CDR Nobody

Inalienable rights lover; computer geek; Commander, USN (ret); @NavalAcademy grad; ex-Googler; father of 3; defense contractor

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

The assertion that "Another state should not have access to out of state residents bank account information" is a very childish view of government. There's nothing stopping "the government" from doing anything "it" wants. High school history class should have taught everyone that.

There are a bunch of American government employees who are enveloped in American culture as much as we are. They're also influenced by rules, from the Constitution down to their time card submission steps.

The child says "the government of Oregon should have a rule that they can't take money from people who live in California!" When presented with cases in which it's obvious that Oregon should be able to take money from people who live in California, like delinquent child support or tax evasion, the child will try to add caveats and rules and exceptions to make their original assertion work in practice. When that is done by adults, it's called "writing laws and policies", and has already been done.

This particular case? I don't really know, or care to investigate. The vast majority of situations that I've heard about via social media like this actually have the "victim" doing exceptionally shady shit, and it's obvious that the existing, reasonable laws and policies targeted them. Sometimes we should update the rules to allow their particular brand of shady shit. Sometimes actually innocent people get caught up in systemic flaws and the right change is to fix those. But it has to be fixed by adults, not children crying that states should never be allowed to take money from people out of state.

With only adults in the room, there are enjoyable discussions to be had about how culture can result in government employees doing heinous shit in spite of well written rules. If children are present, those discussions become unpleasant, perhaps impossible.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A woman who lives and works in California had $20,000 taken out of her bank account by The Oregon Department of Revenue

She’s never lived in Oregon yet they were able to get her bank account information and take her money

Oregon said the woman owed the money in unpaid income taxes and penalties, but she didn’t. She’s never lived or worked there

She called and apparently Oregon has an address for her that was literally a public park

They told her it would be 5+ months to refund her money. The woman had to get the local media involved to put pressure to make them give the money back faster

Eventually, Oregon admitted it was a mistake

Another state should not have access to out of state residents bank account information

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

The bar for computer security has never been lower. Well, maybe Windows 98 was lower, but this is still pretty low.

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

The fix for Meta's AI bot vulnerability was apparently:
- remove the feature from the UI ❌
- leave the API endpoint accessible ✅
I wish I was joking.

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@Careerflex She's hiding all the negative replies, too. Can't stand disagreement.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

this happens in the horror industry about once every ten years or so and I can promise you they’re going to learn the absolute worst lessons from it.

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@reddit_lies I don't see funny pictures nearly as often.

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@TheRand2025 @WallStreetApes Too bad some Jewish high school kids in the 1970s ran a successful campaign to make pay toilets illegal in most of America.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

I just want to know why there is still zero accountability for the bafoons who built 35 of these aluminum junk ships!?

Why did we decommission our minesweepers when this LCS crap isn’t ready??

Why are we still naming a ship after Obama’s SECNAV who authorized it?

Why is a ship specifically designed to fight Iran useless against Iran?

If it can’t fight a nation with no navy, how the hell can it possibly fight China?

Why does the USNA LCS page still have this photo of it shooting a missile when that capability was removed?

Why did it take TWENTY years after the first was built to get a mine-hunting package aboard?

Why aren’t these flooding the Strait of Hormuz right now?

Why are we STILL building these junks while also decommissioning them because they suck?

Why haven’t we taken every single one offshore and sunk them?

Why does every Admiral I talk to lie to me and claim they work great?

If they work so great why aren’t they flooding Hormuz right now??

Why hasn’t a single person been fired yet??

Why doesn’t this administration care about accountability?

WE WANT ACCOUNTABILITY @SecWar

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

Then you either need to coach them into acting normal, or get a very good understanding of how and why their weird is better (then get weird with them).

[DAKKADAKKA @DAKKADAKKA1]

This gets posted every six months. Why? Because weed addicts can’t form long term memories lmao

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

I feel like I had a subconscious grasp of this but never saw it spelled out so clearly: in America, the greatest insult is "loser" but in a lot of other countries, it's "sucker".

https://t.co/LqW4Z6TzTg

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@boulderpolice Felony large capacity magazine possession?

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

https://t.co/Q2qFvYsYSs

[IRIS C2 @C2IRIS]

“So you borrowed $160K to study the esoteric details of post-quantum cryptography at Johns Hopkins?”

> Yes, Dave.

“And then you found an algebraic backdoor in Apple’s quantum-resistant crypto that a nation-state would pay seven figures for?”

> That’s right, Dave.

“And you responsibly disclosed it through the bug bounty portal?”

> Correct, Dave.

“For a pair of AirPods and a thank-you email?”

…Yes, Dave.

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

When bureaucracy turns white hats gray...

[neils @midwestneil]

Fun fact. Apple did this to me in 2019 over a messages 0-click bug. So I did some magic and got myself added to their daily bug bounty standup call, which was just a FaceTime group call. I submitted another vuln with a screenshot of their call and got a threatening letter.

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@Oneiorosgrip I meant the regular dishwasher, which still requires manual loading but automates the "washing" part.

[Weapon 𝕏 @HellRaz0r1776]

I was making potato soup last night. The recipe called for five potatoes cubed.

Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

[robyn☦️ @RRR0BYN]

So I have a (mostly) useless degree in film theory and my personal concentration was National cinema. Meaning the study of how a racial/ethnic group represents themselves, their history, present and future through the artistic medium of film.

You will find that every single race of people on earth represent reality differently through film. The essence of that difference is found in the people themselves and what makes them, them.

The racial spirit of a people is illustrated through their use of film making and visual storytelling in such a manner that a Bollywood film and a Korean film are so different in the manner of their storytelling, character development, camera techniques etc they might as well be from different planets.

My favourite example of this is how Irish cinema is known for its dark, often crude, tragic comedy which mirrors the spirit of the Irish and their history perfectly. French cinema also intertwines deep philosophical ideas with ordinary everyday life and often uses rebellious and bold storytelling/camera techniques. Very in alignment with the French spirit.

These distinct artistic differences give visual representation to the distinct differences between the racial spirit of people. What’s even more important though is that the artistic medium of film is in effect a form of collective dreaming.

One steps into the theatre, sits back in a comfy seat, the lights dim, the screen illuminates and we experience the film itself in a similar fashion as we would a dream. The cinema provided the enthralling and thrilling experience of a new reality where anything could be possible. Where we could be reminded of who we are and we could imagine who we might be but for the first time as a shared experience.

And what are dreams if not the deep internal world which inspires the creation and building of the external material world.

Most people think of movies as just entertainment but in reality it is so much more than that. It is programming, guided dreaming and identity creating on the societal scale.

What a people dream and feel about themselves internally they become in a sense. This is why these race swapped roles in historical dramas are not merely superficial and are in effect evil.

It takes a historical figure, their contribution to the spirit of their race and thus a national identity and transgresses upon it by corrupting the image as belonging to anyone, everyone and therefore no one.

It is stolen valour. It is the highest form of cultural erasure in art, it is history rewriting in pursuit of identity destruction. Not surprisingly it is something we exclusively see in roles which rightfully belong to whites.

It is the explicit propaganda arm of white replacement. It aims to make us forget who we are, induce a form of collective amnesia about our history and ultimately erase from all future memory the truth of our ancestors heroics and bravery.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

“This is why I think the AI question cannot be separated from the institutional and economic conditions in which students are now learning. Yes, AI can become cognitive surrender. Yes, it can allow students to bypass the difficult work that produces durable learning. But in many contemporary educational settings, the student has already been abandoned before the chatbot appears.”

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@CaudilloNuclear Apparently they improved BBL safety thanks to 2018-2019 guidelines and now it's safer than childbirth if you go to a legit plastic surgeon.

Too bad; that would have been a great factoid.

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

This is the cyberpunk future I was promised.

[durandalcomplex @durandalcomplex]

grizzled 6-year veteran augmented FPV drone cyber newtype pilot with a nic smoke cloud stain on their neuralink command visor

[CDR Nobody @CdrNobody]

@cremieuxrecueil "Talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than drunk driving."

The "study" that showed this was very poorly designed, and done in a lab that was built for the express purpose of showing cell phones are dangerous while driving.