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abadidea

explaining why we rated the finding as high-security-risk to the customer

abadidea

maybe I should do security education by saying "imagine the user is Hitler. Literally. Visualize Adolf Hitler sitting in an office chair and he's filling out a form on your website. Are you sure you're validating inputs thoroughly enough?"

abadidea

Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels

A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.

And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.

Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels

A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain...

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Smol Catto

@0xabad1dea if it's the one I think, thanks so much. It makes it so much more watchable without those people

Wanja

@0xabad1dea Yes, I've noticed this in a bunch of twitch streams - if you put in the work to cultivate a healthy and safe environment you can have it, even if you're at thousands of regular viewers. Toxicity is not simply a function of community size.

Regis - HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot

@0xabad1dea Ooof. I mean, there is an advantage to people who wave a big red flag conspicuously enough to make it obvious who they are.
Also: Not my community but as a general internet person thank you for that service.

abadidea

tired: it's your own fault if the TLD your organization depends on evaporates for unrelated political reasons entirely out of your control

wired: shut down every .com whose index.html doesn't execute cleanly in x86 real mode

✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@0xabad1dea remember the C compiler distributed as an ASCII text file, and which produced binaries that are also ASCII text files? tom7.org/abc/paper.pdf

abadidea

Odin carried around the same stick for 15 minutes on a walk until he saw a bigger one lying on the sidewalk and swapped it with the immediacy of an RPG player

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

abadidea

I see the infosec industry has finally achieved security once and for all by shutting down every workstation connected to the internet

abadidea

made for a discussion on discord about optimizing code

Matteꙮ Italia

@0xabad1dea «This is similar to what happens when enabling --ffast-math, which stands for Final Fantasy AST Math, meaning that the abstract syntax tree of your program will be manipulated using fantasies about Math that do not apply to IEEE-754, and your Final result can be arbitrarily different.» will never not make me laugh

tom7.org/grad/murphy2023grad.p

abadidea

I told my husband that posting this could literally take down the instance and he is insisting I post it

#dogsofmastodon #dogs

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pavo

@0xabad1dea from here on out i would like to propose birdcite

CaptainMalu

@0xabad1dea isn't leap years one of the first programming examples every programmer has to learn?

abadidea

Congratulations! You have found the secret day. Today and today only, you can: double jump, air dash, walk through walls as long as they’re only one tile wide, shoot lasers from your sword when at full health, and glide backwards up staircases, even infinite ones.

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Aaron

@0xabad1dea If you wear a powered hazmat suit today, you can climb ladders backwards at superhuman speed while accurately firing an assault rifle.

John Ripley

@0xabad1dea Walking diagonally goes 40% faster than walking straight ahead.

Luke Kanies

@0xabad1dea @enobacon oh thank god I read this at 12:30 am and not 11:30pm. (Proceeds to go to sleep.)

abadidea

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

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Spring Breakdown :jo:

@0xabad1dea I feel like programmers need that thing like engineers having a ring made out of a bridge fragment or some shit to remind them of what might happen if they fuck up.

[BUG] Lunya :3

@0xabad1dea They were actually playing 4D chess right in front of your eyes. If a plane doesn't have its door plug, can you really consider it a whole plane? No. If you had approved that pull request then B***ng would still be thriving.

Joshua Barretto

@0xabad1dea "Hello, sir, I'd like NaN planes please"

Statements dreamed up by the insane

abadidea

are you planning on visiting the United States? Important tip: the price of groceries is not fixed. It’s calculated per store based on the average household income of the local area. Gas prices are similar, they can vary vastly. You can save a lot of money on a car trip by planning your foraging accordingly

[I have explained this to a few different Dutch people and they were all surprised it would vary that much]

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abadidea

and why yes this does mean that when an American moves so they can get a 20% better paying job, the milk and bread just magically costs 20% more

Jason Petersen (he)

@0xabad1dea the United States is a better analog to the entirety of Europe (and then some) than imagining it as a single country. With this in mind I’d imagine they wouldn’t be surprised if food prices between Paris and Warsaw differ a lot, no?

Peter

@0xabad1dea ...and from this I've inferred that elsewhere prices are essentially the same country-wide which boggles my tiny mind.

abadidea

when the front matter of a book entirely in the default font says "Typeset in LaTeX"

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ospalh

@0xabad1dea
But the typeface is for computers, and so modern!
#ComputerModern

abadidea

for the record I do in fact like latex’s default font, it’s just extremely obvious

soulfire

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I wanted to write more in LaTeX. But I just don't have the time to learn :(

abadidea

“we can’t find any good candidates for this role” you’re auto-rejecting people with 20 years experience because they don’t have a degree and then AI-sorting the rest by how Jared their name is

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Pete Wright
@0xabad1dea
I love how in the odd chance you do make it through to an interview there will be a "skills test" of some sort - to just reinforce the fact that the pre-screening poo we use is next to useless at evaluating a persons individual skillset. (and no, i'm saying interview tests are a good measure of this either).
Debbi/Swiftisms13

@0xabad1dea As someone who is looking to change jobs, his is terrifying. Thanks for sharing.

arcade

@0xabad1dea oh my god now I want to make a company staffed entirely by jareds

abadidea

unity’s own explanation for deleting the ToS off their own website is… it wasn’t generating enough engagement

twitter.com/unity/status/17053

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crumbcake

@0xabad1dea An elementary school student could have come up with a better lie than that.

MagiWasTaken

@0xabad1dea Unity's CEOs and other bigwigs probably also only sold their stocks a week before the announcement because people didn't check them out enough. lol

abadidea

Streamer uses his "call a friend" trivia lifeline to call his brother, who is the developer of the Stanley Parable, to argue with ChatGPT live on stream about whether there are any audio easter eggs in the Stanley Parable twitch.tv/videos/1894458454?t=

abadidea

milestone unlocked: I said a real sentence in Chinese to a real Chinese person and it wasn’t so poorly pronounced they mistook it for a declaration of war

abadidea

oh my gods, it gets even better: the scanner was so offended the author didn't include Cantonese pronunciations for characters they MANUALLY PATCHED THEM ALL IN

the pirate version of this book has DLC !!!

fuomag9

@0xabad1dea LMAO, the pirated book is literally BETTER than the original one 😂

abadidea

this is how I feel when a program’s output is written like “I could not find the file” instead of “file not found”

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Lunar 🛸 ♾

@0xabad1dea Or, even better, "we couldn't find the file"

niconiconi

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange This is how the Gentoo Prefix bootstrapper looks like in "auto" mode... ​:woozy_baa:​

abadidea

You think windmills are the Dutchest architecture but have you considered the six inch wide accessibility ramp

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ysbreker

@0xabad1dea Thats for bikes ;)

(But I suspect you already know this)

Kevin Boyd

@0xabad1dea I bet this is for reduced-mobility dachshunds with rear wheels. It's the only thing that makes sense.

🌭🐶🦽

abadidea

If even github accidentally pushes their private key to a public github repo, you need to treat such an event as statistically inevitable as bad weather and have a plan github.blog/2023-03-23-we-upda

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