𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼

neurodivergent queer luddite technologist

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • You’re not the only person, but it’s definitely not the way to keep your shit safe online.

    Best practice is to use a different sufficiently strong (e.g. long and random) password for every account. That way, when an account’s password is leaked, it doesn’t immediately compromise every other account for which you’ve reused that password.

    I generally advise people to use a password manager (I like Bitwarden) to store their myriad passwords, so they only have to remember a single master password.

    ofc these bots aren’t necessarily sneaking into their operators’ password managers and stealing their passwords; the operators willingly and knowingly given the bots access to these things, so they can offload the drudgery of e.g. looking at a calendar to them











  • A “full-stack developer” is someone who can do front-end / UI work (HTML, CSS and Javascript or whatever the frameworks and tools de jour are nowadays if we’re talking webdev), back-end work (APIs and “business logic” and all the stuff users don’t see), and often storage and infrastructure work (manage databases, write and optimize SQL queries, put things in buckets, get your code running on AWS / k8s / a pack of gophers / whatever)

    that is

    someone who wears too many hats and isn’t paid nearly enough by a company that doesn’t want to hire 4 engineers








  • cast Gate on the bottom of the ocean

    20ft wide portal to whatever other plane you want to dump the ocean in

    at the bottom of the mariana trench you’d get some 200,000,000 gallons per minute through that sucker

    it’ll still take more than 3 million years (per very naive, optimistic napkin math) to drain all the oceans but you can probably find other people to join your mad ocean destruction cult over that time and get things going in parallel

    the real question is: where are you putting all this water