More QAnon
A great video from NY Times on what we can do about QAnon. One of the main points is: Don't ridicule as it only drives people deeper into the rabbit hole. And that makes sense from my own personal experiences.
Oh fun.
Town has a third level domain name from years back town.wearecool.ab.ca. We tried to register a wildcard for *.town.wearecool.ab.ca. But we can't because we don't control (nor does anyone else) wearecool.ab.ca and since 2012, these types of third level domains are defunct.
So… I guess now I'm just going to register an entirely new domain to use for access to all the services that used to run on *.town.wearecool.ab.ca.
COVID, Good news
So relative of my wife's in Germany was taken to hospital last week with what they though was asthma but turns out it was COVID. Pretty frightening since he's in his 80's, and tough because his wife has had multiple strokes and didn't really understand what's going on.
The good news is he's doing better and has now tested negative as have all other family members.
All this time I was making InfoSec out to be much harder than I needed. I guess all I have to do is mash keys? 😎 https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354
Carbon Black vs RDP
This Carbon Black and RDP issue is really strange. While it works with this other image, RDP connections still hang with a black screen for a few seconds before the connection completes.
According to their support, I'm supposed to bring it up with @thegibson 😂
QAnon / USPol / Friendship
It’s tough but I may just have to quietly sever ties with my QAnon following friend from childhood. While I don’t fear him becoming violent physically (he believes social media is the real battleground) it’s got to the point where I can’t even have a normal conversation with him.
We care about some of the same things but for different reasons. He’s trying to de-Google but instead of it being purely for privacy it’s because he believes that Google is his left/ liberal enemy.
It amazes me how left / right focused he’s become. Maybe that’s because for the longest time I’ve avoided placing myself on a political spectrum. I personally believe in a policy of respect and humanity. This tends to align my beliefs with left political parties more often then not but not exclusively.
USPol / SCIENCE / poor humor
I got excited and thought maybe this would work on re-conditioning QAnons too. But then I read this:
'Indeed, if humans eat too much meat, diarrhea usually ensues. And within weeks, they can develop protein poisoning and even die. “Because we humans are not fully adapted to a carnivorous diet, we simply cannot digest protein very well,” Lahtinen says. “It can be very fatal in a very short period of time.”'
So I guess another strategy is required.
TL;DR: Because we couldn't handle the protein from hunting and eating large, wild animals, it went to the wild dogs and helped domesticate them.
I watch over the stuff with blinky lights. Pretty boring and entirely unremarkable.