Elder Scrolls lore…
Sex and violence (self defense). Just two subjects ive been totally facinated with and when i was younger i could just be a wierdo that talked about either freely, now as adult man, the implied connotations make a lot of people uncomfortable.
Like just because i enjoy the subjects doesnt mean i want to fuck or fight everyone lol
IT compliance regulations, even IT people’s eyes glaze over at the topic.
Oh hey, I’m an IT auditor, I work on Sox clients during half the year. That really is an obscure topic, but I’m not sure I want to discuss it outside of work !
Do we have lemmy community for IT compliance? Id actually kind of enjoy that.
What kinds do you deal with? CISA, HIPPA, PCI DSS, etc?
HIPPA is so strange in how much and how little it matters at the same time. Often in the same email.
HIPPA honestly falls into the data protection pillar of zetotrust to me, and my experence in that space was people just got overwhelmed by it. Like old school ip/port security people can wrapped their heads around, but try to introduce the concept that data should accessed just in time of use by authorized people that need to use it and otherwise it should made technically infeasable (i.e. encryption), and bamm they lost all concept.
Like its hard, for sure, but even a little closer to the goal is better then nothing people!
from an org too the incentives are just wack, they almost want enough effort to appear they are doing something to accredited or pass audit but the consequences for the people affected are just way higher then any org has to deal with.
And there’s so much low hanging fruit from end users or whole departments that have their IT managed separately by a 3rd party(occasionally doctors)
ISO27001 gang
Right now I suffer through SOX. I would like to be doing stuff with CMMC and NIST SP 800-171.
Yup, the eye glazing has begun while reading this thread. The world needs people like you so people like me don’t have to cock it all up
I got to listen to a major university talk about getting theit super compute enviroment CMMCed. They sounded like a war vet and still not sure they even got it handlef fully unfortunatly. Though compliance and compSci lab is a hostile mix to handle.
Honestly following CISA, and DISA STIGs seems easier but those are for more descrete systems versus whole IT networks.
Are their anythings like the ComplianceAsCode project for SOX or is it more orginizational compliance?
Lore for games whose fans seem few and far between. Namely, Ace Combat series and Elite Dangerous. ED because I have a ton of time in that game and while it’s shallow without a campaign, I guess my imagination fills in all the blanks as a plausible interstellar space sim. Ace Combat is mostly because of the subreddit. Same goes for Star Wars prequels memes. Funny how I lost that part of my persona when I left reddit.
I can’t comfortably tell you I have depe knowledge of space because it’s big as hell and professionals know way more, but it’s still something where I know a lot of, effectively, trivia.
Ace Combat: maybe it was just memes.
Elite Dangerous: there’s currently a player-run expedition sitting on the far side of the galaxy. 8k registered players. They hit some tourist spots but are going somewhere into under-explored regions now. Some people are grabbing exploration payouts. One group wants to find the furthest possible earth-like planet and name it Earth 2, as a backup, in case the aliens come back. The aliens had a huge event that changed the course of the colonies. There’s some neat items added by the developers in honor of players in the first few years. Beagle Point is an easy one, named after one player spent a ton of time with his elderly dog playing the game. The dog passed and got a star named for it. There’s the Fuel Rats and the Hull Seals, two player groups that have a huge network of players that can assist stranded players. There’s noob training groups that train noobs because the instructions are not clear in the game. There’s 3rd party apps and sites to make QoL better. Some players hate it like it’s cheating, I say future humans would definitely make support systems like this because current humans are currently do it (and can we just pretend it won’t fucking get paywalled in the future, for 3 god damn minutes?)
The star wars prequels are political drama with laser swords. The cgi animals were excessive. But it pretty clearly parallels the historic rises to fascism/dictatorship. The Anakin/Kenobi lava scene works way better than it looks. A akin brings balance to the force by eradicating the huge volume of jedi vs 2-2.5 sith. Kenobi loved him like a brother. Well, relationships are forbidden for the jedi, so yeah, Kenobi just admitted anakin is trash to him (OK, that’s a twisted stretch).
Space, real space, is deep. The Hubble images were amazing, how could we learn more with JWST? Well, I literally couldn’t imagine that every single direction in space is filled with more galaxies. That’s insane. That’s terrifying. That’s not understandable in human terms. There is an unfathomable amount of space and we’re never going to tough anything outside our solar system.
Orbital mechanics are cool. You’re thrown sideways so fast you continue to miss the ground. The Earth is moving so fast it’s actually really difficult to bring enough fuel to slow down enough to hit the sun. The Parker solar probe used venus to slow down and it’s still trying to shed speed and get closer. Or maybe it already peaked (valleyed?) at 430,000mph in the solar corona. But every time it gets close, it’s speeding up and still missing. The video from “inside” the sun is kind of comfortable. You can use gravity to slingshot craft. I don’t know about you, but I airways pictured some scifi visualization of hooking around a sun in a parabolic u-turn. That’s not really a slingshot. You leave with the same relative craft-body speed as you approached. If you’re flying 100 000mph towards earth, you’re leaving it at 100kmph. But the earth is orbiting at 67kmph. You can hook a 90deg turn around it and leave in the same direction to add 67k to your speed. You can hook the other way to shed 67k. You showed up as to approach it, but then it pulls you big and eats that speed. But as long as you’re faster than escape velocity, you can choose what happens next.
Lithobraking means crashing into the ground. It’s a real tactic.
Voyager has left the solar system and is a steady ~40,000mph. Space is big. If it was pointed at the next closest star, Proxima centauri at ~4ly, the trip would still take like 70,000 years. It’s not pointed that way, but it is pointed at a star that is traveling somewhat towards us. In that time frame, it is actually predicted to come within 1.6ly of each other (voyager and this other star) in like 40,000 years. For reference, Voyager 1 was launched almost 50 years ago and is still within one light day of earth. It’s close at ~23.5ld, but still not there.
“We know more about space than our oceans” is scary until you realize nearly all stellar knowledge is useless for human life. It’s a massive hobby.
Why Mobius?
Because all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. Wait, wrong universe. Not much is known about Mobius 1, but we knew they’re engaged.
Meditation
Goddamn. Seriously.
Oh, I always find a place to bring things up.
Lego has an odd ratio where two bricks wide equals five plates or 1-2/3 bricks tall. If you want to add detail to your builds, you need to deal with that ratio and what it entails.
You need to look at Modulex (now defunct iirc)
No, I don’t have that kind of money.
Lookin’s is free. Touchin or ownin’s a different matter.
No idea what this means
Just some SNOT ratios that AFOL need to remember.
Oh that clears it up completely. Thanks!
Adult Fan Of Lego is one, don’t know SNOT. Bricks are the cube-like… Bricks. Plates are the thin pieces where 3 stacked makes them as tall as a brick. I believe the parent was taking about how ratios between widths and heights are important in terms of building your own models, utilizing pieces that rotate bricks sideways.
One trick I kind of know of is in regards to the ramp pieces having steps when lifted by one brick. It makes that shingled look. I believe the solution is to use ramps (without top pegs) and raise it by 2 plates, sinking the flat lip by 1/3 of a brick. But I have no idea if this requires certain pieces as I’m just tangential to AFOL
SNOT is Studs Not On Top. Sometimes I’m order to get the look that you want from your build, it is better to flip part of the build on its side to get a better aligned view stack of plates to what you’re trying to build.
The meaning behind the November Rain Music video by Guns N’ Roses. It used to be a mystery. It was cracked wide open some years ago.
Couple other mysteries like that. They used to vex people. Then they got solved and people kinda stopped caring.
Go on then, what’s it about?
Haha, sorry, I was in bed last night and on my iPhone which is absolutely terrible at typing on. Mac and mechanical keyboard now, so no problems there!
The music video portrays a couple getting married, and then something happens at the reception, it starts raining, and then it’s a funeral for the bride. Oh, there’s also a random shot of her walking by a gun shop, though due to the angle and that both of them have long hair, you don’t really know who it is. Also, “Guns n’ Roses” is a reference to Tracy Guns and Axl Rose, so it was also seen as a nod back to Tracy Guns, who left the band early on. At the end of the video is a blurb saying to read a short story. Only, that short story was never widely distributed.
The short story was part of an anthology called The Language of Fear, and it was published in the UK by a small publisher that went under shortly after, only like a few dozen (or a few hundred) copies were released. Most didn’t sell, and when books aren’t sold, they’re destroyed. The books that survived were sold online for many times their value. (This was around the time eBay got big.) I saw listings for $800 and $1200. That was what it cost 25-30 years ago to find out what happened and people were paying. One day, some brave soul typed up the story (hopefully, releasing it after he sold it and got his money back) and shared it online. Then everybody found out what happened.
So the author was friends with Axl Rose and they hung out. They envisioned a multimedia project spanning music videos and stories. That’s why the videos November Rain, Don’t Cry, and Estranged all sort of follow a similar narrative.
Now, about the story itself. It followed a band, Suicide Solution (basically, Guns n’ Roses) and their singer Mayne Mann (basically, Axl Rose) on the last stop of their world tour. Mann (Rose) invites his girlfriend (I forget her name, but basically Rose’s girlfriend Stephanie Seymour) to celebrate after the tour. She says no, she has a modeling gig. The gig falls through, so she buys some roses and plans to surprise him. Anyway, mad that his girlfriend couldn’t be there, he brings a couple groupies back to his hotel room for a three-way. One of his bandmates shows up (or he calls him there) and he asks the bandmate to get him some coke or heroin. A while later there’s a knock at the door, so he shows up with the girls, all of them naked — but it’s the girlfriend. She’s upset, she gets in her car and drives home. He gets in his car and follows. He chases her up the stairs, and she shoots herself in the head. He then sets fire to their mansion, playing his signature song (Without You, which is the last line of the song Estranged, a reference to this) as the house burns around him. He wants to die, but he’s saved.
Funny thing we all missed in the video (though I imagine some people in the business spotted it) because music videos in the 90s were not in HD, it was blurry, it was cable TV, it was like 240p, 360p, something like that, was that during the funeral scene, there’s a mirror running down the length of the casket. It’s shown twice, but if you don’t know to look for it, it’s easy to miss. What I mean by “in the business” is, morticians probably did notice because they would be looking. They know it’s a live actor in there, but they’re going to be looking to see how good of a job the production did in portraying their industry. They’re gonna recognise the mirror. And they would tell you that the mirror is for if half the face/body can’t be reconstructed, but the family wants an open casket service. And one thing that would do that would be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head (which a good mortician can actually cover up).
I learned about the mirror years ago. I don’t know the timeline of the public sharing of the story, but regardless, I had no idea about the rest of this story. Thank you
I think a lot of us saw the mirror when the video was released on the Guns n’ Roses music video DVD. We got it in 480p and it was a lot cleaner than recordings from MTV. Much higher bitrate, too. DVD is “only” 480p but the bitrate was pretty high. DVDs still look decent. There was also YouTube and the 1080p upload, but I’m not sure when that was.
Before people started noticing the mirror, we were guessing she shot herself because she walks by a gun store, but she walks by it at night, and some say we see Axl, not her. (I still don’t know who we saw there. But I think it’s more a reference to Tracy Guns than anything else.) But, now we know what actually happened. She did shoot herself, but we don’t know where the gun came from. She almost certainly did not buy it right after the wedding. I’m guessing it was his. The video also leaves out 99% of the short story. The short story didn’t have the wedding or the funeral. Neither did the other videos. The short story was the piece the three videos were missing. The band (and writer) intended for you to get all the pieces together. That didn’t happen, and when the short story collection went out of print, they just gave up. They didn’t release the story online, they didn’t explain themselves, they just said “fuck it” and moved on. Only a few people who really cared, dug into it, and most of them threw money at the problem. Guys like me had to wait for the story to leak. Or the reprinting, but I’m confident the reprinting only happened because the story leaked. They weren’t reprinting it before then. The leak happened like 15-20 years after the book went out of print.
Oh, here’s the book on Amazon. $8.99 USD for a mass market paperback. No tracking on this link (at least not from me): https://www.amazon.com/Language-Fear-Stories-Del-James/dp/0440217121 So yeah, now anyone can get it for the price of just about any other book. Cheaper than others. I’m not trying to sell it, I’m just saying, it’s available now and it’s super cheap, it’s not the hundreds of dollars people were paying for it on eBay 20-30 years ago.
Well, that was a wild ride. Thanks for following it up!
The Principia Discordia. Just kidding, I bring it up like every five minutes.
Hail Eris!
The Heimlich maneuver.
