FAIL = First Attempt In Learning

If you go to sleep 3 minutes and 32 seconds later every night up until Daylight Savings Time, starting tonight, you'll be fully acclimated to the transition.

BlackRock is in advanced talks to buy utility company AES in a $38 billion deal. This would be one of the largest ever deals involving a U.S. power corporation. AES is one of the world's biggest utility companies, generating electricity in 15 countries. www.reuters.com/markets/deal...

A lot of people are talking about federally ran government websites with anti-democrat propaganda blurbs, violating the Hatch Act. I've scraped 1,336 sites and came back with 23 that have this verbiage, along with a notable site that has a notice of anti-DEI court orders.

If you're interviewing an applicant for a Linux heavy role and they just told you the crontab scheduling order by memory, just stop the interview and offer them the job.

Phrack turns 40. The digital drop is live. Download it. Archive it. Pass it on. 💾 www.phrack.org #phrackat40 #phrack72

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

Quiznos? Cosi? Subway? Jimmy John's? Jersey Mike's? Any sub shop I visit from this day forward will be judged not only on the taste & value of its sandwiches, but their weight, velocity, & stability of their wrapping.

50 cents at Walmart, how could one not cop

"Dunn’s attorney says he tried to turn himself in, but instead, 20 officers came to his home to arrest him." Just think about that for a minute.

I used one of these power banks at Defcon and it did surprisingly well. Only 1 USB C, but it will super fast charge a phone, and it kept my laptop going a bit longer. At $15 each, this is seriously a good deal. meh.com

Does anyone have any favorite talks from #defcon33? Videos aren't on YT yet, but I'd like to compile as list as talks are fresh in people's minds. #defcon

I was in third place in the @johnhammond.bsky.social lookalike contest. I'll have to grow my hair out a bit more for next time. #defcon #defcon33

Are we AGI yet?

Help! Stickers are piling up at Lonely Hackers Club, 201-202. Come get some! #defcon #defcon33 #stickerswap

#defconmovienight update - in addition to movies, we’ve got a ton of popcorn - come help us find it a loving home! We’re over at N257 (in the workshops area). #defcon #defcon33 #freepopcorn

Got my stickers for defcon! See you there! #roadtodefcon

CHEESECON IS REAL! Right now in the chill room. Follow your nose. #defcpn #defcon33

I'm bringing back an old project... It'll take animated GIFs, ASCIIfy them, and I can control the speed in real-time. After I get this polished up, I'm going to figure out how to turn the animations into a telnet server (again). Also, maybe music sync?

#DCTV is online! Jump on dctv.defcon.org for links to the #defcon33 live streams on #youtube and #twitch. Get that #defcon however works best for you.

Did you know that there's a #defcon Discord server? Have fun. ☠️ discord.com/invite/defcon

It's pretty cool to see how people are fixing the badges this year. A lot of people are complaining, but I think a badge that breaks could be more of a feature than a bug, forcing people to solve a problem and participate. #defcon33 #defcon

Heckseven @ #defcon33 right now! #defcon

The Meshtastic seen at Defcon is legit dope. #defcon #meshtastic

The Officially Unofficial Sticker Swap will be held Saturday, August 9th from 2pm to 4pm in the HallwayCon Lounge area on Level 2. Spread the word…

While webcam covers can help in very specific situations, they're not guarding something that's potentially more useful to attackers. youtu.be/rvsEzMKB_Xo?...

Apparently ffmpeg asks you if you want to overwrite /dev/null. Yes, I realize I'm doing something really weird with it.

Who here is going to Black Hat and/or DEFCON? It's been 6 years since I've been able to go to any conference and apparently I'm getting real lucky this year (I worked a booth at RSAC already).

This is a real post from our local overpriced, dirty, "Italian" restaurant that somehow manages to stay open. #spaghettilobstertaco

After signing books in the back with "to be continued..." for years, im getting to be included in the cDc story!

If there's one thing I've learned about covering cybersecurity over the past decade or so, is that the cybersecurity community (the fixers and breakers) and the cybersecurity industry (profits above all else) are two very, very different things.

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

One of my coworkers showed me this very comprehensive security certification roadmap. I've been on the fence about getting more certs for quite a while, since there are tons out there, but this lays them out pretty well. pauljerimy.com/security-cer... #infosec #cyber #cybersecurity #pentesting

I hope the points in this video don't end up reflecting what we'll be experiencing in the coming years. Things aren't looking good so far. youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

If we start seeing huge corporations win labor cases with uncanny precision, we can likely attribute this to AI being trained on data that was exfiltrated from the NLRB. The more data DOGE has, the more the current administration can quickly unravel our democracy. We'll just have to wait and see.

I wasn't expecting all of these shells at the end of the trail! Hobbit Beach Trail, Florence, Oregon #OregonCoast #Florence #Oregon

2010. These mini PCs were what we called "transfer servers". We shipped these RAIDed devices to customers in Pelican cases so that they could dump data on to them and send them back to be loaded into servers. This was actually quicker than transferring data over the internet.

2009, a couple years after moving out of my parent's house. I was stealing internet from a nearby apartment complex (wide open, no password). I was nice, though, and updated the firmware on the random person's router on a regular basis. Those are the iconic red Netflix sleeves in front of the TV.