The Official Status Thread
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
Someone trying to brute force login credentials, and thus generating multiple independent “check with the domain” requests?No, that's the internal middelware. Someone didn't put in a
sleep
or something I guess...
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https://twitter.com/BenLubar/status/988603741535375360
My shitpost now has FIFTY THOUSAND VIEWS
and so far nobody has mentioned the viewer count, which is the reason I originally took the screenshot.
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@ben_lubar you mean nobody understood what you were getting at when you posted a picture with no context? How weird
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar you mean nobody understood what you were getting at when you posted a picture with no context? How weird
I'm pretty sure most of the people who saw the tweet also watched the stream, given that most of the impressions came immediately after PeachSaliva and AngriestPat retweeted it.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar you mean nobody understood what you were getting at when you posted a picture with no context? How weird
Ok, I found the exact moment I took the screenshot: It's when she's saying "pounds":
https://youtu.be/jHCDRzjENdw?t=739
The paraphrase is from about thirty seconds later.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar you mean nobody understood what you were getting at when you posted a picture with no context? How weird
Ok, I found the exact moment I took the screenshot: It's when she's saying "pounds":
https://youtu.be/jHCDRzjENdw?t=739
The paraphrase is from about thirty seconds later.
Also, here's where Pat tells Paige about my tweet:
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently the optional feature in Chrome that prevents it from auto-filling your password into anything that looks remotely similar to a password field is "not being maintaned".
Which make me wonder how much Chrome would break on the shitty login form to the HR/salary system, as the first page is not username/password, but behaves like it would be username/password.
Also, speaking of which... STATUS: Salary payout happening today!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar you mean nobody understood what you were getting at when you posted a picture with no context? How weird
Ok, I found the exact moment I took the screenshot: It's when she's saying "pounds":
https://youtu.be/jHCDRzjENdw?t=739
The paraphrase is from about thirty seconds later.
Was the frame you tweeted the only one where her legs were pixellated?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently the optional feature in Chrome that prevents it from auto-filling your password into anything that looks remotely similar to a password field is "not being maintaned".
There is a sect of pseudo security experts who think prefilling a password is a severe security problem which should be blocked. Because of this features which prevent passwords from being auto-filled are untenable.
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Monday status: Remember that $report needs to be in by friday.
Today status: Reminder that deadline for $report is today.
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@pleegwat The thing that causes less auto filling is unmaintained because auto filling is bad?
That makes zero sense.
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@weng No, because it's almost more a philosophical debate between 'auto filling is good and should be on everywhere' and 'auto filling is bad and should be off anywhere'. And the few places where there's a legitimate good reason to not auto fill suffer.
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Status: Paperwork day... development go live is T-48 hours and counting
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently the optional feature in Chrome that prevents it from auto-filling your password into anything that looks remotely similar to a password field is "not being maintaned".
There is a sect of pseudo security experts who think prefilling a password is a severe security problem which should be blocked. Because of this features which prevent passwords from being auto-filled are untenable.
Pre-filling it is stupid because it always gets it wrong on pages like admin panels. Filling it by letting me select an account from a dropdown menu when I click the password or username field is much better.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Monday status: Remember that $report needs to be in by friday.
Today status: Reminder that deadline for $report is today.That is my life in a nutshell.
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STATUS:
Since I am leaving the company in a few days, today I exchanged salary information with each of my colleagues. I found it illuminating, a good practice I'd recommend to everyone.
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Status: Warning!: A Heart Palpitation event has been recorded three times in the last 22 seconds.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Warning!: A Heart Palpitation event has been recorded three times in the last 22 seconds.
I kick up to 160bpm for up to an hour or so quite frequently (atrial flutter). Not pleasant. Yeah, I'm on drugs for it.
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@tsaukpaetra I get those occasionally. Dunno what they mean. Funny, I got the sensation that I was about to get one just by reading that.
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status: I don't know what @Tsaukpaetra's votes mean :/
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@bb36e He uses it to mark which posts he's read.
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@pie_flavor I thought so too, but he doesn't upvote everything! :S
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I don't know what @Tsaukpaetra's votes mean :/
Nominally, they mean I have indeed seen the post and mostly don't disagree with it.
If I skipped a post, it means I disagree.
If you manage to tick me off, then I downboat, but you won't be able to tell.
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Status: Wow, much JPEG, so artifact.
WTF resolution is this, and why is it so bad?!?!
It's supposed to be this, but zoomed in and messed-with colors:
It turns into this:
Edit: Nevermind, I'm a dumbass. It really is that shitty of a base photo.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Monday status: Remember that $report needs to be in by friday.
Today status: Reminder that deadline for $report is today.My lead hits me up on Stride, calls me twenty minutes later
Lead: <person from client's PMO> wants a report on <data collected two weeks ago, but I didn't put together a report then because any recommendation I would have made was preempted by official recommendation made without my knowledge, for political reasons>.
Me: Ah... Okay, it's going to take me some time to do that... Hopefully the data's still on the server, will have to log onto the management network, find it, and put it together...
Lead: Can we do that by COB?
Me: looks at clock, which says 14:30 <sigh> Sure...Amazingly managed to pull it off, but it was stressful. I need to start saying "no" more... at least I was working from home to recoup some energy. Should be able to make it through a meeting with my manager tomorrow without being placed on mandatory leave.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you manage to tick me off, then I downboat
Precisely.
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Tried out a Windows Mixed Reality headset. One of the cheap ones.
It's better than my actual eyes.
I need to get glasses.
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Decide to get a substitute title, since I'm likely to actually receive one in the mail sooner than I'm likely to track mine down.
Log in to the DMV. "The registration on your <totaled vehicle> is expiring in a couple months!" Yes, yes.
Click the Substitute Title link next to my vehicle title, get "Logon successful" and an explanation of the process. Wasn't I already logged in?
Click Continue, get "No vehicles". Oh, for fuck's sake.
Something I just read in a journal article: "The primary insecurity of the TCP/IP Protocol is that it allows access to other networks also based on the TCP/IP Protocol."
I'm being assaulted with stupidity today.
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Status: Professor has given us a month-long assignment, each week tells us 'remember, I'm giving you a month because it takes a month.' It is now the fourth week of that assignment, and I'm asking him for a one-week extension since, y'know, it takes a month, and I had a one-week absence. He's not budging. The class is a large part of my grade and it is literally impossible for me to get the rest of it done in one week (I have to schedule a half-dozen meetings with various advisers, etc.). I have no idea what the best course of action is going to be here.
I could do a late drop, possibly retroactive. But he's also the guy who manages my probation registration hold, and if I piss him off he could get it tangled up in bureaucracy with me ending up not getting any of the classes I need next semester. Same goes for talking to the dean.
I could take the hit to my grade, but that's going to suck horribly, because I need to get it up to a 3.0 so I can get into SE.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Something I just read in a journal article: "The primary insecurity of the TCP/IP Protocol is that it allows access to other networks also based on the TCP/IP Protocol."
Another gem: "Researchers at Princeton University have shown how the entire Internet can be spoofed by intercepting all web traffic to and from a victim, showing the victim an edited version, and squirreling away the victim's passwords." Okay, you're good so far other than the questionable wording of "the entire Internet", you're describing a man-in-the-middle attack...
"Encryption actually harms the victim in this situation because it effectively establishes a secure channel to the attacker's computer."
Fucking wat.
Edit: "When making a purchase via the Internet, you may notice that the address changes from 'http://' to 'https://'—this is indicating that the protocol on which you are viewing the webpage has changed from the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol to the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol Secure—a (theoretically) more secure protocol in order to protect consumer information that often uses the Secure Sockets Layer protocol. The Secure Sockets Layer is based on the TCP/IP Protocol, however, and therefore all of the insecurities described herein, including "island-hopping" (jumping from network to network) apply there as well."
You're. a fucking. idiot. Stick to what you know (international law) and leave the tech talk out of it. As far as I can tell the vulnerability in the "TCP/IP Protocol" (which is mentioned upwards of fifty times in the paper) is a.) the fact that TCP/IP networks can talk to each other -- yeah, no fucking shit, Sherlock, that's the point and b.) a half-assed description of a TCP sequence prediction attack, which doesn't support most of the posited scenarios (and isn't that relevant anymore).
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Link? We should have a thread on this!
I wish we could, but it's an article from a subscription journal; I can't provide the full text. I quoted the best parts already anyway; thirty-nine pages in, the author is no longer talking out of her ass (since she's actually talking about her area of expertise, more or less).
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status: downside of nvidia updating - all my cemu shaders are broken again. it takes FOREVER to fix that, especially for BOTW.
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Status: Made about 20 seconds of this. Took me all day.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Made about 20 seconds of this. Took me all day.
You made 20 seconds of %StaticImage%?
$> ffmpeg.exe -loop 1 -i 1524713151213-504230_20180425222205_1.png -c:v libx264 -t 20 1524713151213-504230_20180425222205_1.mp4
Took me about 42 seconds (my computer is fucking slow at x264 encoding).
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Status: Apparently my laptop has an NFC contact point on the bottom under the front of the touchpad. How did I discover this? I placed my phone near enough that Android made a little chime and prompted me to "touch to beam".
Of course, my PC didn't do anything in response (what did I expect?).
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You made 20 seconds of %StaticImage%?
Want to try it yourself? It's open source:
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Want to try it yourself?
.... Sure?
Oh wait, money...
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Monday status: Remember that $report needs to be in by friday.
Today status: Reminder that deadline for $report is today.And just in on the mail, the day after the deadline: "The deadline has been extended to friday, as was originally stated." Along with some filler about the importance of the reports being their best possible for analyzing the work we perform.
More . Could have used yesterday afternoon for more pressing stuff, as originally planned. Oh, well. The report is in and I'm not gonna make any changes to it now, even if they want those if people did a rush job to get it in on time. (I already had the data, so most of it was just verifying it and updating spreadsheets as appropriate.)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking wat.
Link? We should have a thread on this!
It's chock-full of breathless derp:
Although better and stronger forms of encryption are constantly being developed, the search for stronger encryption appears to be never-ending, because each increase in encryption strength seems to be matched by an advance in decryption. It is a bit like trying to secure a house one can add as many locks and deadbolts as possible to the front door, but no matter how many locks are installed or how complicated they are, given enough time and enough resources, even the most "unbreakable" of situations can be hacked. Furthermore, there is usually a back door or a window that is less secure. Essentially, encryption only allows a network to stay just one step ahead, and sometimes not even that.
Lol what? A quick example for AES-256:
It would take 1038 Tianhe-2 Supercomputers (33.86 petaflops) running for the entirety of the existence of everything to exhaust half of the keyspace of a AES-256 key.
Even with Moore's Law I think we can relax for a bit.
Edit: With extremely pessimistic estimations we are good with 256 bit keys for a long time, this calculator is quite interesting and we are still talking nation-state levels of computing when it lists the 'protected until' date: https://www.keylength.com/en/compare/
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
It's chock-full of breathless derp:
You're not wrong. But then, I should have expected that from the title. I'm starting to get to the point where my brain turns off when I read "cyber-apocalypse" or "cyber Pearl Harbor".
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It's Bring Your Child to Work Day, and normally I'm not much for kids, but when I see a kid walk in our front doors with a purple dress shirt, tie, and briefcase, I'm just like... GASSSSP "LOOKITCHU!" That's too cute.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm starting to get to the point where my brain turns off when I read "cyber-apocalypse" or "cyber Pearl Harbor".
Most computer security is more like “cyber Passchendaele”…
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
"cyber-apocalypse" or "cyber Pearl Harbor"
Dibs on being a cyber-commander
Edit: Must remember to merge layers before cut-paste-post....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Made about 20 seconds of this. Took me all day.
You made 20 seconds of %StaticImage%?
$> ffmpeg.exe -loop 1 -i 1524713151213-504230_20180425222205_1.png -c:v libx264 -t 20 1524713151213-504230_20180425222205_1.mp4
Took me about 42 seconds (my computer is fucking slow at x264 encoding).
Try lowering the framerate.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Want to try it yourself?
.... Sure?
Oh wait, money...
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@heterodox Odd, I think it is here too. With 24-hour notice, so probably not many will show up.
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Status: At work doing useless stuff. Wish I was home playing more Battletech. It may have some framerate issues when moving the cameras around, and it is a bit of a bitch to maintain cashflow in the campaign when I keep getting limbs and torsos blown off my mechs that take forever to repair, delaying my ability to take on additional contract missions, but it's tactical mech lasery fun.
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Status:
Unit Attention - SCSI bus reset occurred
x9999It's home time FFS, why does the disk have to fail now.
Edit: It decided to properly go to SAS-drive heaven about 5 milliseconds after I posted that. Hot-spare came online and everything rebuilt fine, so the array is now
degraded
rather thancritical
. New drive on order for tomorrow on a before-10am. Hopefully it can put off having any more drive failures until then.