help

this is not my dog. she’s been following me for about a mile. I ran past her owner and she took off following me. she’s a lovely pup but if you have a dog off-leash (esp on a trail where dogs are not allowed) make sure she’s not gonna follow the first person who runs by

what do I do now? should I cancel my run and go find owners? I don’t mind but it’s frustrating that folks aren’t more responsible

UPDATE: this kind woman offered to attempt to get the puppy down and back to her owners. So long beautiful blue eyed dog. I enjoyed our forbidden time together

I will be live tweeting my race to the airport. here we go

flights boards at 5:15 am. it’s currently 5:01am and gps says i’m 36 minutes from the airport

uber driver is an awesome salty NYer. in the trunk of his car 🚗 was the one thing most old school NYC 🚕 drivers keep laying around; an aluminum baseball bat.

we are out of the tunnel. Picture taken on my plastic prison phone because that's my jam. Flight boards in 7 minutes, I'm 23 minutes from airport

drivers seat is at 70% recline because he’s a G. (picture not taken on my plastic prison phone - it was just a black screen when I tried 🤦‍♂️)

does anyone want to take over the lease on my Tesla Model 3 Performance?
-17 months left on lease.
-$769.38 monthly payment
-NO option for buyout
-25k miles left on lease (thats a lot)
more info in thread

its a truly great car (maybe my fav ever) but we have a minivan for family vehicle and i only really need a big surf truck to beat on and haul my gear so i just dont drive this enough to justify having it (in 19 months ive put only 5k miles on it)

in flawless condition. custom chrome delete, window tint. every option Tesla offers. SERIOUS CONSIDERATION ONLY. must have good credit (so telsa finance will let you take over lease). if out of state then costs might change so best for CA people. LMK!!!

*not accepting dogecoin or GME stock

also just kind of lack the maturity to own a car this fast and fancy. this was me 3 days ago in a more casey-appropriate vehicle

Beautiful river boat here in New Orleans. [ Image captured on my 99 dollar plastic cell phone, how does it look?]

LO-RES IS THE NEW HI-RES

So crispy

Everyone is asking if it shoots video, hell yes it shoots video!

USB hub, 2 Gatorade bottle caps, black marker and some glue. I appre this uber driver.

driver also has this December 2016 copy of The Digest which I hadn’t yet had a chance to read

just found this hand mirror in the seat back pocket. will keep updating as more layers peel back

toothpick anyone?

Why did I leave Google? A thread.

This thread is going to include quotes from Wired's "Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech" because I'm not a professional writer

When I joined Google, I fell in love with the company immediately. I was excited to come to work, not just for the technical challenges, but because I really felt I was making a difference and working for the good guys.

I spent 20% of my week working on an app that helped people find lost loved ones after natural disasters. I spent more free time speaking to students about technology and diversity. For an entire school year, I taught CS classes twice a week at a local low income high school.

The company was open. We had a weekly meeting called TGIF where anyone in the company could ask questions of, and raise concerns with, the execs. We got real answers.

Butt plugs were originally sold as a miracle cure for headaches, acne, and insanity

Thread, article here and h/t: @qikipedia :
https://t.co/Ts84xnmWKJ

For a long time, medicine was pre-occupied with the question "can this be solved by putting something in the butt?"

Take, for example, tobacco smoke enemas, in which 18th Century physicians saw drowning victims and attempted to de-deadify them by blowing tobacco smoke up their rectums with a pipe.

Despite having no medical benefit whatsoever, the practice was popular, and enema kits lined the Thames like lifebelts, ready to be used as one final humiliation for somebody who was crap at swimming.

This practice ended sometime after 1800 when it became apparent that it didn't really work, given how the anus famously isn't really connected to the lungs, but doctors weren't quite finished with having a poke around in the old anus to see what happens just yet.

Just published 15,000+ words on security keys. 🔐📱💻

With SIM attacks at their highest, now is a great time to take a closer look at your online security.

Removing SMS from your two-factor auth is a start, but authenticator apps have downsides too...

https://t.co/Dk0MPJHL2V

Just look at these headlines from recent SIM swap and port attacks.

It's all too established for attackers to find ways to socially engineer control of your phone number and start gaining control of your accounts.

I first talk about some general security tips.

Unfortunately not all websites let you remove your phone number from accounts.

You may consider migrating your phone carrier to @googlefi , which requires email account access to do anything (and can be locked down with security keys and even Advanced Protection)

Beyond SMS, I talk about issues that TOTP authenticator apps (the code generators) have as a form of two-factor auth. They're so, so much better than relying on SMS for your second factor but they still have issues like utilizing shared secrets and lacking phishing prevention.

Enter security keys!

Utilizing public key cryptography they don't have any shared secret between the client and the server. They prevent phishing by taking the website domain into account.

Even if you get tricked by a clone phishing website, your key won't.

A thread about Eastshade's bike mechanic!

When I originally thought of putting a bicycling in Eastshade, I was pretty sure it wasn't going to work, for the simple fact that if it was easy, we'd see a lot more rideable bikes in games. Well, I was wrong. It took a mere week.

Its essentially a first person controller with extra momentum, resulting in the the movement direction lagging behind your look direction. Then I used the angle between the look and the movement to dictate camera "bank" and handle bar rotation, and voila! Game changing feature!

The look of the bike was harder than the movement. Bicycles are fairly modern, so it was tricky to fit it to the setting. I took some artistic liberties and settled on a penny farthing (but wooden), ignoring how impossible that would be to ride on the rugged terrain in Eastshade.

Surprisingly, the hardest part was sound. It didn't feel like riding a bike until I found the right sounds and how to trigger them. For a while I was stuck thinking too realistically. A penny farthing is fixed gear, pedaling sounds nothing like a regular modern bike.

Finally I abandoned realism and went with sounds normal people would associate with biking. We're all so used to modern bikes that we strongly associate the distinct ticking of a freewheel mechanism (think of the sound when you stop pedaling and coast on a modern bike).