idiot left worldwide, of course, the doof below is not even attempting thought. He’s just anti-American.
Git Away
I think we need something like Git, but just not something so horrible and complex to use.
Git is great — if you’re a full-time developer. Ok, not great, as even among devs only about 10% can use it competently. But it does some things they need while being way over-complex.
But it does almost nothing I need. I’d use something like Git all the time if it were about 100x easier to use.