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I work in information security.

Don’t use biometrics to secure your devices. Biometrics are a convenience feature to make it easier to access your device. Biometrics are NOT security. You can be compelled to unlock your device by having it pointed at your face or your finger forced onto the reader. Don’t do it.

Use 2FA/MFA everywhere you can. If it’s an option, turn it on.

Use a password manager that generates strong passwords and use a different password for every service you use.

Update, update, update. Allow your devices, OSes, and software/applications to update automatically.

Talk to your parents about safe surfing. Tell them that their bank won’t send them an email or text asking them to send personal information. Set a password with your family to identify them if they are in trouble and need help. Tell parents and grandparent not to send you bail money to get you out of jail in Morocco.

Teach your kids that everything they post on the internet is public and permanent. Teach them that if they do something that they think will get them in trouble and someone is blackmailing them that it’s better to tell you and ask for help than to give in to the blackmailers.

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I always have a firewall inside the ISP device. I also have segmented network with the devices I mostly control on one network and the devices that the manufacturer mostly controls on another.

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I watch women’s hockey because I love hockey and women’s hockey is more technical than men’s.

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My son started playing hockey when we was 5. There were an essentially equal number of girls and boys across the teams in our league with many hundreds of players across all the teams in all of the associations in the league. As they got older the number of girls started to drop off. Through U13 and into U15 the boys went through puberty and on average got bigger, stronger, faster, and more aggressive. In U15 we were down to 3 girls on our team. Going in to U18 we will have one. Some of the girls lost interest in hockey. Some left because they couldn’t compete at the same level as the boys. Our best girls went on to play girl’s hockey where they would have a more even playing field playing against other girls.

No, I don’t, “throw a shitfit” when I see a male athlete playing against female athletes (and frankly, labeling anyone who doesn’t agree with you as, “throwing a shitfit” completely devalues your position) but I do understand why those female athletes who choose to play female sports because they want a more even playing field and to play against other female athletes might see it as unfair to be forced to compete against a male athlete.

I absolutely believe in social equality for everyone but identifying as a woman socially and being female are two very different things.

(I’m happy to discuss this but if you start hissing and spitting about my being a TERF or a transphobe I will ignore you and block you and never give you or your opinions another thought.)

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

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I’m still running Photoshop CS 4 and don’t have any issues.

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I used Director.

Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....

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The Alabama Taliban strikes again.

EDIT: The Missouri Taliban already requires female state legislators to keep the hijab.

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Alabamistan

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Up next, van lots of good old boys driving around harassing women who are out in public without a male escort or who aren’t dressed conservatively enough. The right wing is playing right out of the theocratic extremist playbook.

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We have it in Canada. Do you want to borrow ours?

The reality is that the US uses the metric system but everything is translated into freedom units for the general population. Another situation where you believe against all evidence that you have something that you really don’t have.

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You were so sure you got me. Sorrry.

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Good news, everyone!

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MapleEngineer ,
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Who the fuck cares what that fetid fascist sack of pustulant assholes says?

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You’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud! -Isreal

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Yup.

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state's abortion law over medical exceptions (apnews.com)

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned....

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Get ready, America. Van loads of morality police beating women on the street for not dressing conservatively are in your future.

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They knew all along.

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The Republicans are going to do their very best to kill as many people as possible again.

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Remember when they said, “They can’t charge everyone.”

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I met my wife on ICQ. I had random chat turned on and she said, “Hello.” That was a long time ago

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Not as far as I know.

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Did that line get you laid a lot?

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So many scams.

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Not yet. Our son isn’t quite 16 and our daughter is 18 and into girls. It may take a few years yet.

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She told me she talked to a guy who just wanted to talk about WoW and his favourite Linux distro. She gave up when he didn’t make a move and decided to look for a real man. Was that you?

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Ah.

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Uh…no. It was all about sex. The whole getting married thing was an accident.

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This is why the US is working so hard to stop renewables. Rich people don’t make any money when power is free.

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When I’m working from home 99% of the time PJ bottoms in the summer and sweatpants in the winter. A t-shirt all the time and a fleece vest and fleece jacket over top in the winter. I sometimes wear socks. I wear a toque from the end of summer to the beginning of summer and sometimes during the summer.

When I travel for business, business casual with a t-shirt and dockers

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There’s a rule banning “self-preferencing.” That’s when platforms push their often inferior, in-house products and hide superior products made by their rivals.

Spaz isn’t going to like this.

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You’re right. Hopefully they will expand the rules to include non-gatekeeper services like Reddit once the rule is in effect.

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I absolutely love milkshakes. I just wish they loved me more.

Is this what god feels like?

@showerthoughts

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I make homemade ice cream. I have made lacrosse free ice cream for people several times. You need to find lactose free whipping cream and lactose free table cream but once you do you’re golden.

500 ml 35% whipping cream

1 L 10% table cream

1 1/2 c granulated sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

(Sorry I’m Canadian, that’s how we measure things.)

Dissolve the sugar in the table cream. (It’s hard to dissolve that much sugar in whipping cream.) Once the sugar is dissolved add the whipping cream and vanilla and stir to mix.

That’s your base.

Put it in your ice cream machine and make it into ice cream. Put it in a container and freeze it hard.

If you like milkshakes throw a bunch of the ice cream you made into a blender, add lactose free milk until it mixes nicely, then add an once of your favourite bourbon. (Or don’t. I fucking love bourbon milkshakes)

Enjoy.

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Sorry. I could write a novella of you like.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

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I use a Netflix download app or a video capture app to store Netflix videos for offline viewing. They are charging a lot and not meeting my needs so I take matter into my own hands.

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I have the ABCC11 gene. I have dry ear wax and no body odor.

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I don’t give a shit that she’s having threesomes. I’ve had threesomes. I hate her because she’s a sanctimonious power hungry hippocrite.

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I’m sorry that your life has been so sheltered and boring that you can’t imagine that other people have had different experiences than you have but that’s really a you problem, not a me problem.

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FFM is two women who are into each other and a man. In the first case it was my girlfriend, Heather, and another girl named Helen when we were 16. The girls were really into each other and I was there playing along. Much later, like 30 years later an old (20 years before) fuck friend named Terry reached out and asked if she could have a threesomes with my wife and I. We had offered in the past but she declined. In that case Terry was there for my wife and I just grabbed whatever hole was exposed at the outside of the pile. After a few visits she said that she would like to continue just with my wife. I said that that was ok but my wife declined.

FMF is two women who aren’t into each other but are there for the man. I had a longtime girlfriend that my wife knew about named Heather, a different Heather. We were coworkers. When I left that job we were in a state of turmoil, I had been diagnosed as having Asperger’s and being a sex addict. My wife suggested that I invite Heather over for a threesome. She came but she wasn’t into my wife so we did things FMF (Heather on my face and my wife riding me sort if thing.) My wife put a lot of effort into breaking down barriers and made a lot of progress and everyone had a lot of fun. Heather lost her father and stopped coming to visit.

The MFM thing is a married woman that I’ve had a crush on for about 15 years who has also crushed on me. We’ve talked a lot but she wasn’t willing to risk her marriage despite the fact that it was very stale. She sent me a note a about a month ago asking if she could ask me a question. The question was had I ever had a threesome? Two women and a man or two men and a woman? I told her what I wrote above. She said that she had talked to her husband and that he wanted to watch another man have sex with his wife. Would I consider being that man? We talked and I said that I was interested. We met (at Starbucks) and talked as a group about rules and agreed to go forward. He’s not interested in having sex with me and I’m not interested in having sex with him. Is just two guys with his wife. They are about to move into a home that they have built and once they are in they will invite me over. After talking with them I got the impression that it wasn’t his idea and that she pushed for it because she wanted to have me and this was a way to do it that she was comfortable with. Either way she’s tall and pretty and I’m looking forward to a playdate. I told them a lot about my relationship with my wife that she could use as ammunition to argue that she should be able to have me on the side between threeway playdates.

MapleEngineer ,
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Bragging involves embellishment. I just stated facts that were relevant to my point. Your envy does not make my simple statement of the facts bragging.

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I was not excessively proud or boastful. I simply stated facts.

As I said, the readers jealousy of my lived experience does not make what I said bragging. That’s a you problem, not a me problem.

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Nice.

The first porn movie I ever watched was Debbie Does Dallas. The one I telemedicine most was a parody called Debbie Does Dishes. I think Nina Hartley was in that one. It was stupid.

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If i cared I would remove my comment instead of taunting the people who are downvoting.

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In one case it was experts trying to save lives. In the other it’s white nationalist christofascists virtue signaling to their crushingly ignorant base.

MapleEngineer ,
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The definition of cis is, “a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth.” Does you gender identity correspond to the sex you were assigned at birth? Mine does.

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The term cisgender has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis-, meaning ‘on this side of’, which is the opposite of trans-, meaning ‘across from’ or ‘on the other side of’. This usage can be seen in the cis–trans distinction in chemistry, the cis and trans sides of the Golgi apparatus in cellular biology, the ancient Roman term Cisalpine Gaul (i.e. ‘Gaul on this side of the Alps’), and Cisjordan (as distinguished from Transjordan). In cisgender, cis- describes the alignment of gender identity with assigned sex.

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Then it’s irrelevant. It may be relevant to someone else but that’s their problem.

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You are free to believe whatever you want to believe.

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