It's totally reasonable to be more cautious these days, but don't let that drive you to have opsec panic attacks that aren't founded in common sense. For example... it makes no sense to be worried someone might figure out you're queer or a leftist if you're too open about your politics while posting... on fediverse, the queer leftist social media platform. They already know, chief.
it makes me sad when I see people twist themselves in “but opsec!” anxiety knots over things like “I can’t post that I had a nice birthday party this weekend, then strangers on the internet will know that I was born in approximately mid-June!”
my sibling, there’s only 365.25 birthdays and we all have one, yours is in hundreds of databases that have leaked dozens of times, and whether strangers on the internet know you had a nice birthday party with your friends or not has absolutely no bearing on any risk of any kind, you’re just performing trauma your mom gave you in 1996 when she heard there were kidnappers on the internet
unless you really ARE the one leading the resistance or whatever, in which case @‘ing me to tell me how wrong I am and how much opsec you need is not very good opsec
It's totally reasonable to be more cautious these days, but don't let that drive you to have opsec panic attacks that aren't founded in common sense. For example... it makes no sense to be worried someone might figure out you're queer or a leftist if you're too open about your politics while posting... on fediverse, the queer leftist social media platform. They already know, chief.
live from on top of my bed: Odin would really, really, really like a carrot please #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
rare game lore: Sonic 3D Blast for Genesis only passed console verification by dressing up the crash handler – which you absolutely will hit – as a level select screen, pretending the player accidentally entered a cheat code. #gamedev #retrogaming
Odin is constantly begging me for my apples. We’ve surprised him with a whole dinner bowl of them #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
good morning to dog #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
how it started / how it’s going
I am so proud of my noble son Odin
#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
bow before the mighty Fluffmaster
#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
I've been eating these little Dutch cakes with raspberry filling and I only just managed to process "mergpijp" as an actual word: ... marrow pipe. they call their long white cakes filled with raspberry "marrow pipes"
me: computer, please read this text file and count how many times each letter appears as the first letter in a word
computer: no problem. like five lines of python and a few seconds to execute on huge documents.
me: computer, please do the same thing but split the words into syllables and count the letters at the beginning of those instead
computer: I'll need several hundred megabytes of language-specific database files and machine learning models, and the process will get OOM'd by the kernel before it outputs anything
#linguistics
I got the script running without OOM'ing, you don't need to save me, but wow it outputs slow enough to just, like, read it in realtime
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