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
re: Carbon Black vs RDP
@thegibson absolutely, that's totally alright with me. :)
re: Carbon Black vs RDP
@banjofox @thegibson Haha almost! They used Blackfire. 😎🔥
re: Carbon Black vs RDP
@thegibson And honestly, you said you're having a rough week. This isn't anything show stopping. More just a strange happening that I'd like to see if we can get to the bottom of at some point. A mystery to be solved sort of thing. We can look into it next week or the week after if that's better for you. No rush. :)
re: Carbon Black vs RDP
@thegibson that would work for me!
re: Carbon Black vs RDP
@thegibson no rush and I definitely wasn’t trying to throw you under the bus or anything. Just interesting that this seems to only have cropped up with 20H2 and only with the image downloaded from the VLSC.
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.
I watch over the stuff with blinky lights. Pretty boring and entirely unremarkable.