[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. I don't stop thinking, I just do my best to move my thoughts onto something else if I find myself dwelling too long on one thing. Before long, it's an incoherent chain of nonsense, and then sleep.
  2. If sleep is not coming, I just enjoy that I'm lying down with my eyes closed and getting some rest. I can survive a day or two with just a few hours of sleep, so if sleep comes now or later, I'll be fine. Sleep usually comes.
[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

This is what I was thinking. I'm very lucky to live somewhere where I can live without a car - even here in Helsinki, that's not always possible.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I remember, pre-Wifi, setting up a network over IR between two laptops to play C&C Red Alert.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Yes and No? Also X.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I recognise that security through obscurity isn't something you can rely on, so don't consider my own practices to be secrets and am willing to share them to help others.

I use strong unique passwords stored in a KeePass database, and MFA whenever it's available. I also have a VPN specifically so that I can use public Wifi when I have to (or wish to do something more private on the internet, such as downloading Linux ISOs).

I also have a vanity domain that redirects all mail to a central mailbox, so whenever I sign up for something I can easily use a unique address. This allows me to block specific addresses that produce spam and see where the spammers got that address.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Nope. There's a reason they go after video games that use the red cross symbol for health packs, that dilutes the meaning of what the red cross stands for.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, if they haven't already cleared this with the existing company or lawyers, this is embarrassing.

Wouldn't you do a quick search as an early step in any branding exercise?

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

It's like the word asteroid. Aster means star, but an asteroid isn't a star, it can just look like one.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Actually, you're right, but it couldn't be closer. The show starts at 5:02AM on his fiftieth birthday.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Walter was in his 40s at the beginning of the series.~~

Walter was almost in his 40s at the beginning of the series.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

How about we have a mechanism to reward people who contribute constructively to a conversation by giving readers the ability to mark them as positive or negative? You could then provide an overall score - let's call it "karma" - to show whether they're good or bad members of the community.

Oh, wait. Yeah, that really didn't end up working like that...

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