Aaron Soto

@surefire@infosec.exchange
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Teaching was my first love. Packets were my second.

I make classes to teach people how to defend themselves against hackers. In my spare time, I teach college students to compete in cybersecurity competitions, or try to take back my home automation from the cloud.

he/him 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️💜💙

(Profile banner is a sunset sky from underneath a bridge with kayakers and the edge of the Austin city skyline)

Twitter@_surefire_
Githubhttps://github.com/sure-fire
One question I commonly see in the @owncast community is how to set up a chat overlay on their stream. So, I decided to write a blog post on how I have mine set up in OBS Studio and how it works: https://logal.dev/blog/owncast-chat-overlay-obs-studio-setup/

I hope it helps someone out there!
How to Set Up an Owncast Chat Overlay in OBS Studio - LogalDeveloper

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B.C. Labour Board certifies union at Amazon facility in Delta, B.C., Unifor says | CBC News

Unifor says the B.C. Labour Relations Board has awarded union certification to workers at an Amazon facility in Delta, B.C. The workers will now begin the process of negotiating a first contract, the union says.

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Odin's grandhumans are in town today and brought him a squeaky rubber chicken. Fortunately for our sanity, he seems to consider squeaking a toy to be a failure state to be avoided, so he holds them gently. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
Don't all groan at once:

Who will tell Americans that men can threaten women in the restroom without crossdressing:

"An armed off-duty U.S. Border Patrol Officer... Hodgson allegedly entered the women’s restroom, where he approached a female who observed his handgun and firearm magazine. Hodgson reportedly left the restaurant soon after the female alerted the restaurant’s manager that Hodgson was armed and in the women’s restroom."

https://da.lacounty.gov/media/news/duty-us-border-patrol-agent-charged-assaulting-police-officer-while-resisting-arrest-long

Can anyone tell me how Spanish speakers in the US refer to ICE?

I'm guessing it's "EE-say"?

No, I mean literally how they pronounce it. I'm sure they "call" them all kinds of things 😂🖕

Just learned the Spanish word for "raid": redada.

And "to arrest": arrestar

Just, you know, adding a few random words to my vocabulary for no reason in particular.

It has officially begun. The CRA info request counter is no longer at zero.
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@scar Most people, after having been told _twice_ that help is unavailable, would stop asking. But nope, you kept going. Your _words_ here are polite, but _what you are asking_ is rude.
@scar Here's my reply in which I pointed that out. Note: no swearing, no name-calling. Just you're being rude, please stop.
@scar And here's where you switched to your personal email account and got abusive, presumably because a little voice in the back of your head told you it might be a bad idea to be abusive to people from your work email.
@scar Here's my reply to that. Again, no swearing or name-calling.
@scar And here's your last reply to me, which is totally normal and not at all the type of reply you get from an internet kook (ooh, a lawsuit threat! how original and not something I've ever encountered before, having been active under my own name on the internet since 1987!).
@scar As for why I took the time to send you my last email above? Again, not that it is any of your business, but I sometimes like to give people who are rude to me a chance to reconsider their life choices and learn something from the exchange.
On one or two occasions, this has even resulted in an apology.
You chose a different path.
I'll give you a couple days to reconsider before I forward our entire exchange to your employer, as I said I would if you continued to abuse me.
@scar However, anything more you have to say to me, you'll have to say here rather than in email, because I've blocked both of your email addresses.
And if you double down here and continue to insist you've done nothing wrong, I'll block you here as well.
Your choice.
@jik Ask a disinterested third party then: https://pastebin.com/nYhnV4H5
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@scar Seems pretty accurate and totally unbiased and disinterested! lol
@scar And with this, your most recent response, you've made it 100% clear that you are totally invested in not admitting any fault here or learning anything from this exchange, and therefore there no longer anything to be gained from my interacting with you, so 👋. *plonk*

@jik Gotta love the classic misinterpretation of the first amendment as well.

It means I can be a dick to you and you have to take it (No, because you aren’t the government limiting his speech), but it doesn’t mean you are allowed to complain to my employer (Of course you can).

@philip Yes, this guy managed to hit quite a few of the butthurt internet kook greatest hits.

@jik Two other things come to mind:

The use of snowflake as an insult to me implies something about the person's political allegiances.

1. I wonder if he realizes that FOSS is itself a political movement, one that may be incongruent with his other views.

2. If not for the fact that they're an active threat to life, it would be hilarious that the people who use snowflake as an insult seem to be the ones to stomp their feet like a child when they don't get what they want.

@philip @jik@federate.social Actually it means I can't be punished by my employer for being a dick in personal time, to someone who was first being a dick to me. It doesn't give Jonathan a right to complain in a malicious attempt to interfere in my job, that's likely illegal. Yes anyone can break the law & cause serious damage to the victim in the process. It's shortsighted however & the punishment in return is severe, albeit slow. Your encouragement to break laws likely violates Mastodon's TOS, as well.

@scar Yawn, I'm going to go ahead and use the block button now.

I suppose that stifles your speech on MY server too right?

@jik This is just confusing… I know I’m using an unsupported configuration, but maybe just assume I’m using a totally different piece of software, and then debug my issue for me with that assumption.

Wat.

@philip "Maybe if I ask the question in some weird, verbose, convoluted way, he won't notice that I'm asking him to help me with something that he's already told me twice he isn't going to help me with."
Honestly, I'm 99% certain that (a) if I were female-presenting, at least one of his emails would have called me a bitch, and (b) he has told a girl on the bus at least once that she should smile more and gotten angry at her when she refused to talk to him.