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My first introduction to John McAfee the person was the video about uninstalling the software which carries his name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg I enjoyed the video, so I've always had a slightly positive feeling towards him, just as "guy with a good sense of humor."
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Vavrek posted:My first introduction to John McAfee the person was the video about uninstalling the software which carries his name: he's a literal murder and creep, and even before he lost his mind on bathsalts he's responsible for other deaths with his paraglider business that was run like the goon zipline. nothing about him is cool.
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Jun 26, 2021 17:51
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But did you know that he owned an appartement in that appartement complex that collapsed in Miami and it was actually a controlled demolition to get rid of evidence he had against the deep state? Yes I have been confronted with this "theory" within the last 24 hours. The nut jobs work fast!
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Jun 26, 2021 22:20
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Visited an aunt today who needed a hand moving some stuff out of her house for hard rubbish collection and spotted this radio in one of the boxes: I couldn't allow this radio to be thrown away, so I took it home and put some AA batteries into it. It worked straight away:  Gave it a clean down, got rid of some of the stains on the speaker grille and it came out nicely:  Going to take the leather case to a local shoe repairer who does leather repair work to put on a new carry strap and see if some of it can be re-stitched: 
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Jun 27, 2021 08:40
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drat, nice save! That looks great all cleaned up.
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Jun 27, 2021 08:53
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Wow. Even good leather rots and crumbles EVENTUALLY, right? Thing looks 80 years old
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Jun 27, 2021 10:17
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I feel old when people don’t know who McAfee was in relation to the computer industry
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Jun 27, 2021 11:58
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Mescal posted:Wow. Even good leather rots and crumbles EVENTUALLY, right? Thing looks 80 years old The only info I can find about the radio was it was made around 1965.
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Jun 27, 2021 12:56
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I feel old when people don’t know who McAfee was in relation to the computer industry Probably never read the pink shirt book, either. (My copy is falling to bits and missing one page  )Actually, is Norton Antivirus even around anymore?
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Jun 27, 2021 13:40
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Actually, is Norton Antivirus even around anymore? Yes, and almost as bad as a virus. It keeps wanting to infect my computer tagged onto 'express' installation modes for certain software. Defender really seems to do the job well to be honest.
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Jun 27, 2021 13:43
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Humphreys posted:Yes, and almost as bad as a virus. It keeps wanting to infect my computer tagged onto 'express' installation modes for certain software. Defender really seems to do the job well to be honest. How do I even get virus nowadays? Not that I want one but IDK even theoretically. e: Was there any free-free Windows anti-virus application that didn't get loaded with malware at some point? I remember changing like three times, before Windows got it is own anti-virus that works.
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Jun 27, 2021 13:46
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I feel old when people don’t know who McAfee was in relation to the computer industry I know McAfee, but I can't say I recognized him from a picture of his arm.
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Jun 27, 2021 15:11
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Actually, is Norton Antivirus even around anymore? Norton even has their own Etherium miner, hoping to spin up every pc with Norton 360 to add to a mining pool where they presumably runs off with most of the profits too. "Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining ... In a surprise move, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products. Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks", the company said." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57345632 But yeah, things are a bit more secure, but there's always a way for idiots to circumvent any security measure through sheer stupidity. Here in Norway we just recently had a bubble of spam-sms-ing because idiots were falling head over heels for those blatantly loving fake sms-es about 'there was a fedex delivery for you! visit notevenvaguelyrelated52345.url and download+run the stuff on it!' And I just don't understand how people fall for it, but I guess the inconsistencies in the messages weed out anyone even slightly skeptical, and you're left with the idiots who disregard the fact that the url doesn't match the company mentioned, and blaze through. I guess they downloaded and ran whatever the shady urls told them to, and bam: their phones got used as a botnet to spam out more fake smses as much as possible until the telecoms blocked them. At first I thought my number had gotten leaked/sold somewhere, considering I got like half a dozen over the course of a week before it died down again.
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Jun 27, 2021 15:48
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How do I even get virus nowadays? Not that I want one but IDK even theoretically.
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Jun 27, 2021 16:08
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Not too long ago there was an epidemic of infections spreading through corrupted javascript ads being served by some of the biggest advertising networks on the internet. So doing something as simple as visiting the Wall Street Journal's webpage without running an adblocker might give your computer the herp.
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Jun 27, 2021 16:10
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Click the wrong download that comes from email or the web. Malware web extensions are especially popular.  who downloads things in 2021?Imagined posted:visiting the Wall Street Journal's webpage Ah, when I want to see some variation of "We have your best interests always in mind but also we want complete control of all your data and also to harvest your organs but you loving suck because you live in a place with human rights so gently caress OFF".
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Jun 27, 2021 16:31
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
Do you: 1. Check the headers and make sure this is actually from somebody in your organization? 2. Click? If 1, statistically speaking, you either are a security professional or do not exist. Sorry. If 2, congratulations, your organization now has ransomware.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I heard a noise, as if thousands of security professionals screamed in agony. You get a mail saying "Hi, Bob, here's the spreadsheet you asked for." It has a link to download a spreadsheet. I would never care about any file anyone else sends to me in a professional capacity. Anyway I learned a decade or more ago that no-one else in the world knows how to save an Excel (to attach to an e-mail) worksheet in a way that it opens and works on anyone else's PC. e: Out of curiosity, I've tried to replicate it because I send out Excel files as attachments a lot, but I have no idea how other people manage to gently caress them up with such regularity and such myriad novel ways.
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Jun 27, 2021 16:44
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I heard a noise, as if thousands of security professionals screamed in agony. You get a mail saying "Hi, Bob, here's the spreadsheet you asked for." It has a link to download a spreadsheet. also instead of a spreadsheet its an exe file, and instead of "Hi, Bob, here's the spreadsheet you asked for" it's "Yur Facbeook account has been hacked click here to unhack it"
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Jun 27, 2021 16:47
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Sweevo posted:also instead of a spreadsheet its an exe file, and instead of "Hi, Bob, here's the spreadsheet you asked for" it's "Yur Facbeook account has been hacked click here to unhack it" Spearphishers are frighteningly good at what they do. If you're personally worth hacking, or if you're in an organization worth hacking, it's going to be addressed to your correct name, apparently from somebody you have an existing connection to. I saw a news report the other day of people being hacked because they opened the conference program for a conference they were going to be presenting at. It wasn't actually from the conference organization, and the payload was something they would reasonably have opened.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Spearphishers are frighteningly good at what they do. If you're personally worth hacking, or if you're in an organization worth hacking, it's going to be addressed to your correct name, apparently from somebody you have an existing connection to. I saw a news report the other day of people being hacked because they opened the conference program for a conference they were going to be presenting at. It wasn't actually from the conference organization, and the payload was something they would reasonably have opened. quote:The Nigerian criminal group known as London Blue, has even used legitimate commercial lead generation sites to gather information on CFOs and other finance department employees. "  Legitimate lead generation sites" my pasty rear end.
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Mescal posted:Wow. Even good leather rots and crumbles EVENTUALLY, right? Thing looks 80 years old Yeah, but it's incredible how hosed it can be and still be able to be restored. (I've been watching loads of cobblers and leatherworkers on YouTube lately)
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You can make old dry leather look good, but once leather has dried out past a certain level, it dry rots and loses almost all of its strength. You can't bring it back from that, no matter what you do. For a display piece, that can be OK, but never trust any sort of weight or tension to an old leather strap that has been restored.
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Look up that bedo leatherworks guy. It's mental what he does. The restoration stuff, not just renovations he's a bit of a prick tho Pricey too. Probably charge 300 bux for that radio case YerDa Zabam has a new favorite as of 22:41 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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Jun 27, 2021 22:38
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I mean, That's not gonna be *good* leather, if it is even leather at all. On those cheapo 60's transistor radios, it would be the lowest of low grade leather.
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Yeah, that might be leather, although on the edges it's peeling in a way that makes me think it's one of those "genuine leather" pieces -- technically a true statement, but a garbage material. On the other hand, those that successfully restore old stuff are probably working with full-grain vegtan pieces. Alternative option: spend a poo poo-ton of money on tools, start making your own case, and join us in the mostly-dormant leatherworking thread to post your progress!
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For those who don't know, "Genuine Leather" is a classification grade of leather. It *IS* leather, technically, as Trabant said. It's one of the lowest grades of leather.
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Jun 27, 2021 23:33
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The Taco Bell beef of leather.
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https://bestleather.org/types-of-leather/ https://bestleather.org/types-of-leather/genuine/
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That is a great fridge magnet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKfVoDe76M $14k in 1979 for this machine.
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Someone should make a YT channel where they take his videos and dub over them with a voice that isn't the most irritating voice on the planet.
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Sweevo posted:Someone should make a YT channel where they take his videos and dub over them with a voice that isn't the most irritating voice on the planet. Also cut out most of the absolutely needless complaining about things that categorically don't matter. (And his casual hate of foreign people.)
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Sweevo posted:Someone should make a YT channel where they take his videos and dub over them with a voice that isn't the most irritating voice on the planet. I've worked with Dave on some stuff in the background and yes, he suffers from that specific type of voice that increases in pitch at end of sentences. It is really really grating. Not something he can do about unfortunately. 3D Megadoodoo posted:Also cut out most of the absolutely needless complaining about things that categorically don't matter. (And his casual hate of foreign people.) Not defending, but that's classic Engineer Brain. Everything is lower than 'him'. The casual hatred for foreign people is just Aussie 'gently caress you, we on an island away from you fuckheads and aren't dumb as gently caress Americans' Humphreys has a new favorite as of 16:39 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Humphreys posted:Engineer Brain AEAB
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Humphreys posted:The casual hatred for foreign people is just Aussie
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I'm going to emigrate to China and found Bodge Job Industries so I can get free advertising from an Australian kazoo.
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I've never met an engineer type IRL who didn't seem to believe that they were the only competent engineer alive, and particularly that whoever touched the thing before them was especially incompetent, possibly evil.
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Imagined posted:I've never met an engineer type IRL who didn't seem to believe that they were the only competent engineer alive, and particularly that whoever touched the thing before them was especially incompetent, possibly evil. The best interaction I've had with an engineer was with one who kept calling me and asking about the stuff he was working with. One time I told him I had no idea what some doo-dad was like, as we'd never had it in stock, and he got mad and said I was supposed to know so I said "no, you're the engineer responsible for this system, you're supposed to know" and he stopped calling me. (Just for clarification: he was supposed to know, it was his loving system.) e: This also illustrates why I'm not in sales. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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