HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.

I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I’m too tired to care now.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • For some reason DHL managed to get a null-string into their system a few years back, which meant that any DHL shipments to me - no matter what the seller had entered - had “null” as the receiver in the system.

    Everything else was fine, address and tracking numbers sent to me etc - but I did have a few interesting discussions at pickup locations that wanted to see identification matching the name in the system …






  • While a meme, yes. I’m an ex-boss and I’ll happily verify that HR works for the company. The function is, “within what the company needs, keep employees happy and content”, sure - but at the slightest conflict between company needs and HR needs it’s the company needs that matter.

    This isn’t really supposed to be a secret, but I think we don’t talk about it openly enough since every time a discussion like this pops up I see people who have misunderstood the function of HR.

    … now what might be a bit more of a secret is how closely companies work together with the unions. Let’s just say I’ve never seen any real union pushback.










  • AFAIK that’s not the same thing as “herpes on their genitalia” though. There are two kinds of the virus, type 1 and type 2. However, type 1 can infect the genital area and type 2 can (although it’s not as common) infect the throat.

    Receiving oral sex from someone with type 1 (“cold sores”) can give you herpes on your genitalia. It’s still type 1 though, and is thus not referred to as “genital herpes” since that’s the name given to type 2. Since many herpes infections are asymptomatic a lot of people don’t even know they’re infected.

    Confusing, yes.