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Tech transformation & infosec. Advisory Board, NCPTF & Sightline Security. Former NYPD Intel, current reserve TX CSAM/Cyber detective. Co-Host, Tech Debt Burndown podcast. Bayern, DE and Bedford, TX https://nickselby.com https://techdebtburndown.com

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Got sent this. Sorry but had to share. Too funny. Too accurate. 😂

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 20 days ago • 969 comments

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

submitted 43 days ago • 2408 comments

Did you get brand new espresso machine for christmas? Is it your first time really diving into quality espresso? Our regular contributor Zuzanna has a great starter guide for you. Please share with your friends who are getting into espresso. coffeegeek.com/blog/beginne...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

As with mass shootings in America, hand-wringing, feckless journalists say of the murderous bastard who drove a car at high speed through a Magdeburg Christmas market, "His motive is not yet known." TL;DR: His justification is unneeded. He is a child murderer whose motive was murder and mayhem.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump era has brought absolutely lunatic lawyers typing very stupid things into the mainstream.

submitted 64 days ago • 58 comments

Tough call

submitted 78 days ago • 83 comments

My hero.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks, United, you punks.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

there will be more articles written next week about the threat of “cancel culture” than there will be about this

submitted 83 days ago • 161 comments

“Things are bad in Bulgaria. The devil has the people by the throat.”

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Bird, Fallin’, Willy, Solo.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

As the former owner of a new Ford Explorer (I regularly had to pull fuses to hard-reset its insanely bad Sync system) I am confident that Ford’s total incompetence will render it unable to exploit any data it harvests. Still, I object strongly to tools like this. gizmodo.com/ford-seeks-p...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

It's nice to see that there's some proper research being done into filter failure at the outrage factory - it's well worth reading the whole thread (and just a shame that the paper is behind a paywall). My own thoughts from 5+ years ago - blog.thestateofme.com/2019/02/13/f...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Really happy to be working with Huw Rogers www.linkedin.com/posts/huw-ro...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The data brokers in question were promoting a fundamentally grotesque reading of the law.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Two recent posts on understanding and managing technical debt, from a business impact perspective: evertas.com/news/why-tec... evertas.com/news/how-muc...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

When you think about it, Wikipedia is one of the only OG websites that hasn't succumbed to paywalls, wall to wall ads, pop ups, algorithms designed to frustrate and screw you over. And it maintains its social status. No wonder Elon hates it so much.

submitted 487 days ago • 0 comments