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  • It depends on the state. Many states have no means of direct voter legislation. Some do, but the result is a new law, which can be repealed by the legislature as easily as anything else. Some states treat citizen ballot initiatives as more powerful than basic laws (eg, as an amendment to the state constitution) which are generally way harder for politicians to roll back.

  • Can we get someone who believes in Jakub elected as county clerk somewhere in the US South? Then they can deny marriage licenses to all the white people for being inhuman.

  • I think that a 51 star flag could look pretty cool.

  • During a work presentation, an exec used the phrase "opening the kimono" in reference to showing business accounting books to potential investors. I had never heard it before, but my gut reaction was that it was some kind of prostitution/nudity reference, and kinda gross for a professional setting.

    Maybe my mind is in the gutter, because allegedly it refers to a Japanese businessman coming home from work and wearing his kimono loosely to relax. Not really sure how that relates to transparent accounting practices.

    Anyway, some words or phrases can be interpreted wrongly by others who have never heard them before. It's not a reason to always ban them, but it does make sense to evaluate our language with outsider perspective in mind.

  • Bring your own tea into the workplace?

    Tea bags are fine, but I recently discovered tea resin. It's basically a small block of concentrated tea that you dissolve into hot water. Not quite as good as fresh leaves, but more portable (dozens of servings fit in a tin the size of a USB stick) and very resilient against going bad.

    I have a small selection of resins on emergency stash in my work bag, in case the coffee machine at the office is broken.

    • I like sharing
    • I never found any good direct downloads for all the movies and shows I wanted
  • Generally, browsers try to make it very difficult for the contents of one website to read or interact with the contents of another website. There is a class of attacks called cross site request forgery (CSRF) where website A tries to trick the browser into sending a web request to website B and performing some action which requires authentication. In this case, the action would be to like a Facebook post.

    Imagine something really basic like your bank has an endpoint GET shite-bank.com/account/transfer?funds=100&to=myEvilAccount. Website B could try and redirect you to that URL. If you're logged in to shite-bank, then when that request completes you will transfer 100 funds to me. Generally, most websites use various techniques and tokens to prevent other websites from triggering requests like this.

    I clicked through the source article, and it sounds like this is specifically a windows thing: original article says that when a windows machine loads the malicious SVG, the malicious JS is parsed in a Microsoft Edge browser process, regardless of the browser a user visited the porn site with (apparently all Windows SVGs load through Edge). I would guess that there is some aspect of this context switch which enables the CSRF attack to work, but it is not explained in the original article.

  • Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear of someone in the UK getting arrested for owning one.

  • I have one of those Japanese gardening trowels. To be fair, it does have:

    • A pointy end
    • Beveled, sharp looking edges
    • Serrations
    • A knife handle
    • A knife-like sheath

    I really don't blame anyone for thinking it looks like a knife, but I'm not going to defend cops, nosy community watch groups, or UK knife laws here.

    The setup leasing to the gardener being arrested is a real shitty situation, but fuck the cops for not giving the guy any proper legal representation.

    Edit: Dunno what kind of trowel he was actually carrying, but this is mine https://larnerseeds.com/products/japanese-hori-hori

  • This could be useful: Suppose people are gambling on outcomes I do/don't like. Maybe "Chances that we all die in nuclear war". If my superpower prediction is that a nuclear war will happen, I should place a bet to change the outcome from "guaranteed death" to "maybe death".

  • Rolling blunts. You just have to keep your hands dry

  • What do you mean by handling the keyfile?

    You can generate your ssh keys outside of docker and make them available in the container through a mounted directory. You will need to manually copy the public key to your remote host authorized_keys file anyway.

  • The Lawrence of Arabia toilet challenge is tough, but rewarding. Intermission is welcome because you can get off the toilet and watch a couple of tiktok shorts.

  • I always thought that wish-granting is instant, even if the effects of that wish are delayed.

    So if I wish for something to happen in 5 days, it's granted in the moment and guaranteed to happen. That raises a question though: Can I wish to cancel a wish I have already made, but whose effect has not yet taken hold? On its face, this should be possible, but if we take it as a given that all valid wishes are always granted at the moment of utterance, then it might be physically/psychologically impossible for me or anyone else to revoke the wish before its IRL effect is complete.

  • Did something change in the link? I can't find any reference to mood-aware searches.

  • The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.

    Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?

    • Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
    • Windows "helpfully" cleaning up your Linux bootloader
    • Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a "dirty" state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again

    And suddenly, that's where you'll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.

  • You can already stick a beer bottle in the sand. If you're determined enough, also your ass (Wikipedia, SFW).

  • I've got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are... not so good.