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neurovagrant

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org

Security ops engineer, former congressional sysadmin, writer, voracious reader. he/him. Opinions here mine only. No LLM content from me, all flaws detected are human-generated. Autistic/depressed/anxious/hungry.

#infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

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cstross, (edited ) to random
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18: What kind of dragon would your MC be?

The kind who studies for their PPL and instrument flight rating, never flies without an airband scanner, GPS, and transponder, and stays well out of controlled airspace. Also spends a lot of time looking over their shoulder nervously and tries not to fly through clouds in air traffic corridors.

Remember: there are old dragons, and bold dragons, but in the age of 250 ton jet airliners flying at 500 mph there are no old, bold dragons!

neurovagrant,
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@cstross my dragons started as compute substrates that got out of hand.

So much for scaling up. What a cluster.

neurovagrant, to random
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Some days I wonder if the depression and related issues are the universe nerfing me because it knows that otherwise I’d be too powerful.

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"B.C. man who was tracking a bear airlifted to hospital after grizzly attack"

what the hell did they expect airlifting a bear to the hospital

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well

time to start learning about RFID so I can add the digital ghosts of a bunch of random shit to my car for when it gets read

https://archive.is/bYszD

neurovagrant,
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"Chad, this RFID tag inventory in this guy's car...well, it's 26 different tags with various forms of 'Go fuck yourself.'"

neurovagrant,
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@tidmarsh I love it!

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@dcoderlt oh god.

to borrow an idea from @tidmarsh - it would be so easy to just mass-produce EICAR RFID tags for laughs

neurovagrant,
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@ShiroTechGuy There are quite a few Faraday bags out there for cellphones (some better than others) but unfortunately that hampers the usability of the phone... ;)

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@unknownbinaries yeah since it’s marketing copy I don’t give it trust but I imagine we’ll be there at some point anyway, in this fucking timeline.

❤️

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I feel like I'm of two minds on most everything these days.

neurovagrant,
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@binsk Are you sure?

jmsdnns, to random
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📜 I look forward to starting my weekend with this interview with @ProfMSinha about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War

Her book, The Slave's Cause, was phenomenal and I cant wait to finish my current book so I can start this one!

https://youtu.be/4Ag-Z1dAJsQ

neurovagrant,
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@jmsdnns these books look far too currently relevant, no less interesting

neurovagrant, to random
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“I never thought digital leopards would eat MY data-double alive,” exclaimed industry that eagerly subscribed to multiple invasive services run by digital leopards known for eating people’s data-doubles.

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okay i have been shit at writing fiction still but it is kinda nice that i can sit down and bang out a complex 2000 word blog post for work in like 4 hours and it's good

researchbuzz, to random
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I did not have "David Copperfield accused of being a giant perv" on my 2024 bingo card

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magician-david-copperfield-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-16-women_n_6645db66e4b098d9bd48b3c2

neurovagrant,
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@researchbuzz fuckin yikes

neurovagrant,
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@researchbuzz I hope they pull every last dime out of him and then he goes to jail

neurovagrant, to random
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Jack Dorsey: finally in competition for "Worse Person than Zuckerberg"

neurovagrant, to random
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existential kermit-flailing, forever

neurovagrant, to random
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You'd think Mozilla would work hard to differentiate themselves from other corporations in that sphere, rather than making the same stupid, user-antagonistic choices.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

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when morning-functional and night-functional people feud on the TL about which is best

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One of the things I’ve been annoyed with about Star Wars is how the entire galaxy forgot about the Jedi in 20 years, or perhaps thought of them as a myth.

But I just realized something. There are kids today that insist that Helen Keller is wasn’t real. So I guess it’s not that weird

https://daily.jstor.org/what-does-it-mean-to-call-helen-keller-a-fraud/

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@jonathankoren On the other hand, kids today are apparently discovering Nirvana as if they had just started playing.

I like to think that a segment of retro-tweens in the Star Wars universe resurrected the jedi fashion in the belief that they discovered it.

cendyne, to random
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I got complimented for writing two pages of questions for a first time meeting with an integration middleware company. "Of the forty partners we've had, you're the only one to do this"

I mean, it's my 5th time overseeing an integration, I know what we care about and what will get in the way.. why not come prepared if we have only 30 minutes to talk

neurovagrant,
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@cendyne Never did my homework as a kid.

Can't conceive of not doing my homework before a meeting as an adult, though...

neurovagrant, to random
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Go to the cloud, they said. It'll be fine, they said.

Now your impulse nudes from your early 20s are reappearing in your icloud because Apple has had em all along.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157284/apple-iphone-ios-17-5-update-deleted-photos-voicemails

neurovagrant,
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luckily i don't have to worry, my nudes went out on Tumblr ages ago, and I ain't shameable about it!

neurovagrant,
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@bortzmeyer Even if true - and it's all speculative on both sides currently - what happens when the photo shows up in device camera roll?

it's gonna auto-upload to their cloud.

same bullshit regardless of the bug.

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Well that's interesting. System-wide password reset for SANS users, supposedly due to them having upgraded their security.

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