Yo that sucks

I have spent a lot of time trying to define what is a sport, to me.

In general I’ve come to define a “sport” as something physical that has an opponent that actively works against you.

Something physical that DOESN’T have an opponent acting against you, I prefer to think of as a competition.

E-sports is not what I’d consider sports, but the term works fine. E-competition doesn’t have the same ring to it.

So, team sports like baseball, soccer, boxing, etc I consider sports.

Bowling, track+field, golf, I do NOT consider sports, I consider them a competition.

Chess is not a sport, it’s a competitive game. Fight me it’s not a freaking sport, it’s chess.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

The slider you’re mentioning is specifically for cloud sync, correct. But as far as I know Word still does the thingy where it will periodically snapshot and allow you to recover previous versions.

I’m not 100% sure because I don’t use it at home anymore but I still do at work.

There was this asshole teacher, one of his students stole his car and crashed it through a set of double doors into the building. Destroyed the entire entryway and both sets of heavy duty doors.

Epic, man. Everyone hated that teacher and he had bought one of the new VW bugs when they first started making the new ones and he thought it was just so cool.

Supernotes are my preference. They are e-ink, and have an option for a smaller size than remarkables. Constant great software/firmware development, durable, and e-ink. Downside, if you care (I do not) is they’re b+w only.

Can side load android apps, they sync fine, work as e-reader, etc. Good stuff.

Remarkables are good I think but they have one foot in the digital artist niche and one in the note niche, whereas a supernote is firmly in the business/meeting/note niche.

Studying, in its base form, follows these steps:

-take in the information

-record the information

-review the information you’ve recorded in chunks. Best practice is to review your newly recorded information at the end of the session, and at the start of the next session review old information. If you can review ALL your recorded information on a subject at the start of a new session that’s best - at first it’s slow but as you review a couple times you’re skimming or skipping most of it and only focus on the parts that you have trouble retaining.

With that being said, the ways we prefer to TAKE IN and RECORD information vary between people, but the overall concept does not.

In terms of flash cards, they’re great for memorization. That has not changed - it’s a base way to record and review information.

A modern version of this applies the base method but digitizes it. Anki is a very good and popular modern flash card app/program

-you can make flash cards with text, but also audio, images, and video

-you can save decks and sync them across all devices and share/upload decks

-it’s “smart.” If you spend more time struggling to answer a card, or get it wrong, it’ll show it to you more frequently. The reverse is true if you get it right every time quickly, you see it much less frequently

-it can nag you to study. You can set it up to notify you every hour, day, whatever and thrust 10-1000 cards in your face, whatever you set it to.

-tons of ways to configure it so it meets your specific needs.

So, that’s how things have modernized, for flash cards at least. But plenty of people still buy 3x5 index cards and keep a physical deck if that’s what they prefer. Again, the method isn’t as important as the process of receive/record/review.

Personally I like to use an e-ink handwriting tablet for in person note taking (all the benefits of paper/handwriting without the fuss of paper, plus lots of other features like cut/paste, linking/bookmarking items, etc) and I prefer typing into a word document when I’m studying from a book. The word document is very clean and I can use structured outlining formatting as well as a quick Ctrl+f to find terms I’ve written about. But whether it’s e-ink tablet or word doc, the base method is the same as when I was younger and it was all paper.

I think phones have their uses but they are awful for note taking. The fastest texter is much slower than writing by hand or typing, and you are so, so much more limited in underlining, highlighting, little symbols, positioning text in weird ways to symbolize things, etc. I don’t advocate that people use them unless they’re in a bind and have nothing else, but a lot of kids grow up these days and that’s their go to method because of familiarity, and we shouldn’t encourage that because it’s flat worse. However, phones can do great things such as record/transcribe, photos, videos etc - so they’re a great addition to the toolbox, but they’re not a NOTE TAKING replacement unless they’re a stylus/handwriting type, and even those are a poor cousin to a dedicated device for the purpose, but they can be a more affordable/versatile/portable version. My note writer was about $500 and that’s a lot of cheese but it was worth every penny to me because of how I use it.

Oh! Ok so I’m totally out of the loop on contrast paints, I paint(ed) with many of the same techniques you do, but less advanced. I would prime usually with a black undercoat and then do my base colors, then I’d do detail work and finish with washes, dry brushing, and mixed color highlights. I didn’t realize there was another way to go lol. I never got good enough to try and really work from a light source perspective but I was aware of the technique, but mixing paints was a chore because of how slow I was so my shit would be constantly drying up so I didn’t do a huge amount of different shades, just a few, which limited my ability to gradually lighten stuff up. Also I sucked at getting my mixes right/consistent.

Your minis look great, better than mine ever did and I’m sure you’re MUCH faster than I was. I really took a long time because I didn’t like them looking sloppy and I worked mostly using the games workshop kit I started with, along with one or two other brushes I bought without any real education, and some more paints. At the time I learned techniques from the GW books and some old forums. I was always surprised by the lack of effort people put into painting their minis but I guess people were rushing because they wanted an army and didn’t want to get crap for fielding unpainted sets (or bad luck).

I think some of my favorite work was actually the terrain pieces I made. I think I have a really good eye for weird bits and bobs and garbage that looks great as detail for terrain more than I ever was at painting technique.

In general even though my painting was slow I didn’t think it was a chore, my struggle was finding folks that I enjoyed playing with. I lived in a small town with a single games shop, they did an open mini game day 2x a month but the people that showed up were just not fun to play with, the worst kinds of stereotypical neckbeardy folks and I don’t mind me a good nerd but gross obnoxious assholes suck whether they’re nerds or not. I know it’s much easier to find folks these days than it was in the 90s but it’s a discarded hobby for the time being, life is too busy and I do miss it but it’s on the shelf for another phase of life, for now.

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I doubt I’d get into contrast painting either, your description of the downsides sounds like the benefits wouldn’t outweigh the pace.

I think I have some (really) old 40k minis I saved somewhere, if I run into them in my garage I’ll snap some pictures and reply in another post.

Happy painting!

I got into painting minis back in the day but didn’t stick with it. I miss it a lot though.

What types of paints and methods are you reminiscing about? I’m not knowledgeable enough to even know what you’re saying you prefer, or how it’s different from the off the shelf stuff, even assuming that what’s on the shelf today is the same as it was 20 years ago when I painted.

I skimmed your post history and saw a couple OC minis you painted, they look great, but what’s different about them? I don’t have a trained eye so forgive me I’m not trying to be rude.

What do you feel like you’re out of the loop on?

There can only be so many different server config combinations for algorithm, crypto mode, key size etc, so it would be trivial to have a bot try several combinations and nail your setup on the 5th try or whatever, especially if you selected “standard good” setups, which you should if you’re opening a port.

But overall it will weaken the protocol and there is a risk, even if it’s small, of a downgrade attack being discovered. Simply by having options means that it’s possible to trick the server or force it into a more vulnerable state. You can’t get rid of that except by completely removing the options in the first place because there will be literally nothing to downgrade to.

WG just isn’t into that risk. It’s cool if you want it and I won’t say you’re wrong in general because everyone has their preferences and makes trade-offs to set things up the way that they want, but in this particular context it goes against the design principles of WG by introducing complexity and risk, which is not what it’s about. There’s many other options if that’s what you’re looking for, and a lot of them are just as great/secure.

As long as you vote for someone I don’t care whether you choose the candidate that I would vote for. There’s no wasted votes, I’ve voted 3rd party when the major candidates aren’t someone I can vote for in good conscience.

If you abstain on “principle” because there isn’t a politician that perfectly aligns with your values then yeah, you’re just dumb and you’re part of the problem.

About 60% of the country votes in the general election, much less in the primaries, and much, much less in local elections. People that don’t vote because they can’t be assed suck, but the ones that sit on a high horse and scoff at the system that they play a huge hand in perpetuating through some misguided moral high ground are literally the worst.

I think the biggest systemic issue in most places is that most people don’t actually know how to train people, including most senior staff. Very few people are actually natural trainers/instructors, so they have to be trained in how to train, and the expectations that they do so has to be part of company culture as well as time baked into the workday to do it, because it DOES take time. It pays off huge in the long run but it can be hard to see the forest through the trees if the management themselves don’t know or understand the value.

As much as I hate corporate jobs they’re generally better than small companies about having a formalized training program. It’s a shame because there’s so much garbage in corporate culture that a lot of small businesses don’t want to implement the good with the bad.

One thing I’ve seen over the years is that a TON of businesses have NO IDEA how to be functional. It’s a person that started in their garage and managed to grow and they just do stuff, and keep just doing stuff and hiring more people to do stuff and quickly outgrow the garage but don’t introduce sound business practices that you need to run things effectively. It’s crazy how many businesses are like that.

Dang of everything you just said turning down greydwarfs sounds amaaaaazing.

Other major inconvenience is definitely metals through portals, but I’m not sure if I’d click that one off. It is really annoying to constantly be running through biomes that I have no interest in grinding just for giggles, but part of me wonders if that’s part of the charm.

It can be both. Jobs should invest in their people, but individuals should also take some ownership of their own skills.

The apprentice/journeyman dynamic was a lot better suited to a time when a) people left their hometowns a lot less, b) information was MUCH less accessible except from people who showed you how, and c) businesses put a lot more stock into their people as an asset, instead of treating labor as a liability.

A isn’t anyone’s fault.

B isn’t anyone’s fault.

C is where businesses have gone sour, but it’s not like businesses have ever been well known for taking care of their people (labor laws, unions, OSHA are all examples of this from history)

It’s not propaganda that people need to take ownership of their own skills and careers. Nobody’s responsible for you or your success but you. If you want to be good at what you do then that’s on you. You can take what your job gives you and that’s it, and you’ll probably do fine at whatever tasks you got specific OJT for, but unless you get lucky or play your cards right that’s not going to make you very successful.

I really don’t want to sound like an old person saying that kids these days want things handed to them, and I really do think that employers in general don’t invest in their entry level workers as well as they used to, but expecting an employer to take you from know-nothing to a master of your craft is naive, frankly, because the days of someone working at a place for 10-30 years are just gone, and everyone has accepted it. There’s a ton of reasons why that’s the case and a lot of that is employers not incentivising employees to stay via wage growth, promotion opportunities, and training, but there’s a lot of other factors. Either way things have changed, and it doesn’t really do much except make you sound like you need a waahmbulance if you just sit back on your haunches and complain about it.

You can still become an apprentice if you want to work a trade, and a good union will train you up if you’re a good worker, but that isn’t fast. It was never fast, and most people aren’t satisfied with the pace today, because it doesn’t get you earning six figures out the gate. You had to work hard, earn a good reputation, and stay in the area for 10-20 years. Most people don’t want to do that, and that dynamic never took a hard root in the tech sector in the first place, which is where this conversation started.

I encourage you to stick to a career that you enjoy enough to take some joy in getting better at your skills for the sake of getting better at stuff instead of just trying to earn a paycheck. Nothing wrong with a job being just a means to an end, but I say this because you’ll enjoy your jobs much better if you’re passionate about what you do, and you’ll naturally be drawn to opportunities to gain mastery in skills that will make you more successful.

None of this might change your mind, might just piss you off even, but the guy you’re replying to sounds like he enjoys the job enough that he’s trying to be better for the sake of being better. I wouldn’t knock them for that.

My guess is that it’s a loss on the hardware but their revenue stream is tied to data collection.

Bruh what do you think political parties are?

Unions, national alliances, society… It’s all people compromising on their individual values.

Good for you for letting perfect be the enemy of good, bet you feel so vindicated as the world burns down around you.

I mean who so lazy they order a single candy bar through Doordash?

Tell me you’ve never been baked out of your gourd without telling me you’ve never been baked out of your gourd

I think your example of SSH is actually the perfect counterpoint to your position!

SSH is versatile but there’s SO many ways to configure it in an insecure way. It’s important for SSH to be versatile because of how many different devices need it, but that also means it’s really easy to have a config that supports crappy ciphers (3DES, RC4, etc), or enabling root login, or pick any other hundred problems that are either due to user misconfigs or just inherent vulnerabilities in a cipher or key exchange method. Its versatility is the core of its weaknesses.

For ssh, there will for sure be bots hunting the internet for vulnerable ssh servers very soon after. Automating the process of getting in

This already happens right now. If you have 22 open, your firewall is getting hammered with bots trying to get in, regardless of what cipher you’re using, trying to exploit known weaknesses.

WG was never meant to be a swiss army knife, even though it is also versatile. It’s designed to be fast, secure, and as dummy proof as possible.

giving a choice of crypto, but not adding to the protocol with negotiation.

I’m not sure how you’d achieve this. If you have a mechanism to change cipher modes then there would be part of the codebase and handshake that validates settings in some way, which adds potential attack vector.

History shows that every cipher mode eventually will be vulnerable to new computing power, I don’t think that’s avoidable. Quantum computing is the next big event on the horizon, which is why quantum resistant ciphers, even old ones that never really got adopted, are getting a lot of attention if they’re deemed to be quantum resistant.

The important thing is that if, not when, it’s reported that the cipher is vulnerable that people harden their networks in other ways until a new cipher mode is implemented. That’s just how it works IMO. Edge security cannot and should not be your only security method anyways.

Overlay VPNs like tailscale and zerotier are interesting to me because you don’t have to open any ports. I’m sure they have their own inherent vulnerabilities also but they don’t make you punch holes in your firewall, which makes them less vulnerable to random attackers trying to scan your network edge.

Even if it is the “best” it gives one target to try to find a weakness in, rather than many.

It sounds as if you’re falling prey to the allure of security through obscurity.

I’d like to remind you of Kerckhoff’s Principle.

a cryptosystem should be secure, even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge

What this is saying is that in a secure cryptosystem all you need to secure is the key.

Curve 25519 is, for the time being, considered a secure cryptosystem. It’s likely that in the future it will become obsolete, but we’re not there yet. When we get there WG will port to a new cipher that is more secure.

Even if you set your configs to not negotiate, just the fact that the stack COULD negotiate opens you up to downgrade attacks. Also, anybody trying to connect would get some kind of hello/response traffic that would broadcast your (non negotiable) configs, so what do you gain from being able to choose, except the ability to make mistakes?