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Moo-Deng, nooooo!

a fun prank to pull on your neighbor is to plant a sequoia seed in their front yard and then come back 100 years later like hahaha how’d that get there

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Enjoying some fine drinks at Codemash

Network teams notice and bless people who are not entirely full of shit when blaming the network, and that means understanding some of the network before you go talk to them.

I wrote about the worst year of my life: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

This writeup on a signature bypass vulnerability does a good job of calling out some design red flags, but I want to point out a major one. If you need to extract a signature out of a message, you MUST NEVER then operate on the original message. Many applications and protocols get this wrong.

The ideal situation for Meta is that you are trapped in an endless maze of advertising impressions in search of the thing you swear you used to be able to see or do on Instagram or Facebook. Them showing you it is a problem. They're doing what Google Search did but with people instead of websites.

CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...

A useful tip for taking photos or videos of fireworks on NYE: ask yourself when was the last time someone asked you for a video of last year's fireworks.

This is what you do when you are making something everybody wants

My only Christmas Eve tradition is heading over to the local Target with khakis and a red shirt, telling everyone I’m from Corporate and they can go home early

Me: *tip toeing mischievously toward MRI machine* Health insurance company (hands on hips): Stop right there mister! Is that medically necessary? Me (kicking dirt): No

Any food NOT designated cage-free was raised in a cage. Enjoy your caged avocado, ghoul

todays my birthday. it’s also the day 16 years ago I discovered that a customer for the data center I worked at had racked 3 full cabinets with over $200k of brand new server hardware on top of $80 of canned soda from our customer lounge vending machine to avoid spending $600 on mounting rails

Linear Sort xkcd.com/3026

when i feel anxious i imagine im putting all my thoughts in a big canvas sack and then i also get in the sack and then im trapped in the sack and it has no opening any more and someone is picking it up and i can hear a river and i cant get out and i'm falling and i

A bot that detects if ChatGPT is down and immediately sends a basic computer skills quiz to everyone in IT you have to finish fullscreen holding your drivers license

“he worked in tech, I’m sure he could afford healthcare” oh my sweet summer child

our government hates everyone and everything

Ohio police officer has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison for planting cocaine and then "discovering" it during an arrest. He is one of four officers with the "drug cartel unit" investigated by the feds for taking the name of the unit more literally than intended. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

Well this is grim

"from 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 import 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙" is the most profound line of python you can write. for where does 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙 come from if not 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, and to whom does it matter most if not 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏

Bluesky in Windows Longhorn Hillel 2003.

for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell

God: Anyway I made you these trees with food on them, pretty sweet. Got to go work on another planet. God: Hey I'm back. Wait what the fuck is a Cyber Security Engineer.

Turns out this little trick with enumerating OIDC providers for an account is actually easier than I thought. The backend is only checking the issuer field, and you can provide your own self signed JWTs, making it MUCH faster and MUCH easier to brute force. I’ll writeup for Hacking the Cloud soon.

Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

2004: wow! i found schematics online to fix my tv. i can't wait to see how helpful the internet is in the future 2024: forced to watch 17 minute text-to-speech video to find hidden menu on tv that disables the "turn on by itself at 3am to play ads" function

Hi new accounts! You can self-verify here if you have a domain name! You will see in my handle that it doesn’t have “bsky” in it. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Once again: DST doesn’t solve the problem of going to/from work in the dark. Instead, when days get shorter in the fall, we should just shorten the workday by an hour. Then in spring, when we start getting more daylight again, we can shorten the workday by another hour.

plants have it all figured out. they knew by evolving to harvest nutrients from the air and ground they’d never create a society that led to computer

The Angel Restrains Abraham from Sacrificing Isaac, by Jacob Franquart, 1616, 📸 by @albello55

items in your house should be outlined in a contrasting color glow if you have a pending quest involving them

god help you if you're trying to get funded as a hardware startup, but if you're a software startup (even one with surprisingly hardware-like fixed costs, ahem) you can get funded so lavishly you can afford to do a vanity hardware project

A hobby of mine is spending a lot of money to start a hobby then immediately abandoning it

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We are all made of stars, but your RBAC shouldn’t be