it has been 0 days since a journalist asked me if foone was my real name
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@puppygirlhornypost2 do it. I think everyone should change their legal name to the name they use online.
fuck "real names", hacker aliases for everyone!
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@foone I think many of us are thankful that you created you. Thank you. I appreciate your weird art, hacks, and posts every day.
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@jtlg so, fun fact:
My full name is Foone B. Turing.
And my story for the "B" is that it stands for "Benoit B. Mandlebrot", and now re-read that sentence as many times as you want to go as deep as you want.So my name DOES have a complex part: it's the point called c, in Fc(z) = z² +
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@miah thanks!
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@foone honestly? with stuff like kiwifarms out there? Yeah, I'm surprised prominent hackers use their real names.
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@foone @puppygirlhornypost2 I am a cis man and it's entirely possible that my new handle may be Kathleen due to a hilarious bar order mixup at our last DEFCON group meetup
At least my initials don't change
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@foone there are some firmware bugs i wouldn't mind fixing in mine but damnit the manufacturer didn't leave any documentation or even a jtag interface
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@GabeMoralesVR that's the thing. if I was going by a silly fake name, they'd just dox me and post the "real one".
I've already lost so why try to fight?
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@foone I've mostly dodged people questioning Osmose these days, but due to poor name requirements in software, at two different jobs, I've had to answer the question "is your last name _really_ 'Lastname'???"
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@Osmose heh. now I kinda wish I had made my lastname "lastname"
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admittedly the government doesn't always know how to spell it correctly, but I'm gonna get that fixed.
They currently have it correct on the FRONT of my driver's license, but not the BACK
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which kinda terrifies me that their schema is so ridiculous that that is even POSSIBLE
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@foone true, but I didn't know this was your real name until recently. I mean, it makes sense, but if someone didn't know it was your real name, then it wouldn't really matter how long you'd used it, right? I was simply being honest to your question (although I know your real first and last name through publications).
Basically I'm just spring boarding off this to say kiwifarms really sucks. I miss byuu.
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@GabeMoralesVR yeah. they've been the organizing point for actions that have lost so many friends. delenda est and all that.
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@foone iy may eventually change miy legal name to "iykury" (no other name really seems to fit) and iy didn't even think about this being a potential problem
that'll be fun
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@iykury oh yeah, it might be. My roommate has a hyphenated last name, a perfectly common thing!
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@foone The computers at the passport office of my country permit a single character surname. The computers at the border control do not. You can imagine all the fun that causes me when I return home from a trip elsewhere.
Nowhere in the world have I experienced so many obstacles and interrogations as I have trying to re-enter the country where I was born and have lived my entire life.
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@dan ugh yikes. that's a mess.
I ran into a similar problem when I worked for the US government: we had two separate authentication systems (windows and unix), and every system would use one of those two (and it wasn't obvious which one was in use!) so you had to make your username/pass the same.
they ALMOST had the same requirements. almost. Sometimes you'd change it and then go to change it on the other and it'd be invalid, because one needs 2 digits and one needed 3
