varx @varx@infosec.exchange

@platypus to be honest i kinda interpret that stuff more as "you can't be so efficient that they'll stop trying to overwork you"

tired: lisp is great because of macros!
wired: lisp is great because of paredit
inspired: lisp is great because I don't have to memorize operator precedence rules

@aparrish can't unsee this

“Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”

The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.

In which the Grauniad's "related stories" feature reveals both how crap its algorithm is and how uninspired headline writers can be:

@pixelfed I notice there's a gOgle #reCaptcha on pixelfed.org. Please ... don't do that.
https://blog.assarbad.net/20170309/bad-worse-worst-captcha-recaptcha/

So, got a job with the Academy that took over my school. Nice. After the interview I had a chat with a friend who heads their HR and joked I'd like my job title to be IT Manager - Special Operations (currently Special Projects, for whatever bizarre reason). Turns out she didn't recognise my trademark deadpan humour and notified the Academy Head of my request! Whilst it will give me endless joy, not sure it's the best way to start!!!

If you don’t think browser monopolies are bad:

Google still doesn’t support adding a FIDO U2F key to Google Accounts from Firefox, literally years after everyone else supports it among large tech companies.

Life hack if an oAuth app asks for too many permissions on your GitHub profile, just remove (parts of) the "scope" parameter. Not sure why this isn't a built-in feature, tbh. Also works on some other websites with oAuth.

The highlight of this evening has been ripping the old VHS tape I'm calling "Ufrotrash".

In the 90s I apparently taped over a documentary about alien abduction with an episode of Eurotrash & the previous audio track keeps leaking through. Here's a few (censored) samples!

How fricking... sELF-ASSURED do you need to be to just go,
"Oh? You wanna know my magic bytes? To identify my file format?

An 0x00 byte at offset 0, puNK."

@kryptidkid imgdesc:
Panel 1: a black and white #cat carrying a fish in its mouth

Panel 2: the cat bringing the fish to its litter of three kittens

the LGBT standard was refreshed to LGBTQ and most recently LGBTQIA, but you may see the following proprietary extensions in older equipment:

LGBT+
LGBT-X
mini-LGBT
LGBT-HD
LGBT 2000
LGBT for Workgroups
i.LGBT
ASUS® LGBTQ Boost™
LGBTQ.11ac
μLGBTQ (embedded only)
LGBTQ Creative Cloud

it is said, write what you can’t not write. write what you want to read. write what hurts, what reveals, what illuminates, even as you may not understand what you are illuminating or why.

i’m writing this story because i want more stories about positive, post-scarcity social relations — even as complex social and material tensions remain.

utopia is something we do for each other. it is something we owe each other.