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Me too.

In high school, there was a kid who was always trying to make money. Like even then, he wanted his own business. In fact he had a couple small ones back then.

One of his endeavours was massive LAN parties. He had the capital to rent spaces, hardware, and was even able to get sponsorships.

He did not have the tech chops to do it though.

Myself, and one circle of friends were THE computer nerds of the school, but it wasn't really seen as a negative for us - then again we did orchestrate a "free day" and got away with it by taking down the schools network from inside and one person had a loud fucking mouth, but we covered our tracks.

Anyways, we got in free to these LAN parties as long as we set up and maintained shit. Surprisingly very few problems, about once a LAN party we had to fix something. And it was useful experience.

That shit was fucking amazing. I loved it.

I got home from work. Wife works from home. She has had an ongoing tech issue I can't really touch because it's that companies property. But I just don't want to hear it. At all. I'm dead inside in that regard.

It's gotten so bad that I had an issue with my gaming rig.

I needed to reseat the RAM. Not hard, except the case is mounted on the wall as a display piece that would require moving a bunch of shit before getting a ladder and yada yada.

I just didn't game for three days. Just could not muster the energy to care about that. I hate it.

Bounties are a bit nebulous.

Actual pen testing companies have red teams (attackers) that have a scope of what they are allowed to target, and how they go about it.

For example, just because a red teamer can get into the data center to do stuff locally doesn't meet the scope requirement of testing their web page externally. They would be prosecuted most likely.

Pen testing companies also have lawyers, at least they should, who help negotiate scope and what is legally allowed and in what context.

Due to the secrecy needed for some tests, the security staff may not be aware a test is in place. From what I understand, generally people have some sort of paperwork on their person, or at least the contact information of someone at the company with the authority to authorize this red team pen test.

That being said, cops may still get called, you may still get arrested, and have to deal with the courts.

Or worse, some trigger happy security guard shoots you.

I'm just studying that stuff though at the moment, so take what I said with a grain of salt.

I mean, I was walking home from school on my usual route, but didn't really know this little stretch of suburbia and an older kid (a couple years older than I was) offered to smoke me out.

I passed because I was in middle school and this was a stranger.

Dude seemed really disappointed. I think he just wanted to smoke and chill with somebody, anybody.

Never saw them again.

Life, uh, finds a way.

See with the leathery skin, I was totally getting a Githyanki/Githzerai vibe.

I didn't expect the revolution to be led by tween pop fans, but I remember middle school.

Vicious.

Don't work in medical IT.

It has been literally life and death before.

I had a car that would auto lock the doors.

It was also a keyless start, so the fob may be built totally differently.

That being said, if your keys were detected, it would prevent the auto lock.

It's a less secure default, but at the same time people would be pissed if they had to call a lock smith all the time.

The (French? I think?) foreign legion, or is there another legion out there these days?

I was gonna say, on paper inert gas asphyxiation shouldn't be painful.

In execution, well... shit. Pun not originally intended, but I'm leaving it.

Yep. The southern border of Mexico is the border between N. America and C. America.

For the racists, Jamal is considered a stereotypical black name.

Also, why do I suspect that the sex trafficker of minors pronounces Julio as "jool-ee-o"?

Depends on the lore of the demons it was learned from.

What did the paladin offer for this knowledge? How does that impact their oath?

That being said, I'm sure there are plenty of nerds wizards or other scholars who could teach it.

In school, yes.

Before laptops in every classroom was a thing, I was struggling heavily with hand written assignments.

I'm dysgraphic. Where dyslexia fucks with input to the brain, dysgraphia fucks with output. Hand writing is the most noticed, but affects typing and speech too. Hitting backspace to fix a word is a lot less consuming than trying to fix mistakes in pen.

So I got approval to use a laptop. Thankfully my family had the means to provide one.

Wouldn't you know it, my grades improved dramatically when the teachers could actually read what I had written.

Oh, well that's totally affordable and won't affect the consumer market at all.

I don't.

I don't think they even sell winter tires here.

And if winter tires are the little studded ones... Yeah, those aren't street legal here.

That being said, we tend to shut down the state if someone drops an icecube.

Get to vantage point.

Explore actionable map points.

Go to next area.

Repeat.

Which game am I talking about? Doesn't matter, it's the Ubisoft formula these days and has been for a long time.

Wake me up when Ubisoft metaphorically burns to the ground, or they do something innovative.

I mean, 8 gigs of RAM is overkill depending on what you're doing.

For general computing sure, but if you build out a device for a specific purpose, you can really cut down on a crap ton of resources including memory.

Unix principle, adopted by Linux. Do one thing and do it well.

Applies to more than just software design.

You mean while he fled his constituents during a state of emergency?

No more sugar coating shit.

The Democrats do this shit too in their own way, at their own peril. At all of our peril.

Makes one want to sail the high seas out of principle.