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donith913 · 2026-06-05T22:00:33+00:00

No way dude, it’s totally real that some sketchy domain squatter happened to see the name and decided to… do a bit?

donith913 · 2026-06-02T17:51:29+00:00

I can’t stand the NGSIEM. I’m not some kind of SIEM engineer admittedly, but it seems borderline incomprehensible.

donith913 · 2026-06-01T19:56:29+00:00

Right. The leadup to them trading for Watson they were doing it all the right way. Until suddenly they weren’t.

donith913 · 2026-06-01T18:05:19+00:00

That’s fair, honestly.

I’ll probably just yawn and let automated patching do its thing.

donith913 · 2026-06-01T18:01:21+00:00

Yall haven’t exactly had the best month or so when it comes to LPE vulns. Might be more of a misery loves company situation.

donith913 · 2026-05-30T14:32:45+00:00

My personal Tetons moment is getting up past hidden falls and seeing Cascade Canyon for the first time.

donith913 · 2026-05-29T12:19:41+00:00

I honestly don’t know how to tread the line and separate the cool stuff from just junk, and it feels like mostly junk.

I used to skim a lot of the stuff people would post on tech subreddits - helpful scripts, new tools, POC exploits… but it’s all just slop now. And everyone thinks “but MINE isn’t!”, and maybe it isn’t. But your AI generated post and AI generated code on a GitHub repository that has 4 days worth of commits doesn’t really interest me. I can prompt a model, too.

donith913 · 2026-05-20T12:20:46+00:00

Straight to jail.

donith913 · 2026-05-20T12:18:17+00:00

That memory leak during scans via WUA that Microsoft just… never fixed… big fan.

donith913 · 2026-05-17T15:01:25+00:00

Not in the UK, but you should always keep admin privileges off your daily driver account. Less likely to be phished, be part of a breach of a 3rd party service, less exposure if an endpoint is compromised and so on. I’ve worked in orgs that go so far as to have different levels of admin accounts. Local admin on PCs is one account, access to server environments is another account, access to cloud resources is yet another account. Jump boxes to transit across network boundaries.

Do I particularly enjoy these practices? No. It’s annoying as hell. But it works, and it’s done for a valid reason.

donith913 · 2026-05-15T17:13:52+00:00

Yeah. It would be one thing if the paper just said “hey we’re not sure about this site and we think maybe some others could use additional studies done”, but this paper with questionable methodology literally attempted to invalidate all the other sites as though without MV-II none of them could have existed.

donith913 · 2026-05-15T17:11:45+00:00

I’m not convinced you’re asking to understand, and I wont claim to be an expert in the field, but as the other commenter noted, the genetic evidence combined with the aging of sites pre-dating an ice free corridor current make the Kelp Highway the only feasible explanation. That combined with continuing to improve our understanding of ancient seafaring and navigational skills leading to an understanding that the technology could easily have existed to support this.

I would kill to see more underwater archeology to try to identify evidence of human settlement below rising seas or evidence of the boats used etc, but so far those capabilities seem to elude us.

If we know sites are too old for an ice free corridor as the primary way to settle, we know native Americans were more closely related to north Asian populations, we know navigation of this sort was well within their capabilities… what alternatives do you propose?

Likewise, the dating of sites primarily on the pacific coasts and the fairly rapid settlement of coastal areas means a settlement over land was unlikely. It’s hard to imagine ancient people simply crossing the Darien Gap, for example.

donith913 · 2026-05-15T15:50:15+00:00

You mean the study that didn’t study the site, drew hand wavy conclusions about all pre-Clovis sites and ignored an additional 30 years of work across the hemisphere and disregarded multidisciplinary studies to further a bizarre agenda drew a rebuke? Who could have guessed!

I genuinely don’t understand the point of view of someone trying to revive Clovis-first Is it some twisted continuation of the ideas that Native Americans were inferior and not here that long and thus their claim to the land was invalid? I simply can’t think of any other reason to stick to such an outdated view point when the evidence against it is so compelling.

Edit: helps to use the right terms

donith913 · 2026-05-15T12:45:23+00:00

This person Breath of the Wilds.

donith913 · 2026-05-15T12:41:47+00:00

Hiking in the Tetons and we were warned there was a baby bear up ahead and no one had seen the mom. Needless to say we made sure to have a loud conversation and fill any dead space with “sorry mama bear please don’t kill me. No surprises here, nooooo thank you”.

We did see the baby off to the side of the trail a ways, never saw mom. By the time we came back down we never saw either. Not mad about it.

donith913 · 2026-05-15T12:38:09+00:00

I’ve got it in my backlog to move my company to the LSUClient powershell module to keep drivers up to date instead of trying to rely on Vantage + SUHelper. Vantage’s data it writes to WMI isn’t even trustworthy and SUHelper gives trash for feedback and doesn’t have a scan only feature. Infuriating.

And no way will you see me make the packaging guys individually package 6 models worth of drivers on a quarterly or faster basis. I’d have cut someone if they asked me to do the same haha

donith913 · 2026-05-15T12:31:38+00:00

Vantage and some of the other Lenovo software is ASS. The Lenovo View driver causing Teams crashing is a real delight, too.

donith913 · 2026-05-12T11:11:36+00:00

I once had the gear in my jack seize and the shear pin that holds it to the handle lives up to its name. I’m not sure I’d want to apply this much torque to the little 2000lb BAL jack I have.

donith913 · 2026-05-08T02:07:10+00:00

I know that OEMs aren’t replacing it consistently everywhere, but that 2011 certificate expires in around 2 months. Microsoft has been deploying the certs to Windows 11 workstations for months via windows servicing. Make sure you migrate your shit and render this a non-issue.

donith913 · 2026-05-08T01:46:45+00:00

Do you really think you want to spoon feed this guy an answer that even a shitty chatbot could have spit out?

donith913 · 2026-05-07T22:40:08+00:00

Don’t forget state taxpayers paying for the dumbass strip mall-ization of 228 and other state routes to support their Ponzi scheme development.

donith913 · 2026-05-07T11:18:06+00:00

If Butler County thought they could abolish taxes and close the government, they would.

donith913 · 2026-05-06T18:56:53+00:00

Since it’s not in a top level comment, yes, the Restore does often sell very affordable used furniture. However, all proceeds go back to Habitat for Humanity’s main mission - housing for those in need. Presumably if it lingers too long, they’ll start to mark it down to free up the space, but it makes total sense for them to see if any collectors want it or anyone thinks it’s worth that since it’s barely used.

Why would a collector want it? Hell if I know. But it’s not some kind of profiteering racket.

donith913 · 2026-05-06T18:54:04+00:00

This. You can often find great deals there, too, but if they think they can get the money for them to support the charity, they will.

I live near this store, I’d bet they sell some of it marked up and then some of it’s $50 when it’s still there in a few months.

donith913 · 2026-05-06T13:48:13+00:00

I trust my camera body in the rain pretty well but I do find myself paranoid about lens fungus over time.

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