greggarious

Ok, we're doing the "we don't know who you are thing".

I'll be more careful to speak simply next time we have that rare moment we're all being professional.

>I am sorry, nothing against the OP, but I did not understand this post at all.

>I am not a native speaker of English, so it may be that.

Oh sure, to summarize: many of the roles I'd take would require a security clearance, but private companies that could make an exception to hire me refuse for irrational reasons, and it's making me sad because I never thought someone would emigrate FROM Pittsburgh.

I got the sense people used many tactics you'd often use with someone who is not a native US citizen, perhaps accidentally, not understanding that on a long enough timeline, I may choose another country to call home if folks will conflate being told to pay me with some kind of violent extortion.

Did the above help?

I'm happy to do a call, but if we speak verbally and the outcome isn't a promising lead, then I have to treat the contents of the call as business intelligence.

Does that help you understand?

I didn't really grok cryptography until I used this:

https://inventwithpython.com/cracking/chapter5.html

Part of it was bad teaching -- same lessons over and over til you're exhausted doing ROT13, it's better to do one exercise on paper and have it be the Vigenère cipher or by the time you're covering something beyond the Ovaltine cipher the campers will be too tired to learn.

People focus too much on busywork in these classes, when modern analysis will be done using a computer. Maybe in a SCIF, but... there will be a computer involved.

A few scripts to easily brute force weird shit you find on other people's machines can be useful, or so I've heard -- also who calls it a "kaiser cipher"? Tell me that and I can tell you the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything.

I know a lot of famous people. (STEM people, not the arts -- I'm not literally sitting in a cafe with Taylor Swift despite what Twitter may have told you)

I also knew a lot of people who never became famous who drove me to become an underground hacker.

Be EXTREMELY wary of any success story that doesn't give specific strategies beyond "work hard" lest you realize that selective silence boosted someone who's... not a monster... but shows up at the finish line to espouse ideas they shot down for decades.

Commercial use.

Let someone use it at home, then be forced to pay a license at "work".

(I regret being such a socialist in my 20s)

Also there's the comedy option of selling zero days you yourself inserted.

(I tend to just use them, since CERT was rude.)

Should we urge someone that young to do such extreme activity? I'm the happiest and healthiest of my life when I'm able to manage my depression with weed and just walk for exercise. I worry focusing on metrics like how many pounds can induce some really bad things into people's heads.

(Also you neglected the exact age.)

I thought he was implying he invested in Tesla itself?

Also, just because you have a huge bankroll doesn't make money worth less.

15k is 15k, regardless of how much you have in the bank.

It's valid either way to be angry about being mislead for a figure that would be a felony if merely yanked out of one's wallet.

A bit early to start the summer of George OP, it's not even Valentine's Day ;-)

(Also, anyone got a good way to get around the paywall so I can read this in it's entitety? Wayback machine doesn't have it archived, womp womp.)

I'm reading a diary I started during the last crash in 2009 right now.

Pittsburgh never recovered -- all the people I see talking about how great it is here are rich folks from elsewhere who were not born here, and simply push out those of us who have been perpetually trying to do another degree or training to obtain security that never comes.

I suspect within five years they'll be crushing up glass bottles and lining the walls to their McMansions with the sharp particles to keep out burglars like my one neighbor described they used to have to in South Africa if this income inequality persists.

I deleted my Facebook and Instagram.

At least now, when I binge, I tend to learn something :-)

>I don't think you know the difference between harassment and discrimination.

Semantic difference. It's discrimination to only help the hotties.

>If you're making the claim that MEN ignoring WOMEN is a form of harassment/discrimination, but WOMEN ignoring MEN isn't, then you're experiencing some severe form of cognitive dissonance.

I've had folks politely turn down coffee, but I literally never had a female classmate refuse to help me with something related to an engineering course.

Individual Googlers might be, "Google", the company, is relentlessly ratfucking the organization as it perpetually threatens to yank the search deal.

Just one dog? How bitey are we talking?

Remember the good old days, when Google didn't have a browser and Googlers donated generously to public benefit nonprofits like Mozilla?

The real issue is allowing folks with a fat salary to advocate in bad faith against a healthy internet. (Along with shit like moving the Chrome team into the same building as Mozilla HQ and poaching employees for years.)

There's a lot of woo woo in forensic science -- folks were lucky Ted Bundy left behind so much evidence, since things like bite mark evidence paired with an illegal search leading to his initial arrest made him nearly walk free.

(I took a forensics course once, it's astounding how mixed in with very good and cool stuff like DNA testing there's so absolutely wild nonsense)

>be honest with yourself, have you ever spoke up on behalf on incels, claiming that they are actually a group of harassed males because females are ignoring them?

"Involuntary celibate" is a rapey, entitled, oxymoron of a phrase. Everyone wants physical affection.

I remember being distressed after the Elliot Rodger shooting, and discussing in therapy how I was... not like that... and still very lonely. I developed an eating disorder, because I had my PhD adviser and coauthors trapping me in academia by playing fast and loose with reccomendations -- only giving good ones if it'd benefit them getting tenure and keep me working on their grants, and meanwhile I had zero social life despite trying very hard.

(In retrospect, I should have taken a year off of drinking and dating and given it another go when I was healthier rather than fail upwards onto K Street, but that's a story for another day.)

Anyways... I'm talking about refusing to tutor someone unless they're pretty, not refusing to date them.

If you shut down any "fatties" or "uggos" who ask you how to smash the stack, you're engaging in a form of harassment.

I'm sorry that correctly stating a fact (giving different levels of support depending on if you've got romantic prospects) is a form of harassment apparently triggered so many.

Not only have I not spoken up for incels, I've actively advocated they should feel free to exit this planet (sans spree killing) if they feel that upset about their dating prospects.

(I'm not in the best place myself -- I got some bad advice on how long it takes to get an EU passport, so I'm stuck in a country I don't consent to living in with no job prospects because I'm not some alt-right lunatic and tried to stick up for people. But at least if I decide to leave this earth, I'll do it alone. But at least I know I can dial out for a booty call if I get sad, because I'm not some weirdo.)

>You wouldn't consider it weird to join say a hiking club to make friends as the primary goal over just the hiking.

I'm queer. I think the issue in the OP is more like that one episode of Community where someone who's very advanced at pottery takes a pottery course -- nothing wrong with meeting people in a class. Nothing wrong with having people see your kindness as attractive because you do things like organize a study group.

The problem becomes if you only let someone like Jeff Winger learn from you, and turn away the Shirleys. (To keep with the "community" analogy :))

I agree there's nothing wrong with joining something to be social, the issue is hiding your skill level or purposefully competing below it...

It's not free transit unless they include WMATA (the subway).

Very few people commute via bus in DC. I rarely did it because often traffic would make it take a long time even though I lived in the district.

>You cannot ever harass someone through non-interaction

Maybe not harass, but it's a form of discrimination -- only giving professional opportunities to people willing to fuck you is absolutely not kosher.

>Being mildly autistic you can see why I don't date either gender with ridiculous sentiments like these being blown around.

I'm also on the autistic spectrum, and I've never had an issue finding partners, and I doubt that complaints about tutoring are the reason your sex life has taken a pause.

I think one people miss is that lack of interaction can be a form of harassment.

>we routinely have cases where a young man is leading open labs as if they're a teacher themselves (in order to "wow" their female classmates, offer "private free tutoring sessions", etc). Some of the young students in my class take up these offers, and this further demoralizes other female students seeing this happen (i.e. only attractive women being offered tutoring sessions).

Imagine how it must feel to be sincerely interested, possibly struggling because they didn't have a great K-12 experience and thus didn't have things like pre-Calc or AP credits and then... being brushed aside so someone can "tutor" their crush 1:1?

Speaking as someone who's had the unpleasant experience of having someone treat me differently at work based on if I'm "datable", it's incredibly demoralizing, it makes you want to leave an entire field. On my end it made me leave a specific strain of research, but had it happened earlier on I'd have probably switched majors entirely.

It was on the most recent version of iOS at the time of the last major backup prior to the loss (Late June, 2022). So macOS Version 12: "Monterey" and iOS version 13. (So it's a backup of an iPhone, accessed via finder)

I had a look but... I didn't see anything covering this.

Just to be clear: it's a situation where hashcat goes "yup, here's the password" but typing that into finder to restore gives an error.

I'm hoping maybe there are command line tools to recreate the gui functionality that might give additional explanation why it... feels... the key is wrong.

(I hate to sound so odd, but... I feel like I'm a teenager struggling with the CLI for the first time in a very long time. I've never had something this unusual happen, and I'm struggling to understand how a tool like hashcat can say yup that's the password... then have it not be accepted.)

I'd really prefer not to post a screenshot with the key but I guess I could if that's what it takes... this is years of photos, all lost, if this key is not accepted.

To be clear, I have a dicionary file with 4 possible keys to reduce chances I was fat fingering, and it explicitly said one worked

>Session..........: hashcat

>Status...........: Cracked

[snip]

(Maybe there's a more specialized forum? I haven't had luck with Reddit for anything this advanced in the past)

>As to 19A (and theory and practice of democracy) I note that Switzerland didn't have full female federal suffrage until 1990.

!!!!!

I did not know this. To be fair it looks like except for one Canton it came in the 70s? (from Wikipedia):

Women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections after a referendum in February 1971.[1] The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly.[2] However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.[3]

They really take that hyperlocal stuff seriously it seems? I knew naturalization was also a PITA but... sheesh!

I might have a biased views since everyone I met was a PhD student or staying in my hostel, but ll the Swiss folks I've met were extremely egalitarian. (The academics sometimes hated me because I had hacked* my way into Carnegie Mellon despite never going to school there, but at least we were on the same page that everyone can vote, everyone can be an engineer, etc etc.

>I recently learned (from HN?) that Microsoft was already incorporated while Spain was still fascist (by a few months...but still!) and I had an impression, when visiting this century, that discussing Dali was welcome, but discussing the fate of the Republic was a bit "too soon".

Art people are the worst, I just took a tour of a museum where they said all the right things about marrying whom you want but when someone brought up Ukraine, we were admonished to avoid "politics".

(I guess the personal is political only when you're timing your kids, not when folks are having their nuclear power plants shelled. ¡Ay, caramba!

Speaking as a former Moztern, Microsoft is a bad company and should feel bad -- the death of "trustworthy" computing is something no one seems to want to talk about in public for reasons I will never underastand, and their weird obsession with the wall between MSR and the rest of the company was... interesting.

(I still remember making a clippy joke in Redmond and having someone stiffly reply "Sir I worked on that. No sense of humor!)

As for Spain: I've been there, it was too short, and I may have pissed people off in Vigo when we walked by a bank being protested and I separated from a group of professors to try to express my support.

Imagine a herd of stuffy academics loudly talking in English as if no one in Galicia will understand them mocking anything left of neoliberalism, then having a first year grad student break off and excitedly telling a man dressed as a clown "8Hell yeah! Do 'em like Iceland! Put the bracelets on 'em!!8" and having the poor guy thinking he's being shouted at (partly because said academics began to yell at me for "encouraging him".

(The only reason I was even in a PhD was that even in America the job market was still reeling from the 2009 crash, and by 2012 towns like Vigo were still fairly devoid of tourists, though I got the impression this was partly because Porto was some kind of drug free fire zone -- some "anarchists" yanked out a Hunter S Thompson level suitcase on the balcony the night before my talk -- I ended up declining LSD and possibly getting roofied... I always suffered from early waking after a night out, but nearly slept through my lecture. Years later I got clued in the rohypnoly tastes salty and someone in attendance had a beef with me.)

Luckily a thumbs up is pretty universal?

Anyways, I'll quit wall of texting as I take a break from my MLK weekend adventure of breaking into my own iPhone backups and leave it at this:

the line between anarcho-capitalism and fasciscm is fairly thin if you're lacking capital IMHO.

Thanks for your reply! :-)

[*] I exploited a loophole to take a single course, then got myself hired as staff, and openly joked "Why pay all that tuition when one piece of paper and an A gets me the same network", which apparently rubbed some people the wrong way. Tough for them - hail to Pitt! :D

I don't.

That is... I don't trust my machine.

I take reasonable precautions, but at a certain point you have to just live your life and deal with people who violate your boundaries in meatspace.

Depends on how you define “glacial” - America hadn’t been a true democracy long, we only passed the 19th Amendment in 1920, and most ppl wouldn’t define an election where half the population is ineligible as democratic.

I first discovered this piece in 2016, in the throes of a deep depression at seeing how the sausage is made on K Street.

These two paragraphs are what grabbed me most, as someone who began to form memories as the USSR crumbled:

>Mr. A has a life that is established according to a certain form of personal behavior. Although he has no money, his unostentatious distinction and education have always assured him a position. He has never been engaged in sharp competition. He is a free man. I doubt whether ever in his life he has done anything he did not want to do or anything that was against his code. Nazism wouldn’t fit in with his standards and he has never become accustomed to making concessions.

>Mr. B has risen beyond his real abilities by virtue of health, good looks, and being a good mixer. He married for money and he has done lots of other things for money. His code is not his own; it is that of his class—no worse, no better, He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.

The real issue IMO is that history is oddly cyclical - probably due to mass media overfocusing on body counts like those in Hitler’s Germany rather than regimes like the GDR which had fax machines, modems, and a secret police who made the Gestapo look like amateurs.

We forget how close in history totalitarianism is, partly because of measures like “no child left behind” that ensure kids today won’t have the free time to develop true critical thinking skills.

(By accident or design? I couldn’t possibly comment.)

- Greg

They may not have been great at wiping their butts, but oddly they may have been better at birth control than we are

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium