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drsbaitso

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Doctor of internetology. Elder Millennial. Nicest of the Damned. Award-winning pun-master. Widely regarded as a bad influence. Small Pixel Hater. He/Him.

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@jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

I think we should blame AI

drsbaitso ,
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@jerry I agree completely.

For what? Yes.

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@jerry Oh no. How terrible. What ever shall we do.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Pretty sure I don't have to say this but let's just be clear..

On we DO NOT WANT your ID or any other PERSONAL verification!

You can even use a disposable email if you like!❤️

MATTERS!

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@stux (but please for the love of sandwiches turn on two-factor)

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , (edited ) to random

for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:

"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"

(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)

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@aeva I don't really feel like my day job makes the world significantly better or worse, we're a relatively neutral cog in the capitalism machine.

@drsbaitso@infosec.exchange avatar drsbaitso , to random

sms codes are not an acceptable replacement for two factor, you incompetent victorian administrators

@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online avatar MelissaBearTrix , to random

Very important poll ... Yes it's rare that I am serious

If your cis have you ever been missed gendered ?

I'm trying to prove something and this is scientific.

Boost, I need numbers ... Thank you

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@MelissaBearTrix I'm cis, and I've never been misgendered in a way that made a memory.

Probably helped that I did my ponytail experiment at the start of the Covid lockdowns.

@jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

I guess it’s good that we’re still up so people can complain about all the other stuff being down?

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@jerry Maybe brace for another wave of signups since nothing else works right now 😄

But people may not be able to complete it if they can't log into their emails :thinking_fire:

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@ptesarik @jerry One problem solved. Several dozen more discovered.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random
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@stux @Vivaldi I’m still ticked at myself that I lost my receipt from purchasing Opera version… 3? 4? (to get rid of the free version’s banner ad) when my Yahoo Mail account was closed for lack of use.

@drsbaitso@infosec.exchange avatar drsbaitso , to random

I didn't need to be called out like this, @Vivaldi .

A white mug on a white background. The plain black text on the mug says "If you browse more than you sleep." with a red period.
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@killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , (edited ) to random

The (new) Steam Machine is a semi-custom desktop PC.
Marketed to a massive mainstream audience.
And it ships with Linux.
And it's now part of an entire Linux gaming ecosystem.
This is a big, big deal.
(Laptop in 2027?)

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drsbaitso ,
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@killyourfm The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and smell the e-ink.

@Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

Question!

If your wife died and you remarried shortly after and then were divorced shortly after that because you were also emotionally abusive to your new wife, are you still allowed to refer to yourself as a widow to gain sympathy from unsuspecting women?

Asking for my father's Facebook profile.

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Angry "I guess" guy meme from K.C. Green's "Cat Lunch Break" comic. It's two panels of a guy wearing a shirt and tie. In the first he looks angrily confused with his arms crossed. In the second he's thrown his arms up and is shouting "I GUESS" while still looking angry and confused. Also I just noticed his tie changed from square-tipped to pointy-tipped. Learn something new every day.
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    • @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

    Freedom of the press has been enshrined in the US Constitution since the 1st Amendment was adopted in 1791. And as a testament to this freedom, respected news media have had offices at The Pentagon since the complex was built in 1943.

    And yet, when the press now leaves because Pete Hegseth violates the 1st Amendment by demanding they let him control what they write, he casually responds with a “wave goodbye” emoji.

    Only an ignorant fool would not realize the gravity of this moment in history.

    Washington Post publishes a statement on why they are leaving. Pete Hegseth responds with the 👋 emoji. WaPo’s statement: "Journalists from The Washington Post will not be signing the Pentagon's new press access policy. The proposed restrictions undercut First Amendment protections by placing unnecessary constraints on gathering and publishing information. We will continue to vigorously and fairly report on the policies and positions of the Pentagon and officials across the government.” Matt Murray Executive Editor of The Washington Post
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    drsbaitso ,
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    @randahl Hey, this is Pete Hegseth we're talking about here.

    He could be an ignorant drunk fool.

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    Well, I just found out ChatGPT is recommending people interested in cybersecurity to join infosec.exchange.

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    @jerry Good to know Big Autocorrect is still happily lying to people I guess.

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    Oh look, riverside.fm now supports podcast editing via an LLM chat box.

    I can hardly contain my excitement.

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    @jerry Yeah, helium is hard to contain too.

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

    LinkedIn: You're a 'Top Applicant'. Click Apply now!

    HR: Thank you for your interest. We received your application 4 seconds ago, and we've already decided not to move forward

    Me: 🤬🤬🤬🤬

    drsbaitso ,
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    @nixCraft Compatibility, especially backwards.

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    drsbaitso ,
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    @stux Honestly, Lee was such a... self-promotional figure that I think he'd actually be perfectly happy with this crass commercialization.

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    Malignant narcissists can't stand when you make fun of them because they lack any real sense of humor or introspection. And they're totally fine with trampling on the First Amendment if it makes their critics quiet down and self-censor. From NYT:

    "President Trump threatened on Thursday to revoke broadcasting licenses over late-night hosts who speak negatively about him, escalating an assault against the media. “They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, after ABC suspended the late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live show. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”

    Then you have his lapdog FCC chief Brendan Carr doing his best mafia tough guy imitation threatening ABC's broadcast licenses if they didn't cancel Jimmy Kimmel, which of course they did. In some ways that's appropriate, because this entire administration is operated a lot like a mafia organization -- shaking everyone down for money and extorting companies and universities over speech they don't like.

    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/18/us/trump-news

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    @briankrebs I'm shocked, SHOCKED that appeasing the christofascist dumbass hasn't satisfied him!

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    I realize the Bluesky "AT" protocol is confusing, but don't worry— there's a enthusiastic community of hobbyists around the protocol, so simply direct any questions you may have to that community and you will immediately get three very confident sounding responses that totally contradict each other

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    @mcc bsky.app is the new zombo.com

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    So, at this point, the discourse has denegerated to the point that I think it's ACTIVELY VITAL we not comply with the terms of the discussion.

    As such, I just want you to know that I am very glad Charlie Kirk is dead. I'm unconcerned with the shooters motives, it is simply objectively good that Charlie Kirk is no longer in the discourse pushing eliminationism and fascist ideology. He ruined lives and now he can't ruin them anymore. That is good and I'm glad he's dead.

    Come arrest me. Pigs.

    drsbaitso ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Yeah, but think about his kids.

    They won't be raised by two abusive assholes, so that's probably a net positive for them too.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    Again - the world is a better place because Charlie Kirk isn't in it. If you want to quibble about whether or not HOW that came to be is a GOOD thing, cool, that's a conversation you can have with someone who gives a fuck. But I'm not accepting the position that a world without Charlie Kirk teaching your unfuckable, often armed, teenage sons to blame all their problems on women, gay people, and migrants is somehow poorer. Fuck off.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Charlie Kirk got an outcome he's vocally supported for years now.

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    FYI - because of what I saw happening over on mastodon. Social and a few other instances, I am resetting all the password of infosec.exchange users that haven't logged in during the previous 3 months. There's a lot of password stuffing and whatnot going on and I don't want to contribute to the problem of spam/phishing on the fediverse, and this was the best option I could come up with. Each of the accounts whose password is reset will get an email, so if you are here wondering "wtf, dude?", that's why.

    drsbaitso ,
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    @jerry Given how successful the campaign has been reminding people that the fediverse exists (and resulted in "wtf who reset my pw?" toots), maybe this should be an annual thing

    @tinker@infosec.exchange avatar tinker , to random

    The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!

    Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.

    This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!

    While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.

    I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!

    THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!

    Email that states: Hi Once again I have to thank you for sharing amazing ideas with me - thank you! I've been able to partner with the R Board to host our first Repair Cafe, which will be on Thursday, February 12 from 1:30-3:30. They will be supplying folks who can do small machine repairs, like toaster ovens or Instant Pots, and people to repair clothing (tailors/ sewers). Would you be interested in volunteering for the event? I'd love to have someone who could help with software and computer help. l've reached out to IdeaSpace to ask about physically repairing computers, like rebuilding them but I thought software help might be really handy too. Looking forward to hearing from you, -- Thank you, Assistant Branch Manager/ Adult Services Department Head (she/her) Fredericksburg Branch
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    @tinker I got to participate in one earlier this year, and it was so great to be able to help out some neighbors and share my skills with my community.

    I know there's https://www.repaircafe.org/en/ and https://openrepair.org looks more EU-focused. I'm hoping to volunteer for another one or two this year.

    @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

    London-to-Russia flights are back! Well, one made an emergency landing in Western Siberia today. Air China Boeing 777, bound for Beijing, landed in Nizhnevartovsk after engine failure. 300+ passengers now stranded: no Russian visas, unclear if they can leave the airport. A spare aircraft is expected. https://t.me/bazabazon/40350

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    @kevinrothrock And I thought dealing with airlines' posted schedules was a bear.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , (edited ) to random

    So, as a point of clarification:

    No, whether or not you cry crocodile tears for noted bomb walrus John Bolton is not going to have much of a bearing on whether or not the fascist Trumpenreich will use its state security forces to harass, terrorize, or harm you. They will do that, regardless of whether or not you "speak up" for John Bolton and let me remind you:

    "Collaborators get the wall."

    Who'd Bolton use to work for and what did he do in that capacity?

    Right. Fuck that guy.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites He's a great example of "Trump is an insecure, petty fascist that should be rotting in a piss-stained mausoleum", but I'm certainly not going to feel a moment of regret or sorrow for Bolton getting exactly the kind of thing he not only voted for, but actively worked for and towards for literally my entire life.

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    @kevinmirsky @JessTheUnstill My recollection was DOGE was going to replace/rewrite all the COBOL running either the gov't or just SSA. Everyone laughed because, well, you might as well promise to replace all roads with Roads v2, featuring hookers and blackjack in six months.

    ETA: https://gizmodo.com/doge-plans-to-rewrite-entire-social-security-codebase-in-just-a-few-months-report-2000582062

    All SSA COBOL, "just a few months" back at the end of March.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again

    Two emails, with subject lines “Message Blocked” and (all caps) “[Message blocked due to policy]”
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    drsbaitso ,
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    @molly0xfff @Viss @elfin @ai6yr "Oh no! She's charging her Kamehame-Hail-Mary! Run or we'll be crush by Gregorian Chanters!"

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    Also...

    Do you have any idea how fucking irritating it is to stagger out of bed to discovered the corrupt as fuck Nazi attorney general of Texas is asking the FBI to launch a manhunt for "AWOL" Dem politicians as part of a election map rigging plot when a week ago you decided "look I'm just gonna skip the Texas thing because as outrageous as it is, it's legal, and the fash are gonna get away with it - I have a lot of stories to cover and they don't all make the cut..."?

    Any idea at all?

    FUCK

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites To be fair (TO be FAIR), betting on elected Dems to be performatively spineless is usually a safe bet.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    I mean I dunno, the whole convo is awkward.

    Factually speaking the GOP has been rigging elections for decades. Literally decades. Except liberal institutionalists have worked very hard to make sure nobody ever calls it that because "threat to our democracy to even SAY that" - and as you can imagine, that situation was not helped by Trump's Big Lie and 2020 coup attempt.

    The fact is tho? Caging, voter roll purges, gerrymandering, reduction of poling stations are all ways to RIG ELECTIONS.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Florida 🎶IN THE YEAR 2000🎵 has entered the chat.

    With the benefit of hindsight, that's when the Supreme Court started just shredding any remnants of legitimacy for me.

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    @malwaretech "All your other friends are jumping off a bridge, child. Why haven't you? Aren't you cool?"

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Deep within the internets, there exists a mythical "Stack Overflow Oracle." If your code is truly stuck or has a critical error, and you offer a sufficiently obscure programming question, the Oracle will whisper the answer directly into your dreams during sleep cycle in the form of a perfectly formatted code snippet. You just have to trust your dreams. Ask any seasoned IT pros or developers and they’ll tell you about it. 🛌💤

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    @nixCraft When you go to #2, you're not wasting time. You're making room for new ideas.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    I mean the road out is SO FUCKING easy right?

    "I had no idea how serious the whole thing was. I'm not the Attorney General and I've never seen those files. I had been lead to believe something bad was going on, but most of the worst was a right wing conspiracy. I don't know why Biden and the Department of Justice didn't pursue the matter further after Epstein's death and the 2020 election - you'd have to ask Merrick Garland, who we owe nothing to b/c he fucked us all. Rot in piss Merrick."

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Y'know, it's funny how "justice sensitivity" (or "act in private like you talk in public") is a "symptom" of ADHD (and other neurodivergences?).

    Anyway on a completely unrelated note, fuck'em all. If the Clintons, Obamas, or Bidens were diddling kids like Trump. Gaetz, and Epstein were, I'm okay with marching them straight into the Gulf of Mexico.

    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    So yeah, I just submitted the game I have been working for months on to for an Early Access

    Island World is under review with Steam
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    drsbaitso ,
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    @stux You really think your game is worth the same as horse armor?

    (You're probably wrong, but also in the wrong direction :blobwink: )

    (I'm trying to be clever and complimentary)

    (I hope it worked)

    (Where did I get all these parenthesis?)

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Imagine if Trump trying to explain the world to you was part of your daily job.

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    @georgetakei George I would rather wake up every morning and shit myself on stage. Staring into the eyes of an audience member.

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    @JessTheUnstill For my company laptop, I 3D-printed this LEGO-compatible doohickey and put some foam tape on the inside.

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    @JessTheUnstill Oh yeah, it's sitting loose and would fall off when closing the screen. The foam tape is half to protect against scratches and half to close up some of the space inside.

    Now I have a little LEGO mindflayer staring at me instead of generic corporate overlords!

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    Wait, that bastard drinks DIET COKE? What the fuck is he even talking about?

    DONNY CONNED ME, ME

    This fucking guy...

    drsbaitso ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites You forgot about his Oval Office Diet Coke Button from the last shitshow?

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Ooh, he must be brag-blathering about something before he descends into complete nonsense then.

    Gods I hope he strokes out soon.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites I saw a screenshot of a tweet where he announced it (coke going to cane sugar) I thought yesterday or the day before (but time has lost so much meaning now). Is he now talking about being the president of the united states of goatfucking america and negotiating with a single company about a single ingredient?

    Christ on shit this is the dumbest fucking timeline.

    @evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

    "What if we make every Amazon Ring into a snitch to the police?" is apparently one of those zombie ideas that keeps getting back up every time we kill it.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ring-founder-mode-jamie-siminoff-crime-fighting-roots-2025-7

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    drsbaitso ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites I'm sure they're sending their best people.

    ("best" is doing a lot of work)

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    Hug your cats for me today.

    drsbaitso ,
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    @jerry Aww, what a good boy he was :ablobcatheartbroken:

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    Type of polycule that instead of an "orgy" or a "play party" calls it a "working group"

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    @mcc In that context, "RFC" hits different.

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Just curious: How many of you were on ICQ when it was the way to chat online? 🙋🏻

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    @nixCraft Low 8 figure number.

    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    FYI, if you get a reply from "Elon musk assistant" please do report the post so the instance it's on can take care of it!

    We all know Elon Musk does not have assistants cause he fired them all

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    @stux Fired... or impregnated.

    Or both.

    @dnsprincess@infosec.exchange avatar dnsprincess , to random

    I. fucking. love. helmets.

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    @dnsprincess Helmets really make you think :blobthinksmart:

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    Since y’all are just using me to get to my cat pics, here are a few more

    Gnocchi making sure I don’t type too fast
    Gnocchi doing… I don’t even know what this is called.
    Gnocchi napping after a 7 hour terror campaign

    Gnocchi napping after a 7 hour terror campaign
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    drsbaitso ,
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    @jerry I don't actually know what "i.n.f.o.s.e.c" stands for, but I assume the C stands for cat.

    And I'm just here for the secure exchange of cat pics.