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Hacker. Enby. Administrative inconvenience. Purveyor of technically sophisticated shitposts. Suing the UK for more gender, help with my legal bills: https://enby.org.uk/ Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc Non-binary trans androgynous (they/them)
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@arigesher.bsky.social I think you were the one who told me about centaur chess - I still use that as a way to describe why use of AI/ML systems to augment humans rather than replace them is the winning move.

Number one thing I miss about my old job: Being able to address my coworkers with "Greetings humans!" and nobody finding it weird.

Note: Linked content is actually SFW - LLM generated article, includes text refusing to write about porn. I assume this was pulled off via a subdomain takeover using a deprovisioned AWS IP. es.vaccines.gov/gay-firry-porn

Apparently I _actually_ broke GitHub. They've slanderously blamed my "malformed commits". I've asked if my support ticket is eligible for a bug bounty.

If you've made an app, site, or anything else which at any point presents its user the choice of two buttons labeled "Yes" or "Maybe Later," may I whomp you over the head with a rusty manure shovel? "Yes" or "Maybe Later?" #UX

I hate myself for this.

It's really annoying when I try to use tech that's got mini USB ports. There aren't many of those cables still around.

So anyway, some people do crossword puzzles, I do assembly golf to cryptographic algorithms. This generates the 288 bytes of magic numbers for SHA2-256 in 164 bytes while still following the SysV AMD64 ABI. gist.github.com/ryancdotorg/...

SHA2's "magic numbers" are uint32s: the fractional parts of the square roots of the first 8 primes and the fractional parts of the cube roots of the first 64 primes. A precomputed table is 288 bytes. How many bytes of x86_64 assembly would be needed to generate them? Reply with your estimate.

Reality is an idiot plot.

I've also seen "women+", which isn't any better. If folks want to have a womens' group, they don't have to include enbies! If they want to have some arbitrary "you must be at least this femme" line, also fine, but don't say "and nonbinary"... AND DON'T MAKE US GUESS!

I beg to differ, NYT

Oh. More ssh bots, now powered by "SSH-2.0-AsyncSSH_2.1.0".

*slaps the hood of an early internet protocol* You can fit so much implementation defined behaviour in here!

I'm now blocking SSH clients claiming to be "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.4" if they advertise support for the ciphers "des" and "none". No more password guessing bots.

There are now binary builds of my data analysis tool `freq` available for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and I've added a few more features. It's great for ad-hoc log file analysis. github.com/ryancdotorg/...

My partner's OSINT skills are a bit scary. Someone mistakenly used my phone number for flight status alerts and it took my partner a couple minutes to find their correct phone number, home address, names of children, and place of employment.

wonderful to see so many companies celebrating pride month this year

100% no notes may I humbly present an addition

I would like to advise people that the domain name "tormentnexis.com" is available for purchase.

Be sure to check on your cyber security friends 😂😂😂