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[wierd]

sounds like resting bitch face

[MrRoboto75]

sounds like resting bitch face

You'd be surprised the number of people who get disgusted or even hateful just because you don't emote correctly or at all.

[methylatedspirit]

You'd be surprised the number of people who get disgusted or even hateful just because you don't emote correctly or at all.

There's at least 2 ways to encode and decode emotion externally, visually and audibly. I can neither encode nor decode the visual part consciously (though my parents tell me that I can emote visually now, seemingly triggered by emotion instead of actively thinking about it), but I can do the audio part. Hell, I'm leaning as hard as possible on the audio part here; I subvocalize my posts during editing, and choosing my words so that they sound like I'm emoting even in text. I don't know if it works, though.

Why is it that people don't understand there's 2 redundant systems that play the role of encoding and decoding emotions externally? If one fails, use the other one! That's entirely what it's for! Have they never talked over the phone in their lives?!

...faces, and in general bodies, are a big thing, I guess. I only use those as identifiers, ones that I'll happily discard if I can get away with a less-complex identifier (faces especially; have you seen faces?). I don't know how to assign any higher meaning to that.

[Uthimienure]

I'd like to live wherever you are that politics isn't a regular cause for WTF. Must be nice.

Actually, politics is almost always a cause for WTF where I live, so I empathize with you. Politics is/has ruined the country I live in and I'm so sick of it that I just want it all to go away. Personally, I despise politics and what it collectively has done to the world throughout history and will just leave it at that.

Please understand my comments were not directed at you or anyone else in a personal way, just at the thread taking a political turn. Methylatedspirit and Vector gave the reasoning for not having politics in this thread better than I ever could, and I thank them. 

[Akura]

While my mom was taking me to work this morning, at one intersection a few blocks from my house, we see a large convoy of SWAT vehicles pass by. At least a dozen, going by at around 45MPH. My mom decides to follow them, at speed. She slows down to drive right through their staging area, in the street in front of the house they were raiding. Only when the SWAT team starts getting their shields out does she realize it might be a better idea to actually get out of a probable line of fire and speeds up.

I later learned that the cops did indeed open fire very soon after we got out of there, when the occupants of the house sent their dogs out.

[Rolan7]

Wow! There's rubbernecking as you drive past and then there's that O_o
Glad you got out of there!

[EuchreJack]

When you go to delete something from your desktop and miss the recycle bin, putting everything one space over from where you expect everything to be.

Also, the reminder that I really need to clean up the desktop is NOT APPRECIATED.

[Iduno]

When you go to delete something from your desktop and miss the recycle bin, putting everything one space over from where you expect everything to be.

Also, the reminder that I really need to clean up the desktop is NOT APPRECIATED.

*5 minutes of copying everything you wanted to delete*

[None]

The handy-dandy delete key on your keyboard will recycle whatever files you have selected quite handily, in case you forgot where your recycle bin went or your finger is prone to slipping(guilty). I think shift-delete totally subverts the recycle bin and just nukes the files, too, in case something needs to extra disappear right now.

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The local antique store is going out of business, so their shtick today was 'bring a box and you can fill it for five bucks.' Quite happily, I got a few vases and pots I'm looking to put houseplants in now that I can safely shop in the flesh for plants, but among the artefacts I brought home is a 'Real Soft Toy' bear that I'm 25% sure is haunted.

It's got a benign, if slightly asymmetrical look, didn't get picked out by anyone else, seems relatively free of the dust and grime that accosted a few of the other pieces I bought, and it's living on my spare chair now. If I never post again, it's snapped my neck and left out the window for its next victim.

Also, it's totally fun to open a conversation with 'Hey, so I bought this, ah, 'Real Soft Toy (great for people who like bears!)' the other day, much like it was to open with 'I got pooped on while polishing my two-foot rail spike.' It might actually be a bridge spike, I'm not really sure, but I fished it out of the bottom of a river and it's got layers of rust to be worn away and a bird deffo pooped on my leather jacket while I was at it.

Apparently submerging the thing in vinegar will help to dislodge the rust, but I don't exactly have a receptacle to hold it without going nuts on the vinegar budget, so I guess I'll stick to scrubbing. Why derust it anyways? I dunno! It's neat, I found it, maybe I'll make a magic wand out of it.

[MrRoboto75]

polishing my two-foot rail spike

Is that what they call it...

[None]

I think Stephen King does in The Shining? Ogh, this takes me way back. That is the joke, though, yes.

[methylatedspirit]

The handy-dandy delete key on your keyboard will recycle whatever files you have selected quite handily, in case you forgot where your recycle bin went or your finger is prone to slipping(guilty). I think shift-delete totally subverts the recycle bin and just nukes the files, too, in case something needs to extra disappear right now.

In case you need something to extra-extra disappear, you'll need a file shredder program. I don't use them myself, but Eraser seems okay. The algorithms used in shredding are for hard drives, so those don't need any warning.

Now, on SSDs, anything that uses overwrite patterns needs a disclaimer: choose only the least aggressive option (fewest passes, but not "zero-out") available if it's not there. On SSDs, once they've erased a block, it's basically gone. You don't need to overwrite it over and over to fully clear it out. Just enable TRIM, which is already enabled if you're on anything Windows 7 and later. However, whatever data you've shredded may still remain in its internal cache for some time.

ATA Secure Erase is the only non-destructive way to be sure that you've erased all data on an SSD, and even then it might not be implemented right. There's no way to do this on a file level.

SSDs aren't for paranoid folk; go with HDDs if you really want to be able to destroy the drive and all its data by smashing its platter(s) to tiny bits, sticking it in a degausser (magnets do not count; you need some strong-ass magnetism), or other suitably-destructive methods. It's the only way to be sure.

[None]

Yes! Absolutely! That takes me back to my university days of running Derrik's Boot and Nuke on surplussed workstations and hard drives to prep them for sale or recycling. When 'toasters' weren't enough to slay HDDs clean in good time, we'd rig up a workstation with an extra four hard drives or so (good ol' Optiplex 780) and bring on the thumb drive of digital pressure washing. Double-triple-quadruple that up to a video switch if we had a backlog.

May you always be as inquisitive and motivated as you are about the digital mediums, methylatedspirit. Your databending and cognizance of the bits fills me with a joy and wonder for the inquisitivity I may never possess myself.

[bloop_bleep]

Now, on SSDs, anything that uses overwrite patterns needs a disclaimer: choose only the least aggressive option (fewest passes, but not "zero-out") available if it's not there. On SSDs, once they've erased a block, it's basically gone. You don't need to overwrite it over and over to fully clear it out. Just enable TRIM, which is already enabled if you're on anything Windows 7 and later. However, whatever data you've shredded may still remain in its internal cache for some time.

Actually I think overwriting a file on an SSD, because of wear leveling, is likely to erase some other unused block and just mark the original as unused, updating the table for mapping blocks. The original data is likely to be there. Nothing stopping you from just smashing the SSD though. Or issue a Secure Erase command like you said which is generally pretty quick.

[methylatedspirit]

Yes! Absolutely! That takes me back to my university days of running Derrik's Boot and Nuke on surplussed workstations and hard drives to prep them for sale or recycling. When 'toasters' weren't enough to slay HDDs clean in good time, we'd rig up a workstation with an extra four hard drives or so (good ol' Optiplex 780) and bring on the thumb drive of digital pressure washing. Double-triple-quadruple that up to a video switch if we had a backlog.

Hey, if you ever wanna run DBAN, but your system can't boot from BIOS for whatever reason and you don't have a spare BIOS-supporting system, try ShredOS x86_64. Hell, if you're running Linux already, just install nwipe, available at all your favorite software repositories. They're actually based on DBAN's source code after DBAN was abandoned. The magic of open-source, everyone.

Now, on SSDs, anything that uses overwrite patterns needs a disclaimer: choose only the least aggressive option (fewest passes, but not "zero-out") available if it's not there. On SSDs, once they've erased a block, it's basically gone. You don't need to overwrite it over and over to fully clear it out. Just enable TRIM, which is already enabled if you're on anything Windows 7 and later. However, whatever data you've shredded may still remain in its internal cache for some time.

Actually I think overwriting a file on an SSD, because of wear leveling, is likely to erase some other unused block and just mark the original as unused, updating the table for mapping blocks. The original data is likely to be there. Nothing stopping you from just smashing the SSD though. Or issue a Secure Erase command like you said which is generally pretty quick.

Crap. I forgot about that. You don't get block-level access to SSDs like you do with HDDs. It's all abstracted away. I keep forgetting. Welp, at that point, I'll amend it to "ATA Secure Erase is the only non-destructive way to erase all data on an SSD, and even then it might not be implemented right". If you wanna go the destructive route, you're gonna need to be damn good at smashing SSDs. I'd suggest a jackhammer.