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Dave Carlson
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hello everyone, especially you
he+they, Chaotic Good, Autistic, Type 1 Diabetic, #insulin4all

thecubic.22 on Signal / 530997A7 on PGP

Security & distributed systems enthusiast; funemployed & pretired

I'm an ALLY, so pick me up from the airport plz
this phishing is going to get a lot of people

It's a micropython vuln, and this thing ain't micropython, and it's almost 2026
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
its entire existence is shortcut
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
this phishing attempt wins for the most wrong. the device itself is two-factor, and it also is literally a FIDO device

or in easier terms it requires something you know *before* becoming something you have

"Enter your PIN (so we can nab yer BTC)"
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
okay does the LLM invocation have its user's gender in its fact set because it could make the statistically funniest inference about whose erection it's not supposed to trigger
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Well I've made it exactly on time. Alles in Ordnung. Time to relax and... oh fuck me sideways
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
extremely not true at all
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
not mentioning beer
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
the first time I saw it I ruined the "that's not Lake Minnetonka" joke unknowingly, as if I were quoting it in advance and got booed

I just know what Lake Minnetonka looks like
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I was a lil' goober fascinated by the QA "disk certifier" machine (robot with a shitload of debug floppy drives) I saw. They were formatted because that was a side-effect of 3M's unbelievably-aggro policy of testing every sector
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
[Stefon voice] this new makerspace has EVERYTHING

slide whistles, beach whistles, a harmonica if you ask nicely ...
but don't you DARE make it multicolor because this makerspace prides itself on Soviet-level efficiency
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
why aren't you whistlemaxxing?
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
legend
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
oh come on are we still doing this
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
the "smart features" has been there for a long time. my mistake, jumping to a reasonable conclusion about an untrustworthy company

at the same time, here's the setting I was mad about - which was defaulted-on. Workspace = Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Keep, and Tasks

anyone want an affidavit?
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
commenter: GOD Rust tries to seem cool. "embassy-executor"? give me a break

me: all other languages call it [java.util.concurrent.]Executor

me: and EMBedded code is ASSY
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
this website is free

interesting point, may I make a suggestion like I'm 65 and just hatched out of a cocoon to attend my local Democratic caucus to share my concern that OTHER PARTY BAD MUST ELECT OTHER PEOPLE

also it's blatantly wrong about the 2019 settlement. who was president then
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
median democratic politician (and what would be on my cameras after sunset)
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I remember buying a Conner HD that was so "big" (213 MB!) that it needed Ontrack Disk Manager to BIOS overlay it otherwise you couldn't read the storage at all

It was such a pain that I got (was given) a Seagate 100MB drive just to not run it anymore
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
and oh my god this fucking pop-up when I turn it off immediately asks me to turn it on again

I'm also obviously my organization admin and I clicked every Gemini-forbidding setting possible. This is "back door" Gemini
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The way a certain type of person reacts to public defender caseload lowering is my "this is why we can't have nice things"
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is absolutely great

- We need money
- Here's why we need it
- We're asking you instead of oligarchs
- Surprise this need has always been there and it's been pretty bribey
- Tight shot on "fundraising." and "I'm askin'!" is going to trigger some NYC finsubs for sure
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I grew up with her older brother and she is a batshit narcissist, perfect for The Free Press to try to rehabilitate

She risked the lives of everyone working on her shows. Yeah, nobody defended you because you put your battiness above their survival

Have fun with your inevitable shitty CBS drama
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
like two torture wheels connected by an axle
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM