maxwell_xander

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I'm still working on it! It's a MUD where the challenges teach basic OpSec practices. I switched to Python and abandoned Charm (using Textual instead)

maxwell_xander

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This is what I come to HN to see - what a masterful and cool project. I'm literally dropping my plans today to make a project using this.

maxwell_xander

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MAMAA is by far my favorite, it sounds like a child crying out to mom. Mamaa! (also easy to add another m or a if ever needed - mammaaaaaa!)

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>"white" as a claim of culture or heritage, only exists in the context of white supremacy. The concept of "whiteness" was invented during the days of the slave trade as a means of establishing racial classification and hierarchy - to contrast the superior "white" race with inferior "non-white" races

Isn't black exactly the same thing? A completely madeup racial category invented by white slavers to conveniently deny a group their humanity? And isn't it further possible that, after these racial groups were invented, actually real cultural identities began forming around them to the point where the invented categories had reified into something kinda real?

maxwell_xander

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I don't think trends and fashion are that aware of their own transience. For example, the rise of Christianity in a region hardly coincides with the rise of other forms of theism. But why not? If people are willing to believe in one imaginary superbeing, why not others whose logic is precisely the same as Christianity? Yet precisely the opposite happens - the one arbitrary belief is forced to delegitimize similar trends, in order to establish itself as not-just-another-arbitrary-theism.

Transgender people have only very recently been given the faintest legitimacy, and they naturally want to defend that against transracialists and otherkin and other movements that basically look like a parody of trans people. Even if their logic isn't fundamentally stronger than those other movements, transgender people have something that actually matters: a little bit of power.

Why should anyone sacrifice that to the altar of logic?

maxwell_xander

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Never! I log out EVERY... nah, you got me haha. I honestly wouldn't even care if someone stole this account. Just having fun nitpicking :)

maxwell_xander

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2FA also protects me in case someone runs https://github.com/unode/firefox_decrypt on my computer, maybe as part of an NPM install script

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Ha, these articles always use xss.as instead of exploit.in, despite the latter being vastly more popular and appropriate, because exploit.in charges $100 for membership.

I sympathize because, who wants to shell out $100. But even big name news outlets all use xss.in, you see it everywhere, precisely because it's free and anyone can join. Nothing wrong with using it really, just something amusing I've noticed

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I suppose since my name is green, and I said I'm shilling, and linked to Youtube, someone assumed it was some autospam promotion bot thing.

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ANNI. The specific video I linked to doesn't involve much live looping, but here is one of her vids that does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNDY2qKZGo

I'm quite a fan

maxwell_xander

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maxwell_xander

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The top result is Wikipedia, "Web3, also known as Web 3.0,[1][2][3] is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web that incorporates decentralization based on blockchains.[4]"

And even then, with federated services you still usually aren't hosting your content, that's really closer to what web 1.0 was, imo.

I guess the term is still nascent enough for it's meaning to be in flux. Hopefully good people are pushing it to align with the best tendencies

maxwell_xander

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Thanks for teaching me C and networking. You have a talent for teaching and I hope you're doing incredible things

maxwell_xander

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I wish web 3 referred to the new trend towards federated, decentralized services, instead of blockchain stuff

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SEEKING WORK | Texas | REMOTE

Hi! I know waaay too much about HTTP headers. For $10 dollars, I'll review your website's Content Security Policy, security headers, and general HTTP sanity and give a detailed, completely customized report about what could be improved, and how such improvements could be integrated with the necessary functionality of your app.

I truly, truly love CSPs and HTTP header security. They aren't as exiting as big bugs that pay out huge bounties, but they often prevent such bugs from being exploitable in the first place :)

[email protected]

maxwell_xander

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  Location: Texas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Security, Python, Linux, JavaScript
  Email: [email protected]

I'm a junior developer looking to start out in a security adjacent role. I have a lot of experience in systems administration and several open source contributions I can show you. I'm also happy to code along with you and show you what I've got :)

maxwell_xander

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>Does that mean the learning was in vain? I’ve probably forgotten 90% of what I learned in high school other than math. Does that mean most of my education was a waste of time?

Did the things you learn change you in some other fundamental way, that only learning those things could (ie you could come to a conclusion and forget the exact process that brought you to that conclusion, and thus the process was worth learning even though now forgotten)?

If not, then that learning must have been in vain, almost per the definition of vain, right?

maxwell_xander

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>I believe Latin is still offered in my high school system... A guaranteed waste of time.

Quomodo loqueris tu cum daemoniis sine latinam te scire??

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