I'd never heard of it until now, and it's actually rather interesting! It DOES sound like the effects of paranoia and illness, however. I've seen and experienced first hand this kind of paranoia, and it really makes you hallucinate some crazy stuff. Malware similar to this is plausible (you wouldn't believe how terrible Network Security can get), but the methods in which it spread, the operating systems it's able to navigate across, and the inability to track it makes this an almost definite result of delirium (especially with an infection method such as ultrasonic communication.) The idea is fun, however. I like it a lot. Can you give me a TurboTax discount, by the way?

Right now, at work, so I'll have to say that my least favorite misunderstanding is that you can get by in a full-stack software job by knowing the bare minimum. Don't do this to yourselves! >:^( Thank you so muuuch!! Daft Punk forever!!

I DO find that cool! I actually am trying to get a cybersecurity job in the government later in life; I'm specifically aiming for the NSA right now, as my university has a little agreement with them, letting students intern there! I hope you have fun in the program, hehe. ^^ Thank youuu ~ I'll be sure to sign yours later! Have a good one!

Tech is so very wonderful because it is both very human and not in it's unending complexities. It's like looking at another version of yourself, but shifted slightly to the right! What an amazing existence we have, being in the same time period as such wonderful devices, right? - Also an objectum Thank you so much for the compliments!! I try to not boast because humility is key in my profession, but it is certainly something I'm proud of ~ Either way, thank you for visiting my page. I wish you all the best today Red, have a good one! <3

Did you know that going on a website can be dangerous depending on how much trust you put into it? For instance, there are these phishing scams known as ClickFix, which hide themselves as CAPTCHAs and tell you to do step-by-step instructions in order to get you to run a malicious script on your system. A good example of this is with mshta.exe, which is a Windows utility app that can run HTML applications like so: mshta.exe https://www.example.org/file.ext Typically, this kind of scam will have you use the shorthand command for the Run app, then paste and hit enter. Whatever code is on that external site is now running on your system! A lot of these are infostealers. A lot of them just use LummaStealer, which is a very popular stealer out these days! You can read more here: https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Mshta/ https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/clickfix-attacks-sector-alert-tlpclear.pdf https://www.cybereason.com/blog/threat-analysis-rise-of-lummastealer Either way, thank you for signing back!! You also seem very cool <3 have a good one!

Did you know that back in the day, people putting N/A instead of leaving something as a NULL value would break their systems? This happens even in these days, where people will put a blank string and break my systems while I'm trying to work. I love it when I try to load a page and my SQL screams in horror because a nullable value just isn't fucking null and instead, is " ". It's so much fun and wonderful to debug. Not targeted, I just came across this issue and I found the coincidence funny. Anyhow, you're awesome as well!! Same to you! <3

It counts, and yes, CAPTCHAs do in fact work. Their main purpose is to stop robots from being able to automate website traffic and interactions in order to keep the internet a human-populated space, to avoid corporations spoofing clicks, and to give general protection against botnet-based attacks. Their ability has somewhat waned in usefulness as Generative AI can now analyze images with startling success, but in general, a usual, simple bot won't be able to easily get through them. Google's CAPTCHA is always evolving, and recently it's rather nice! As the tech sphere continues to grow, bots will get smarter, but so will CAPTCHA. :] Thank you, by the way! That truly does mean the world to me. I'll continue to try and keep getting better at it! Have a good one! <3

That's alright! Perhaps you will, once day. :^) You also seem very cool!! Hi! Have a good one, okay?

I have a few! * First things first: do not get overwhelmed. There are a lot of different programming languages and a lot of different concepts that you may want to get into, but DO NOT do it all at once. Start somewhere small, like Python or Javascript, then move up once you're confident. * Second: Learn how to read documentation. Of course, you should start out with tutorials and online compilers; you can find them everywhere if you just look it up, but as you get further in, you're going to need to stop relying on tutorials. The online documentation for a language displays what things do AND examples on how to use them. It might look scary at first, but it's necessary to read through it and get comfortable with it. * Third: look up projects to try to complete, or use your knowledge to make something that interest you. For example, in High School, I used basic Python to make a fully-fledged game based on Warrior Cats (which, not to toot my own horn, but I got 1st place in a national competition for that.) When you have a goal, especially one you're personally into, you're going to want to learn a LOT quicker. * Lastly: It's going to take time. It's going to take energy. It's going to take a LOT of notetaking. Stay with it. Let it grow. You can't rush knowledge, no matter how much you try. So stick with it, don't give up, and keep your wits about you. You've got this. :^) Also, thank you very much for both the compliment and signing back! Means a great deal to me. Have a good one!

I'm unsure if I've ever talked about this before, but on certain Linux / Unix-based operating systems, they have this very fun thing called an OOM (Out Of Memory) Killer. Whenever your computer runs out of application memory (aka when you're running too much that your computer can't handle it), your computer may up and close, or kill, one of the processes. Each process (or application) is assigned a value called an oom_score which can range from -1000 to 1000. The lower the value, the lower the chance the application will be killed. It also checks to see how long an application has been running in regards to the amount of memory being used up. If it notices the process is new and the memory just spiked, it'll realize, "hey, this is the offending process!" and shut it down. This might *sound* bad, but it's not! It only happens when your system is at a point where it's either "kill this process" or "the entire system shuts down. and not cleanly, either." I'm sure you'd prefer one application gone rather than everything that just so happened to be running, haha. You can read more about it here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand016.html Also, thank *you* for liking such a good band. You are also super cool! Have a good one, my fellow tech enthusiast.

Arcade? Hmm.. probably the older Hatsune Miku rhythm games. I used to be very good at them, but I've lost a lot of strength and coordination in my movements since then. Me, 0. My disability, 1. Thank you, by the way! You, too, are very cool beans. :^)

There's a lot of differences, but the main one I can think of is: Java is a back-end specific language; this means it only runs server-side, or what the developers or those behind a specific project can see. You will (hopefully) never see any Java code/exceptions/outputs in a program while it's actively running. Javascript is both a back-end and a front-end language, meaning it's both client-side and server-side. It can interact with both environments - it can change what you see or interact with on a webpage or application, or it can read from a database or give information to a piece of server-side code to be modified and spit back onto the screen! They're both useful in their own right, and work best when used together. They are not made by the same people, though, and only share the "Java" name and a little bit of syntax that JS stole (very funny in principle, terrible to code with in execution.) I haven't, but I enjoy the characters Sherlock Holmes (or Herlock Sholmes) and Iris Wilson from Ace Attorney. They're comical plays on the actual Holmes and Wilson, and I adore them; not sure how close they are to the actual ones, but maybe it counts?

Of course, I'd love to! Have a good one. <3

JavaScript is an interpreted language that is often used in webpages, making them interactive and performing more detailed/complex operations that normal HTML or CSS can. It has more uses, however! JavaScript is a jack-of-all-trades language, in my opinion. It can do a lot. For instance, the JavaScript that you may be most familiar with is Client-side, or DOM (Document Object Model) based, which allows you to, like stated before, interact with the website in ways you wouldn't be able to otherwise. Clicking on things, events, animations, everything. Server-side Javascript allows you to communicate with the backend of the website: any databases, JSON, or files. Sometimes, people may mistake JavaScript and Java. They are not the same things, and ANY programmer would kill you if you said that to their face. (/s) Java is a completely backend, object-oriented language, and it is extremely strict. Meanwhile, JavaScript is very lenient with it's syntax and is more of a midway language (in my opinion) rather than purely backend. I don't know a lot about Pokemon, but I think it might be the tail? I know people confuse the tip of it to be black. Also, you seem very kind! Don't think yourself as slow; if you want to learn, all you have to do is look for learning material. It's everywhere!

It is C++ because it is an "improvement" of C. In programming, to increment (or increase in value by 1) is x++ where x is any number. You start with C, then you add something: C++. I appreciate the decor, 970. However, don't you have some petroleum to collect, or something?