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// 2023-08-16, cynic spends his first few days on campus wondering how he's going to run the first year engineering software. cynic oh good eduroam works cynic teim 2 figure out how to run solidworks on a 2012 debian shitpad cynic https://www.solidworks.com/support/system-requirements <-- brb jumping off slusher tower +h4des cynic: im gonna let you in on a secret technique +h4des we had a vtluug guy who basically kept buying and returning the same laptop through best buy to run freshman software +h4des he would basically take an image of the laptop, return it, then deploy the image on the new laptop, and do that for a whole ass semester +h4des an alternative option would be to request a loaner from SWAT +h4des but you'll need to have a broken laptop or invoice for that +h4des but you see they don't actually check whether or not your laptop is broken, they just need a ticket # from a repair center or an order # +h4des there's nothing really stopping you from writing ur own fake dell/lenovo/samsung/microsoft/fujitsu support tickets and using that as evidence +h4des then you get a 3 week loan +h4des you can also request another 3 week extension once, no questions asked, so technically 6 weeks cynic would the public boxes in newman/torg work? +h4des after that they get suspicious and ask for an update on your laptop ticket +h4des but you could easily do the method i described above, and have "backordered parts" (this is especially a popular excuse with microsoft hardware) +h4des or you could say "my laptop came back and it's DOA, i need to ship it again" and request another loaner cynic heh cynic okay
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jpo: As much as I might find the extent of our society’s reliance on personal metal boxes on 4 wheels to be distasteful, having one’s own metal box does have undeniable utility. I went several hundred miles in someone else’s metal box with the check engine and BRAKE light on a flashing and blinking the whole time, through rain and that snow/ice/sleet/hail storm, and control of the vehicle was indeed lost. Mildly terrifying. Lots of highways with semis too. Having my own metal box without these real and present risks to life and limb seems overdue jpo: Traction control light (ABS not working) was also on. Along with a couple other lights. Only light that was any consolation was the “passenger airbag on” light
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// VTCsec renamed to Cyber @ VT. VTLUUG is in uproar // Meatspace: Paul: Am I High? Eric: Are we collectively all high then? and can I have less of these drugs? // Cyberspace: Matt: Is it still run by feds? Eric: well, they don't realise that cyber w/out context means cybersex, so clearly Eric: I mean, I'm totally okay with supporting people and their fetishes. But you don't have to be *that* forthright about it Matt: How else would they meet people to cyber with? Paul: We need a LinuxVT Matt: <image: vtcsec.org "connection is not secure"> Still haven't setup TLS in 2021 Matt: I'm sorry what http://vtcsec.org/roles.html // site lists COO, CFO, etc. as organisational positions Lukas: I really wish I was in the room where a bunch of vtcsec officers decided to give themselves C-level executive titles for a fucking student org of all places.
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<gig> y'all ever sit through meetings at work with people trying to sell you snake oil <pew> not really <pew> might happen tomorrow though idk <gig> s/people/other companies/ <pew> 'pentest-as-a-service' can't be that bad, right? <gig> lol <gig> sure <echarlie> uh, that's called connecting yourself to the internet
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01:51 <Macuser> echarlie i heard tomorrow was supposed to be 60F. 01:51 <Macuser> but i don't have a damn bike pump 01:51 <Macuser> RIP 13:57 --> Macuser (~Macuser@unaffiliated/macuser) has joined #vtara 14:22 <Southern_Gentlem> Macuser, walmart has bike pumps and sheets has free air 14:22 <Macuser> presta? 14:22 <Macuser> walmart prob sells the Joe Blow for full retail $50 14:22 <Macuser> i already got one back at home 14:23 <Southern_Gentlem> which does you no good here and will cost you the same to run back home to get 14:24 <Macuser> correct 14:25 <Macuser> i was HOPING to get the pump from Facebook marketplace, but an asshole who got an extra pump for free wants to sell for full retail price 14:37 <Southern_Gentlem> that way he gets his for free 14:39 <Macuser> yeah screw him. no wonder it hasn't sold 23:11 <Macuser> welp no bike ride today 23:20 <pew> Macuser: but it's so nice outside 23:20 <Macuser> stoooop 23:20 <Macuser> i have no pump 23:20 <Macuser> i kill u 23:20 <Macuser> reeeeeee 23:21 <pew> idk, stop by east coasters? 23:21 <Macuser> and park where 23:21 <Macuser> by the time I get there sun is set anyway 23:22 <Macuser> oh wait parking free 5:30 iirc 23:22 <Macuser> maybe even 5 23:22 <pew> huh? 23:22 <Macuser> point is, i dont wanna pay full retail for a 2nd pump 23:22 <pew> east coasters is in same parking lot as kroger 23:22 * Macuser thinks 23:22 <pew> oh you're on campus aren't you 23:22 <Macuser> no i'm in Cburg 23:23 <pew> oh lol 23:23 <pew> rip u 23:23 <Macuser> lol it's fine out here 23:23 <Macuser> away from all the undergrad density 23:23 <pew> which part? 23:23 <pew> of cburg 23:23 <Macuser> not downtown 23:23 <Macuser> the part that has the kroger 23:24 <Macuser> and food lion 23:24 <Macuser> im literally right adjacent to the food lion 23:26 <pew> I bet the re:store has a pump 23:26 <pew> maybe the rec center too 23:26 <Macuser> ohhh shit 23:26 <Macuser> i'm an idiot 23:26 <Macuser> they have pumps all over this area 23:26 <Macuser> they have to have presta. no way they dont 23:27 <Macuser> it's too darkkk nowww 23:27 <pew> rip 23:27 <pew> there's also the bike kitchen in the back of re:store 23:27 * Macuser looks up reeee:store 23:27 <Macuser> oh u mean habitat for humanity 23:28 <pew> oh I'm dumb I thought it had a : in the middle for some reason 23:28 <Macuser> what's a bike kitchen 23:28 <Macuser> and why is it in the back of a furniture store 23:28 <pew> it's like a bike co-op 23:29 <Macuser> it's not advertised ANYWHERE 23:29 <Macuser> lol 23:29 <pew> but not called a bike co-op 23:29 <Macuser> how u know this 23:29 <pew> lol 23:29 <pew> I help run the blacksburg co-op 23:29 <Macuser> maybe this was the case 10 years ago last time u were here 23:29 <Macuser> nothin on google maps 23:29 <pew> I graduated in 2018 btw 23:29 <Macuser> oh 23:29 <Macuser> neat 23:29 <pew> https://www.facebook.com/NRVBikeKitchen/ 23:29 <Wadsworth> [ NRV Bike Kitchen - Home | Facebook ] 23:30 <pew> neat, the restore has an online shop 23:31 <Macuser> interestin
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fieu: @Jason Scott Feel bold enough to archive Github? https://web.archive.org/web/20201104050148/https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/565ece486c7c1652754d7b6d2b5ed9cb4097f9d5 Comrade Drone: like this? https://archiveprogram.github.com/ fieu: lmao Jason Scott: So Jason Scott: First of all, Internet Archive is archiving all of Github Jason Scott: Has been for nearly a year Jason Scott: Do you seriously think this is my first rodeo where someone has a TOO HOT FOR TV file, and ooooOOOoOooOoOoo Jason did you DARE archive it? Did you ACTUALLY MAKE IT AVAILABLE AGAIN? Did you RISK IT ALLLLLLLL Jason Scott: Anyway, no this is not my first rodeo and these are not my first clowns
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JPO’s steps for success: 1) find a community that’s technically awesome, and has a real sense of community 2) read, learn, do shit, share it, contribute something of value 3) participate in the community’s form of communication (e.g. mailing lists) (help people out, give feedback in areas you’ve actually learned about and done shit in) 4) go to events of said community 5) surround yourself with people way smarter than you are, shut up, listen, ask questions, take notes, really research the shit you didn’t understand afterwards 6) keep going to said events, speak up, engage, and let people associate your face with your name that they know from your worthwhile contributions 7) repeat from step 2 until the community considers you one of their own, and you’re (at least just barely) old enough to get past HR 8) find someone willing to give you a chance. Some is luck, but luck absolutely favors the prepared. If you want to get stuck by lightening, go climb a mountain in a thunderstorm. Here: go do shit that’s worthwhile and let it be known 9) profit 10) give back to help the next person do the same, and be willing to take a chance on someone when it’s your turn to pay it forward Cost of above: a sacrifice of time (perhaps years of your nights spent hacking instead of sleeping, perhaps a bad GPA), and maybe ~$600/event once or twice a year