things im doing right now:
1. having a good day

update: i was on the phone with them for 80 minutes. they REALLY wanted me to verify that i was authorized to get support. i was finally able to figure out who was authorized, have them send the guy a text, get the pin code from him and give it to ATT support
about 20 minutes of trouble shooting later (wherein all they did was reboot the modem) suddenly the support rep switched back to "i need you to verify again. youre not verified. i cant support you until i know youre authorized"

im not personally all too worried about this
1. the exploit is not released and as far as i know its not in the wild. some security researcher found it and reported it.
2. security researchers have a bad habit of overstating severity for clout. "i found a 9.8 RCE exploit in a broadly used application" sounds a lot cooler than "6.5 bounded arbitrary file access if you know the exact file path"
3. it will almost certainly be patched before the july release deadline
i did turn off automatic media download on 2 windows devices for my own peace of mind but im sure my graphene devices are fine.

all of those communist dictators who killed all the intellectuals had the right idea, actually.

"is anyone taking off early for good friday?"
"i would like to!"

actually the domain is in use we just aren't using any of your garbage overpriced products.
i really dont like it when companies do deceptive things like this. im not your paypig, as much as you think this is true.

the DoW has determined that i am qualified to stare at a diagram of your corporate network in abject horror and then tell you that you will never be prepared to accept classified government contracts.
what im trying to say is that i've been certified to assess companies to see if they meet governmental standards to build bombs for the army

i tried to search a shopping website for a laptop dock and got an AI reply instead.

so im watching this video from a court case appeal in which a deaf woman was questioned about the death of her husband, but because she is deaf she didnt hear the questions and didnt respond to them, as is her first and fifth amendment right against self incrimination, but because she didnt explicitly reference her fifth amendment right, her silence was used in court to paint her as guilty. also of note: the police did not read her miranda rights to her.
interestingly during the discussion between one of the lawyers and the appeals court judges it was pointed out that you cannot expect a person to know even the most basic right to not answer police questions. I think this is a tacit, even if unintentional, admission that the "justice" system is so incredibly convoluted that people do not understand even the most simple and foundational aspects of american justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaVmFcmHTgM

i've never been officially diagnosed with TMJ but I probably have it. wearing headphones for more than a few hours tends to make one of my ears hurt.
I've found a fix for this several months ago that has helped me a lot so I thought i'd share it.
when wearing overear headphones, adjusting them so that they do not sit tightly just below the bottom of the ear lobe and creating a gap so that air can pass freely into the ear cup mitigates the pain by at worst 90%. most days i feel no discomfort.
I create the air gap by disassembling a pen so that its basically a straw and then tucking it into the top of my ear lobe like you would with a pencil or glasses.

i was reviewing a phishing email and work and wanted to see if it was a part of a campaign because i had not seen the template before.
there isnt really any information about the message but i do find it really interesting that brave search's ai would immediately say "dude thats probably a scam"

recently (in the last 2 months or so) youtube has started showing me a lot of anti-israel content.
this is welcome, of course, but it raises a couple concerns
1. it is well known that google previously would intentionally suppress wrongthing. the biden administration got in trouble becuase it was revealed that the state department sent requests to many major platforms to suppress covid "misinformation", and many of those platforms acquiesced.
why did google remove suppression for anti-israel content? what shady string puller gave permission for israel to be hated?

2. i genuinely cannot tell if some of these people are right wing or left wing. The ones that speak strictly about israel either were previously right wing or if they were not, they completely adopted right wing vocabulary (zog, goy, etc). for speakers who do mention other topics, its still very difficult to tell because a lot of young democrats seem to have flipped on border control and now want less immigrants, and during covid a lot of democrat husbands bought their first firearms and suddenly became a lot less anti 2a.

its me. im the IT guy. im going to drop kick you if you create a cascade/loopback on my network.
probably a decade ago i worked at a bank doing IT. it was awful. one day some bigwig manager came without telling anyone. he waltzed into the conference room where a phone was already plugged into eth/poe, plugged a second cable into the conference room phone (for no apparent reason) and then when his computer couldnt get a good network connection (because of the packet storm he created) just left, again without telling anyone. he didnt ask any other employees for help getting the internet working, he didnt come to me while i was onsite at the time it happened. he just strolled in, nuked the entire network, and rolled out.
i ended up physically checking every single eth wall socket in every single room on the entire floor twice before i thought to check the conference room because no one had been in there that day as far as anyone knew.
dumbass took out the whole company for about 4 hours. i still think about him from time to time and regret never getting the opportunity to pimp slap him for what he did.

tldw:
datacenter people know that cities are not allowing DCs in because they dont want to deal with the increased power demand, increased power cost, and noise pollution
"new idea, lets just put the datacenter in everyone's front yard"
the business model: they partner with housing developers and HOAs to preinstall the unit, and then contractually require home buyers/renters to keep the unit in place, powered, and internet accessible. they are literally taking away the homeowners autonomy and decision making authority.
the teaser: they also install solar panels, a fancy "smart" power panel, and a whole house battery backup unit
the kick in the head: "excess power", which is literally just all of the amperage that you are not using gets drawn into the device. the solar panels will not keep up with power draw from the compute box. they provide nearly zero benefit to the homeowner. oh by the way the homeowner is on the hook for his own power bill. XFRA pay a portion of it but id bet 2:1 that they wont pay the full offset of the box.
the "whole house battery backup" is a farce too. The battery is used to keep the compute box running in a power outage and with 8 gpus and 4 threadrippers inside that thing will suck up all the stored power in no time.
they also use your home internet to connect the box, which means that they'll be slowing down the entire neighborhood by constantly transmitting.

so to summarize the trade deal: you get a massively powerful, very expensive, very noisy compute box in your front yard that you are not allowed to access and in return you get solar panels that are only really used to power the box, a whole house battery that is really only used to power the box, higher electricity bills, and slower internet
XFRA gets the whole sundae and the cherry on top.
dont like the deal? feels a bit raw? too bad, you cant buy (or more likely rent lmao) your dream home unless you agree to bend over for big corpos that hate you.

a couple days ago i was working with a developer at my job. he is in the process of setting up a linux server to perform some work functions and he asked me if the company has a preferred linux distro he should use.
this led to a conversation about what distros we use in general (you really cannot expect anything else when you have two linux nerds in the same room). i said that i use omarchy which is arch based and when i saw the look on his face i had to quickly add "no no no im not one of THOSE arch users!"
this is verry funny to me