2026-07-24T03:17:36Z https://nostr.ae J. "Henry" Waugh https://nostr.ae/npub1dwsfgy8anqd875xl4d47457rp20ejh2vfzndzre5p3vqgc7gayls6pxjfg https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/109/322/326/427/475/622/original/fbc9f5190bbf5888.png https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/109/322/326/427/475/622/original/fbc9f5190bbf5888.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0cacsfp474ap7t6tujm0mkp7qp8lrj5ylyc7z9s7guu4pv0f0s5gzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7te2dhv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9azf0yl2ksuw5amdkduszdyj984g0uap73grlqpqd0ksdgyqvkjszm3r7r'>nevent1q…3r7r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>People talk a lot about &#34;changing others&#39; minds&#34; and others criticize that minds cannot be changed by argument<br/><br/>But what if there was a 3rd option? Dr. Bob&#39;s long-term surveys point to one: changing their mind through normalization<br/><br/>Doing a longitudinal study of 2,000 college students and their parents over 30 years, he found an interesting trend in the cross tabs:<br/><br/>The most conservative actually changed their minds on sex before marriage... but not because they had a change of heart 2026-06-29T22:37:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9azf0yl2ksuw5amdkduszdyj984g0uap73grlqpqd0ksdgyqvkjszyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7gv350t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf4sknhua4ehkzuja0yvc7jyskhfdree6s3gyq6syq9g66t63gy8sdquqna'>nevent1q…uqna</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>While much criticism has occurred of the thesis in recent years, Dr. Bob Altmeyer attempted to refine it into something subtler and add statistical reliability (though validity seems weaker to me)<br/><br/>He even wrote a lay book that was a huge hit in 2010s online lefty spaces:<br/><br/><a href="https://theauthoritarians.org/">https://theauthoritarians.org/</a><br/><br/>But rather than go over that in detail, I want to cherry-pick one aspect I very much see in real life, in media, and in many places everywhere just below the surface<br/><br/>The effect of visibility on them 2026-06-29T22:35:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf4sknhua4ehkzuja0yvc7jyskhfdree6s3gyq6syq9g66t63gy8szyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7dquhul Sneaking it under the wire for Pride Month<br/><br/>A subtler reason visibility besides helping those in the closet: it defeats the opposition in ways that are also invisible<br/><br/>And I want to talk about that<br/><br/>Canadian Sociologist Dr. Bob Altmeyer spent his career working on theories from the Frankfurt School, who were trying to understand why the Axis atrocities against humanity had such broad support in their home countries<br/><br/>They settled on an analysis of factors of personality:<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality</a> 2026-06-29T22:32:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstuw2ggypurswpahke3fnp99ncn2fgccg5s0j3dx3epknk0wxy5xqzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n79wr5ar In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2p7mtdjt330c35muy66ry5rlvgtvvah3f4wc4tpl2tcz8y96uguqyh5cg8'>nevent1q…5cg8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>in case you did not know, so does Linux<br/><br/>(Which blew my mind when I learned it)<br/><br/><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1824698/why-does-the-linux-scsi-subsystem-drive-hardware-not-obviously-related-to-scsi">https://superuser.com/questions/1824698/why-does-the-linux-scsi-subsystem-drive-hardware-not-obviously-related-to-scsi</a><br/><br/>So I don&#39;t see this as a MSFT foible<br/><br/>But rather a mutual discovery that one pretty feature rich protocol you&#39;ve supported for a long time is a great code path to reuse<br/><br/>Particularly when hardware vendors are *themselves* encouraging it with compat hacks as well 2026-02-06T03:02:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfrq6s67nwhzguemu2002sqh4wkapy35p87g9cnw7ry6v2egc9ldqzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7fpf47m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffr43skxjv7nza89232ucxznfk2gura7dpnzm25jhmft296rlrmq0ht77k'>nevent1q…t77k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve seen plenty of quote posts circulating with high consistency and used them myself with a high success rate<br/><br/>For exactly one thing: putting a CW on something that &#34;goes viral&#34; with no extra text, because the OP did not<br/><br/>I would also note that IME the quotability of others (Mastodon tries to do it implicitly on link paste now, which I don&#39;t like but do get) seems based more on their home server&#39;s fedi software than any obvious pattern of user preference 2026-02-02T03:12:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsza5ss3ka3re0m5w8lzkpst5tw4xvxvfpsfftw8myflsuc9d8ht3qzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7j8xsl2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdy8na52n0vt7jc5k4qeta6f0wc2ma2sefmw79wtx7mnt6vzql3xctg4hcp'>nevent1q…4hcp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>wow<br/><br/>If this is from your life, please find a lawyer to write a threat letter<br/><br/>That&#39;s worse than the craziest thing I&#39;ve got, which is the time a former colleague used Cat 5 cable to fire pyrotechnics for a show<br/><br/>-- because despite how terrifying it sounds? He read the spec and it&#39;s actually safe<br/><br/>The igniter voltage wasn&#39;t nearly 48V, and more surprisingly, they are rated up to a whopping 5A<br/><br/>So it worked great 2025-07-27T17:09:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyegc7xj5f7ek7207npua04nj5zqec7l9tqt9dlgzsm6ckr9ep5cqzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7e5q4wu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszdkegckh5hclpwzqlcqf0hglnzy3wtmszzgl3z7vy43y8um0002cgufjh6'>nevent1q…fjh6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and as someone who used ext3 for many years even when it had a nasty checksum bug that *would* cause data corruption on non-hardware devices (e.g. LUKS volumes), I accidentally avoided it in my configuration by setting data=journal (which given my new filesystem beloved I would now call &#34;zfs transaction mode&#34;)<br/><br/>The performance impact to me was basically un-noticable and I am very confused why they made writeback the default (it used to be ordered) 2025-07-09T23:44:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs928cn3hgvs5hw0tn62h78860u4stjukzr9l2nv4s4wqglnv5v8eczyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n70d3e4u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs92fa3ddkq09ssqsz3rxeptyq8jzshaednnnuz0qwlq80nztp5q2cf6n3f2'>nevent1q…n3f2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>do you know about git clean/smudge filters? Seems like it could be even more automatic perhaps:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.juandebravo.com/2017/12/02/git-filter-smudge-and-clean/">https://www.juandebravo.com/2017/12/02/git-filter-smudge-and-clean/</a> 2025-03-01T06:28:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq9f5e3aknyz8gmu43djfuqxtvkh2rzuv7pt08vskej7g7y9glxqszyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7k6qs44 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdtqd03jufspshkq9thus4mun9jal4nvc3mutepkspccdlq4vs8gcf34qyd'>nevent1q…4qyd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>while I found it a bit silly at the time, the writers did try to capture this vibe by accidentally making the greatest pun of all time for a non-technical writing staff:<br/><br/>He eventually gave the station a &#34;root canal&#34; 2025-01-03T19:56:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr49hmulmdqr6u66kddu2uzmln2xqhzm5ekz48saz22tz6f8xstuszyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n757rjwh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8c5jcp8kcm6sckx8t2kwmq9aejtp2xarxmpkje7gzk079wxap7dgz6pqk0'>nevent1q…pqk0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>William Clifford? As in Clifford Algebra?<br/><br/>Hey I know what that is thanks to an excellent YT video that I&#39;ve been pointing random ppl to when they take Linear Algebra at university since it fills in gaps!<br/><br/>(Note: 50 min long)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI</a> 2025-01-03T06:26:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdnaj90fteu3mhqmzrnjx6ly0pksa9at6a3gd47wa6a6xc2xupaeczyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7v27kqf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr368fpuug4w4t47sq4rzfp2930ksdxx2fz7f9ku6k7hy35wek9rs42sncn'>nevent1q…sncn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>do the points accrued here carry forward into round 1 of the tournament? (Sorry not a sports fan) 2024-12-23T00:01:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfhvuwlfmqt2wz32fpt424gsq6twh3fs6tsht3q4z58yxc29tr2jqzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7w7quf4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqta9mtv3agzs2qgzmu97n3k6zfrpd5xvzlwta07y9l93d8e6xu5csxd32f'>nevent1q…d32f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yes, I know<br/><br/>But I have only ever seen them be omitted when weird things were going on -- usually an anti-RE measure 2024-10-18T14:35:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrechdtr4q4vj7lf3cu6tkvzlrz8hddgygtyut38c35qm40p55alqzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7j5arcv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyeq8eeqcr80ans6c46a3gwsjsgn2c9lnsgzyaj06ez63hmswwczsgp7g0c'>nevent1q…7g0c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>wait how can it be w--<br/><br/>&gt; no section header<br/><br/>oh shit it&#39;s right 2024-10-17T16:24:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsru89jar0lq05ggtryeryjnq3vsplnes53pphs69623grnca7m73szyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7gv8679 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfpg34a47jpl4nerzzfgwymt3kzycapyy2gdv5kwlpyx8nz6ee5jce9rg99'>nevent1q…rg99</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the first time cops will start repeating lyrics of an Insane Clown Posse song 2024-09-28T21:14:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrc9u7eaw90auwtlkw7p63phshumqxht8yferax362meu9nl9qw2qzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7qeyyvd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspvphqu2k5usdf26e04eqemn3uwpelgccguh58xyjcud8k6uagyzqfg7w0d'>nevent1q…7w0d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve had this thought more than once<br/><br/>Then I considered what would be required to actually cash out in a lot of cases<br/><br/>... and who would be actually &#34;scammed&#34; to get success<br/><br/>.... and what their response and ethics and willingness to break laws might be<br/><br/>... 😬 2024-09-21T04:21:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvwj8tfk9cxrhufq8xuyldtvu9mynkwzle98zth9fqwvkrgpynuqgzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n723a685 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw0hcpwxkuve7s48vh7nw70a5mate89qs3s36zm07f6sm7mmhaasclqaq9m'>nevent1q…aq9m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh no!<br/><br/>Hopefully they fell out of your pocket close to the door or where you park the bike, I&#39;ve been lucky that way<br/><br/>(And since then, I added a rather odd looking but effective &#34;dog leash clip&#34; to the ring so I can attach it to my belt loop) 2024-09-13T22:57:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs99v6c0yye77arpd89zmntx4zhdunj2vgf5v3847gyvh2d4xmlpzczyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7tcvs9r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdnet8jmyyeg6zvfsj5k5krpmqqlzuc0pjgez56w7jrgvq5g2ajsxcfwm8'>nevent1q…fwm8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>to be clear, I know that current cars are just completely phasing them out and instead adding USB bc that&#39;s a more convenient power source and it lets you hook up to the audio panel or whatever (blanking on what that&#39;s called at this instant)<br/><br/>So I&#39;m not completely surprised if someone were to look at the funny round receptacle and not know what it was and be told cigarette lighter<br/><br/>But somehow your comment hit a weird middle where I imagined the answer being &#34;it&#39;s 12V we don&#39;t know why&#34; 2024-09-07T02:09:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspdnet8jmyyeg6zvfsj5k5krpmqqlzuc0pjgez56w7jrgvq5g2ajszyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n75c7rtg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxktml7vaq7dd9dydzp6l94tgxjq6g8q4xgk6jrmykym6n33awasgavq2w0'>nevent1q…q2w0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>wait ppl don&#39;t know this anymore?<br/><br/>Oh no 💀 2024-09-07T02:05:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrcd05wusx6uesq299ujcksdk8ux0fkkgru6hhcx6dv54sp6qr2tczyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7dnx9su In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3fcdrhy3wfrvpkfqzk5202whr06y7rtxe939xwq98lgqsc6gwjcxluxs2'>nevent1q…uxs2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>sorry to here that<br/><br/>May the odds be ever in your favor 2024-08-28T23:10:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd9lpvxvn2fwn2fhc2wwp9h6vwxzmq4fwl9jly3p9tru0plxl5ugczyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7se5zp4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8hkxutf5rpu5x80mwljkzxzcv6fn6pt0ljl6q7rzwz8ttatrvmqsfuaqe0'>nevent1q…aqe0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so far, I&#39;m on a perfect winning streak<br/><br/>... By having a lifestyle that I don&#39;t mind at all, but it seems few others can tolerate 2024-08-28T23:09:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0e2g3seuyyzzsgylrm3p7tf3tp4gshjxl5fha5pelnhymahxt85szyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7rmrq0v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9satfac8qlz8d7yy5rr600cjlzzvr0edndh33qzurxe3zfax5d4qhpx0g2'>nevent1q…x0g2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>apparently I&#39;m very confused so I hereby withdraw from this convo<br/><br/>All I know is that it&#39;s impossible to self-host mail servers anymore because the actual technical and verification and protocol requirements to have anyone talk to you instead of immediately blacklisting you as an as-yet-unidentified spam source are incredibly high<br/><br/>And the number of providers who will support you and trust you are not an as-yet-unidendified spam source are shrinking 2024-08-21T21:01:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgzzfcmg54gtkylckyrvt4qky2hju2vrrp6lylxp855c2h6xgl9hgzyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7v4xdxy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz0et4xm474rst2dqlnjve59vlgrv4wen6rfcwwmjj88d23a2u82c7l0adp'>nevent1q…0adp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>no but thanks to this pointer I could find the one I was thinking of:<br/><br/>DKIM 2024-08-21T20:54:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg73ql2gj3edy7dhxa5ktkukjus0ketlyyj2yhlqe3409xs3xca9czyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7de6m3q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00aufv02t36andafnhddpqsqlm59882jk8a9eks2a5fanlt96tug5zdhjr'>nevent1q…dhjr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yes, discouraging unencrypted SMTP on port 25<br/><br/>My former ISP has it blocked outbound everywhere except their virus scanning SMTP relay -- a measure they put in 20 years ago in response to the early e-mail worms of the early &#39;00s<br/><br/>Nowadays in order to combat spam and spoofing, an &#34;unofficial standard&#34; is emerging that everyone use SMTP over TLS on a different port and have to use verification mechanisms like DKIM<br/><br/>I&#39;m not surprised to see cloud providers enforcing it too 2024-08-21T20:54:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszr2gm9kg0sdeqjh5ggc03lfr3y0kguc8wv28fma7tmr6vtgsnesczyp46p9qslkvp5l6sm74kh6kncv9flx2af3y2d5g0xsx9sprrer5n7vexjfq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8a3yf9nsyux4t3h74yy8n0vx873jme3n0p37q3ey42jqepetcyngh0477r'>nevent1q…477r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>IIRC they&#39;ve had some vague clause in their ToS discouraging that for some time<br/><br/>IIRC they want you to use proper TLS with mutual certificate verification (I&#39;m blanking on what the standard is called)<br/><br/>But while I&#39;m not surprised, I am disappointed they didn&#39;t at least warn you for trying to do it 2024-08-21T20:46:44Z