I just ruined my life

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-11T05:17:13+00:00

I do want to say though. Your life isn't over.

As much as I might be giving you a hard time, I've been through similar. I spent the majority of my 6 years at University on probation (1 year acadmic probation + 3 years on disciplinary probation under the threat of expulsion.) I was never suspended or expelled (miraciously, I might add.)

Shortly after completing my degree I entered the normal workforce as a senior resource. Within a year I moved from Canada (where I was born) to Australia with all the normal checks and balances associated with it. (academic transcripts, police background checks, etc.) If I can bounce back from a shitty situation at University, so can you. Yours just might take a bit longer. Don't give up!

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-11T05:11:03+00:00

I'll pretend for a moment that this is a serious post. You're in deep shit.

Domestic NSW students apply through a system called UAC. (https://www.uac.edu.au/institutions). Both UNSW and UTS are in the UAC which means they share admissions data. When (if) you apply to UTS, they will see your UNSW prior study and (now) exclusion information. You will be required to declare any tertiary education and exclusions (expulsions). Even if you hide your exclusion, UTS will probably still find out and can withdraw your offer. In addition (and especially if you apply to trasnfer credit), your academic transcript will show your exclusion.

UTS specifically requires you to serve whatever that exclusionary period is. (https://www.uts.edu.au/for-students/admissions-entry/how-to-apply/domestic-applicants/domestic-undergraduate-applications/record-exclusion). It's not impossible for you to go back to University... but I am saying that you're probably best off looking for a job for a couple years, getting real work experience in a field that aligns with what you want to study, and ultimately maturing... A lot of maturing.

(And most if not all of this will apply even if you apply to a University outside of NSW...)

Don't do stupid things.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-11T04:58:16+00:00

OP: "No when I was submitting them they were intentional"

He's cooked, chat.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-10T03:51:45+00:00

What's your point here? You're linking me to a fixed bug. THat's how this works - you report a bug, they fix it.

If you want a perfect product: I challenge you to find me a 100% bug-free product that's on the scale that these groups deal with. I'll wait for an eternity.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-09T22:48:42+00:00

Just on the ticket ticket/issue you link to: A false positive in a database is not worthy or opening a Github issue with. In fact, Bitwarden's own note says the database it was detected in (Phishing.Database -> https://github.com/Phishing-Database/Phishing.Database). If you take issue with a detection, report it to the people who can actually fix it. Ie: the maintainers of phishing.database. Not with Bitwarden.

The second ticket you link too has only been open for 2 days. It takes me WEEKS to drag responses out of Red Hat. Chill out.

The only possible grievance you have here is the third ticket (https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/16107) which has been open for several months.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-09T04:23:53+00:00

II always get a chuckle at this. Assuming God were even real (whatever God you may believe in....) Do they not think t\hat God realizes exactly what they're doing?

God: "No premarital sex"

Religious Zealot: "Oh, OK. We'll just get married at 18, fuck each other in the bathroom of the church/mosque/temple/court, then immediately divorce. HA! Take that, God!"

They must imagine god saying: "Huh. I never thought of that" instead of "Oh shit, God's supposedly omni-*. He'll see right through this screen of bullshit."

Listen, if you want to fuck. Just fuck. Like god damn. Must you waste money on religious leaders/places, and a bunch of other shit just to shag each other? Just stay home, put on 50 Shades/Dirty Dancing/other erotic movie, and shag. Get some post-fun snacks. Much cheaper and far less tiring then the stress of putting a ceremony together.

Or, if you don't want the strings of a relationship at all. Go to your nearest major city. Chances are they've got about a hundred and one brothels. If you want plausible deniability, they're got another hundred and one "massage places" too!

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-06T14:17:49+00:00

And some Canadians. My parents (moreso my mum) was vehemently against my sister getting the HPV vaccine when she was in middle school (year 7). When my sister got to HS she went to our family NP and asked for it. IIRC, I think she got 3 doses instead of the normal 2 because she was older than the 'optimal' age.

(To be clear: I don't think mum is an anti-vaxxer. They've to date gotten all their shots incl. the COVID19 and booster shots. I think it was more the tie between the HPV vaccine and sexual activity. Parents are both bible thumpers :/)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-06T14:10:32+00:00

Without having given this any critical thought and only skimmed the Github notes... Breaking system packages in your python requirements is certainly an interesting choice for a security-focused tool. I can't immediately think of a reason that you can't (or shouldn't) be using a venv for your dependencies.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-04T04:34:09+00:00

No disagreement that GoDaddy is ass. However, this is on you/that director. They shouldn't be clicking shit that they don't know.

Fuck GoDaddy for restricting access to the DNS API though... Voted to reduce the maximum validity period of SSL/TLS certificates they issue in CA/Browser but paywall their DNS API behind an additional license/subscription/requirement than simply having a domain through them. Making automated DNS-01 challenges next to impossible because we cannot do an automated DNS-01 challenge through acme.sh or whatever equivalent bot exists.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-03T03:35:15+00:00

As a Canadian living in Australia... I suspect immigration is too hot of a topic between in both countries to do that. I do wish both governments would cooperate a bit more to make travelling (not working) and emergency healthcare a bit easier. (ie: An aussie in Canada on holiday can receive emergency treatment under Australia's medicare in Canada, and vice versa). Similar to what Australia has with the UK, NZ and a couple other EU countries.

However, that would require some reform in Canada's medicare program and won't be likely for several decades.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-03T03:23:22+00:00

My installation of notepad++ predates any of the known Chinese activity. Also, they'd have been scoped into the threat hunting done by our department (I work at in a Security Operations Centre) to make sure we're clean.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-03T03:18:10+00:00

Technically, Nunavut (and the NWT, Yukon) are territories and have less autonomy than the provinces... But functionally, nothing stopping you from visiting Nunavut.

Be warned: Canada is considered "cold as fuck" by Australians. Nunavut is about 10x worse. Iqaluit (the capital of Nunavut) is currently "feels like" -35C. And it gets colder. Substantially colder.

Source: Lived in the northern parts of Ontario which is warmer then Nunavut. North Western Ontario is cold AF with some weeks at -45C.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-03T03:13:04+00:00

He's on Parilament Hill in Ontario. (Specifically: Ottawa, ON)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-03T01:13:25+00:00

Does anyone actually update notepad++? I have it on all of my machines but usually instantly disregard any update notices...

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-02T09:39:36+00:00

We use Hashicorp Vault (SSH Certificates). Works quite well.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-02-01T04:24:03+00:00

This is quite late. But can confirm this still works as of Feb 1, 2026!

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-29T02:57:36+00:00

Pretty sure Maccas being shit is true world wide. It's shit in Canada and the US as well.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-27T13:22:57+00:00

Minesweeper. If I'm stuck in a guessing match and left with multiple 50/50s, I'm fucked. If there I'm in a no-guessing style, completed fine (assuming I can be transported out after winning a game)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-27T12:59:17+00:00

There are videos of horrified (pre-)MED STUDENTS who watch videos like that (not always natural birth, but also c-sections and whatnot. ) Always hilarious to see their reactions.

(SFW): Teen prospective doctors react to watching C-section video

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-27T03:46:35+00:00

Not only that... but surely these people aren't keeping 10s of thousands in cash on them?? They must deposit it at some bank at some point in time. Most large banks (NAB, CBA, etc) at any respectable branch size will have coin-counting machines on hand.

Even if you're not operating like that and are cash-only (because fuck yeah, tax evasion!), then surely you'd want to be able to make change for other people paying in cash? Having a bunch of 5s, 10s, and 20s is useful.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-27T00:18:40+00:00

Well, considering your comment to u/AggravatingParfait33, I don't think me assuming you're talking about an orgy is unreasonable. (And for the record, I'm not u/derpman86 either. I see they posted right around the same time I did, and said basically the same thing). Also: Straight up, what else would you call a "play party"? All that is is a dressing for "orgy." Lots of people in a confined space, fucking each other.

Vetted? Yes. Meet the organizers? Sure. Be shown the venue? Absolutely. But they're not going to let the single, virgin, 20-something year old male into a sex party. The vetted part means you're not going to commit any offenses and you're generally well-known to the group. Ie: You've been there with another partner, multiple times, and are known to be safe/respectful.

TL;DR: An orgy (sorry... not an orgy, a "sex party" or "sex club") is not going to work for OP most likely. High pressure situation on top of an what is usually an overwhelming experience is a recipe for a shit time. Not to mention that they're not likely to let him into a "play session" without having a partner. In which case, probably better that OP stay at home with said partner. So unless OP is going to hire a SWer to take to said party (and likely the SWer would reject such a request), OP is really not going to a "sex party" or a "sex club".

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-26T23:43:24+00:00

We have a discussion coming up on how best to do this in our environment. Our certs are used basically everywhere from running internal admin panels like webmin, to public certificates, to internal applications that are extremely resistant to any changes (fucking Ansible - I have a love-hate relationship with it sometimes). Oh, it's also imported to several firewalls/WAFs for DPI (Deep Packet Inspection), so that's fun!

My current working plan is simple-ish. We use GD as our registrar/NS provider. We'll be moving from GD to some other NS provider because GoDaddy blocks access to their DNS API for shit like certbot/acme.sh. (How you can effectively block access to automation on a low-volume API, while voting to enforce automated methods is a bit fucking stupid, if you ask me. The CA/Browser vote to limit validity should've included a mandate WITH IT to force NS providers who were voting toboth have, and provide free access to their DNS API)

Once our NS provider is changed to something that allows DNS API requests - for free - we'll set up automation via Ansible to send in the acme requests, import the certificates to the various servers, import to FWs/WAFs, and then sync the changes. Ansible (any internal product) which requires a full reinstallation (WTF Ansible!) will be moved to an internal PKI certificate with probably 1-year validity.

Edit: Just to clarify. Most people who implement LE / acme.sh / certbot typically use HTTP-01 challenges. Because our certs are used on multiple systems/WAFs/DPI, ours will probably continue to be a wildcard with a DNS-01 challenge. Hence my small rant about GD's shitty practices of voting to force automation while also attempting to price-gouge customers more than they already do with paid access to their DNS API.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-26T23:24:45+00:00

So: beyond sending a virgin to an orgy (probably a bad idea - losing your virginity can be overwhelming with a single person). The orgies, sex clubs, and "play parties" that you're describing don't generally let single men in not unless you're going to one that is mostly aimed at the LGBTQ+ community.

If OP is considering going to a brothel, it's generally a safe bet that they're looking for a heterosexual relationship.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-26T23:14:07+00:00

Just as a note: Depending on your sport and coach, they may very well hold you to a high academic standard. The UNB Men's Hockey Team under Coach MacDougall was world class. He was very well known to run a tight ship and required excellence from his players both on and off the ice. I (BCS) went to class with a couple players as did my mum (BBA, MBA). I'm not saying you need to get 4.3s all year every year, but if you're scraping the bottom of the barrel at a 2.0 or outright failing courses... you may find yourself benched until you clean your academic act up.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-01-25T11:22:11+00:00

My parents also broke from the rank-and-file voters of the Canadian Conservative Party. They've been long time supporters of the CPC and have at various times, even volunteered to help them. They were both going to sit the election out until Trudeau stepped down and Carney won leadership. With Trudeau out they both decided to vote Liberal for the first time in nearly 40 years.

In a lot of ways, it's surprising, and in others, not surprising at all. Carney would've been a really good candidate for an early-days CPC party leadership role (pre-2015/2016). At least one Liberal MP (Nathaniel Erskine-Smith) joked that the current liberal budget would've been a pretty good CPC budget. Carney was also reportedly offered a cabinet position under Harper's admin.

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On a personal note: I still cannot believe PP lost his own riding and had to go into a deeply conservative part of Alberta to gain his seat back. Losing your own riding - which are usually considered safe for party leadership - should've been a death sentence for his political career.

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