Indeed, and welcome to you.

How does one balance the humors in their blood, when blood itself is one of the humors?

Leeches? Leeches.

An oil company which had an MS access DB and a form configured for it with no checks for formatting that would insert the fields of the form directly into the database, and then if they wanted to make a change, they would export the entire database as csv, open it in excel, make changes and use that to overwrite the entire database.

This had been going on since some time in the 1990’s. They finally wanted to move to a modernized databasing/operations solution which is what my company does.

I successfully cleaned 75% of that data, however it took 37 regular expressions and a script that was about 800 lines to account for every possible mis-entry, incorrect format, and merging fields if they were empty from newest records to oldest records until the fields were no longer empty where possible (essentially collapsing the records together to get as much data on each unique object which may have had N records over time through the database).

It is UN-BELIEVABLE what actual businesses get away with.

Debian. For the sweet, sweet, rock stable-ness.

That’s funny you should say that, because that’s EXACTLY what I did due to the above issue.

It’s one of the three days I work from home per week. Having gone from a shift work job where I had no idea the hours I’d be working (on a 24 hour schedule, so often over-nights) without knowing what days I would be working until about a week ahead, to only needing to go into an office 2 times per week and knowing for certain I have every weekend off has been really nice.

Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.

So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!

Yes, I have no argument to the contrary on that.

You are very welcome.

Don’t trust uncited information. I am sure we do not have nukes. Look up the nuclear nonproliferation treaty for Canada, we not only don’t have any, but haven’t stored them for any other country since 1984.

You can begin here as a starting point:

https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/peace_security-paix_securite/nuclear_radiological-nucleaire_radiologique.aspx?lang=eng

I am certain we do not. Do you have a citation?

We don’t, I don’t know where the guy above got his info, but we ratified the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in 1969 and then completed deconstructing/removing them in 1984.

Someone can post citation otherwise, but I have lived here my entire life and remembered the articles from when they were all decommissioned.

As far as I know, we haven’t even stored nuclear weapons or relevant systems for other countries since we had some belonging to the US at CFB Goose Bay in Labrador. We had them removed as part of our stance against nuclear arms in 1984 as well.

They will pick whatever group they think will suddenly put as many idiots as possible under their control when they say “GROUP A IS BAD”.

Most of them don’t care they are trans, they only care that they can take advantage of the oppression of a minority group in order to consolidate control over people so that they can oppress more people.

When everyone alive and dead is either oppressed or under your control, you become god. This is the goal, but they don’t care about the process to get there.

I can’t share it all here for reasons I can’t detail.

I may do a second write up at some point for public distribution and if so, I will share it with you here.

I purchased a Tp-Link Archer C7 router at a thrift store for 5 dollars. Brought it home and flashed a specific revision of open-wrt to its firmware, and then ran an update file on top of that firmware revision to turn it into a pineapple router.

Had no idea if it would work when I was doing this.

Works great, the 5 bucks was totally worth it, and now I can use it to test hardening on my mobile devices.

I am trying to get people I know personally to stop posting and reading and instead begin to focus on the very basics of actual organization, in the form of simply being able to communicate effectively and securely.

I have collected and written up information for them with the consideration that they are non-technical, pertaining to secure and private communications primarily, but also many more potentially useful emergency-scenario information and data which I will not speak about here.

The package I have started giving to my friends contains information such as:

• How to communicate securely using something like Simplex or I2P
• How to correctly configure and use a VPN
• How to flash a security distribution of Linux such as TailsOS to a flash drive and how to boot to it from a computer
• How to securely encrypt data to a device using an encryption software with hidden volume features such as VeraCrypt
• A litany of manuals for all kinds of useful information you can use in emergencies, which I will not detail here
• Files containing the data required to build potentially useful items in emergencies given access to the correct hardware which I will not detail here

I firmly believe that the majority of Americans will not do anything until someone is actually showing up at their door, coming after them in the street, or destroying the regularities of their personal day to day life, so my intention is to distribute materials which they can turn to when the fear sets into them well enough that they are scared to talk about such things openly.

It is clear to me that most of my American friends at least, at this point, still only feel superficial fear and outrage. The other day I asked them “If you had to vandalize a public space with a piece of art, what would you draw or paint? Let’s say it is the side of a bank”.

One said “tits”, one said “flowers”, one said “a fox”.

Even in a fantasy, they would not express fear or outrage in a public setting.

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It’s not detailed enough to really know what they meant, but for example and if I recall correctly, Android on a phone can get rootkitted in such a way that resetting the phone will not remove what was installed. This is because Android has a “System” partition and a “User” partition. When you “reset” a phone, it only wipes the user partition in most cases, so any malware installed to the system side would be untouched.

This is why you have to be real careful if you should purchase an Android phone second hand from a private seller.

I have had pretty good luck with airvpn, but the ultimate is mullvad as I understand it, though relatively speaking it is much more expensive than airvpn.

I have heard that phrase before, but I am unsure what it denotes specifically.