fallowkevin

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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>I am transgender, and Google makes it quite difficult to transition one's everything to an account with your new chosen name. As part of that, I've noticed Sorry, I saw that and misread. My bad! I wish HN had a delete posts fe
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Who among us hasn't wondered if the BSSID attached to a phone calling itself "FBI AGENT" actually was, so they plugged it into Wigle to see if it ever also appeared at the FBI... building? (These signals have been useful for
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Peak Ads (2013) [pdf](web.archive.org)
1 points by fallowkevin 4y ago|0 comments
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Peak advertising has come home to roost as folks are shedding reoccuring subscriptions to things like the N in FAANG. Companies that have intrinsic value are worth applying to, as was always the case. A lot has changed in a short time, and
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
tumblr
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Keep two diaries. One on paper, one on the computer. People will invade one or the other, but rarely both.
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Twitter was good for this before Elon fucked it up. I had lists of scientists, who'd share their work and that of others.
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Google could go for true diversity? (Including economic diversity) It's wonderful they're hiring trans folks like yourself, but speaking as someone who fought hard outside the org for equality, it seems like it's a rainbow of
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Do they have a tiny bit, kind of like how you'd get carded for ODoul's at a self checkout in... my state... despite not having barely any uh "active ingredient"?
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
it's not creepy to talk to someone about mutual interests, it's when you try to get them back to your bunk that things go off the rails
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>>I don't want to kiss ass to war criminals. >Context? Iraq was a war crime and CMU doesn't have any distinction between the FFRDC and the uni. And the security staff at Defcon, a lot are ex CIA or special forces. >I&#
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Maybe I'm conflating being supportive of Trump / Trump hats at cons with literal swastikas. (The few who donned them at Defcon were not given a warm welcome, to put it mildly.) I was very jet lagged and had self medicated a lot du
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
No.
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
The line between gray and black is so fuzzy it's best to keep such things offline, thanks for the lead on purely technical discussions :3
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>The high cocoa bars from Lindt or other brands are definitely a different vibe. I personally think they're pretty well differentiated here though, with a gigantic 70% or 95% on the front. But if you're unfamiliar with that typ
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Well to be fair how often is chocolate actually chocolate flavor? One of the cafés I jokingly call it the "luxury space communist café" (since it recently unionized and is next to an electronics store and a buncha designer shops,
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Wait, under the logic of the article couldn't you sue because they're not macaroni and cheese flavored? Or like... at least not savory? Those Jelly Belly beans that they rebranded as Bertie Bott's have a "popcorn" f
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>Defcon is basically run by a gang No, Derby was run by a gang. (The 303 could probably be RICO'd) I cannot confirm or deny that Defcon is where the event occured, especially since it was technically just an event at a casino, as
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>The USB attack used to be used in targeted attacks. You are on hacker news. The NSA (and others) target sysadmins. https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-targets-sysadmin-personal-...
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>Is it many US states where such places can't sell liquor? (I know there's some areas with quite strict rules, but was surprised that wasn't explicitly referenced in the article) [extremely Ron Swanson voice] Not everyplac
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
He was banned ten years after I interacted with him. I actually was asked to leave a vendor party I was trying to network at for "starting drama" when I told others not to be alone with him. (Fuck you, Duo.)
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
To be clear just on linux? How old is "pretty old"? Are you connecting to 2.4ghz or 5ghz? A USB is probably better, but maybe try something from a physical store so you can return it if no luck. Try getting something with an ant
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There's no whiskey in mini bottles of Fireball, so customers are suing for fraud(text.npr.org)
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
The one time I met him he told me to go fuck myself. (I was taping his talk, pro bono for the con, and asked him to speak into the mic for a sound check since we'd had issues with the previous speaker.)
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
I feel like people dichotomize too much... I would never don a black hat, but the world is much grayer than some make it out to be. I simply wish to explore friend :-)
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>Almost lost it at airport security once so I keep it at home now. You can bring tools under a certain size through the TSA. "What's this?" "My lock pick set" "Why do you have lockpicks in your bag?" &q
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
Is IRC still a thing and if so what's a good one to join? (I always avoided it for... uh... "opsec" but realizing I might be missing out on some things...)
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by fallowkevin 4y ago
>>FREE KEVIN > PUT KEVIN BACK Registered a throwaway over Tor just for this thread. Kevin shouldn't be in prison, because prisons should be abolished, but be careful where you put... that . There's a notorious story abo