Septimaeus

@Septimaeus@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah the heady experience of a virgin clown-sighting. We all remember. Bring on the rainbows, Little Bobby Tables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith I⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait but… is that actually a thing in Kenya? I only have heard first hand accounts of school systems in a handful of countries in Africa (not Kenya, mostly west side) but consistently I’ve been shocked by either the severity of punishment for basically any form of failure or dishonor or for the prevalence of fear as the administrative motivator-of-choice. (One was just a few months ago I think in c/offmychest where a high schooler was describing their beatings for tardiness, bad grades, and other minor infractions. I think I commented on it.) Maybe she’s for real?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess was backseat of car. Parent has lab supplies back there, including a few 10-pack boxes of these, which also work as an improvised distraction/toy just like rare earth magnets or monkeys in a barrel. Unfortunately they weren’t checking rear view mirror because work it’s stressful, so kid put quite a few down without their knowledge. They didn’t even notice until day 2 migration to large intestine and rectum. This parent is overworked and under-appreciated and I’m so glad I’m not responsible for children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wherever their parent left them unattended, presumably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Children eat weird stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the bread and the milk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Bull gives you diiiiiiiiiiiiicccckk…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tuck and strap queen this bout bout to get real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

  I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

  Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

  Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

  Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

  The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

  Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mount one of these in your rear window? Neon style LED wall art script saying “chill”

  Real answer: double tap a light (beams, brakes, or hazards) because most things you would say to them are two beat’s long:

  • “Thank you”
  • ”Sorry”
  • “My bad”
  • ”Go on”
  • ”Nice drift”
  • ”You drunk?”
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every example of human interest profile targeting functionality that humanity has ever invented, even if it begins as a way of legitimately improving the user’s experience, eventually is gutted and retooled to cyberstalk and pimp them out to voyeuristic clients.

  The clients? Mostly rich pay-per-view incel corporations that could never hope to reach their desired audience organically, much less hold their interest, so they are absolutely willing to pay for non-consentual attention control.

  Once we reach this phase, your pimp has less and less interest in delivering on promises they made to you a long time ago about relevant content. They know you’ll keep giving them juicy data to help pair you with clients that they can prove have the best chance at manipulating you and getting what they want from you.

  So yes, you’ll probably find that the convenience you could once purchase by giving them more of your data will slow. Ultimately, all it will purchase is more intrusive advertisers stalking you everywhere you go.

  Your idea of sticking to DDG sounds like a better option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, a fiscal conservative. I remember them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. I was clowning on the dude mad about the arrows by offering one of numerous other meanings outside Boolean Algebra that sounded even more absurd in that context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French Anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I know the video, it is mildly disturbing mostly due to the sudden death. The stallion stiffens and collapses after the mare brains him and the person filming happened to capture a lot of detail of the dying CNS including the stallion’s face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French Anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What, your lab doesn’t make jerky out of organs before weighing them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys had a peak?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you mean grades, I’d encourage you to disentangle your own retrospective self-evaluation. The point is learning, which is ultimately a personal journey. Grades are just an institutional proxy for learning outcomes, and when some students can afford private tutors when others have to work third shift to remain enrolled, the currency isn’t fungible. That is, grades are buttons and bottle caps. Learning, curiosity, discovery, and knowledge, for its own sake, is the only true currency in education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys had a peak?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never let school get in the way of your education.

  Caveat: I’ve said this brashly to several deans, when it seemed appropriately inappropriate, and while a few are now good friends, the others acted troubled and now seem to avoid me. That is, YMMV. Some lifer academics may not understand when you disregard the only rubrics they know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This joke only works in Spanish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Implications or assignment? They didn’t specify notation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨forbidden dots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, ti proseccos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UV cure gel polish FTW!

  If it’s been a while, check out the cool new magnetic (ferrous) polish.

  Also, cheap fun hack: save money by just mixing mica powders into base polish colors. Endless varieties of iridescent colors, dimensional effects, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol yeah hmm, not countersunk, //shrug maybe strong arm, new to firs, happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ![Cropped image of a textbook page with an anecdote which reads “One day Shizuo Kakutani (1911- ) was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote down a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvi-ous. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn’t obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain? After several moments’ thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized, and said that he would report back at their next class meeting.

  After class, Kakutani went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and suc-cinctly. For the proof, the author had written, ‘Exercise for the reader.’ The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani.”](infosec.pub/…/002ff7df-2a30-4b8c-9a2d-7fd2206a442…)

  Classic anecdote of the missing proof for Shizuo Kakutani’s lemma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Naughty corporations” made me chuckle, but “I don’t know what the solution is” definitely rang true.

  Most boomers actually don’t know where to begin, even though many of the solutions would be a 6-year-old’s first guess, and are actually proven to work, simply because they grew up being told that every single one of those obvious, proven solutions were “socialist” and that socialism was anti-American.

  That indoctrination was so thorough that these solutions can be put right in front of them, gift-wrapped, with a neon arrow pointing at an easy button labeled “fix that shit,” and they’ll still shrug and say “we’re all out of ideas, maybe ask a billionaire what to do, surely they know how to fix the system.”

  And the sad part is that they do and, in fact, already did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, and winning’s great if it’s theirs. Sorry I’m bad at explaining. It was my first attempt.

  I meant that, given my disposition (competitive bitch, often lucky, won more than my share) I would’ve fought the kid’s battles too often, compounded my winnings into theirs, and failed to let them learn to fight for themselves, for others. I’d have created the privileged rivals of my youth instead of helping other’s children succeed. I think.

  They’d be no more than primary school age today, so maybe I’d have gotten my shit together in time to fix my mistakes. So, “probably” for the best lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha exactly! That would’ve been my mistake. Helping them trounce other kids would’ve felt natural, much easier than helping them become a better person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you’re right. I’m too used to worst-possible-case being min req but you’re right.