mayo_cider [he/him]

Best 5G reception on the block

Thanks, from now on I’m just going to lie

I unfortunately don’t have any sources, but a few years ago I read or watched a video about an interview with a paleontologist who was asked about their opinion of the first sign of civilization

Their answer was “a fossil of a skeleton with a broken and healed leg”

Every other animal dies with a broken leg in nature, the only way to survive is with the support of others

Why does the paperwork suddenly claim the patient is 600 years old shape shifting dragon?

Neural networks are great for pattern recognition, unfortunately all the hype is in pattern generation and we end up with mammograms in anime style

I refuse to use camera in meetings

I don’t believe in geometry

I’m 6’5

Knowing weasels at least one of those has taken down a moose

It’s not about left or right, it’s about socialism or liberalism

If calling yourself a leftist makes you feel better, feel free to do so, but don’t get angry when people call out your actual position

One of his better takes

Yeah, thankfully the modern ones are usually pretty easy to clean, I remember searching through configs for variations of the fake search engine

It’s honestly impressive how many ways there are to hide those just in the browser’s configs

The old search engine hijackers were honestly the worst malware I had to deal with somewhat regurarly

Anything more serious either cleaned up with malwarebytes or warranted reformatting the hard drive, but the hijackers were relatively easy but annoying and tedious to get rid off

No worries, I’m a vet

Looks like bloat, just a quick stab to abdomen and we’ll be good

No country has officially recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan’s government, and the U.N. has said recognition is almost impossible while bans on female education and employment remain in place.

Good to know it’s only “almost” impossible

Tbh they already do everything they can, if you ever need a paper, e-mail the author and they’ll most likely send you the “last version” before publication they still hold the rights to distribute

One lecturer actually had notes on their slides for the differences between the latest version of the course book and the one before it, since the latest one wasn’t available for free anywhere but they wanted to use couple chapters from the new book (they scanned and distributed the relevant parts themself)

I feel like most of the academia in the research side would be happy to see it collapse, but the current system is too deeply tied in the money for any quick change

I worked in academia for almost a decade and never met a researcher who wouldn’t openly support sci-hub (well, some warned their students that it was illegal to type these spesific search terms and click on the wrong link downloading the pdf for free)

For ad hoc transfers, easiest way is to pack it with 7zip (or any other compression software with proper encryption) and setting a proper password for the file

The funniest solution I’ve found was a service that offered secure transfer of passwords between devices through their “encrypted transmission” with a password field on their website

FYI, don’t give any password to a service you aren’t using with that service