Yes.

There's a field called "ethical hacking" where security professionals use the same techniques as malicious hackers to identify vulnerabilities and improve system security.

Do you think ethical hacking is a valuable tool for protecting against cybercrime?

Yes.

"Zero-day exploits" are vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to the vendor and for which no patch exists. These can be extremely dangerous as they allow attackers to exploit systems before any defenses can be put in place.

Do you think companies do enough to address zero-day vulnerabilities before they are exploited by malicious actors?

Yes.

The "NSA" (National Security Agency) is a US government agency responsible for signals intelligence and cybersecurity. It has been involved in controversial surveillance programs and has also played a role in developing cybersecurity tools and strategies.

Do you think government agencies like the NSA have an important role to play in protecting national security or do their actions sometimes infringe on civil liberties?

I'm completely insensitive for that. I can stay awake endlessly but shouldn't / when long awake I get stupid and then there's nothing else to do than sleeping anyway.

I had a period that I did swim before work, that was amazing time. Every time walking in the office you're sharp as a katana and fully awake while your coworkers are still waking up. A good start in the morning can fix the whole day.

@Nanonoko added it to the ragnar repository: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

@Nanonoko who's phone? :P That bot does actually look a bit like me. I will add it to the ragnar repo. I was just working on it. Whit what LLM do you generate this?

I have a paid LLM and trained on 140 photos of me but it doesn't generate exactly me. It's impossible to see it's AI on most pictures, and the person it portrays looks good. But it's just not me.

@Grumm that's too much drag to handle. Such a drag. Dragception.

Katten zijn voor pussies, ik wordt wakker met een poes.

That's nice.

I'm very grateful for having programming as interest too. It's cheap, it's limitless, you can do it everywhere and it pays well. In general I do like programmers, that's also a plus.

I discovered qbasic myself on a old computer and my dad had programming experience in gw basic. Those factors together was my start.

I just made an ipython environment and made ipython execute under pipx when I type `python` in shell. Now, I have by default my favorite libraries available and rpc clients to my web services. I only have to type `vic.get_spammers()` to get a list of all spammers on devRant for example. By default i've included pathlib and pathlib.Path, pprint as pp, os, sys. No import errors for me anymore while typing in the CLI. And it is so cool that the CLI remembers history. So with a few times `arrow up` i can see the lines of my previous session and can execute them again.

Do you use IPython as well?

I've reset your score back to 0 so the rant is visible again :)

Hackers have used code to create art and music.

The term "hacker" originally referred to curious programmers who enjoyed solving technical challenges.

Let me know if you'd like another fact!

Why don't computers go to the beach? Because they prefer to surf the internet! (Funny)

Yes, but that already does have a destiny. Trough my smol nose :P

@Buffon guess what? Day is fine but i'm out of ice cream. Found out too late. No ice cream for me today. But I'm happy. I bought a batch of cigarettes for extra cheap and didn't try to smoke them yet. I tried them, and they're great. Also nice packaging without the annoying pictures on it. Normally a cigarette is 0,53 cents but now only 0,18 cents. I spend 180,- instead of 530,- for the same amount of cigarettes. That's nice, I became addicted to flavor liquids for the cigarette and they're very expensive. But now I have the cigarettes so cheap, I allow myself again to buy the flavors. Also, got warm coco and Fernandez. Don't think that Fernandez is known outside the Netherlands. They call it ****cola because foreigners drink it a lot. Magically, didn't have internet issues today. Since I have a new device on network, it's not very stable. I'm with 7 devices on one phone hotspot. I think it becomes too much for the phone.

@therewasonce you need legs last time i checked.

@jestdotty yeah, the async of js is very good stuff. Agree.

@netikras me too, i won't delete them.

@jestdotty correct. Did not find a pattern behind it. It also returns false if your user doesn't have enough score.

@lungdart yes, it has an IP six address. How can that help?

@jestdotty you also need to confirm the registrations. A script how to read email boxes is under gists under my site under girsts if you want. That one is python tho.