!codecels !BIPOCs !pings

EDIT: Mystery solved, see comments

October 2: I get a security alert from Google saying a new device had logged in. The only information it gives me is that it's a Windows PC in Oregon. I logged on to my Google account from a Windows PC in Oregon on October 2. I heard Google was changing their security somehow or something, so I figured my computer their record of me must have gotten wiped in the process. If they had given me literally any more information than that at all, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

October ~15: I notice that some video about fancy cars is in my youtube history. I figure that I must have accidentally turned on autoplay on my phone just before I fell asleep. I chuckle at how terrible youtube's algorithm is for giving me suggestions, because it really is so bad it would do that.

October 22: I look at my history and it's full of the worst kind of zoomer shit. And it goes on for several hours straight:

Notice how one of these is actually me. (I was writing about an evil alchemist attempting to rob me in Darklands and considered making a reference to this scene but decided it wasn't really a good fit.) So he's watching this shit at the same time I'm on and I have no way to know.

So I had to delete my whole goddarn youtube history for the month to make sure nobody thinks I want to know who MRBEAST is. Interestingly, after that youtube acts like I have no history at all.

Start watching videos to help us build a feed of videos you'll love.

I guess the suggestions are mostly based on what you've watched in the last couple weeks. I've always suspected that.

I go through my search history. Surely if he's spent all this time on my account he must have searched for something. I find nothing out of place. There are things that I don't remember searching for but I know absolutely must have been me like:

Nobody can have a thing for 1990s Starfleet officers and like MRBEAST at the same time. It's an interesting window into my mind because I have two browsers open, my normal one and my one for stuff where I have to be logged on to Google. The only reason I'd search on the latter is if I'm really drunk. (Fortunately that's only happened a few times this month.) There's some really bizarre stuff in there that doesn't make sense but is so unique to me that nobody else in the world would ever type it in. I'm really proud of myself because I didn't put in the name of any of my ex-girlfriends this time.

What the frick was I planning to do?

(Actually I remember this one. I just used the wrong browser by mistake.)

So anyway, I turn up nothing strange in the google searches. So then I go through the log of all the activity on my account of any kind and I come up with nothing. I don't understand how someone could be watching youtube as me but have no other activity at all.

Techbros, help me out.

Yes, an incredibly lame and stupid zoomer from Oregon hacked into your account a month ago. Today he logged in as you and forgot to log out when he watched his dumb car shit all day. It's over, bro. - 16 votes

No, you're being a paranoid moron. It's obviously just a bug in youtube. It's 2024, so 80% of the tards writing their code probably don't even know what a relational database is. - 12 votes

You're a complete schizo. None of this ever happened. It's all in your imagination. - 46 votes

https://lobste.rs/s/vwbhve/paper_feminism_programming_language

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/the-nsa-thinks-linux-journal-is-an-extremist-forum/

I do horde tabs but if firefox is so great is should handle it no problem.

this is a complaint post, but I also want to know...

This is very personal, and something I'm trying to figure out. I'm finding executive function hard to come by these days.

Timeline of events:

• March 1st I separated from my wife 18 years. - March 28th, my mom died. - April 7th met someone who'd become a unhealthy relationship (trauma bond) - May 30th divorce finalized - June 1st (trauma bond disintegration began) - June 14th (Grandma who raised me dies).

I'm 44, so there may be a midlife crisis involved. I'm semi-transient living with roommates, after a stint in cheap motels.

Mental health:

• High Functioning Borderline Personality Disorder (diagnosed this year), - ASD (undiagnosed - suspected by my therapist), - Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive - Limerencing, ADHD (Inattentive).

Finances: Able to program, unable to focus, was doordashing but lost my car last week (engine).

Strategies so far:

• Make new friends (I had zero support network, zero friends, zero family that isn't my ex-wife and kids). - Do activities like: Volleyball, karaoke with local singles, etc. - Therapy - Journaling (I journal into a GPT relationship coach custom gpt and it's been very insightful and when I want to send an email to the object of my affection ... I just send it to the bot first and it talks me out of it and convinces me its a bad idea and walks me through coping skills.)

Goals / Plans:

• Move to SLC, culture is different than St George and I think it'll be good for me, still close enough to see my kids regularly. - Start a drone business or agency, drone would be my pick as it'd be a hobby kind of too and keep me more interested. Plus I'm a bit burned out on web stuff. ON the other hand my wheelhouse is digital marketing and web dev so a digital agency would be easier to start probably. - Waiting on inheritance to pull plug on businesses. - Trying to stay afloat till then. - Fix credit that's gone to heck the past 2 years.

I go through cycles where i feel good, and like I'm 'coming to my senses', and everything makes sense... but then I hit a wall and I start going back to bad habits.

My mental health goals involve: Ditch people pleasing behaviors, set boundaries, learn to pace relationships (don't fall or limerence too hard until compatibility checks out), learn secure attachment, work on DBT skills until they're second nature, receive Ketamine treatment.

-------------------------

I think I have a good ...plan or framework...but I'm also spiraling a lot lately, and if anybody's been in something similar, I could really use advice on what you did to ... survive.

I don't want to go too dark, but ideation has been at a level 9 some days towards the beginning and up til August.

I could really just use advice, tips, resources (mentally, emotionally, physically, or financial). If I can make it to inheritance, I'm thinking I'm going to take a trip to Europe or something fun to just reset myself then start a business with the remainder - mostly hiring sales people to close sales and find new business.

Not sure if this is approved here but my main question: How have you hacked your brain to survive trauma, and mental health crisis?

Note: There's an earlier thread about this but mine is BETTER

Context: A bunch of Ruski Linux contributors have been removed as a result of sanctions by the US and Finland.

This chink stepped in to defend his fellow communists and got told to frick off by Linus himself

Orange Site discussion

Another calling themselves "Kexy Biscuit" (she/her) submitted a patch to revert the changes:

An absolutely no-one-ever-reviewed patch, not even by the maintainers who got removed themselves - at least not on the mailing list. Then the patch just got slipped into an unrelated subsystem pull request, and got pulled by Torvalds with not even a comment.

What about the next time? Who next would be removed from the MAINTAINERS file, the kernel.org infrastructure? What if the compliance requires another XZ backdoor to be developed without further explanation? Is the kernel development process still done in public?

Thread on some Russian Reddit clone with a few hundred comments of zigger seethe

Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer

One of the ziggers wrote a long farewell on the kernel mailing list. There's nothing particularly dramatic about it but the Orange Site thread has some hot takes:

If that led to legal issues because of legal sanctions in place in the US and Europe then all the communication should have focused on that (legal sanctions) while remaining kind and apologetic to the individual and abstaining from commenting on the geopolitical situation.

Instead it has been partisan, abusive, and insulting throughout. Really an appallingly bad example of communication.

(Btw, I am commenting on Linus' communication on this issue that has unfortunately been exactly how I described. Sad that this has thread seems to have been hijacked now by weaponised flagging...)

You're literally lying.

It was made extremely clear that the patch was done because of the sanctions.

This reminds of the Anti-German sentiment during WWI.

This isn't about Russian Americans, though. This is about Russian developers working for Russian companies that are involved in the actual war.

Have we seen the same about Israeli contributors?

Linux is compromised. I half expected it when he allowed Rust in the kernel.

!fosstards

!linuxchads

https://archive.is/RIuiM

What happens when the chinks can't submit any drivers for all the parts they make anymore?

Death to American copyright law.

This is also a blatant 1A violation. Frick Biden.

Archive link

Orange Site discussion

We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of one of our users and want to express our deepest condolences to the family. As a company, we take the safety of our users very seriously and we are continuing to add new safety features that you can read about here:…

— Character.AI (@character_ai) October 23, 2024

This isn't the first time either, Fortinet gets a lot of zero days, their SOP is to tell no one and fix it in a patch that says "no bugs fixed" and then disclose

EDIT: wrong link in OP: https://old.reddit.com/r/fortinet/comments/1g9wlcn/article_fortigate_admins_report_active/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/lawsuit-city-cameras-make-it-impossible-to-drive-anywhere-without-being-tracked/

I know it sounds stupid and obvious. Like, who wouldn't realize that? But I dove in because I liked programming and the money is great. But programming your own project for fun is really different from working with a bunch of other people to build some CRUD shit. And forcing yourself to spend hours a day thinking about software is annoying. Not to everyone, there are people who genuinely love it, but I and probably most people don't. And it's kind of asocial too. I say that as someone who actually likes his coworkers a lot and has a good time talking with them, but even then the bottom line is that I spend hours a day thinking about some stupid nuances of code, often not even my own code and its flaws but somebody else's code and its stack of architectural mistakes and abstractions piled on top of other abstractions in a desperate attempt to fix them. Spending hours a day in such an abstract mental space but without the joy of doing it for fun or for some kind of actual interesting exploration pretty much sucks and leaves me often feeling really drained and needing to just go touch grass in order to restore myself.

Besides the money, though, one of the few things I like about it is that at least my conscience is mostly clear. I could probably be having more fun doing some more social job that revolves around my verbal skills, but I'm not sure that there are many such jobs out there that both pay well and aren't basically oriented around ripping people off.

I almost killed my startup before it even launched.

I started building my tech startup 18 months ago. As a non technical founder, I hired a web dev from Pakistan to help build my idea. He was doing good work but I got impatient and wanted to move faster.

I made a HUGE mistake. I put my reliable developer on pause and hired an agency that promised better results. They seemed professional at first but I soon realized I was just one of many clients. My project wasn't a priority for them.

After wasting so much time and money, I went back to my original Pakistani developer. He thankfully accepted the job again and is now doing amazing work, and we're finally close to launching our MVP.

If you're a non technical founder:

   Take the time to find a developer you trust and stick with them it's worth it

   Don't fall for any promises from these big agencies or get tempted by what they offer

   ⁠Learn enough about the tech you're using to understand timelines

   ⁠Be patient. It takes time to build

Hope someone can learn from my mistakes. It's not worth losing time and money when you've already got a good thing going.

dudes "startup" is https://www.outreachai.co/ , some shit ass chrome extension that uses chatgpt to spam dm people on linkedin and tell you if they responded or not, as if notifications dont already exist. he almost exclusively posts in /r/LeadGeneration /r/DigitalMarketing and /r/Entrepreneur , so you know hes some stupid idea guy. christ, he admitted it himself. that this post is one of the highest voted post in /r/webdev for the past year in 22 hours by just #inspiration posting some obvious shit that everyone is roasting the fuck out of him for means its 100% means its botted, which is a big nono and against reddit ToS. would be a shame if he got reported for it.

It would appear that @djclancy999 and @Twitch have blocked major swaths of IP space from creating twitch accts in israel. Its not just VPNs either, its normal ISP's. If you live in israel, Check the link below

error: 2023 blocked country IPhttps://t.co/afsOOEZpa9 pic.twitter.com/V4v70eEQq2

— dan cant tweet (@dancantstream) October 20, 2024

first of all not claiming some anti-Semitism thing without evidence, wanted to bring this up because I have no idea what can explain this but you can't create new accounts with your email if you have israeli IP. I made a random new gmail account and when I tried making one this popped up.

(the date here are just random not my actual one)

but when I used a VPN just the shitty free one opera browser gives in this case it put my IP in sweden I did the same thing didn't change any of the details and it worked.

it also sent me the verification email with the code.

I then checked with all the other areas optioned there asia, and america and it worked but just with disabling the VPN and trying again to press the sign up button it made the error message pop up and it didn't jump to the code thing like it did using a VPN.

idk what could be the reason and I don't have a VPN subscription that I can test every country to check, it seems odd but could have a totally mundane explanation maybe because of local laws or idk google also couldn't find me any answer or even someone bringing up the problem of not being able to sign up using their email.

I then asked the guy who told me about it and he said that even using your phone number it doesn't let you sign up from your computer just error, unfortunately I had my old account already tied to my phone number and deactivating it didn't seem to let me use it again to create a new account so I can't personally confirm that part. but where you are able to sign up is only on their shitty mobile app.

So to recap I think twitch is not letting any new accounts from Israel to be created through the computer (I'll chalk up the app letting it go through to it literally never being worked upon lol).

I'm just a random guy with barely any understanding in software so maybe there is a totally legit reason for this maybe it's like that for other countries too but if not it could be actually antisemitism so I'd love for the wizards with more skill then me here to look further into it.

Thanks Daliban

Sorry for the post being a bit rambly it's 1AM

https://archive.is/jOrFL

!nooticers !codecels what agenda do you think is being hidden there from the IA?

Elon Musk responded

Strange.

Well, we can provide them again if needed.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2024

Twitter's blog posts from 2019 to 2024 appear to be missing from @internetarchive🤔 pic.twitter.com/1n4rU042EL

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) October 20, 2024

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102897465

https://old.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/1g7w4zy/internet_archives_breach_reached_a_new_level/

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1g7w0rh/internet_archive_issues_continue_this_time_with/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1g7ws5n/the_worlds_largest_internet_archive_is_under/

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895764

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894870

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894561

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102900961

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens.https://t.co/IT8kH1CdEh

— BleepingComputer (@BleepinComputer) October 20, 2024

The Internet Archive users are reporting to have received this e-mail just moments ago.

It appears that the person(s) who compromised The Internet Archive still maintain some form of persistent access and are trying to send a message. pic.twitter.com/3zfj5iabbP

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 20, 2024

lol my wife’s friend was talking about her brothers secret elk spot and would not give up any helpful details on where I could go for my muzzle loader season. She shared a pic with my wife though pic.twitter.com/EiMoLhcYjk

— Barrett (@SledgeDev) October 19, 2024