Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@GeorgeMari

It's succeeding because trolls get their butts kicked. (metaphorically speaking 😄 )

@CanXClV

Know.

@medigoth

Or step #1.75…

Are they a loved one who you care about?

@medigoth

You forgot step #1.5…

Will you be funding their coronary bypass surgery with health subsidies paid for by tax dollars?

@stux

>"YouTube comments can be quite toxic woah "

If only there was an alternative to YouTube for posting videos...

@stux

I think sorting through comments like that would be an excellent application of AI. I know some sites use AI for that in a general way. But you could train it yourself to recognize toxic stuff yet still know when someone who, for example, was using foul language but still saying something useful or making an good argument.

It'd be like having a friend that could look them over and say, "Oh, you don't want to read that one. Or "This guy's a dick, but he's got a good point."

Except your friend wouldn't have to read them either, the AI could do it.

@admitsWrongIfProven

>" I thought more of the ramifications of such bad policy. Who acts like this probably does more stupid things."

I'm seriously considering moving my business to another company because of this.

@admitsWrongIfProven

Keying-in the password on the keypad of a phone wouldn't give a listener the exact password because each letter could be one of three, plus upper/lower case, but it would make a brute-force attack a trivial matter.

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I just called a major, well known corporation on the phone and the automated system asked me to key-in my web password to get to customer support.

Key-in my password. In the clear. On the phone.

Anyone see an issue with that?

#security #passwords #encryption #cryptography #math #BruteForce

@strawd

You could probably just sign up at their websites for email updates.

@strawd

>"One gap this leaves for me is that I was following local #government accounts for safety/travel/etc updates. "

How many local governments do you have?

I like this one better than THX 1137.

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

THX 1138 (1971)

Starting out as a student project, this film was George Lucas's first. Apparently Warner Brothers thought it was good enough and decided to back it. Francis Ford Coppola who was already seeing a lot of success by that time also joined the project to help produce.

The film didn’t get many rave reviews when it was first released, but when Lucas went on to make Star Wars just six years later, THX 1138 enjoyed a significant bump in its esteem.

One of the features of the dystopian world depicted in this film is a drug to suppress everyone’s emotions. This is an idea loosely borrowed from A Brave New World, except in Huxley’s story the controlling drug is a happy pill not an emotion-suppression pill. This same idea of a society with suppressed emotions has been used from time to time in science fiction, more recently by the film Equals (2015).

It’s been released in several different cuts (some parts of the original release were censored by Warner Bros). Generally, I’d say the longer cuts are probably closer Lucas’ vision.

There was a director's cut released in 2004 by Lucas himself which is a true director's cut, however if you watch that one you'll be looking at his vision in 2004, and may not be what he would have done 1971 as director’s cut.

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#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #bald #dystopia #the70s #youth #emotion #drugs #equals #BraveNewWorld

@Deglassco

One of the aspects of this issue that I rarely hear about is the underlining injustice of the university system itself.

For hundreds of years, universities have been instruments of alumni nepotism, with people in positions of power promoting and hiring from elite schools, which perpetuates race and class bias.

The actual academic education that one obtains is not much different, it's the credentialism that gives graduates an advantage. This needs to change.

#race #class #IvyLeague #university

@stux

Clever editing. 😆

@Deglassco

I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm completely unfamiliar with a couple of those schools.

@admitsWrongIfProven

>"Ok, you got me. I don't have many followers but i just had to boost that"

It wasn't you. It was someone else.

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I guy with zero followers just boosted my toot...

Oh well, it's the thought that counts.

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Just a security reminder to developers...

If you *require* uppercase letters in passwords, or require numbers and special characters, you are making your passwords LESS secure because it reduces the possible number of combinations of passwords. (E.g., it eliminates combinations that are all lowercase.)

It also pisses off your users.

Also, those little indicators that show you how secure your new password is as you type it into the field, the ones that says poor, good, etc. as you enter each character? That feature makes a system less secure, because there are many more lines of code needed to examine those characters as they are typed, which means more chance for leaks of the password.

Just suggest to the user that passwords should be at least X characters long and not be too easy to guess, and leave it at that. Give users a break.

#security #passwords #UX #UI

@freemo

They may have had to clear the release of that info through channels to make sure they didn't reveal methods or capabilities or something.

My understanding is that, with the amount of air and space in the sub, it would become evident within a short amount of time if those efforts were going to be a recovery mission rather than a rescue mission.