I am not a velociraptor

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Cake day: 2024年11月26日

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  • I have continuous fights with my IT dept. I work for OT, so my day is behind a computer doing technical stuff with machines and other computers, so although I’m no expert in cybersecurity, I know the basics about it and about privacy.

    It’s an everyday war with them for every single thing I try to do. The best one I remember was when I tried to install firefox because I didn’t want to use chrome or edge. Tey blocked traffic from firefox through the company’s firewall. I called the IT to explain that I wanted to use firefox because I want to use ublock and other privacy related extensions to block tracking, redirect, phishing and other harmful things and I think their response caused me to facepalm in a way I never thought it was possible: they told me that if I wanted privacy, I should use chrome’s incognito mode.


  • Sometimes there are policies that made this almost forced. Case in point: the company I work for forces you to change password every 60 days max. They don’t allow the use of passwords managers and you can’t use the last 5 passwords. So what do people do? Just go with a simple word and change one number each time. Like “velociraptor1” then “velociraptor2” and so on.

    I use passphrases which let me remember them easily while offering protection but it’s so stupid that they do it this way.






  • At this point I’m not really sure you understand autism at all. Because you keep treating it as a disease or illness when it’s not. I might suggest you to read some books about the topic. Avoid those written by people claiming to have found a cure because they are full of bs.

    You still don’t understand that autism is a kind of brain development. If I think in a neurotypical way, I could say that you need to be cured, because, among your debilitating traits, it’s the fact that you need to use rethoric and literary figures to relay your message (and implicit meanings, forcing others to read between the lines) instead of directly saying it with a clear message.

    Tell me, can you cure a neurotypical inability to speak without implicit messages? Can you cure a neurotypical person at all so they become autistic?