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ThoriumBR

01:00

malware can attack an up to date system too, they don't necessarily need known vulnerabilities

I did another "corp mandated cyber security training" and what between marking the correct answer or marking the one that would gave me points...

MechMK1

@nobody Because these trainings are bought in externally, and the companies selling them mainly justify why their product is good by claiming that they sold it to lots of other companies

nobody

01:17

-2

A: How can anyone access Intel's "backdoor OS", MINIX?

lmfao. dagelf you are one paranoid pathetic little di ck cu nt who's watched the matrix far too many times and for all the wrong reasons worst of all. stfu. there is no "rabbit hole." ya'll are paranoid schizos who hate yourself and just want to spread fearmongering b/c, again, YOU HAVE NO LIV...

Journeyman Geek

@nobody I regret that I have one flag to non fraudulently give

actually...

@A.Hersean this chat probably was't designed for emoji

ThoriumBR

@JourneymanGeek I still had 47 flags to give, so I gave him one... and I voted to delete it too... and he got a downvote too. Full combo.

Journeyman Geek

@ThoriumBR ah, I'd rather it get flag deleted so VTD and DVs are... not something I suggest

ThoriumBR

01:33

vote to delete only appears after some downvotes (he had 3 before mine, not it's at 6), and now have 2 VTD... and I flagged too, so mods will take a look.

MechMK1

Why do we allow unregistered answers again?

Journeyman Geek

Low barrier to entry, and usualy its not tooooo bad

MechMK1

I mean, how often have we gotten genuinely good contributions from unregistered people, versus...this kind of contribution?

Or let's generalize it as "low-quality contributions"

Journeyman Geek

@MechMK1 funny story that

850

Q: Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?

John Carmack tweeted, I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that? And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being silly”. But this is John Carmack. How can this be true? To avoid discussions about what exact...

MechMK1

Was he unregistered at the time?

Wait, how can an unregistered user have a profile picture?

Journeyman Geek

01:41

\o/

I don't remember

I was here ~~3000 years ago~~ 12 years ago, and I never was unregistered

ThoriumBR

02:21

@JourneymanGeek ...aaaand, it's gone

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SPArcheon

12:16

@MechMK1 random suggestion of the day

in Winter Bash 2021, 1 min ago, by SPArcheon

BTW, Can I suggest that next year Defender should work like... Seeking Mr Eaten's Name from Fallen London?

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MechMK1

13:46

@SPArcheon Based. Do you also need to swallow teeth for it?

SPArcheon

13:58

@MechMK1 I think that giving out all your rep in bounties should be enough.

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MechMK1

15:17

@SPArcheon That would take a while.. You can only have a handful of bounties active at any given time.

SPArcheon

@MechMK1 which makes it even more slow, grindy and painful... so...

MechMK1

In the end, your account is permanently suspended at 1 Rep, but with a notification that you now got it.

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SPArcheon

18:03

@MechMK1 And one of four flavor texts of your choice.

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nobody

19:39

...Are there any security measures to prevent this... None whatsoever. ...and the world burns... it's always burning. — President James K. Polk 1 hour ago

I like the second part of that comment

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prosody-Gabe Vereable Context

20:58

I wish I could pay $50 USD for 50 points (well, cheaper ideally, but making a point) just for Bounties (and other help too, to help Users) otherwise it's risky. I am constantly amazed these sites do not monetize effectively when users like me would gladly pay for the reputational security. Heck, I can not pay archive.org but Rhizome and Perma.cc take my money, which is not sensical I mean archive is the older one and always has banners/ads begging for change.

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prosody-Gabe Vereable Context

22:04

Just because it's on-topic today, I will add, I do not have a fun meme, but it's like being poor. On SE many/most Users are poor (which I am not even saying anything about how that judges User knowledge). Which is quite an experience to counter, 2 or 10 points at a time in quiet questions, even good questions that are just quiet mean poor is a constant, which is sad for an educational environment like web Q&A leaders. Even for good questions which are quiet.

Journeyman Geek

22:48

@prosody-GabeVereableContext I think "buying" rep's been brought up on main meta more than once. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148785/…

Fundamentally, being able to 'pay to win' so to speak devalues the reputation ecosystem

You'd probably be able to escape a question ban with say 1000 rep

+ you could for example 'buy' the rep and transfer it to someone, which launders it to regular rep, even if say 'bought' rep didn't count against your score...

so you could say buy 1000 transferrable rep, bounty it to a sock, then transfer it back

prosody-Gabe Vereable Context

@JourneymanGeek Oh, I see your question answer at top. I was referring to rep for other specific needs (bounty, mod help, editing help... utility) not rawly buying points. :∫ I also support campaign finance reform... ethical guardrails... utility points.

Journeyman Geek

@prosody-GabeVereableContext Well - any reputation gets put back into the ecosystem

so there's no difference to "rep that's only going to get transferred" and "rep you buy for your own account"

prosody-Gabe Vereable Context

Well rep is very gameable still, currently. Tracking, transparency and reporting systems for points would help that, like in real institutions/government point systems which are bound by regulations and standards that can be investigated according to laws.

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