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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, this is why i'm not a big fan of girls with pretentions to credibly talking about engineering
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Low Information Voter | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm not a fan of anyone talking too long about things they don't understand.

Ava, OTOH, is frequently insightful. I hope this is her one bad day.
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 well, just to explain how i came to perceive her as i do, it has to do with following bad security advice from companies selling inadequate products

i've been following Schneier et al since around 2003 or so and was involved in early discussions around Tor and it makes me so annoyed when people parrot nonsense that is contrary to the facts of the subject of cybersecurity, and doubly, to the point i have to deploy smackdown, when they claim to be an expert on the subject

i don't spend my time writing about it all the time, because mostly i'm actually applying what i know to my programming work
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Low Information Voter | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I've been following Schneier only half as long as yourself, but even he has some dumb takes every so often.

People seem to need to be reminded to think about what they're reading, and disagree if necessary. Glad you're not among them!
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yes, first rule of cybersecurity is

TRUST NO ONE

always DYOR and Don't Trust, Verify, etc

it's hilarious to have to point that out to people who claim to be bitcoiners
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 also, yeah, schneier's been pretty bad for about 5 years now... same political bullshit that i saw happen to boingboing.net and all its authors suddenly being very keen on writing against non-left wing politics, look also at what happened to Nassim Taleb, same fucking bullshit

makes me really wonder, how one would go about inducing these previously mostly reasonable people to start acting as hand wavers for your agenda?
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 indeed, and i should point out, i'm not picking on her because of what her chromasomes are, plenty of XXs on here have got some fire from me as well, you can even see a couple of them still mute me

if i were to go easy on someone because of such a thing that would make me a bigot

going easy on a beginner is different... easy way to avoid sounding like an idiot is to admit you are a beginner, or that you are just thinking out loud or talking through your hat, probably

nothing grinds my gears more than people pretending to be experts and saying utterly dumbshit
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 oops, I meant XYs but whatever