ᔑᐸᐱᑚᕬᐱᑎ @skanman@qoto.org

@tatzelbrumm I loved the movie!! Thank you so much for the recommendation. 👍

@farooqkz I don't know bro, these days they're less effective when it comes to penetration or ddos, most botnets are too small to accomplish anything, and the ones that are big usually get patched out of whatever vulnerability they came in with fairly quickly. Statistically speaking, the odds of penetrating a system that has anything valuable is like < .00001%. Most penetrations occour from other methods. Packet modification seems to be pretty effective these days, but it's super risky.

@farooqkz isn't a botnet having control over a huge amount of other people's machines?

@farooqkz of you've infected thousands of computers with worms that mine crypto, I think it's a crime isn't it?

@farooqkz unless it's mining crypto when machines are idle...

LOL.. I hope not..

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/UFOI

@szopen you can kinda do this already right?

@NehaKhazanchi There's no one channel I've found that has everything I need for tutorials. But for burning time, I like Ted, Veritasium, Nile Red, MKBHD, Mrwhostheboss.

@tatzelbrumm b-17 is the flying fortress right? I got to go inside one at the Titusville airshow when I was a kid. Very cool plane, so is the super fortress which I think is a b-29.

@nomi oh what a good smile that gave me 😁

@brewnoir oh an extra points for "pythonist" 😂

@brewnoir context.random(), it's my favorite method in my brain

@tongutay ironically, I should be working instead of watching that.

@NehaKhazanchi A hot mess of tutorials, and old songs I forgot and tried to find. With a sprinkle of Joe Rogan interviews.

How should we refer to ourselves as a species on Qoto?
Additional suggestions welcome in comments.

@SpinozasHeresy If you vote for a guy, who votes on your behalf, is that actually a democracy? If you can't control your voting options, is that really freedom? If i open a running microwave's door and it continues to run, will I die?

It doesn't take comedy to illuminate the harsh realities, comedy just makes the bitter a bit bittersweeter.. That's not right but you get the point 🤣

@Alaskanviking mm part 3: as pertaining to the remote working dynamics and options, and this is slightly connected to part 1. Also an important question is, do you maintain a residence in Alaska? If so, that gives you options:

1) Remotely working should be ok, however you must use an Alaskan address for residence on your W-2 application for employment.
2) More challenging, and yet way more flexible, operate as a "sole proprietorship", or go ahead and incorporate in Alaska. Both of those require you to handle your own taxes personally.
2.a) Have another company contract hire your sole proprietorship or company.
2.b) Any expenses related to business allow you to write off certain amounts of your taxes. This is typically far less, however you're responsible for paying FICA and Medicare manually.
2.c) Gives you another anchor in Alaska, I believe there's incentives in not just residing there, but doing business too.

I'm pretty sure the key is keeping a primary residence address there that is associated with your identification. I know times are hard, but also remember, taxes are a good thing. If you're main goal is reducing overheads and maximizing income. Nothing beats entrepreneurship, and investing returns.

@Alaskanviking I don't know about everyone else, but I'm good. Qoto is filled with intellectuals which makes it excellent for learning, or expanding ideas for others. Not much drama in here. There are groups in Mastadon but I'm not sure how you'd search them. @trinsec is a Mastadon pro. There isn't a marketplace here, and those are very challenging personally host due to liability of scams and fraud. There's no album management here beyond isolating posts by media. I think it's designed that way on purpose to stop people from using it as free cloud storage. I'm not on other social networks either, I don't hate them or anything, they're just not my cup of tea. Anyways Mr. Viking, nice to meet you and welcome!

@nomi that's called sensationalism. Shouldn't it be called unsensationalism though?

@wjbeaver ** unrelated but related

you know what's weird? I was about to ask Mastadon for a movie recommendation. Is it good?