It’s a creepypasta called the giant of Kandahar:

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Giant_of_Kandahar

What am I missing out on? I don’t mean this in a mean way, I think you are correct that I don’t know and am legitimately curious.

For big ones it is a time commitment thing, but for small ones I have tried to do my part.

I have found I generally have the time to act as a caretaker for some small communities, and there are more than a couple communities out there which have lone creator accounts that have been deleted and are essentially unmoderated (outside of instance admins).

I found a couple of these, [email protected] and [email protected], and decided I could help watch them as a result.

If they are fairly small I would definitely recommend it to anyone else - for me, by far and large, I find that the users who engage with these communities are really very respectful and create good conversation about the topics, which makes my role very simple most of the time.

Mostly instance admins, but also some users such as @[email protected] and @[email protected] due to their really good art on [email protected].

Is this some kind of copypasta? This is hilarious.

Like others said, you did fine. Make yourself safe, report it, call security if required, but also understand that when people are under extreme duress such as the death of a loved one, they want to blame anyone and anything.

People have a really hard time coping with the fact that people often die without reason, unceremoniously, to such a degree that they feel they have been wronged by something or someone, even if there isn’t anything to blame.

When this happens they may pick something they perceive as being in proximity to the event to blame to try to make sense of it. It might be disease, the equipment, the medication, a family member, or in this case yourself.

You deal with this by knowing the facts of what happened, and knowing you did your best and aren’t to blame, and by understanding that people lash out when they are upset.

Nothing you could have said would have helped the situation with this person in their state, so saying nothing and leaving to de-escalate the situation is 100% the best thing you could have done.

The minority of Vivaldi is closed source from what I have read actually - specifically the stuff they have that makes its fancy UI work, but someone can correct me with a citation if that is not true.

They state that about 95% of it is available to be read where 92% of that is open source from Chromium, 3% is open source from Vivaldi themselves, and the last 5% that is not available to be read is Vivaldi’s UI.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Still far from open source or free software, but better than most people would think. I guess you would also have to trust them that it really is just the UI.

1 - Ask them if they can either not drop the weights, or if the time this occurs can be adjusted to make it less of a problem. Document that you asked them somehow including date, time, what was said in the request, and how the request was sent.

2 - If nothing can be fixed through step 1 review your condo rules and verify if they are breaching them by doing what they are doing, see what fines are like for each breach of whatever rules is covered by this. If there are no rules for this, you are basically screwed and should either lobby your condo board/property manager for a change in rules or move.

3 - Set up a camera/mic and have your phone handy. Record the noise when it happens noting the date and time.

4 - Submit a complaint to the condo board/property manager every time this happens including the date and time and the recorded evidence, citing which rules are being broken. Be prepared when you start doing this that your neighbor might try to retaliate. If they retaliate by making the noise worse, do the same thing recording it and sending it up the line. If you play music really loud or whatever, they may also try to retaliate by submitting complaints about you - try to not let them catch you out on that.

Eventually, if your property management/condo rules are set up in a reasonable way they would either stop, get evicted by their landlord who is now receiving fines, or be evicted by proxy because the fines are too numerous and expensive. Repeatedly making complaints to your board/property manager usually gets them involved pretty quickly because it creates a constant nuisance they can’t easily ignore.

True enough.

If you don’t need stuff publicly accessible, and just need it accessible to you, then set up a small computer on the network as an ssh Bastion host/jump server, put it on a VPN connection with a VPN provider that offers dyndns, forward the ssh port through the dyndns, and then off network, reverse proxy in with socks5 via key based ssh -D to gain access to all the services available inside the LAN.

Been doing this for a few years, works great and no one is getting in without my ssh key.

but mean “to sell it to others for our incommingsto lease access to it repeatedly to maximize profit”.

I’m a professional. I expect to be treated like one. If there are companies who are serious about hiring a professional, I’m all in. Please engage me.

That’s really well said.

I remember being in the same situation a couple years ago in which I was accepted to an interview through a video chat web application hosted by the company.

To my horror, when I joined the meeting, it was not a video chat interview. It was a series of recorded clips of their HR person reading off questions, the clips pausing, and then a timer showing up on the screen noting “You have 15 seconds to answer”.

I was so put off by this that after the first question, I decided to spend the rest of the time I was being recorded explaining to them under no uncertainties that this was one of the most unprofessional interview processes I had ever engaged in, and that they had made it clear that they did not value my time whatsoever, so I had no reason to reciprocate.

I remember working IT, and every other week there was some announcement that looked like this:

Microsoft Pro Plus for Office is now Office 365 plus for Business

Office 365 Office Pro is now Microsoft Office Pro Plus

Office Dynamics 365 for Business is now Office for Business Pro

Microsoft Windows Home Office 365 is now Windows 365 Home Plus

How anyone still manages that fucking licensing is beyond me.

Have it dim and brighten N times over the course of a few seconds to chime the hour on the hour, or have it blink a color.

Preach.

Shooting ones self in the foot can be misconstrued as accidental whereas hammering ones dick is clearly an intentional and motivated activity.

Fair enough, in that case we think the same of each other.

If a single exploit was discovered in what you have here, would you know how to go in and fix it and then verify the fix yourself outside of the dubious words of an LLM?

I’m not interested in entrusting my data/software/device to your faith in some models instead of the wisdom of a human being.

This is why I would not use it.

For sure, I have no illusions about that. I still think if this went through and fucked the world economy they would pretty quickly find they would have to repeal the repealment though. It would create way too many problems to try to weasel out of.

Sure, but my point is that it does not mean they want to. They will take the cheapest option possible - if there isn’t one, they usually try to invent a new cheaper option for themselves. In the realm of bribery, if you are going to bribe people anyway, why wouldn’t you pay a couple bribes to avoid paying indefinite bribes?