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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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neurovagrant, to infosec
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Reupping a boost from last week:

“Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew”: Defining Autistic Burnout

First academic/clinical article I've ever seen specifically on autistic burnout, and it rings true. It's particularly validating to see initial confirmation that autistic burnout is its own distinct phenomena, which likely requires its own specific interventions.

#neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #infosec

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2019.0079

JenMsft, to random
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Who here has learned the hard way to back up your files? 🙋🏻

neurovagrant,
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@JenMsft been there done that.

That moment of clarity with the third scenario when you realize what you've done is something to remember.

ErikUden, (edited ) to random
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The iconic ending scene from the first Planet of the Apes (1968) movie of the main character realizing he's been on earth all along was actually made up by the film!

The horrendous 2001 adaptation that ends with Mark Wahlberg landing his space ship in ape Washington D.C. and seeing ape Abraham Lincoln was closer to the original ending to the 1963 book.

I just found out and needed to share this cursed knowledge with you.

neurovagrant,
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@ErikUden how could you not go with Ape-raham Lincoln?!

lzg, to random
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the tiny defeat of returning a book to the library, unread

neurovagrant,
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@lzg at least the book went on an adventure

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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I'm confused as to why yesterday MSNBC had Crowdstrike & think tank guy Dmitri Alperovich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch) on as a Chinese strategy expert wrt Taiwan reunification. There are hundreds of top retired DOD or State Dept personnel more qualified to discuss this topic. How did he end up in MSNBC's rotation of talking heads? Well, apparently he recently wrote a book it even though it doesn't seem to have been a top focus of his career. Wonder what I should write a book on?

neurovagrant,
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@Nonya_Bidniss fwiw his book was pretty good (and there were some pertinent tie-ins with his career) but I’d read books by you even faster. Get writin’ please! 😉

neurovagrant, to random
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no no no you have it all wrong, once Google hits the right critical mass it'll understand pizza better.

nine more cycles until its pizza recipe is glue ten free.

neurovagrant, to random
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oh oooooooof

"...there was an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank. This had the unintended and then unknown consequence of defaulting the customer’s GCVE Private Cloud to a fixed term, with automatic deletion at the end of that period."

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident

neurovagrant,
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i mean who hasn't hosed a $125B pension fund customer's cloud service with a single omission, amirite?!?!

neurovagrant, to random
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who could've predicted that reading things on the internet literally would turn out so wrong?

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Turned 32 today. I share a birthday with Bob Dylan, John C. Reilly, and billions of ants.

neurovagrant,
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@lowqualityfacts Happy birthday!

Ah, I remember 32. Terrible year, but at least I didn't need upstairs ibuprofen and downstairs ibuprofen. That came a few years later.

neurovagrant, to random
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"If I've got an an investigator who's going to knock down somebody's door because a tool told them this is the person you're talking to, I can't give them a tool that's hallucinating." @bapril - CTO of @Maltego - about AI, being interviewed by @NotTheLinux on @BreakingBadness.

I had the privilege of working under Ben for years and his interview reinforces why he's one of my very favorite, most trusted technologists.

Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts!

https://soundcloud.com/breakingbadness/rsac24-benallan

neurovagrant,
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Also a really good interview with Allan Liska of Recorded Future, where he dishes some good insights on Lockbit.

neurovagrant,
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And for folks on the job hunt, Ben also provides some great advice on jobhunting in the security space.

But just to hear him lay out that cautious approach to AI was heartening.

neurovagrant, to random
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Cross-post from the group chat with my decades-long friends group of accomplished misfits:

“@404mediaco is like we all decided to start an independent media outlet and turned our shitposting, misanthropy, and random talents into all sorts of Good Trouble.”

❤️

neurovagrant, to random
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Gotta wonder DLP software companies are thinking about Recall.

“So, uh, how do… how do we stop exfil to Redmond?”

neurovagrant, (edited ) to random
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Update: fixed it.

Trying to transfer a @signalapp account to an iPhone (from Android) and Signal on the iPhone appears to be locked in a captcha loop.

Anyone ever dealt with this/know how to fix it?

-current iOS
-exempted app from Lockdown mode
-killed and restarted app
-turned phone off and back on again
-deleted and reinstalled app
-not on vpn or icloud relay

neurovagrant,
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i promise i'm not a robot

neurovagrant,
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Okay, did 2 things and one of them fixed it:

  1. Deleted app, rebooted phone and then reinstalled app. (iOS can hold weird temp file/state stuff even after app deletion that clears out on reboot)

  2. Pulled myself off wifi and used my cell connection.

neurovagrant, to random
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Yet another episode that proves, no matter what you do, your team absolutely needs at least one Extremely Online member to run things by before you initiate them.

https://tech.lgbt/@tomoyo/112488250280448499

neurovagrant, to random
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coworker DM'd me to praise a deeply weird philosophy blogpost I wrote for work a while back and i am BEAMING :D

i was convinced no one read it, no less liked it.

never underestimate the power of a kind comment

neurovagrant, to random
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y'all, this @dangoodin story is a banger.

"A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why."

One of the smartest engineers I work with put it thusly: "It's always DNS, but occasionally it's the DNS."

When it's the DNS, we're in trouble...

(also, go follow Dan while you're at it, he's a fantastic mastodon user)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/dns-glitch-that-threatened-internet-stability-fixed-cause-remains-unclear

ai6yr, to venturacounty
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Shelter in Place for a bear lifted in Santa Paula. #VenturaCounty

neurovagrant,
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@ai6yr I was a 911 dispatcher for a decade in a rural suburb. What we'd get is people moving there specifically to get away from the city and into the woods, but they'd call 911 expecting us to trap or kill every bear they see toddering through their yard.

My go-to line was "if it's battering down your door we're happy to intervene, otherwise, steer clear of it and have a good night."

technicaltundra, to random
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I mentioned walls of moss, but I am tragically unable to choose just one picture worth my delight at this short but intensely mossy path. You can breathe the green just looking at the pictures.

#Mosstodon #Moss #Mousse #NaturePhotography

Same as the first image, but taken further along the path
Same as the other pictures, but taken further along the path

neurovagrant,
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@technicaltundra Those pictures are beautiful and made my afternoon, thank you for sharing them.

neurovagrant, to random
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Nice lazy thunderstorm here

jsonstein, to random
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sign of Summer

neurovagrant,
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@jsonstein looks like you're about to do a Demon Core experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

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