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K.C. Budd

@phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange

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156 Following

452 Posts

Hacking, microcontollers, infosec, airplanes, skis, rollerblades, schnauzers. 🏳️‍🌈

South Lake Tahoe

Website

https://wiki.solace.net/

K.C. Budd 1d ago

Puppies like sushi too!

K.C. Budd 1d ago

ACARS Drama 1d ago

VDLM2 Message From: N907XJ / 9E5026

Message: LOT OF BABIES SLOWED BOARDING

Area: New York City, NY, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N907XJ #9E5026

K.C. Budd 2d ago

Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️4d ago

the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

K.C. Budd 2d ago

FYI - Microsoft's revenue and profitability for the last five years has continued to go *up.* I feel like this is important context.

K.C. Budd 3d ago

Scott Wilson 3d ago

If you have to use #GenAI (and I don’t advise it), at least use https://duck.ai to help keep your “conversations” anonymous.

https://bgr.com/tech/which-ai-protects-your-privacy-the-best-chatgpt-gemini-or-something-else/

DuckDuckGo AI Chat at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

K.C. Budd 4d ago

Dr. Amy, Psy.D.4d ago

Watching one of those “extreme houses” type shows and they’re describing how they built this house and used the phrase “the concrete was allowed to harden”

At the risk of being pedantic, that concrete will harden with or without your consent

K.C. Budd 5d ago

Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque

K.C. Budd 5d ago

ACARS Drama 5d ago

ACARS Message From: N824AW / AA0973

Message: I JUST TOLD PAX WE ARE GOING TO LGA.. I REALLY DONT WANT TO DISSAPOINT THEM AGAIN..

Area: Windsor, ON, Canada

#acars #vdlm2 #N824AW #AA0973

K.C. Budd 6d ago

Is that the main culprit?

K.C. Budd 6d ago

FOUND THE LEAK. it's these vertical seat jets. Finally!

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Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque

What fresh hell did I wake up to

Rey 💜 🏳️‍⚧️4d ago

@sutter welcome to the overnight bacterial toot club!

Coffeemancer Vanvidum 4d ago

@sutter Popularity!

@sutter calling boosts uppies is great!

Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace

@sutter they already took her pussy off, now this?

perfectly normal (horse) beast 4d ago

@BestGirlGrace @sutter inevitably,

solastalgia kris 4d ago

@g1comics @BestGirlGrace @sutter

This is the future nudists want

@BestGirlGrace @sutter

What does @vagina_museum think?

Also aliens may come to explore this situation, was Carl Sagan a puritan? So many questions...

Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace

@hnapel @sutter @vagina_museum the version of the story I'm aware of is that Sagan wanted her to have the vagina, but the suits said no.

The Witch of Crow Briar 4d ago

@BestGirlGrace @hnapel @sutter @vagina_museum I mean… faces have apparently become a bridge too far for Business Casual, good thing the Pioneer mission left when it did.

Vagina Museum 3d ago

@BestGirlGrace @hnapel @sutter This is quite right, with a touch of nodding to Ancient Greece https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/110747221983351656

Vagina Museum (@vagina_museum@masto.ai)

OLD THREAD REPOST Good afternoon, who would like to hear about a controversy about sending nudes into outer space? Well, we're going to tell you about a controversy about sending NUDES into OUTER SPACE...

Mastodon

Jon Gilbert 5d ago

@sutter ....HUH, so it is.

Ángela Stella Matutina 5d ago

In memory of Linda Salzman...

Brian Grinter 5d ago

@sutter @NewtonMark first alien civilisation to find the Pioneer probe will complain about receiving unsolicited nudes and wipe us out…

@bgrinter @sutter @NewtonMark
The plaque has instructions of which planet to target and which species is to blame for all the mess.

BetaRays 4d ago

@geoffl @bgrinter @sutter @NewtonMark Don’t worry, the instructions include 9 planets.

@BetaRays @NewtonMark @bgrinter @sutter
#astronomy

BetaRays 4d ago

@geoffl @NewtonMark @bgrinter @sutter It’s unfair not to count Eris or Ceres (actually discovered before Pluto!)

Eris (dwarf planet) - Wikipedia

Brian Grinter 4d ago

@BetaRays @geoffl @NewtonMark @sutter choice was 8 planets or 20+

Andrew Benedict-Nelson 4d ago

@bgrinter @sutter @NewtonMark I support this plan

….huh.

leadedsolder 5d ago

@sutter @ifixcoinops they got jobs at Best Buy after some NASA cutbacks

Donald Hobern 5d ago

So the man has two left arms.

@dhobern @sutter

They may also think he has two arms left.

Geoff Coffey 5d ago

@sutter Wow I hope the aliens aren’t offended. Not sure what the dress code is for first contact.

sport of sacred spherical cows 5d ago

Vitruvian Man would have been too over the top.

Daniil Baturin 4d ago

@beadsland @sutter Maybe I should make a virtual paper doll game where one could dress the Pioneer plaque characters in various outfits.

Kagan MacTane (he/him)4d ago

@dmbaturin @beadsland @sutter Where do I subscribe for updates on this project, or to be informed when it's ready for viewing?

/sincere

Daniil Baturin 4d ago

@kagan @beadsland @sutter I guess follow me… I really do think it would be fun to make and if like to make it, but I can’t promise any sort of a timeframe, to be honest with you.

Daniil Baturin 4d ago

@kagan @beadsland @sutter I’m also terrible at drawing so I’ll need someone else to make the artwork for the outfits.

Jonathan 5d ago

@sutter Well someone's got to teach the aliens how to dress business casual.

Jef Poskanzer 5d ago

@sutter Was hoping the replies would include them dressed in other outfits.

@sutter Best Buy Business attire, more like it...but yes. :)

unlofl [Promoted Toot]5d ago

@sutter amazing, I had to check myself so if anyone else is wondering:

MooMoo the Cat 5d ago

@unlofl @sutter Thank you!

Rick Gundlach 4d ago

@flowerpot @unlofl @sutter Except in the plaque, the male of the species is waving. Surprised 70s feminists didn't protest that.

Céleste (Squelette cool)4d ago

@hoofin according to the Criticism section of the Wikipedia page for the plaque, it has been criticised by feminists (but maybe not in the 70s if that's what you mean?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#Criticism

@flowerpot @unlofl @sutter

Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

Rick Gundlach 4d ago

@SqueletteCool @flowerpot @unlofl @sutter Yes. I am surprised that, at the time, no one caught that it's only the male of the species making a gesture. I remember this plaque when it was going into orbit. The biggest issue was they had no clothes on.

Neil Kandalgaonkar 4d ago

They did protest it at the time, but the whole thing was hurriedly put together without public involvement

Carl Sagan was involved in the plaque's creation, and his wife at the time did the drawings. They were aware of how unrepresentative it was, both for gender and race and even biology (the woman's genitals are a blank space), but thought this image would be both interpretable by aliens, and approvable by NASA bureaucrats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

thefathippy 5d ago

✅Pants
✅Shirt
❌Shoes, WTF?

MooMoo the Cat 5d ago

@sutter 😆
This would be more accurate if the woman was wearing a sweater set.

SubductionRheology 5d ago

@sutter Did an AI create the image I wonder?

Mister Dave 5d ago

@sutter compatible license

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦5d ago

"Created by AI"?

It's a year round April fool's joke?

Duke Thinred IV

@sutter His has a line that starts as a crease and ends up as a seam. And what's with the angled sleeve ends?
By "casual" I think they are referring to the garment assembly process.

עדי סתיו 5d ago

@sutter This is amazing

Julia Clement 4d ago

@sutter Yes, If you go to File:Business casual male & female(.)svg on commons it lists the source svgs including https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Business_casual_male_%26_female.svg

The interesting thing about this is that Carl Sagan 's original on the NASA site was a jpeg, there's no note on how it was converted to an svg, but it looks too clean to be a machine translation. Being uploaded in 2013 rules out it being done by an LLM.

File:Business casual male & female.svg - Wikimedia Commons

@sutter Well, that's awesome I think !

Ben Harris-Roxas 4d ago

@sutter low key Simpsons aesthetic too

Justin Mason 4d ago

@sutter this is genius

Alfred Chow - Maker of Things 4d ago

@sutter
That is really going to confuse the aliens!

Schrottkatze (Fangirl::<Turbofish>)4d ago

@sutter this is beauiful

@sutter if a human wore clothes would it be like this or this

Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3 4d ago

@sutter 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣

@sutter if Pioneer plaque figures wore jeans, how would they wear it

Colin (@ Anthrocon)4d ago

@sutter honestly a great idea.
The figures are public domain AND I bet that went through a zillion rounds of NASA meetings to end up with the nominate cisgendered-appearing couple.

C++ Wage Slave 4d ago

I agree that it looks that way, but in fact Carl Sagan and Frank Drake designed the plaques in a matter of weeks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

Colin (@ Anthrocon)4d ago

@CppGuy @sutter jeez if anything their original design got watered down (more white) through further deliberations.
Frustrating those citations are buried away in a book I can't seem to easily access.

Nicovel0 🍉4d ago

@sutter in order to be professional as a woman, you must not have LINES. LINES are for men only.