MeanMrMustard

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  The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

  by Kelley959 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

  so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

  i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

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  MeanMrMustard

  It feels like there is a thread about the inaccuracy of the memorial date every year....
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  Zoom replaced with KHCONF+ app for meetings?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just heard about khconf+ app replacing zoom for hybrid meetings at kngdom halls.

  did a quick search here and didnt find any posts about it.

  have i missed something?.

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  Now, I haven't tested the parameters that identify me in the post. What of they (Oracle) don't check the user guid (passed in then payload) with some session value. Can I submit a card for someone else? Can I query a list of someone else's cards?

  I dunno... and I just don't have the time or drive to test it.

  There's a while host of considerations when you are dealing with streams and full socket connections. If they lean on the app for auth and don't protect the server.... welll....
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  Zoom replaced with KHCONF+ app for meetings?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just heard about khconf+ app replacing zoom for hybrid meetings at kngdom halls.

  did a quick search here and didnt find any posts about it.

  have i missed something?.

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  MeanMrMustard

  I'll give you an example. Where I work, they require the devs to submit time cards, even if the employee is salaried, through an Oracle time managament system. They want to capitalize certain dev time. Ok. Sure, whatever.

  Well, they require me to submit my time for the week within two weeks - so I can't be too late. But I'm always late ... because I'm generally doing more important things and I forget.

  So I log onto the app and attempt to submit the time, and a big error message pops up saying that I can't submit because it's past the two week deadline.

  Bring up the network traffic, and capture the http traffic for a valid submit (I submit a valid week and see what it sends back to the server). I replay the http action with different params for the late week, and all of a sudden I've submitted a late card.

  How can I do this? Because the late validation is done on the front end, not the backend.

  This is an **Oracle** app.

  Accounting freaks out. They call me wondering how I do this. I just claim it must be an app error because I submitted on time...bla bla..

  They still haven't figured it out yet.
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  Zoom replaced with KHCONF+ app for meetings?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just heard about khconf+ app replacing zoom for hybrid meetings at kngdom halls.

  did a quick search here and didnt find any posts about it.

  have i missed something?.

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  MeanMrMustard

  So?

  Passwords are normally the first step. A password grants some sort of token or cookie. Did they do the proper back-end checks on authorization (after the token authenticates)? Common stuff like that is normally overlooked. The front end app does some auth check and then calls a backend api, but the same auth isn't done on server side. That stuff happens all the time.
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  Zoom replaced with KHCONF+ app for meetings?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just heard about khconf+ app replacing zoom for hybrid meetings at kngdom halls.

  did a quick search here and didnt find any posts about it.

  have i missed something?.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Usually when cheaper replacement apps come on the scenes, it takes a while for them to go through the iterations and testing needed to deal with poor security. Which is the default normally (get it working first then deal with security).

  My guess it's more hackable, and I would enjoy hearing of highjacked streams playing circus music...
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  Observations/Questions from forum newbie

  by Obrien in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  i joined about 5 days ago and have some observations/questions.. does anyone notice the profile update doesn't seem to work?

  i like reading some of the profiles, most accounts don't have them and maybe that's because the tool doesn't function anymore?.

  also i've been noticing a diverse number of subjects which made me think of the categories of people on here.

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  MeanMrMustard

  I'm in the JWlgwm camp.
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  Observations/Questions from forum newbie

  by Obrien in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  i joined about 5 days ago and have some observations/questions.. does anyone notice the profile update doesn't seem to work?

  i like reading some of the profiles, most accounts don't have them and maybe that's because the tool doesn't function anymore?.

  also i've been noticing a diverse number of subjects which made me think of the categories of people on here.

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  MeanMrMustard

  What category do you fit into?

  I notice you had no category for exJW condiments, like mustard, much less mean mustard...
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  What you think consequences gonna be for watchtower if they lose the court appeal in Norway?

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  personally i think they gonna realise god's not backing org.

  that idea gonna get even more established in their minds.

  i think the real selling of kingdom hall gonna start then.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Meh, but I won't get my way because too.many people have the wrong collectivist mindset.

  So, if the WT loses, they have a choice : make an exception in Norway to get the government money (that is, be a slave to your master, the ones that pay you), or stick with it and just dump the offset on the lower level JWs by asking and guilting then into paying more donations. Either way the money will be ok.

  But if they choose option 1, it will discredit the religion as a whole, and they have done that sort of thing in the past.

  So I'm hoping for that.
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  What you think consequences gonna be for watchtower if they lose the court appeal in Norway?

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  personally i think they gonna realise god's not backing org.

  that idea gonna get even more established in their minds.

  i think the real selling of kingdom hall gonna start then.

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  MeanMrMustard

  You know
  Its all about avoiding taxes with these guys. They will try their damnedest to avoid taxes.

  Not to derail the conversation too much, but I sure try my damnedest to avoid taxes. I think everyone should - for any reason. The less money going to the government the better.

  Now, the sword has two edges - I want to see as little money flowing OUT of the government as possible too. Subsidies to religion as well as business is a bad idea. I don't think JWs should get a dime. Also any other religion. Also large corporations. Also small corporations.

  Norway should just stop subsidies to religion in general. There - case is moot.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  MeanMrMustard

  "What I give" - A Haiku by Lloyd Evans

  Lovely sex workers.
  Transactions define my soul.
  Empty, small payments.