TIFU I messed up by trying to “repair” my girlfriend’s laptop.
What kind of clown does something like this with no backup?
Apparently, that kind of clown.
My first action on working on anyone’s machine for anything that has remotely any chance of changing anything at all is to create a backup. Even if they tell me it’s not needed. Even if they tell me not to bother. Even if they claim they just created a backup.
That has saved my ass so many times.
For the unattractive men, what’s a harsh memory that sticks with you?
I don’t think I’m unattractive any longer, but growing up my North Florida compatriots certainly thought I was lower than pond scum by any measure.
That said, my experiences were similar to this dude’s: More than once, girls/women approached me completely unprompted to tell me how hideous I was and to not even think of asking them out.
This was with me not even looking their way or even noticing them (as they were themselves nothing special). Of course, this is just a female version of bullying. Women tend to be non-physical with it.
Just leaving North Florida eliminated 99.9999% of that type of thing. The nature there is great; the people are fucking terrible.
For many years, I lived my days through and by music. It was the continuous CPR that kept air in my lungs during the worst stretches of my life.
As I’ve said before, without Hope, Harriet, Tanya, Billy, Tori and others, I would not have made it. They showed me the better world that awaited me if I could find a way to turn the curse that was my existence. And I got there, barely. But I did. I’ll ever be thankful to them no matter the artistic merit their works do or do not possess. They kept me on this side of the dirt.
Esto es una bola enorme de desmadre musical bien ruidoso. El video está más o menos. Yo lo podría dejar más chido.
I’m not wishy-washy on this; it is quality psychedelic dreampop-ish shoegaze.
Chinese electronics company has developed the first ever “ejecting batteries.”
Every car having a battery cannon seems like not a great idea.
I mean, my car should. But not every car.
The Israelis killed more children under 5 than there were children under 5. That’s quite a trick. They must’ve been resurrecting then killing them again.
The true death toll in the Gaza is around 30,000-50,000, most fighting-age males. That’s still a lot, to be clear. But not any form of genocide. That’s just what it looks like when you badly lose a war you stupidly started.
People like the below just should not be able to write about anything technical. If you don’t have an active CCNP (I do) or equivalent, just shut up about networking.
Your input is not needed.
IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT.
Not this asinine shit again. I hate this idiot and idiots like this in general. That is, the “Well, ackshually” shitheels who ignore how anything is in the real world, standard practices, and how things actually work. And also do not really understand the tech, either.
First of all, you stupid motherfucker, a device can (and most consumer crap does) implement NAPT/PAT with dynamic state but often has1 no explicit packet-filter policy engine (what most people would term a “firewall”), yet will still refuse unsolicited inbound flows simply because these flows don’t match any mapping/state. That is in fact de facto protection via reachability restriction. And that behavior is explicitly defined in NAT RFCs. The NAT RFCs in fact directly discuss filtering behavior associated with NAT operations (not just a separate firewall). Check out RFC 4787 (BCP 127), RFC 5382 (BCP 142), RFC 5508 (BCP 148) and RFC 7857 for how NAT really works. I’ve read those documents in toto several times over the years. I can guarantee that doofus has not.
Miraculously, he is right that “NAT isn’t designed as security,” but the clown-ass shitstain then uses that to imply “NAT adds no security value,” which is false in actual practice. Nearly every existing IPv4 NAT (NAPT/PAT) gateway2 enforces stateful inbound blocking out of the box. This NAT — independent of the router’s firewall function — does provide decent default-on security for home users.
On the other hand, his core premise (“modern routers default-deny inbound IPv6 anyway”) is absolutely not a sure thing. Standards and real deployments often have non-optimal defaults, including configs that default-forward unsolicited inbound IPv6 traffic. This is because unlike IPv4, IPv6 expects end-to-end connectivity. So that means many router vendors ship equipment that way. Thus, having NAT adds quite hardy extra protection in practice. That is to say, with any IPv4 home NAT you need both a firewall hole and a port-forward/mapping mistake to expose a device. With IPv6 global addressing, exposure can occur with only one minor screw-up. Then boom, your whole network is out there on the wide-open internet.
This disphit’s NAT explanation is also crazy sloppy (he frames it as mainly destination-rewrite based on static port forwards), just glossing over or ignoring that the real “default deny” effect largely comes from dynamically created state. He overstates a conditional truth (“IPv6 is fine if you keep equivalent edge filtering”) into an unsupported and often-wrong universal claim, using cherry-picked vendor defaults as if they were always the case. Also, he deliberately handwaves away as irrelevant the safety margin NAT provides in reality every damn day.
NAT wasn’t designed for security, wah wah. Carbon steel wasn’t designed for armor, either, but we use it for that in the real world.
My conclusion: Fuck this fucking clown who doesn’t know a damn thing, and what he thinks he knows is wrong. Read the RFCs, motherfucker. I’ll wait. You won’t understand them anyway, but I’ll still wait.
Whatever is causing this, it's not American. The machine is global.
These Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Could Resolve The Hubble Tension.
The Brazilianization of the World.
The reality of trying to make US manufacturing great again.
The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch.
Blood test can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms.
It would have been disappeared for sure. I wonder how many more cases like that got suppressed when the left held nearly-complete cultural dominance? Probably a lot.
And makes me wonder what stories the right will suppress now. Because you know they will — just different ones.
All y’all gonna cry like little babies but trust me, it’s AI. And economists can lie all they like, but it’s still AI.
It’s just possible to do more with fewer people now. Just the other day I had AI write a PowerShell script in 20 seconds that would’ve taken me a few hours myself. And I’m pretty good at PowerShell. The end result was also better than what I would’ve produced.
This is happening all over the economy now and is only going to increase.
Get used to it, get using it, or be content with your Maytag box beside the road.
If anyone starts tracking my location, I will find them and I will kill them.
Simple.
Amazing how beautiful nearly anyone can be if they do not treat themselves like a living dumpster. What a transformation, goddamn.
I love how angry that type of thing makes the dying FA movement.
How fun. A song played on guitar as if you were on a violin actually performed on violin.