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Information security, Scouting, making, cryptography puzzles, python, public infrastructure nerd. Also: http://keybase.io/DarthNull.
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@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyWow. I have a lot of old bags.
@darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gyReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyhttps://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island
Good post that gets into the futility I feel when I try to do something creative online anymore. I'm less and less motivated to do things like write a blog or build software tools. I've found myself without much of a creative community since 2020 [ā¦]
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gySome more really old vendor swag from my first ever conferenceā¦
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy@jef I feel like having one site near DC well preserved is really important (just like awareness they were nuclear tipped). But around here (especially with housing development) Iām not optimistic.
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy@jef Are many of the SF sites still more or less intact? I think all the DC facilities are gone. Many are parks, the one I visited is apparently a Rivian service center. One radar site still has a couple towers and radomes, and a local astronomy club uses it for events.
One remains in Lorton [ā¦]
@timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyBring back Ć¾e letter Ć¾. How can you Ć¾row out Ć¾e only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back Ć°. But Ć°is time, except in very common words like Ć¾e which look nice Ć¾e oĆ°er way round, don't treat Ć°em as interchangeable. Use Ć° for Ć¾e voiced one and Ć¾ for Ć¾e unvoiced one, like Ć°ey do in Icelandic [ā¦]
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy@jef Iāve ridden that elevator! (Not sure if they still let visitors do that, or if I just had a very flexible docent). I was also surprised just how easy it is to slide the missiles back-and-forth on the rails.
I also spent some time exploring W-94 in Gaithersburg, MD, while it was abandoned [ā¦]
@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gyReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyRE: https://defcon.social/@Wednesday/117373385867408345
I ask a computer questions because I want the right answer. Tell me again how this works with AI?
And āmost of the timeā is NOT acceptable. For most of the time, I can just ask a human.
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyAlso, this is probably still my all time favorite from Stephenson. Been too long since I read it.
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyI'm re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008), and hit this fairly prescient passage. "Crap" (well-written but subtly false information) deliberately inserted by into the "reticulum" (Internet), with the goal of then being able to sell services to filter [ā¦]
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyINTERRUPTING COW!
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy@xabean And that makes sense, if you factor in shipping (which probably amounts to zero for the volume of returns they get, though maybe I selected an expensive return path), re-stocking, verifying the return can even *be* resold, etc...
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyAmazon is haggling now? I bought a pair of Thread/Matter controlled plugs, discovered I can't get them to work in Home Assistant, and went to return them. I'm 90% through the return process, and amazon makes this counter offer.
@robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyFor my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Pythonās random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of ārandomā ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the [ā¦]
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy@adamshostack butā¦āthe usernameā would show more than 5 dotsā¦
@hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyTIL a recent? Zed update shows you the JSON path to the item you have the cursor at.
@veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyš¤¦
@darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyRE: https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/117312782106510683
A modest proposal.
@leahmcelrath.bsky.socialReposted by @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyāPeople are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.ā
