Christmas: A day set apart by some as a time for turkey, presents, cranberry salads, family get-togethers; for others, noted as having the best response time of the entire year. —fortune(6)

Minicomputer: A computer that can be afforded on the budget of a middle-level manager. —fortune(6)

Does anyone have any experience working with an ISM for certification and compliance stuff? If so, what are things you would want in an ISM you were going to hire, as an engineer? Many thanks for boosts.

neutron bomb, n.: An explosive device of limited military value because, as it only destroys people without destroying property, it must be used in conjunction with bombs that destroy property. —fortune(6)

Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. —fortune(6)

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved. So far it’s been working! Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas #obliquestrategies

Always first steps #obliquestrategies

i'm now officially a minus one engineer

Muir Woods, California, on film (Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II, Wolfen NC 500, developed at home in Bellini chemicals, scanned on Nikon CoolScan 8000ED) #believeinfilm #photography #muirwoods #california #outside #c41 #minolta

Gumperson's Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability. —fortune(6)

Androphobia: Fear of men. —fortune(6)

Bershere's Formula for Failure: There are only two kinds of people who fail: those who listen to nobody... and those who listen to everybody. —fortune(6)

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday. —fortune(6)

Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. —fortune(6)

Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" —fortune(6)

god, I remember that Lexington used to feel impossibly far away by bike, and now it's just like… a place I go frequently, because it's a nice ride! that said, Concord is still pretty damned far away, I've only done *that* ride once.

huh so needing to handle a status code of 0 is a known quirk in Chromium, because the W3C specification is quite clear about setting 0 at the start of the process, but does not specify what should be done if an HTTP status code does not apply (as for the `file://` scheme) […]

``` if np.nanmin(lon) < -80: LOGGER.warning("Skipping that one ride I took in New Mexico") ```

me: I would like to do a project :) computing: HERE IS SOME CURSED KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED TO DO YOUR PROJECT DO YOU ACCEPT [Y / MAYBE LATER]

hangover, n.: The wrath of grapes. —fortune(6)

Found this in my garage

genealogy, n.: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. -- Ambrose Bierce —fortune(6)

(For the avoidance of doubt, the first six transcripts were also human generated. Just, they were generated by mostly me, and now the last five are generated by a paid professional who is actually good at it)

The videos also have new captions, also 100% human generated and so much better

I will say more later, but if you are a fan of my Critical Point War Stories podcast and mostly read the transcripts, I am pleased to say that I have replaced the last five transcripts, which were LLM generated and frankly not very good for a technical podcast, with very high-quality, paid, 100% […]

I will say more later, but if you are a fan of my Critical Point War Stories podcast and mostly read the transcripts, I am pleased to say that I have replaced the last five transcripts, which were LLM generated and frankly not very good for a technical podcast, with very high-quality, paid, 100% […]

Murray's Rule: Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. —fortune(6)

Kington's Law of Perforation: If a straight line of holes is made in a piece of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest part of the paper. —fortune(6)

diplomacy, n: Lying in state. —fortune(6)

gleemites, n.: Petrified deposits of toothpaste found in sinks. -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends —fortune(6)

relatedly, I've been looking for a change of pace with my work, so if you're hiring in the EU and "an infosec expert who translates Chinese technical reports to English for fun" sounds useful to you...

The default Magic Word, "Abracadabra", actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase "ha-Bracha dab'ra" which means "pronounce the blessing". —fortune(6)

Croll's Query: If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of? —fortune(6)

Drinking out own champagne, a phrase we use rather than "eating our own dogfood" :). PQ TLS key exchange now on www.akamai.com, techdocs.akamai.com, www.linode.com

I just gave my mate a laptop with Mint on it, this lappy's like ten years old and it's replacing a two-year-old one with win11 on it (and the linux one is faster, natch, another reason why this actually might be important, given that I've gotta live on a planet with a bunch of e-waste on it) and […]

I'm not normally, like, this rabid about computers, I don't like being the Linux Guy, I've spent fifteen years watching folk get frustrated with Windows and just kinda ignoring it y'know, all the way since WinXP days, it's Just Computers and it's not really all that important, except maybe it […]

Me, 2003, borrowing someone's truck, going to start it up, cold day, looking all around, shouting to the guy "Where's the choke?" THAT'S where the terminal should be

50% operating system market share looks like a banner across the Linux Mint support forums saying "Replies encouraging non-sysadmins to open the terminal will be removed"

Linux Mint has passed that certain point, that Threshold, where a bad thing is slowly getting good, where you stop being glad when it works and start getting pissed off when it doesn't. Like imagine drinking wine out of a glass full of sawdust, the wine guy keeps giving you new straws so you […]

@SnoopJ @xgranade Turning A Big Dial Taht Says "Nuclear Annihilation" On It And Constantly Looking Back At The Audience For Approval Like A Contestant On The Price Is Right

Why we call it booting :blobcatgiggle:

Moon, n.: 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). —fortune(6)

Cohen's Law: There is no bottom to worse. —fortune(6)

Fuch's Warning: If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. —fortune(6)

mathematician, n.: Some one who believes imaginary things appear right before your _i's. —fortune(6)

Basic Conference Travel Cybersecurity Advice https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2025/10/basic-conference-travel-cybersecurity-advice/

Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. —fortune(6)

We are now at a total of $3973.40; 79.5% of the way through my match. In 4½ hours. Okay this is probably not going to take a week