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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Amazon is a particularly notable offender here. When you make a purchase — they don't even email you a _list of the items you just ordered_. This, I believe, is because they're mad at leaking business intelligence to whichever “organize my inbox" companies people use. Tough deal, Amazon; suck it up.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Financial, medical, & insurance companies force a false choice between receiving stacks of paper statements (yuck) and paperlessly getting vapid emails which don't actually include the records which they're telling you now exist for you to manually sign in and download.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 13h

So many institutions simply refuse to send any actual information via email — you have to log into their site to see what the heck they're talking about when they say “you have a new message" or “monthly statement available”.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Utterly terrifying nightmare in which some sort of bundled crapware sneakily made its way onto my machine and uninstalling it involved completing a series of increasingly unhinged and downright psychotic CAPTCHAs.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I am fascinated by the legal theory that Congress cannot delegate any authority to executive _agencies_ , but absolutely _can_ delegate everything & the kitchen sink to the "unitary executive".

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I feel embarrassed that every time I want to compare strings or numbers in bash or zsh, I have to look up the extremely fiddly syntax to make sure I don't dig myself a new grave. But really, the shells should be embarrassed to be so unintuitive about this stuff.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 10d

I'm not a huge fan of the military in general, but I have incredible respect for the brave aviators of the crow early warning & air defense network which keeps our neighborhood free of raptors and safe for our pet parrot. Thank you for your service. o7

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 11d

There are no wikis or forums any more — if you want information about a project, you need to join one of two chat clients. Slack, the corporate one owned by Salesforce, will sometimes send you a surprise bill for like two hundred thousand dollars. Discord, the gamer one, is microtransaction hell.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 12d

42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw. By declining to report an apparent US launch of five missiles, he likely […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I'm enjoying The Pitt — very much the prestige TV successor to ER. But they just featured a spider bite. My suspension of disbelief is forever ruined.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Why should resistance be constrained by non-violence when oppression has no such limits?

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 16d

I hate when tech tells me to check with my system administrator. It's just rude (and often lazy). It's like a plumber asking "Is there a man around I could talk to?" because they don't want to have to explain themself. Just show me the actual information you notionally want me to pass along to […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 16d

OH via the Frontline Fifth Podcast:

> People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 20d

My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be _assembled_ with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.

Before the use of […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 26d

In a show I'm watching, a supernatural entity just prophesied a divine weapon "more powerful than ten thousand swords", and this monologue is superimposed over apocalyptic imagery which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear war.

A weapon more powerful than ten thousand swords, huh? So… a single […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 27d

My favorite way to enjoy excellent art is by looking at screenshots of screenshots of it without any links back to the original. That slaps actually and is very healthy.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 28d

And I would definitely not attack Poland with a drone barrage just large enough to make it extremely clear that this was deliberate and intentional, causing damage & harm to civilians, but small enough not to practically inconvenience Polish military readiness in any way.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 28d

I'm not an experienced 4d-chess spymaster-dictator. But if I wanted to test NATO's resolve, I would not start with the state with massive ground forces and no chill which has just begging for an excuse to fuck me up for years.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Go off, I guess, but I would simply not attack Poland even if I was planning a dead-eyed denial hours later.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Apple demonstrated three very impressive technical accomplishments in yesterday's announcement and I think that they really illustrate a spectrum of the sort of engineering which is often on display with new & improved gadgets.

#1 A full-featured smartwatch which runs for like a week or […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

People criticize the Star Wars prequels for heavy-handed writing about oblivious idiots, naïve caricatures, and unnecessary obsession with a couple of families and some marginal institutions. But have you seen the news? Those bland scripts and often-wooden performances look sparkling by comparison.

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BenderIsGreat34 @andymoose.fedi.aiga.rocks.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

If we were a serious species we’d have spent the last 5 years getting to the point where everyone could wake up, spit into a tube and go about their morning routine before getting a readout whether they were infected with flu/covid/RSV and if they were they could stay home until they were no […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

It is truly amazing what you can achieve when you work hard and believe in yourself instead of actually checking your work.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

Based on the magnitude of the manosphere's freakout, I was really expecting Superman (2025) to be much woker? Just felt like basic bog-standard by-the-numbers Superman with a bit of Gunn flair and a perfect sublime impeccable Luthor.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

Being unemployed gives me much more time do deal with the day-to-day administriva which so often gets put on the backburner. But coping with my own personal tech debt really makes me miss working with specialists who can work through this stuff ten times faster than I can.