The Official Status Thread
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
got told by a coworker that "Google is your friend"
Google is Friend Computer. Trust in Friend Computer. Trust in Google.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Google is your life partner"
Not until it takes me out for dinner first!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin IIRC there are pumpkins in Minecraft so I would guess that's what it is. No idea whether Minecraft has extra sugar added or is Terraria for sluts
That's an interesting shape for a pumpkin.
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@PleegWat They are blocks.
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Status: PayPal account accessed from an unknown Apple device (I own nothing Apple at all), despite my PayPal account having a unique password that is pages of random junk generated by a password manager. At least I got in and changed my password before they did anything.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Not until it takes me out for dinner first!
Just ask Google Map, it will gladly provide you a list of nearby places where you can have dinner.
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TMI Status: I must have really racked up a big vitamin B deficiency. It took four days of high-dosage B supplements before my urine turned the funny color that normally happens after I take a B multivitamin. But now I feel a lot better.
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@TimeBandit
I can't get Google Pay to handle that part of the deal for me
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My project managers are using UAT to features again.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
despite my PayPal account having a unique password that is pages of random junk generated by a password manager
The evidence suggests they compromised more than your PayPal account then.
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@error I'm keeping an eye out for a password manager being compromised. Should be a good day.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I'm keeping an eye out for a password manager being compromised. Should be a good day.
Especially since mine is completely offline and lives on a USB drive, and I've seen no such compromise on other accounts. I'm very wary of online or browser-integrated password managers.
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@DogsB There was this from a couple weeks ago:
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat They are blocks.
Blocks? Don't you mean pumpkins?
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Status: As the bus rolled into town I saw someone running across the road carrying a bed.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Especially since mine is completely offline and lives on a USB drive, and I've seen no such compromise on other accounts. I'm very wary of online or browser-integrated password managers.
You plug it in periodically to retrieve your passwords right? Then if someone has a rootkit on your PC, it can be accessed.
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@error Unless it is a cell phone, without SIM, perpetually in airplane mode, and he copies things over.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Unless it is a cell phone, without SIM, perpetually in airplane mode, and he copies things over.
well if they plugs it on it could be copied with rootkit, if they type the value in it can be keylogged.
if you're going to go full 109% paranoia, go full 109% paranoia!
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Status: I'm about to have a very angry conversation with Cox...
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Status: Watching The Sims speedrun.
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@error
Or that it was just straight spam, trying to get him to "click here to reset his password" and thereby confirm his actual password for the harvester.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Whatever you do, don't get caught beating your Cox in public.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error
Or that it was just straight spam, trying to get him to "click here to reset his password" and thereby confirm his actual password for the harvester.No, it was subscriber notifications for channels to which I subscribe.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Especially since mine is completely offline and lives on a USB drive, and I've seen no such compromise on other accounts. I'm very wary of online or browser-integrated password managers.
I used to use an online/browser-integrated password manager, but since then (partially by necessity) I've regressed to basically the most low-tech solutions possible.
Four encrypted Excel files for the majority of my passwords, three password books (for the OS/Excel file passwords that protect everything else).
Because fuck it. If someone unauthorized can get to any of those, I'm going to have bigger problems.
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@heterodox I've heard people make fun of (physical, paper) password notebooks, but in reality they're not a bad solution. Someone who's after your passwords is unlikely to be able to get physical access to your shit, unless you happen to be an extremely high value target, in which case you've probably got physical security in place.
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@hungrier Indeed, and there's physical security everywhere I have a book.
The main challenge I see is actually availability -- making it so if you lose the book you don't lose all the things. But that's not too hard to deal with.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
The main challenge I see is actually availability -- making it so if you lose the book you don't lose all the things. But that's not too hard to deal with.
Quite so: just photograph its pages on a wooden table, then upload them somewhere public-facing and protected by a strong password.
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Status: fuck drama at THREE FUCKING THIRTY IN THE FUCKING MORNING!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: fuck drama
at THREE FUCKING THIRTY IN THE FUCKING MORNING!FTFY.
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Status: Thinking about memory barriers.
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@dkf Full fences? Or acquire / release only?
I don't envy you having to do that
before the weekendat all.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Full fences? Or acquire / release only?
As long as the access to the volatile stuff in the middle works correctly, I'm not too worried, but I want to ensure that the disable and enable of interrupts doesn't have anything moved past it.
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Status: Found a copy of my undergraduate transcript hidden away in the archive I kept of my previous job search. So now I don't have to try to recover my undergraduate college account to download a new one. Human interaction avoided
Also found my old teaching statement. Sadly, I didn't actually save the editable version -- I only have a PDF. So off it went to one of those PDF -> Word conversion services. I'll have to munge it further, but better (more friendly) than having to write it from scratch.
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Status
On one hand definitely have the cold. This sucks.
on the other hand i am covered in puppies. This rocks!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I didn't actually save the editable version -- I only have a PDF.
CutCopy-n-paste not work for you?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I didn't actually save the editable version -- I only have a PDF.
CutCopy-n-paste not work for you?The PDF is one of those crappy ones that doesn't do line breaks right. It'd be more work to copy/paste than to convert and fix.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: PayPal account accessed from an unknown Apple device (I own nothing Apple at all), despite my PayPal account having a unique password that is pages of random junk generated by a password manager. At least I got in and changed my password before they did anything.
Maybe it was actually a carefully crafted phishing email?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: PayPal account accessed from an unknown Apple device (I own nothing Apple at all), despite my PayPal account having a unique password that is pages of random junk generated by a password manager. At least I got in and changed my password before they did anything.
Maybe it was actually a carefully crafted phishing email?
Doesn't appear so. All hyperlinks point directly to PayPal's domain.
I'd get rid of PayPal completely if I could, but as a writer I need it to work with some of the marketing sites I deal with as well as my artist.
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Status: I have a handful of "purchases" (promos and ports from other services) on Google Movies, and none of them are in HD. Why is this even a thing?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: PayPal account accessed from an unknown Apple device (I own nothing Apple at all)
Hmmm. Around two years ago i received a warning from Gmail about an access from an Mac? , Apple product? .
Seconds after login from a Raspi, which at the time used a Safari derivative browser. Location matched, so I assumed false positive.
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Status: A few months after I have quietly celebrated getting rid of my last social networking account, my scientific advisor decides to gulp down the kool-aid and, from now on, only send all lab-related stuff through social networks. And I don't mean Slack or Mattermost or Rocket.Chat or anything specialised, no, just your regular suck-all-your-data and feed-you-sponsored-posts service.
I could want to scream Whyyyyy? or What's wrong with god-damn e-mail?, but those are rhetorical questions by now.
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@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
send all lab-related stuff through social networks
That's not going to backfire at all!
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Status: while sitting at my desk working, someone offered me a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts for $5.
I know I should have resisted, but I'm a weak man
Other status:
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Krispy Kreme
do not understand the temptation.
Tim Hortons, Sure, i'd like one.
Starbucks. I guess but they're overpriced... still if it's your wallet we're using.
Dunkin Donuts. Get me one too please.
Any local bakery. MORE! MORE! MORE!But KK? i mean just..... when they're hot all you taste is the hot oil, when they're cold all the taste goes away and they're just really airy sugary cardboard........ like..... why is that desireable?
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
why is that desireable?
Because I didn't need to leave my desk
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Krispy Kreme is like the Burger King of donuts. I'll eat them if offered, but I'd much rather have Casey's or Hy-Vee donuts.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That's not going to backfire at all!
The bitter truth is, it probably won't. Any real backfiring is so slow that everyone in the lab would think it's the new norm. I'm the last person here to even consider this problematic.
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@cabrito I got an email recently from Steam Guard telling me someone from some country I don't remember had logged in with my password.
I panicked for a minute before remembering I had intentionally left a weak steam password in since Steam Guard is already secure enough.Mandatory 2FA? More like mandatory fuck you.
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Downloaded seven years of my transaction history across various accounts to try to identify anything recurring I may have forgotten about (by highlighting duplicate merchant/amount combinations).
In the course of that identification, discovered how much of a creature of habit I am. (Well, I already knew that, but it's interesting to have the data.)
Example: Over the past five years, I have gone to a breakfast place near me and have gotten the exact same thing 126 times.
Don't mess with success, I suppose.
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Status: headache. Ouch.