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  • Academic security research is constitutionally bad because academia as an environment selects people with a “hacker mentality” out at the freshman stage.

    It’s inherently biased towards rule-followers. That’s not a bad thing, but it means it’s bad at some things. Such as computer security research.





  • Edgelord was the wrong word choice, sorry. I mean argumentative jerks that pick fights over absolutely anything.

    Don’t sleep on the actual edgelords either. I got a guy in my replies right now screeching how women in politics are the real fascism because of identity politics.

    But the jerks are the real issue.




  • I definitely think they should help their families out. Helping them select an alternative service is helping out.

    Being on the hook for endless tech support while getting blamed for everything is not helping out. It’s also not healthy for your relationship with your sibling, and it’s not a good use of family holiday time.

    A partner is different. You already share a lot of infra, and since you presumably spend a lot more time together it’s not likely to impact your relationship as much unless you go full Pat & Mat do IT.









  • I can’t really think of anything that’s less frustrating than sh and ticks all your boxes. You can try TCL but it’s bound to be a shit show. It was painful to use two decades ago.

    Perl is a step up in terms of developer comfort, but it’s at the same time too big and too awkward to use.

    Maybe a statically linked Python?