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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • Can’t speak for OP, but I was hoping there was a straightforward front end out there to play with variations on a theme - my own use case would be plotting the next 5-25 years. Something like “How many miles do I strictly need to move to have a reasonable chance of temps <= 80 F on all but the most brutal handful of August days?”

    Basically, I figure that at this point in life I’ve got 1-2 more short/medium-term moves in me at most, and zero desire to ever do it again after I retire (assuming that I can/do). For the lay crowd, there’s not really a way to flip through projections.

    Not averse to trying to come up with a way to do it in QGIS, just don’t want to reinvent the wheel if there’s a straightforward site out there already doing it.





  • I (am blessedly fortunate to be able to) run a single user instance for myself. By definition, I don’t see this shit.

    But I rage for the folks who do.

    It’s real simple: However one perceives oneself is valid, full stop. Who the hell am I to suggest otherwise? I’m not in anyone else’s head.

    These motherfuckers, and threads, have more than one suicide upon their heads I’m quite sure.

    As for me, it’s no trouble at all to call someone by their preferred (anything) - Countless kids decided in their late teens to use their middle name, or something totally unrelated. You wanna be “Skip,” I’m good with that. Dunno why, wouldn’t be my choice, but… All that’s relevant is that you identify as Skip or Buddy or Lisa or Suzie.


  • I call BS - with notable exceptions for a particular omnipresent retail chain whose ToS was recently updated so they could do substantial tracking of your traffic.

    A company I work with is wholesale migrating both internal and external accounts to a third-party auth provider in whom I have very little faith. That is a concerning security risk.

    Using open wifi hotspots is hardly a best practice in any world, of course, but I’m hard-pressed to believe that it takes precedence over, say, ticking the boxes on NIST CSF or PCI compliance. Or just plain old “shoulder surfing” which has always been a risk in public, but becomes much more concerning given we all have a computer screen in our hand constantly and it’s often full of data useful to someone with ill intent.

    They might not get your pw or 2FA codes, but knowing your username is plenty for them to convincingly call you later, pretending to be from the bank. “Now that you’ve changed your pw, the system will send one extra 2FA code to your device as a test. Please read me the code when the text message comes in.”



  • It is when you then use the events you witnessed to testify and roll up the people who were directly and proximately responsible for that nightmare.

    I do not think that her participation was so critical to the events as to mean “but for” her actions the plot wouldn’t have existed. I do think that “but for” TFG and Guiliani’s participation, those events never would have happened.

    Seems fair to me that she gets a lighter sentence, and the plotters responsible for the entirety of the conspiracy get justice.

    Also, she’ll certainly never practice law again when all of this is over. Minor credit blemishes are enough to fail C&F in some places, can’t see a state bar overlooking this.