“Night owl/early bird” implies the existence of something structured enough to be in the same grammatical zip code as the word “schedule.”
I don’t do that.
Sometimes I pass out near furniture and hope things work out. Often, even. Okay, okay, not that often, but a reasonable amount of times. I’ve not gone to sleep standing up in, oh, ages now.
Last two employers, had to change our passwords every month. Couldn’t be similar to any of the last 10 used. Had to be complicated. My cheat was to use pet name combinations + certain number combinations, alternating number location between, after, and before, names. My problem? That is something like 25! (Factorial) combinations altogether. Come back from two week vacation. What was the last combination used? Forget about it. Got to IT and get the whole thing reset. Every single time. Drove IT nuts. I was one of the programmer/developers. I should be able to remember. Right? Um. No.
We’ve got to change them every 90 days (60 days for SAP, and iirc 8 characters) and our rules just got updated because of a Ransomware attack. Now must be 15 characters long, at least 1 number, at least 1 capitalized letter, at least 1 special character. Nearly everyone has their logins written down. I have a method the Texas IT guy said to use for 90 changes. Pick an order, Season, Year and “Special”, but I also added an abbreviation and depending on need can capital or not that, and since the amount increase will add specials as needed to my rotating series of passwords. SAP has tripped me up as I’ve forgotten at times which letters I was capitalizing so I reorder my main password (they couldn’t be the same) but keep the same capitals scheme. Had to change SAP Friday morning. and in 60 will need to again, so it will change only the order it is in, as that satisfies the protocols there.
Fed a previous version of my network password into a “Test Your Security Strength” site and they estimated “Centuries” to break my password. Or someone could figure out which bar codes on my desk are the login and password. 3 failed tries and it’s locked
So a password could be HVACWinter<2023 or 2023_HVAC*Spring or falL_2024_#hvac but you get the idea and just swap the season and year with the 15 minimum, I’ll make Fall’s password the standard for specials to add, and just keep swapping the season and year Also the year can be broken by spelling one or two of the numbers for places that balk at the full year. Twenty24 or suchlike but make like “yaDs/Sady is my password yaDs = 20Twentyfour&DEPTfall Sady = Summer&dept2024 S is season A is special D is department abbreviation or full, even, an of course Y is the year.
Problem. The password protocol was parsing passwords. Thus using HAVCwinter<2023 – the following, regardless of order, weren’t allowed in the next 9 password combos: HAVC, winter, <, 2023. Grrrrrrrr. I had 10 pets (at that time), plus the numeric equivalent for each name to substitute, and 10 numeric + special character, combinations to thwart that. My problem is I couldn’t remember which last combo I’d used. I forget how long it all had to be.
Should have thought about the password barcode storage at either company. But could not have kept the barcodes stored at work at the former. Latter yes. But former the company was all about hardware reading barcodes. It is what was developed and made.
My last passwords were: 2016IamDONE!, OutofHereJan3116<, and various themes. Was able to swap back and forth, because sure as anything, I’d have to have IT reset the queue. Might have been doing that deliberately. Not that I am admitting to doing that.
They had a short period of “No Dates so Spring 2017 anywhere tripped the password wombles and it was disallowed. but 2017@Spring might work, or if you changed via ctrl/alt/del you could force both through.
A week or so after they went to the new 15 character we had another issue, but the IT guy wasn’t sure if it was new hack attempt, a hangover from the ransom, or just Micro$oft being stupid..
We had the backups so they did not pay the ransom, and it affected our printers, mostly.
At my last job I used 123456, but I spelled out one of the letter in sequence. So the first password was One23456, the next was 1Two3456, then 12Three456, and so on. It let me change it on the schedule they wanted, but it was always easy for me to remember.
I have a long sentence, complete with punctuation, with a number embedded. Use the first letter of each word. Shift the capital one space each time, and the number goes up by 1.
I’ve done a variation on that for online stuff. (The home IT admin is me; master password for the wallet is medium complex, the online ones are quite a bit worse.) Take a book, go to a random page. Take the first letters of each line, and throw in numbers (page number would work). Special characters get funky. Which book gets the nod may vary.
My employers (through 2001) didn’t force changes, though these were strictly Unix machines run by and for the engineering group within the department. So, the decider was a first level manager, and he (later she) elected not to poke the bear. OTOH, ransomware was not a thing, and the PCs were just starting to come under control of the division IT department.
Yes, I’ve been burned by the security question. “First pet?” Depends on pets. First cat, vs first dog. In both cases, they came in pairs… And on rare occasions, I’ve used a pet name from my childhood. Whee!
Before the advent of let-the-machine-do-it password tools, the only thing these stupid change-so-often password rules did was make people write their passwords on post-it notes stuck to their monitors. The security conscious ones would have that post-it in their top desk drawer.
IIRC I originally used something that had year and quarter as numbers, interspersed with something rude.
At that last cubical-land job we ended up with token gizmos that everyone wore on their lanyards behind their badge, so passwords were your selected string+whatever the token gizmo screen showed RIGHT NOW. I think they still made us change them, maybe quarterly.
At current gig where we’re all remote we were previously doing MFA over SMS, which is not so secure really, but now it’s switched to folks being required to be running an app with secure communications with the host, and there’s a challenge-response round via the app to get in. Since the app is facial recognition we’re almost fully up to 23rd Century security protocols:
passwords were your selected string+whatever the token gizmo screen showed RIGHT NOW.
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Last job we had remote access to some of our clients servers and live data. We had a program with all the protocols. We had some client IT’s that insisted on those dang things. While I touch type, fairly accurately these days. I can’t hold, read, and type, in the nonsense sequence that fast. Drove me nuts. Last few years the only reason we had to get on the client’s server was to pull down snapshot data. I had our IT do that. Why the change? We gained the ability to quickly see what programs were actually updated, and what they hadn’t updated. Plus we gained ability to see what was happening at the user’s desktop. Don’t know what our IT thought about it. OTOH the other change was the instituting of a second support option. For an annual fee, requiring VPN access and proper server privileges, our IT installed updates and pulled snapshot data for problem solving.
The old guy I work with has rude passwords, but also only logs in to SAP 90% of the time, and his network access is limited (they moved so much online everyone now needs at least a limited access to the network just to see payroll or deal with HR) and when he’s over here, often forgets just what his network login is. So he uses the co-worker’s that is written on post-its on her pc.
I can only remember a very small number of passwords now. Had to create a door pin, and discovered it overwrote to mental space of part of another door pin I needed to remember, that I had literally used less than five minutes earlier…
I can relate. Not only my passwords, but I have to help mom too. Sigh. Thus the KeePass2. Which does NOT stay on my tablet when we travel. I pull it off. Store it at home. I also do a clean up on all the browsers. Tablet travels with us, along with external drives, for SLR camera photo backup. And downloading scenic video from dashcam.
My husband had a very good piece of advice for me when picking a device password multiple years back—”can’t you use the car door code?”
It really paid off this year when the fuel pump died on a trip to summer camp four states away and we had to leave the car in SLC to get fixed and then figure out how to pick it UP in SLC on a Sunday. Husband texted me “you remember the door code, right?” Boom. Keys hidden in the car, car locked, contactless pickup.
Mind you, it’s only now, six months later, that we’ve had a mechanic track down what was probably the original issue, the “pulse control valve” that lets vapor out of the engine and wasn’t working right, certainly for half a year, arguably for much longer than that. $50 part, but literally thousands of dollars in downstream issues.
I used to have a VW Beetle that was getting horrible gas mileage. Went through a bunch of things, when suddenly it started to get better. (A Clue! sayeth myself.)
I got the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned aftermarket AC compressor out of the way, and pulled the spark plug on the left front cylinder. The shroud had cracked, and the HV pulses were partially shorting out to the metal ducting. It formed a carbon trail, so a minor problem got worse. When the carbon trail finally broke, the arcing stopped, mostly. New plug wires, reinstall the compressor (a rather longer job than was reasonable), and the poor bug was fixed. At which point I was ready to trade it in.
We have to change passwords every 6 weeks. CMS and MIDAS-symplr are on the same rotation cycle. Can’t reuse the last 25 passwords, have to be 15 characters in length, a whole dictionary of unusable words, even with conversion of letters to numbers. And it’s getting so that even the use of phrases to remember all the letters in sequence are getting SORRY, THAT PASSWORD IS NOT PERMITTED. Which of course totally ignores how human memory operates. So, what are people doing? Writing their passwords down so they can pull them out when they forget them. Duh.
Thing is, I read a paper a short while ago that explained that between AI development, and quantum computer development, even passwords of 256 characters in length will be easy to crack. Which means someone needs to come up with a better means of security than we have now, and before that technology hits the mainstream. (And I doubt they’ll be able to do it.)
I had to come up with a way to save passwords for programs on the Falcon, Intermec, Symbol, barcode reader handheld computers, people wrote using the DOS Universal Program Generator for the handhelds. (Like I was qualified.) Come on already. Universal usage was for Inventory (rolls eyes). Regardless had to. So took password being used, convert to hex save that in the code, or file. Dang embedded OS programmers would read my test cases upside down and translate it properly without working at it (I had to work at it). Don’t remember what scrambling scheme came up with (not very sophisticated, even for 2002). Also pretty sure one feature that was used by absolutely no one.
Rope’s cheap and there are plenty of trees, streetlights, and so on. Save impalement for the rapists. Hand the rest. Save on ammo.
Or you could just deport them to their spiritual home. You know. China, Russia, Venezuela, Africa… Let them get some of what they want here, straight from the tap.
No, there’s no returning. Not until they learn their lesson. Wisdom tends to hurt when it enters the body, as it’s killing something we think is better but ought to know is worse.
Er. Hang, not hand. Pugilism has its place, but it ain’t proper justice, most cases. Judge, jury, rule of law. “Did you willfully violate the Constitution and commit to attempt to enslave other lawful Americans through bureaucratic process, corrupt the machinery of government, defraud the voters of a fair and legal election, deprive the citizenry of good order and decency, attempt to corrupt minors, wage lawfare against your political enemies, illegally hold them as political prisoners, lie under oath, perjure yourselves, and commit de facto treason?”
Should we ever know the true extent of the crimes committed, and were the penalties enforced rigorously and to the extent of law…
Well. A man can only die once. And good riddance to the lot of them. Soonest we get to fixing what’s broke, the better.
I’m insufficiently caffeinated to find the quote, but I believe the meme is quoting something FICUS said in response to a question on low polling. So, the lousy wording is on him.
It’s not really a matter of where the words came from, it’s the construction of the meme. Because the Bidet figure comes in from the side, it becomes natural to turn and read the poll sideways, which makes it so the poll falsely shows high numbers. Thus, “You’re reading the polls wtong.”
Flint Golems are what we keep bronze swords handy :)
The trans movement is doomed. I heard a review of the new 3D cards that just got released used the phrase “a card that self-identifies has a high end card in 2024 better have more than more than 12Gb of vram.”
Virgin Sacrifice at Davos meme is wrong: the parameter is (coitus = 0), not (coitus(Klaus.Schwab) = 0. As if they could find an ACTUAL virgin in that bordello.
I can think of one way to do it, but it wouldn’t be worth it because it would involve way too much work on your part. The way to do it would be for you to post a nearly-empty meme post, then post each meme as a separate comment, one meme per comment. Then any comments on a specific meme would end up threaded under that meme.
Please DON’T do that, as 1) it would mean way too much work for you, and 2) in most cases it would mean scrolling past a lot of comments to see the next meme. But the idea is, in theory, possible.
Btw, if anyone has the cash, the Manhattan Rare Book Company has the two-volume Malory illustrated by Beardsley. It’s a gorgeous book, I have to say, although some of King Arthur’s knights need to sue Beardsley for sexual harassment.
Oh, wait. I looked at it closer. I think it’s actually Erol Otus, doing an imitation of Beardsley. Just like in the AD&D Player Handbook, except a hentai drawing.
Well, now I feel quite sad. I didn’t realize that Beardsley died of tuberculosis at age 25. So yeah, obviously he got child abused pretty badly somewhere.
On that ‘Retard Chamber’ — I’m not sure 250 PSI is a high enough pressure rating. The sheer concentrated stupid in some Leftroids might be enough to blow it right up.
“Trump won by a landslide in Iowa and Miss America doesn”t have a” non-girl aftermarket extra thing-y bit.
But she does have a 2nd Lt’s commission, a private pilot’s license and a job flying for the Air Force, and a degree in physics (it says right here). And of course, she looks like that.
That FBI meme crystalized a couple of things that have been festering since Friday, when I posted yet another example of Federal LEOs using the fig leaf of “muh private bank” to claim that they weren’t violating the 4th Amendment wholesale. In 2024, electronic records are the “persons, houses, papers, and effects,” we the people are supposed to be secure in, unless our government has individual probable cause to believe a crime was committed by a named individual at a particular time and place, just as an AR-15 is covered by the 2A as the modern musket. We shouldn’t have to cut ourselves off from modern life to have that security, where our associations with Trump, MAGA, Conservative Catholic, etc. are considered evidence of guilt.
The exchange culminated in “OK, Doomer.” My conclusions:
I’d rather be a Doomer than a Kapo telling people that’s a BBQ buffet we’re smelling from over the ridge,
Part of the rebuilding process we’re supposed to be preparing for is going to have to include Nuremburg trials, where we reinforce the point that when you’re entrusted with the power of the state, you’re held to a higher standard than following orders and collecting a paycheck or a pension. Don’t like that standard? Don’t take the oath or exercise the power.
“To whom much has been given, much shall be required.” Luke 12:47-48
Thing is, equal treatment under the Constitution means that even the most powerful politician gets the same treatment under the law as you or I, including punishment. Now I’m not adverse to proposing an Amendment to make punishment of criminal officials proportionate to the total IMPACT of their crime.
Well, I signed up to go to the Trump rally in Rochester Sunday night. Got there about 15 minutes after the doors opened. Unfortunately, the closest place to park without getting towed was nearly a mile away at the fencing club. Furthermore, the lines to get into the place were 4 streets long on all sides, with more people streaming in. Rochester Opera House only seats 750 people, and from my rough estimate, there were far more than that trying to get in. So after circling the place, I drove back home rather than spend an hour in 22 degree weather with no guarrantee I was going to actually get in to see him.
That does mean that Trump is uncontestably drawing overcapacity crowds, and that bodes well for his support. Now he just needs to ensure the vote is actually honest, and not frauded like it was in 2020. If you’re a Granite Stater who supports Trump, make sure you get out and vote this Tuesday. Don’t make the mistake of assuming he’ll get it without your vote.
Apparently two massive cicada broods have matching emergence cycles for the first time since Jefferson was president. We can expect interbreeding where they overlap, so we likely get a third small brood from it.
Note: we are likely to need snow shovels in some places to clean them up.
Watch for panicked panickers to Demand We Do Sonething To Stop Global Warming.
Only time two prime number events coincide is the two prime numbers multiplied together. Every 221 years. Next one 2245. (Check).
Wait! What? Math is privilege? Raciest? Never mind.
expect interbreeding where they overlap, so we likely get a third small brood from it.
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OTOH didn’t happen in 1803. Maybe not. Guessing where the two hatches overlap the progeny are one or the other and not a third cycle. Either that or the two types can’t mate naturally.
On speaking to inanimate objects: GK Chesterton has a short story called =A Somewhat Improbable Story= about a man who has trained himself to do just that, apologizing to the hook before hanging his hat on it, and so on, and on why he came to do it. It’s collected in =Tremendous Trifles=, which also contains =The Diabolist= and =The Shop of Ghosts=.
According To Hoyt 
“Night owl/early bird” implies the existence of something structured enough to be in the same grammatical zip code as the word “schedule.”
I don’t do that.
Sometimes I pass out near furniture and hope things work out. Often, even. Okay, okay, not that often, but a reasonable amount of times. I’ve not gone to sleep standing up in, oh, ages now.
Leaning on a wall doesn’t count.
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If your sleep schedule gets really messed up, you can end up crepuscular.
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That’s one of those words that sounds way worse than the concept it actually describes.
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“I backed-up all of my important papers onto a memory-stick but lost the memory stick.” :wink:
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Lately I’ve seen a number of people who are confronted by the security question that they picked at work that made perfect sense three years ago…
And not so much sense now.
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Might resemble that.
Last two employers, had to change our passwords every month. Couldn’t be similar to any of the last 10 used. Had to be complicated. My cheat was to use pet name combinations + certain number combinations, alternating number location between, after, and before, names. My problem? That is something like 25! (Factorial) combinations altogether. Come back from two week vacation. What was the last combination used? Forget about it. Got to IT and get the whole thing reset. Every single time. Drove IT nuts. I was one of the programmer/developers. I should be able to remember. Right? Um. No.
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We’ve got to change them every 90 days (60 days for SAP, and iirc 8 characters) and our rules just got updated because of a Ransomware attack. Now must be 15 characters long, at least 1 number, at least 1 capitalized letter, at least 1 special character. Nearly everyone has their logins written down. I have a method the Texas IT guy said to use for 90 changes. Pick an order, Season, Year and “Special”, but I also added an abbreviation and depending on need can capital or not that, and since the amount increase will add specials as needed to my rotating series of passwords. SAP has tripped me up as I’ve forgotten at times which letters I was capitalizing so I reorder my main password (they couldn’t be the same) but keep the same capitals scheme. Had to change SAP Friday morning. and in 60 will need to again, so it will change only the order it is in, as that satisfies the protocols there.
Fed a previous version of my network password into a “Test Your Security Strength” site and they estimated “Centuries” to break my password. Or someone could figure out which bar codes on my desk are the login and password. 3 failed tries and it’s locked
So a password could be HVACWinter<2023 or 2023_HVAC*Spring or falL_2024_#hvac but you get the idea and just swap the season and year with the 15 minimum, I’ll make Fall’s password the standard for specials to add, and just keep swapping the season and year Also the year can be broken by spelling one or two of the numbers for places that balk at the full year. Twenty24 or suchlike but make like “yaDs/Sady is my password yaDs = 20Twentyfour&DEPTfall Sady = Summer&dept2024 S is season A is special D is department abbreviation or full, even, an of course Y is the year.
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The Reader hopes the security officer in your SAP never saw this.
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SAP folks are off in another state, maybe country. Their only rule was “can’t be the same as your Network”, and 8 with a number and special.
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Problem. The password protocol was parsing passwords. Thus using HAVCwinter<2023 – the following, regardless of order, weren’t allowed in the next 9 password combos: HAVC, winter, <, 2023. Grrrrrrrr. I had 10 pets (at that time), plus the numeric equivalent for each name to substitute, and 10 numeric + special character, combinations to thwart that. My problem is I couldn’t remember which last combo I’d used. I forget how long it all had to be.
Should have thought about the password barcode storage at either company. But could not have kept the barcodes stored at work at the former. Latter yes. But former the company was all about hardware reading barcodes. It is what was developed and made.
My last passwords were: 2016IamDONE!, OutofHereJan3116<, and various themes. Was able to swap back and forth, because sure as anything, I’d have to have IT reset the queue. Might have been doing that deliberately. Not that I am admitting to doing that.
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They had a short period of “No Dates so Spring 2017 anywhere tripped the password wombles and it was disallowed. but 2017@Spring might work, or if you changed via ctrl/alt/del you could force both through.
A week or so after they went to the new 15 character we had another issue, but the IT guy wasn’t sure if it was new hack attempt, a hangover from the ransom, or just Micro$oft being stupid..
We had the backups so they did not pay the ransom, and it affected our printers, mostly.
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At my last job I used 123456, but I spelled out one of the letter in sequence. So the first password was One23456, the next was 1Two3456, then 12Three456, and so on. It let me change it on the schedule they wanted, but it was always easy for me to remember.
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I have a long sentence, complete with punctuation, with a number embedded. Use the first letter of each word. Shift the capital one space each time, and the number goes up by 1.
Example:
iHals,cwp,wane04
Only thing I need to remember is the sentence.
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I’ve done a variation on that for online stuff. (The home IT admin is me; master password for the wallet is medium complex, the online ones are quite a bit worse.) Take a book, go to a random page. Take the first letters of each line, and throw in numbers (page number would work). Special characters get funky. Which book gets the nod may vary.
My employers (through 2001) didn’t force changes, though these were strictly Unix machines run by and for the engineering group within the department. So, the decider was a first level manager, and he (later she) elected not to poke the bear. OTOH, ransomware was not a thing, and the PCs were just starting to come under control of the division IT department.
Yes, I’ve been burned by the security question. “First pet?” Depends on pets. First cat, vs first dog. In both cases, they came in pairs… And on rare occasions, I’ve used a pet name from my childhood. Whee!
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First pet? Miss March
Er nevermind….
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LOL
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In 2024, the only people who have difficulty accessing your files are the authorized users.
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Before the advent of let-the-machine-do-it password tools, the only thing these stupid change-so-often password rules did was make people write their passwords on post-it notes stuck to their monitors. The security conscious ones would have that post-it in their top desk drawer.
IIRC I originally used something that had year and quarter as numbers, interspersed with something rude.
At that last cubical-land job we ended up with token gizmos that everyone wore on their lanyards behind their badge, so passwords were your selected string+whatever the token gizmo screen showed RIGHT NOW. I think they still made us change them, maybe quarterly.
At current gig where we’re all remote we were previously doing MFA over SMS, which is not so secure really, but now it’s switched to folks being required to be running an app with secure communications with the host, and there’s a challenge-response round via the app to get in. Since the app is facial recognition we’re almost fully up to 23rd Century security protocols:
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Last job we had remote access to some of our clients servers and live data. We had a program with all the protocols. We had some client IT’s that insisted on those dang things. While I touch type, fairly accurately these days. I can’t hold, read, and type, in the nonsense sequence that fast. Drove me nuts. Last few years the only reason we had to get on the client’s server was to pull down snapshot data. I had our IT do that. Why the change? We gained the ability to quickly see what programs were actually updated, and what they hadn’t updated. Plus we gained ability to see what was happening at the user’s desktop. Don’t know what our IT thought about it. OTOH the other change was the instituting of a second support option. For an annual fee, requiring VPN access and proper server privileges, our IT installed updates and pulled snapshot data for problem solving.
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The old guy I work with has rude passwords, but also only logs in to SAP 90% of the time, and his network access is limited (they moved so much online everyone now needs at least a limited access to the network just to see payroll or deal with HR) and when he’s over here, often forgets just what his network login is. So he uses the co-worker’s that is written on post-its on her pc.
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I can only remember a very small number of passwords now. Had to create a door pin, and discovered it overwrote to mental space of part of another door pin I needed to remember, that I had literally used less than five minutes earlier…
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I can relate. Not only my passwords, but I have to help mom too. Sigh. Thus the KeePass2. Which does NOT stay on my tablet when we travel. I pull it off. Store it at home. I also do a clean up on all the browsers. Tablet travels with us, along with external drives, for SLR camera photo backup. And downloading scenic video from dashcam.
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My husband had a very good piece of advice for me when picking a device password multiple years back—”can’t you use the car door code?”
It really paid off this year when the fuel pump died on a trip to summer camp four states away and we had to leave the car in SLC to get fixed and then figure out how to pick it UP in SLC on a Sunday. Husband texted me “you remember the door code, right?” Boom. Keys hidden in the car, car locked, contactless pickup.
Mind you, it’s only now, six months later, that we’ve had a mechanic track down what was probably the original issue, the “pulse control valve” that lets vapor out of the engine and wasn’t working right, certainly for half a year, arguably for much longer than that. $50 part, but literally thousands of dollars in downstream issues.
A good mechanic is gold.
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I used to have a VW Beetle that was getting horrible gas mileage. Went through a bunch of things, when suddenly it started to get better. (A Clue! sayeth myself.)
I got the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned aftermarket AC compressor out of the way, and pulled the spark plug on the left front cylinder. The shroud had cracked, and the HV pulses were partially shorting out to the metal ducting. It formed a carbon trail, so a minor problem got worse. When the carbon trail finally broke, the arcing stopped, mostly. New plug wires, reinstall the compressor (a rather longer job than was reasonable), and the poor bug was fixed. At which point I was ready to trade it in.
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We have to change passwords every 6 weeks. CMS and MIDAS-symplr are on the same rotation cycle. Can’t reuse the last 25 passwords, have to be 15 characters in length, a whole dictionary of unusable words, even with conversion of letters to numbers. And it’s getting so that even the use of phrases to remember all the letters in sequence are getting SORRY, THAT PASSWORD IS NOT PERMITTED. Which of course totally ignores how human memory operates. So, what are people doing? Writing their passwords down so they can pull them out when they forget them. Duh.
Thing is, I read a paper a short while ago that explained that between AI development, and quantum computer development, even passwords of 256 characters in length will be easy to crack. Which means someone needs to come up with a better means of security than we have now, and before that technology hits the mainstream. (And I doubt they’ll be able to do it.)
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I had to come up with a way to save passwords for programs on the Falcon, Intermec, Symbol, barcode reader handheld computers, people wrote using the DOS Universal Program Generator for the handhelds. (Like I was qualified.) Come on already. Universal usage was for Inventory (rolls eyes). Regardless had to. So took password being used, convert to hex save that in the code, or file. Dang embedded OS programmers would read my test cases upside down and translate it properly without working at it (I had to work at it). Don’t remember what scrambling scheme came up with (not very sophisticated, even for 2002). Also pretty sure one feature that was used by absolutely no one.
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“When I hear “when Hell freezes over” I think of the inner circle of Dante’s Hell”.
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Bah. Everything freezes over in NH.
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Where can I get that giant roll of duct tape? :-D
There’s a lot of stuff in this country needs fixin’…
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Some people need a specimen board and a pin.
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Rope’s cheap and there are plenty of trees, streetlights, and so on. Save impalement for the rapists. Hand the rest. Save on ammo.
Or you could just deport them to their spiritual home. You know. China, Russia, Venezuela, Africa… Let them get some of what they want here, straight from the tap.
No, there’s no returning. Not until they learn their lesson. Wisdom tends to hurt when it enters the body, as it’s killing something we think is better but ought to know is worse.
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Er. Hang, not hand. Pugilism has its place, but it ain’t proper justice, most cases. Judge, jury, rule of law. “Did you willfully violate the Constitution and commit to attempt to enslave other lawful Americans through bureaucratic process, corrupt the machinery of government, defraud the voters of a fair and legal election, deprive the citizenry of good order and decency, attempt to corrupt minors, wage lawfare against your political enemies, illegally hold them as political prisoners, lie under oath, perjure yourselves, and commit de facto treason?”
Should we ever know the true extent of the crimes committed, and were the penalties enforced rigorously and to the extent of law…
Well. A man can only die once. And good riddance to the lot of them. Soonest we get to fixing what’s broke, the better.
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It’s too bad Joe Biden isn’t a Canadian. He’s the perfect candidate for euthanasia.
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On the Biden popularity one, I thought he would say “You’re reading the polls wrong” instead of “reading the wrong polls.”
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That would have made more sense, imo.
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I’m insufficiently caffeinated to find the quote, but I believe the meme is quoting something FICUS said in response to a question on low polling. So, the lousy wording is on him.
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It’s not really a matter of where the words came from, it’s the construction of the meme. Because the Bidet figure comes in from the side, it becomes natural to turn and read the poll sideways, which makes it so the poll falsely shows high numbers. Thus, “You’re reading the polls wtong.”
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I put the cat-infantry up at work the other day. I work for the Army.
It has been well received.
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Flint Golems are what we keep bronze swords handy :)
The trans movement is doomed. I heard a review of the new 3D cards that just got released used the phrase “a card that self-identifies has a high end card in 2024 better have more than more than 12Gb of vram.”
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Virgin Sacrifice at Davos meme is wrong: the parameter is (coitus = 0), not (coitus(Klaus.Schwab) = 0. As if they could find an ACTUAL virgin in that bordello.
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That’s what human trafficking is for.
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I have to admit, my first response to his comment was “Only of it was under 8.”
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Have you considered allowing comments on each meme entry?
SAH the Memestress
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I don’t think that’s possible!
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I can think of one way to do it, but it wouldn’t be worth it because it would involve way too much work on your part. The way to do it would be for you to post a nearly-empty meme post, then post each meme as a separate comment, one meme per comment. Then any comments on a specific meme would end up threaded under that meme.
Please DON’T do that, as 1) it would mean way too much work for you, and 2) in most cases it would mean scrolling past a lot of comments to see the next meme. But the idea is, in theory, possible.
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I have to admit I’m kind of curious where the image used in the “Javier Milei leaving Davos” meme originally came from.
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I have no idea. Looks like something from the Aztecs? Except for the girls’ high heels.
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It looks half familiar. The devil figure whipping naughty children? I think it’s been redrawn for the meme.
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I think it’s Aubrey Beardsley! He draws either beautifully or creepily, but it looks like that.
I bet it’s a scene from Rabelais, or something similar.
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Btw, if anyone has the cash, the Manhattan Rare Book Company has the two-volume Malory illustrated by Beardsley. It’s a gorgeous book, I have to say, although some of King Arthur’s knights need to sue Beardsley for sexual harassment.
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lol
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Oh, wait. I looked at it closer. I think it’s actually Erol Otus, doing an imitation of Beardsley. Just like in the AD&D Player Handbook, except a hentai drawing.
The ogre thing, and the high heels.
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Correction. It was done by Darlene Pekul, not by Erol Otus.
I am really puzzled now as to who did the meme drawing.
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Well, now I feel quite sad. I didn’t realize that Beardsley died of tuberculosis at age 25. So yeah, obviously he got child abused pretty badly somewhere.
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For some reason, I suspect folks are laughing at the infantry/cat meme, but why….
(Grin) Thanks for that one. Made my day.
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I’m sending it to some grunt friends. :D
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I admit that I don’t care for the “cute animals made of rice” thing. Food should not be cute. I don’t want to feel guilty while eating my curry.
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Honesty, they just looked cozy, and I was so cold….
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Holy moly! That’s…! Oh, my stars and garters!
But I laughed.
(And y’all know which one I’m talking about.)
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On that ‘Retard Chamber’ — I’m not sure 250 PSI is a high enough pressure rating. The sheer concentrated stupid in some Leftroids might be enough to blow it right up.
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Reminder of how Bidenomics is wrecking the economy:
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Sums up a lot:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GERjD9lW4AA6nbP?format=jpg
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First they tried to frame him for a crime he never committed. A crime they made up.
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I’ve graded those research papers before.
Glad I don’t do that anymore.
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This meme crop was like Farmer Maggot’s and I was Merry AND Pippin.
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Damn. Now I have a craving for saute’d mushrooms.
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“Trump won by a landslide in Iowa and Miss America doesn”t have a” non-girl aftermarket extra thing-y bit.
But she does have a 2nd Lt’s commission, a private pilot’s license and a job flying for the Air Force, and a degree in physics (it says right here). And of course, she looks like that.
Definitely trending in the right direction.
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And the previous Miss America was a nuclear engineering student whose platform included “dispelling myths about nuclear power”.
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Sarah,
That FBI meme crystalized a couple of things that have been festering since Friday, when I posted yet another example of Federal LEOs using the fig leaf of “muh private bank” to claim that they weren’t violating the 4th Amendment wholesale. In 2024, electronic records are the “persons, houses, papers, and effects,” we the people are supposed to be secure in, unless our government has individual probable cause to believe a crime was committed by a named individual at a particular time and place, just as an AR-15 is covered by the 2A as the modern musket. We shouldn’t have to cut ourselves off from modern life to have that security, where our associations with Trump, MAGA, Conservative Catholic, etc. are considered evidence of guilt.
The exchange culminated in “OK, Doomer.” My conclusions:
I’d rather be a Doomer than a Kapo telling people that’s a BBQ buffet we’re smelling from over the ridge,
Part of the rebuilding process we’re supposed to be preparing for is going to have to include Nuremburg trials, where we reinforce the point that when you’re entrusted with the power of the state, you’re held to a higher standard than following orders and collecting a paycheck or a pension. Don’t like that standard? Don’t take the oath or exercise the power.
“To whom much has been given, much shall be required.” Luke 12:47-48
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Thing is, equal treatment under the Constitution means that even the most powerful politician gets the same treatment under the law as you or I, including punishment. Now I’m not adverse to proposing an Amendment to make punishment of criminal officials proportionate to the total IMPACT of their crime.
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Let me know when that starts.
I have never seen any politician get hit with invented charges more than Donald Trump.
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This video explains politics very well.
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“What? He was eaten by bears?!”
[Remembering body lying on the floor with Gummy Bears scattered around] “Not exactly.”
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Regarding the missing nukes one…
I support common-sense arms control – no one needs 30 ICBMs in one silo.
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And DeSantis has dropped out. The field is down to just Trump, and Haley. Hopefully this is the end of the squabbling over in Ace’s comments.
Despite what anyone here may or may not think about Trump, I think that we can all agree that Haley is a bad choice for candidate.
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Well, I signed up to go to the Trump rally in Rochester Sunday night. Got there about 15 minutes after the doors opened. Unfortunately, the closest place to park without getting towed was nearly a mile away at the fencing club. Furthermore, the lines to get into the place were 4 streets long on all sides, with more people streaming in. Rochester Opera House only seats 750 people, and from my rough estimate, there were far more than that trying to get in. So after circling the place, I drove back home rather than spend an hour in 22 degree weather with no guarrantee I was going to actually get in to see him.
That does mean that Trump is uncontestably drawing overcapacity crowds, and that bodes well for his support. Now he just needs to ensure the vote is actually honest, and not frauded like it was in 2020. If you’re a Granite Stater who supports Trump, make sure you get out and vote this Tuesday. Don’t make the mistake of assuming he’ll get it without your vote.
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(Not quite a meme, but this fits here better than the with book blurbs.)
We are facing a dire emergency! Cicadageddon is coming!
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illinois-midwest-southeast/2024/01/21/id/1150404/
Apparently two massive cicada broods have matching emergence cycles for the first time since Jefferson was president. We can expect interbreeding where they overlap, so we likely get a third small brood from it.
Note: we are likely to need snow shovels in some places to clean them up.
Watch for panicked panickers to Demand We Do Sonething To Stop Global Warming.
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Only time two prime number events coincide is the two prime numbers multiplied together. Every 221 years. Next one 2245. (Check).
Wait! What? Math is privilege? Raciest? Never mind.
OTOH didn’t happen in 1803. Maybe not. Guessing where the two hatches overlap the progeny are one or the other and not a third cycle. Either that or the two types can’t mate naturally.
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Expect cats to look strangely full of cicada-based chow.
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On speaking to inanimate objects: GK Chesterton has a short story called =A Somewhat Improbable Story= about a man who has trained himself to do just that, apologizing to the hook before hanging his hat on it, and so on, and on why he came to do it. It’s collected in =Tremendous Trifles=, which also contains =The Diabolist= and =The Shop of Ghosts=.
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OMG!
Most excellent pwn by Trumpinator Rex.
How to get the mass of presstitutes to bray that Nancy Pelosi was on charge of security on 6 January:
“Mis-speak” that it was Nikki Haley.
And just like that…. BAM!
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https://twitter.com/BruinJustine/status/1747101677856194960/photo/1
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