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knobbysideup, in Conventions for techies/nerds?
  • Defcon / Blackhat
  • Usenix LISA
  • Bsides
SirShanova,

Blackhat is for industry professionals. Same organziers as DEFCON, but tickets are thousands for companies to purchase.

Upriverpaddler, in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

The Ballad of Sam McGee.

Deez,

There are strange things done in the midnight sun

csolisr, (edited ) in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit:

  • multiply by 2
  • remove 10%
  • add 32
baconeater,

This is wrong? Taking 20°C as an example. Following this formula gives 48°F when it should be 68. Could you perhaps be supposed to add 32 instead of 12?

ips,
@ips@infosec.pub avatar

Adding 32 is correct.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, it’s supposed to be c * 2 + 30

Today,

Thats a very close approximate and what i use when it’s numbers i have to think about for 5/9 and 9/5.

ips,
@ips@infosec.pub avatar

f = c * (9/5) + 32

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

I mean you’re not wrong Walter.

The concept is that it’s a formula you can do in your head most people aren’t going to spend a minute trying to work out 9/5 in their head

PhreakyByNature,

I mean… That’s just like… Your opinion man.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Whoever downvoted your comment is a nihilist

PhreakyByNature,

They’re out of their element.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

That comment REALLY tied the thread together, Did It Not?

PhreakyByNature,

It really did Dude.

Candelestine,

Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, not even fahrenheit temperature units.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Nah, the speed of light in air is faster than the speed of light in peanut butter.

kafa,

yes, but that’s speed of light

¯⁠⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

csolisr,

Thanks for noticing the typo

UtiAnimi, in What series did you rewatch most often?

Futurama, Scrubs but if it counts, then number 1 would be the first 6 or so seasons of The Simpsons.

Astroturfed,

If you rewatch scrubs make sure to torrent some seasons with the original music. Anything up on a streaming service won’t have it because they didn’t buy good enough music rights to include streaming and all the songs Re replaced with stuff that’s not nearly as good/fitting. Makes a huge difference in the show IMO.

rhacer, in What is the worst thing you have experienced on Reddit?

Gosh sometimes people disagreed with me. That was horrible!

Hiru,
@Hiru@lemmy.world avatar

I entirely disagree with this comment, up yours!

rhacer,

That got a laugh!

BenVimes, in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

“Just be yourself and you’ll make lots of friends at your new school.”

Four years of constant bullying and loneliness later: I have one acquaintance that would eventually become my friend after a few more years. I also have basically no self-confidence, and my social development is set back half a decade as I’m still looking for friends to have sleepovers with when everyone else has moved on to normal teenager stuff.

RedditWanderer,

I’m 33 now, I don’t remember my sleepovers and all of my highschool friends are gone. We see each other every now and then when it’s convenient, but the new friends I made late 20s are the people closest to who I am now.

You aren’t “missing out” and feeling like you are is only going to make your confidence issues worse. High school is not what defines who you are.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Markus Aurelius).

You have the power to feel confident by altering your estimate of pleasing people. Please yourself, confidence and everything else you feel you want will come much easier. Good luck!

Jimmycrackcrack,

Particularly devastating when you reflect on a lack of success after following this advice because now you can no longer think you were a victim of unfair circumstance or something external, but rather, you are , at your very core, just unlikeable. After all, you were yourself and it turned out nobody liked you.

That said, I think it’s only bad advice in as much as it’s glib and shallow, but I can’t exactly fault it per-se. I mean, I can’t really say the inverse is particularly healthy either. We’d think an adult telling a child specifically not be themselves would be pretty fucked up, but in any case, it’s just horrible advice to give because it doesn’t prescribe any actual changes one can enact that would result in a different outcome and the advice is insidious because of the implications for the any lack of success you encounter when following it. The other problem is that, you were already being yourself when you sought the advice, and you mostly can’t really help but be yourself even when trying not to because you ultimately become yourself trying to be someone else rather than someone else and that doesn’t doesn’t tend to work very well since if you could have been someone else you probably would be them rather than yourself given how much being yourself has sucked of late.

While I hate that advice though, I can see why it’s tempting to give and also how tricky it is to have anything useful to say, especially to a child in school. School is such a hellish jungle. It’s an environment so ripe for cruelty and all the worst of human nature at the very worst time for people to be exposed to it and there’s so little one can say that really does help because it’s such an inherently difficult situation to do anything about. You have to be there for years, you can’t rely on any level of maturity at all because the perpetrators of the cruelty are often your peers who are children, none of the adult world’s methods of navigating this type of situation are really applicable and the whole institution breeds an environment where this type of thing is such a regular occurrence that the best, kindest and most well meaning staff have to build a kind of immunity to it or risk emotional collapse from empathy for all the children that go through this every year and then you have the staff who are not good people, who don’t have empathy and are perpetrators of the cruelty itself whilst charged with the care of the children. This turned in to a big ramble, but yeh, school, fuck school man.

PissinSelfNdriveway, in What series did you rewatch most often?

I’ve watch scrubs and king of the hill clear through probably 20 time each. I have a hard time finding new shows I like.

TheRealKuni,

Have you tried 30 Rock (Scrubs and 30 Rock are tied for my most rewatched show) or Ted Lasso (showrun by Bill Lawrence like Scrubs)?

PissinSelfNdriveway,

No I haven’t but I’ll definitely give it a shot. I didn’t know Bill Lawrence was involved in Ted lasso, maybe I’ll try it tonight, thanks for the suggestions.

TheRealKuni,

Get ready to binge the entire show! I told myself, “I’ll watch the first few episodes” and two weeks later I had watched the entire first season three times. First by myself, then showed it to my fiancee, then showed it to my best friend.

P.S. Zach Braff directed the second episode!

InigoMontoyota,

It is without question, the show that made me survive the pandemic.

PissinSelfNdriveway,

Fucking hell, you got me all excited to watch this and it’s only available on apple tv… It better be worth the $7 a month haha

TheRealKuni,

It absolutely is worth $7 for the less-than-a-month it will take to watch Ted Lasso. And honestly Apple TV has a surprising number of good shows.

Shrinking is another from Bill Lawrence that is worth a watch, starring Jason Segal and Harrison Ford.

Schmigadoon is great if you like musicals.

Mythic Quest is from many of the same minds behind Always Sunny.

And there are others that have been recommended to me that I’ve yet to try out. One of my coworkers has recommended Severance but I haven’t seen it yet.

PissinSelfNdriveway,

Sweet I’ll give them all a try… Except the musical one haha I can’t do musicals.

DFTBA_FTW,

It is, in my opinion, Ted Lasso is probably one of the best tv shows ever, like in the entire history of TV.

Rozz,

Three of my favorite shows

Rozz,

Shrinking is also by bill Lawrence and also very good, and co-written by Brett Goldstein (from Ted lasso) and Jason segal

TheRealKuni,

I really like Shrinking. It took me a bit, I was iffy for a while, but by the end of season 1 I was very much on board.

TheRedSpade, in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

When I wanted to cut back on my drinking: “Just don’t buy it.”

Look, it’s great that you’ve never been addicted to anything, but it also means that you’re in no position to be offering addiction advice.

ryathal,

Maybe not great advice for alcohol, but absolutely great advice for junk food.

cynetri,
@cynetri@midwest.social avatar

I disagree, I think offering healthier alternatives is better than simply giving up junk food by itself

Kayel,

Obligatory unsolicited link to Dr Greger How not to die

> Science discovers eating real food, predominantly plants, assists health and maintenance of healthy weight without kj restriction

Syudagye, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?
@Syudagye@pawb.social avatar

only for specific thinks, whrn i was searching for something

CAPSLOCKFTW, in Which is the most satisfying IO connector system, in your opinion?

Jumper wire into bread board.

Runner-Up: Paper clip into Socket

collegefurtrader,

Finger in e27 socket 🤤

CAPSLOCKFTW,

Was talking about IC sockets but whatever turns you on, i don’t judge

Raklin, in What series did you rewatch most often?

Futurama, How I Met Your Mother (as an aside, the sequel series is pretty good), Chuck, and Bob’s Burgers.

Poob, in Do you think Federated networks are the future or do you think Peer to Peer networks are the future? Which do you think is better?

All three in combination will be the future

65gmexl3,
@65gmexl3@lemmy.world avatar

agree, this is not a “hit 2 birds with 1 stone” situation

HeyJoe, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I lost power last night and had nothing to do… lemmy, sadly, doesn’t have as much content yet so I popped in once just to see. Spent like 10 min there with no account since I did delete it and realized it also wasn’t showing me much either.

Having an account with everything you like really helps the experience, glad I looked and felt better when it also didn’t really give me the fix I wanted. Power is back and I don’t forsee myself going back anytime soon, outside very specific google searches where I might find relevant information needed to do my job.

krnl386, in What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?
@krnl386@lemmy.ca avatar

No one product, but more of a collection of technologies underlying the Apple ecosystem. For example, AirDrop or Continuity (drafting something on one device and continuing/finishing on another).

railsdev,

Universal Control is pretty magical. I love having both my work and personal laptops connected to an ultrawide monitor and using my mouse/keyboard (actually Magic Trackpad, Magic Keyboard) across the two.

When I’m waiting for something for work I can slide the cursor over and do something on my personal computer.

My only paranoia is that the work laptop can track what I’m typing but that’s why I use the peripherals connected to the personal laptop to control everything.

neko, in What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?

I love my Google Home and how it’s connected to my Phillips Hue bulbs. I love being able to just yell “hey Google, nightlight” when I stumble home after a long night out, no need to fight with switches and too-bright lights after drinking

koinu,

Bro, fucking yes!!

I have 3 Google nest mini speakers or whatever they’re called, and I bought these smart outlets at target.

Connected 2 of them in the master bedroom, to bedside lamps for wifey and i. Being able to use the Google home app from our phones to control, or as you said just “hey Google, turn on Daddy’s lamp” is fucking solid. I hate flicking on light switches. Never realized it until I set this up.

railsdev,

I use Home Assistant to connect all the proprietary trash together but talk to my Watch rather than a smart speaker. I just haven’t got into the speaker lifestyle thus far.

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