Real ones know.

This is the Christmas tree light project I put together for our pre-holiday party -- this was a really fun way to learn a bit about programming Arduino microcontrollers. www.youtube.com/shorts/_vsKY...

Immaculate Unix vibes.

I do not like journalctl, I do not like it Sam-I-Am.

I will use any excuse to post this: my favorite Halloween costume, ever.

Delivered the last lecture of the semester for my blue teaming class last night. "Purple Teaming - or - How Do I Know Any Of The Other Stuff From This Semester Is Actually Working?"

Nolan Bushnell founded both Atari and Chuck E Cheese. "Business is a good game – lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."

"Another" Salt Typhoon? Did we get the first one out?

It's like a Greek tragedy. The richest man in all the world wants nothing but to be a Funny Twitter Guy, and it's the one thing that all his wealth can't buy.

Reject modernity.

Post a book you love from the 80s; no explanations, no reviews, just covers.

This is an awful precedent in any number of ways.

Looking forward to tonight's pre-holiday Infosec 716 meetup; if you're around Buffalo, come join us for some nerd fun and frivolity! www.meetup.com/infosec-716/...

I'd be crazy NOT to buy these.

The perfect album from the year I turned 16 (1993):

One of my favorite @greatdismal.bsky.social quotes, from The Winter Market.

Pascal was the first language I used that didn't have line numbers and it absolutely blew my mind. How did it know what to run next?

I've hosted dinner parties that produced fewer dirty dishes than my kids produce in an evening. It's remarkable. If I wasn't the guy loading the dishwasher I'd be in awe.

If you're looking for something fun to play around with while planning your Christmas decorations, I got a string of these -- they're individually addressable in an Arduino sketch, so you can design any pattern or light show you want. And you can power them with 5V. www.amazon.com/dp/B01AG923GI

It appears I've reached the "BBC detective shows" stage of middle aged fatherhood.

These are so good. When I was a kid they were called "Jingles".

We're going to talk about the decision to legalize widespread sports gambling the same way we talk about doctors endorsing cigarettes or stuffing every building with asbestos.

The ideal gambling venue should look and smell like the worst decision you've ever made in your life. I support one single exception to the indoor smoking ban in NY for this purpose. RETVRN.

And if there's one thing I've learned from video games, it's that sometimes this is the best way to reveal an entire ham hidden in the wall. Also, you should eat that ham.

I wonder if the President remembers being briefed on our telecom infrastructure being totally turned inside out by nation state actors.

New mortal enemy of Dr Pepper just dropped.

Ban privately owned trucks larger than a mid-1990s Ford Ranger.

The last thing in America that's the envy of the world is our university system and these vandals are smashing it to pieces as fast as they can.

That's right, people who can't legally get jobs or mortgages are buying up all the real estate. It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it at all.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

CGA Christmas Tree.

Is our billionaires learning?

Age yourself with gaming

LOL, the Linux implementation of Windows Hello is called Howdy.

The irony that our parents said “tv and video games rot your brain” and now they’re completely befuddled by AI slop and clickbait

A terminal window in light mode is basically a war crime.

Is it really a surprise that the deranged Silicon Valley techbro culture that insists there is no value in education outside of STEM fields finds itself completely unable to appreciate the creative endeavors of actual humans?

Messing around with Arduino projects is dangerous because buying components is always "well, the part I actually need is $10 but if I buy this box of five hundred bits and bobs for $15 it's included!" and now I have a drawer full of Future Project.

Can't stop thinking of the analogy I heard that the stock markets still look good in the same way that a cancer patient's weight will remain steady if the tumor grows fast enough.

And as you put together your talks for next year, keep in mind that a lot of events (especially BSides and other local conferences) have tons of people who are new to the field. There's a need for talks about fundamentals. Explaining the CIS Top Controls will often do more good than l33t tool drops.

This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine

So, so glad I wrapped up my crazy month of conference travel LAST weekend. Best of luck to everyone out there now.

In most design you have a very small circle of what the product is expected to do. With LLMs you have a very wide circle that you try to limit as best as you can. Understanding this will tell you why it is risky to implement into systems that need precise circles.

Preparing to meet prospective students at tomorrow's grad school open house.

LOL

Post you from a different era. Portrait of the artist as a young nerd. On my way to a party, summer of 1995.

The head coach of the University at Buffalo football team makes almost $800k a year, which is three times the salary of the mayor of New York City.

The rest of the world looking at America:

Post a holiday GIF or vid… 🖤

This is an awful NFL game but the uniforms are top tier.