PhobosAnomaly

I encountered Quishing the other day - the inadvertent scanning of QR codes that take a browser to a malformed URL or site with malware embedded.

Back in my day, it was just called “being a bit dense”, especially as most cameras/QR readers will offer you a prompt to go to a website first.

That last line made me change to Ray Parker Jr style funk.

How is someone getting control of their data by paying a ransom?

The opposing actor still has your data, so it doesn’t really matter how much you pay, you’ll never be able to mitigate that security issue, surely?

All I needed was a reason

I can only provide anecdotal experience, but my old girl found her dream house. Old mining cottage type terraced house, immaculate renovation inside, great hillside views, nice enough place overall…

…she instructed her surveyor to have a look and he told her to run like fuck, the shared wall was pretty much the only thing keeping the house upright - his words were clearly a reduction of some larger issues, but that saved a repair and insurance nightmare.

They’re pricey, yes - but they can save you an exponentially larger amount of money.

Just to be a proper poser…

…obviously that was a lie, I could never afford persistent storage. Floppy swaps were king.

His voice isn’t much different!

I watch his videos because it’s nice to have an insider view of what was the formative years of Microsoft’s assimilation creation of a common office workspace. The anecdotes are deliciously 90’s, the openness is refreshing, and the implementation detail is quite interesting.

My other half likes the videos because he has that quite monotone voice, with quite an even canter and the odd lingering pause that can send her to sleep.

Win win.

That’s really cool, thank you for the explanation and example!

Awesome, thank you for the insight!

Alright, I’m going to be a real pain in the arse here and throw some edge cases at that idea - not because I’m trying to be a cockwaffle (I can manage that all by myself), but trying to straighten out my understanding of these things…

In short, what criteria does the data have to meet to make it immutable, and can that be changed in future?

Birth certificates are brilliant for establishing time dates and places, but what if someone changes their name or gender partway through life? Is there a function to amend the original blockchain entry, or is a new one created that supersedes an old entry in the ledger?

I’m a lad from Bradford, in the UK.

my condolences, friend

Absolute banger. Kickstand is the standout song for me - it’s what Soundgarden do best compressed into two minutes or so.

I got into grunge based on the 32-bit edition of Road Rash’s soundtrack. Therapy?, Paw, Soundgarden… all absolutely bitchin’ 90’s rock bands.

A shitpost duel awaits.

The winner gets seven statues on all continents, each facing a finely-calibrated direction - the intersection of their gazes meet at a point where the secret to humanity is buried.

The loser gets a year using the upside-downternet, six months on ISDN, or a week on MySpace as the only communication method with the outside world.

Ah sorry, I wasn’t clear - I meant the way the issues were sensibly and rationally outlined!

yeah yeah yeah but how can we get the rage about sensible and rational issues like that???

I was brought up on C, did a module of Java at uni, and am doing an algorithms course which is python heavy.

My other half - who’s quite handy with Python - looks in sheer horror at my code which is littered with semicolons.

I was stumped for half an hour figuring out why the Python interpreter was bouncing an error before it had even reached the main program logic… turns out a { before the block of code royally ruins the interpreter’s day.

Still, I live and learn.

Every time

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Right click?? Why did we ever need a second or third or seventeenth button anyway?

They have played us for absolute fools

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