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Yeah, it's really hard to get lay people to understand infosec issues. I had to create a separate VLAN for my wife because she couldn't tolerate being behind a VPN or pihole because she wants to click on sponsored ads on Google.
And don't get me started on how she feels about the fact that I password protect all. She knows my password, but still thinks I'm hiding something.
But I work in InfoSec, so of course I'm hiding everything. Just not from her.
Yeah, too many people think anyone who cares about data security needs to get their hard drives checked.
Fundamentally, just completely antithetical to the principles of constitutional democracy, basic freedoms and human rights.
"Everyone else lets me walk over their rights, so if you maintain your own then you must have something to hide, and I will use that as justification to transgress them!" It's so fucked up...
I know you're just talking about your wife, but the same thing applies to corporations, adware, data brokers, and governments.
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People actually click those? That's horrifying.
Yeah, I agree
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I went to Lowe's a couple of months ago and that night on Amazon I got recommendations for drill bits and cabinet door pulls. The weird thing was that I did buy some drill bits at Lowe's but I just looked at cabinet pulls there. I'm guessing my phone was linked to in-store footage and AI noted where in the store I stopped to look at stuff. As a kid I used to look forward to living in the future, now I kinda regret it.
There might be some kind of RFID in the shelves that senses your phone's proximity and how long it lingers...
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Yeah, too many people think anyone who cares about data security needs to get their hard drives checked.
Fundamentally, just completely antithetical to the principles of constitutional democracy, basic freedoms and human rights.
"Everyone else lets me walk over their rights, so if you maintain your own then you must have something to hide, and I will use that as justification to transgress them!" It's so fucked up...
I know you're just talking about your wife, but the same thing applies to corporations, adware, data brokers, and governments.
I like to ask the "I have nothing to hide" people if I can go paw through their underwear drawer.
I mean, most everyone wears it, so it's not like it's something to hide, right?
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Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.
The best way I've found is to just ask questions like you don't understand the topic but are interested in learning more. Their logic is going to have holes, and you want to guide them into stumbling into one.
The hard part is asking probing questions without sounding like you're trying to pull a "gotcha".
You know, I appreciate that perspective because I do believe it's important overall if we're ever going to recover as a society, but I'm also concerned that perhaps as a society we're just too far gone. Some people will never get it, and you have to be prepared for that, but I do think it's a good thing to leave that door open for people who eventually come around. If that door isn't open, they'll just go back to their same old echo chambers.
At the same time, be aware that there's a certain combination of narcissism and dunning-kruger which will lead some people to believe you're validating them by listening and asking questions, and they may double down or even go on to be even more confidently outlandish, because someone who seemed smart decided to listen to them and ask them questions, so clearly they must be even more smarter!
Like, you know that technique they teach you in basic interpersonal communication and conflict resolution classes? The one where you're supposed to listen to a person and repeat back what they said before laying out why you disagree with it?
Yeah, that doesn't work when as soon as you finish summarizing their point to them they go "Yeah, exactly, I'm glad you agree," and then change the topic into something even more batshit crazy...
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Just add semi colons and brackets, right?
Just put a bunch of asterisks everywhere.
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...I don't like that comma
What about an opening single quotation mark (
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Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.
I heard you just put your thingie in her woo-hoo bag and then you plip plap until you both yeehaw.
Plap plip but otherwise perfect.
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I like to ask the "I have nothing to hide" people if I can go paw through their underwear drawer.
I mean, most everyone wears it, so it's not like it's something to hide, right?
Unfortunately, it would go right over their heads and they would just call you a creep, reinforcing their belief that you should be under constant surveillance...
And they'd probably go and put a ring camera in their bedroom... you know, for... privacy...
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Plap plip but otherwise perfect.
Oh god, is plip plap the gay one?? I promised my mom in high school that I wasn't gay; if she finds out, she'll never let me live it down.
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I was a TA in a class that expected knowledge of C. A lot of students who had only ever used Python asked if I could ring them up to speed. One student even asked if he could write it in Python and then I could "just translate it over"
It's rather trivial to translate Python to
$ cat << EOF > ./shitpost.c && gcc -O2 -o ./shitpost ./shitpost.c && ./shitpost #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { system("python3 -c \\"print(\\\\\\"Hello, World!\\\\\\")\\""); return 0; } EOF Hello, World!My C is a bit rusty though, sorry.
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At work, the team isn't very good at python. They're mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I'm happy to mentor and guide.
The product lady said to me "can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?"
I'm like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I'm not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.
I wrote something anyway because I don't want to further irritate the product lady.
So, look AI sucks, but busywork like this might do ok at “a quick guide to python”.
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They think the same.
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What about an opening single quotation mark (
‘) being used instead of an apostrophe (’)?Oh wtf I didn't even notice that, shit‘s cursed
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Oh god, is plip plap the gay one?? I promised my mom in high school that I wasn't gay; if she finds out, she'll never let me live it down.
I've never got this far with a boy
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Yeah. They don’t want to be fixed?
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I went to Lowe's a couple of months ago and that night on Amazon I got recommendations for drill bits and cabinet door pulls. The weird thing was that I did buy some drill bits at Lowe's but I just looked at cabinet pulls there. I'm guessing my phone was linked to in-store footage and AI noted where in the store I stopped to look at stuff. As a kid I used to look forward to living in the future, now I kinda regret it.
Might be Bluetooth beacon tracking: https://www.mokosmart.com/bluetooth-proximity-marketing-ble-beacons/
Seems like these should typically be used by store apps, but who knows when other apps have like 37,876 trusted partners they share data with.
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At work, the team isn't very good at python. They're mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I'm happy to mentor and guide.
The product lady said to me "can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?"
I'm like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I'm not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.
I wrote something anyway because I don't want to further irritate the product lady.
This is capitalism
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I've never got this far with a boy
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Yeah. They don’t want to be fixed?
Or cannot see it due to the Dunning Kruger Effect. It is very strong in some.
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