Attrition Facts Blog

Yes, we're still here, sorry-not-sorry to disappoint! While there hasn't been that much content on the front-end, we've been "busy" working behind the scenes on various things. We've been revamping our infrastructure, which primarily means re-adjusting the 386 in Lyger's basement, so it no longer sits under dripping water.

Our court-appointed shrink, Martums, has told us that we need more adversity in our lives. So we did the logical thing and recruited him and Mauvehed to be on staff. One of the two stepped up and got banned on Twitter in keeping with our traditions. We won't mention which of them didn't have the digital fortitude to get banned but it rhymes with fartums. You didn't come here for class, did you?

If you haven't noticed, we've actually been updating Errata again, but only the Charlatans and Shame pages. Unaware of the latter? You should remedy that. Our industry is full of unethical, greedy, and toxic creeps, many that have done some really heinous things. Although we, as an industry, have gotten better at calling them out, there is yet a long way to go. No more "but he's fun to drink with" or "but he's nice to me" defense and virtue signaling. It doesn't work anymore and just makes you look complicit in their behavior. Calling these people out by name has been fairly effective at shutting down or severely limiting their ability to operate in many circles. Know of a charlatan and hesitant to speak up? If you have reasons for not publicly rebuking them, we understand and are here to help you if you'd like. Please reach out to establish secure communications with us. Please do not send anything sensitive via email.

With that, we'll leave you with some fun facts about this weird domain and the weirder people behind it.

• Attrition.org was born 1998-10-07, making it 23 years old. Old enough to smoke, drink, and go to war legally. It did all that at age three though.
• Exceeds 42 web hits per anus annum!
• 38% of admin chat is Mauvehed hitting on Martums.
• 18% of Discord chat is Lyger repeatedly claiming (unchallenged) "I'm Batman" in his best Christian Bale Batman voice.
• We're out of beer again, and not sure to blame D2d or Lyger. (It's Lyger if Bud Lite Piss, D2d if Hipster IPA)
• While there may be no avenues for shell access, other than TCP 443, the best chance to get an invite to the super-SEKRET chat "server" is supporting one of Jericho's charity auctions and not talking about InfoSec. For the children wildlife!
• In the first half of this year, we received 1,497,465 pieces of email, but only 13,407 (0.9%) were accepted by our team of spam ferrets. One for every time Martums has asked us how something made us feel.
• One staff member has actually physically threatened two other staff members with Samurai swords, in person. This is a fact unrelated to other staff who have been banned from Twitter for also threatening to stab staff members, although he did not specify with a weapon, (martums wants us to presume good).
• We patch the box every week because snitches and bitches get stitches. You should see Martums' forehead. Mauvehed is getting close, and only needs another 178 to catch up. Scheduled for next week.
• Attrition Staff do not retire, they go mental postal.
• You can in fact teach an old dog new tricks. Jericho is a shining example.
• Two of our staff are ordained ministers. No shit.
• Our root password has "squirrel" in it, to help you brute force kiddies out!

Finally, you can occasionally catch us at drag karaoke performing under our stage names:

Jericho = Panda Moanium (Kitty Kitty Bang Bang)
Martums = Feely Huggs
Lyger = Sticky Mullet
Mauvehed = Southern Discomfort (aka Toxic Bang Bang)
Dave = Hissy Fit
Apacid = Patchy Config (henceforth Lady Ornacia Kayne)