Gemini, Anthropic: Sleek modern saws w/ sawstop safety blade; might be annoying if the wood is wet OpenAI: First-to-Market saw that's still riding its name recognition Grok: Table saw hooked up to a two stroke boat motor, no blade guards whatsoever, sales guy missing a finger

Ok friends: You see this on the menu. Do you assume it will come covered in sour cream?

A while back I resolved to reduce my "mindless" screen time by keeping my hands occupied when I'm idle - so I bought a guitar & kept it near the sofa & my desk. I can't say I have effectively reduced my screen time very much, but I DO know how to play guitar now, so that's nice.

This is a legendary performance but, Caption writer, I have a bone to pick with you about "nothing but his voice and guitar". It's a different sound without Bryan Gibson!

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) "Breaking Bad" aired for 5 seasons.

PSA for AI "Vuln researchers" - please do not spam our nonprofit parrot rescue asking for bug bounties for website "best practice" improvements. Unless you're interested in spray millet or colorful wooden blocks to chew on, both of us will be very disappointed in the experience.

I asked my gemini-sysadminhelper to assess the migration path for me today for a very old FOSS tool I need to swap out to get modern OAUTH2 handling in. Instead, it hot-patched the source to handle OAUTH2 because that's easier than migrating. NGL, kinda impressed. 1/2

Given the big PyPI, Node and Github supply chain attacks in the last month or two I am *very* curious: Orgs who have walked far down the SBOM path - are you feeling pretty good about that right now? Is it genuinely helping you respond to supply chain attacks?

Alameda is 7x larger than my town but only up 15% in the vote count, so my town cares more than they do! Vote for Coastside FD please. :D. No login required. firetruckfaceoff.com

While I'm throwing out unimportant musings: What's up with real estate agents putting "Drone shot" photos from 100 feet above a house showing the great view from up there? Unless there's a patio 100' up I can sit on, that's a blatant misrepresentation of the situation.

In a similar vein to how Johnny Cash now owns "Hurt", I can no longer listen to George Jones' version of "He stopped loving her" because Alan Jackson owned that song so hard at George's funeral.

If any of you all have a moment to help me out, my department is behind a bit this round in firetruckfaceoff.com No login required, please vote for coastside FD 😇

One of my biggest worries today is that decreasing job security and declining volunteerism are going to multiply one another in ways that severely undercut the fabric of our country. An early indicator: The diminishment of volunteer firefighting.

Confused that you have strong DKIM/DMARC rules & configured SPF, yet people are still spoofing your CEO's mail in fraud attempts? This may be because you included Salesforce, Mailchimp, or other SaaS in your SPF. Abusers can use free/fraudulent accounts there to spam "as" you.

It appears that the death tool at the school in Iran that the USA bombed now equals the number (168, 19 of them children) killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. I have to wonder - if the OKC bombing had been committed by a foreign government, how the USA might have reacted to that.

Quick random thought: The most dangerous & difficult foe of security teams today - more than state attackers, poorly-written regulations, or advanced persistent teenagers - is the creeping poison of cynicism and defeatist thoughts.

Well, if there's going to be an energy crisis, it was very thoughtful of the Trump administration to have one going into spring and summer, so my solar will be at peak.

What's the German word for "Sending my spending money to UNICEF to help children recover from the ways my Tax money is being used to hurt them"

The main lesson here for US companies is that doing business with the US Government is a huge risk.

If DFIR as an industry goes extinct, I think it won't be because AI has made everything too secure, but because the migration of the world's infrastructure to vibe-coded human-free replacements will result in so many breaches that no one has the energy to care to respond anymore.

This section of the coast is being reclaimed by the ocean faster than expected.

This is completely absurd. Judicial warrants are ALREADY required for provide to enter private property without permission! There's no "Want to require in the future" about it. ICE is violating EXISTING law!

At Google's scale, you need infrastructure 👍

OK Internet, I'm looking for a Bluetooth wristband that vibrates and replaces your phone ringer/alarm - NOT an alarm clock / timer. I want the "IAmResponding" app to wake ME but not my wife 😉 Any suggestions?

Why I am still happy in Infosec after 25+ years: My personal motto is " I'd rather be an optimist proven wrong than a pessimist proven right. " Your mileage may vary, but it helps me.

What bugs me about the "voice" of AI-assisted writing: I think LLMs are like autotune. If someone's already skilled, the AI is fixing an occasional pitch but otherwise invisible. When folks let the AI do *all* the lifting, it's unpleasantly machine-like to take in.

I'm starting to suspect that anyone who says "Older teenagers aren't really 'Children' in the traditional sense" has never been a parent of (or spent significant amounts of time around) one.

90's / 2000's: If an attacker gets access to my OS it's game over, better protect it. 2010's: If an attacker gets access to my browser it's game over, better sandbox it well. 2020's: I'm going to install this attacker's cool AI agent and give it access to both.

A "How did the support agent do?" phone tree just asked me: "On a scale from zero to ten, how well did this representative help you?" And now I don't know what happens if I try to enter 1-0. Is it going to take that as ten, or one?

I'm sorting through scholarship applications this evening and it is REALLY tiring, these days, to investigate who is actually interested in a particular career vs who just asked an AI tool to write them a good essay so they could spam every scholarship they could find.

My dog got all warm lying in the sun so I gave her a big hug and forgot I had fresh hair dye still in...

With all the things going on right now, I'm very very curious about whether #defcon will continue to have as close and cozy a relationship with DHS and the US Military as they have had in the last few years.

Sometimes I really question these guitar teaching apps. Is this honest to God really an actual finger position? Or is some AI playing a prank on me?

OMG Globe fire boots are like SO much more comfortable than anything I've worn before.

This is my happy wall, it is one of the four walls that make up my happy place.

I just paid _more than_ $600 for a pair of work boots. Inflation, yo.

A certain popular dramatic TV show recently featured someone's blood being harvested in a moment intended to morally shock the audience, and I remembered that this is 100% a thing that humans already do to other creatures.

Each year I open a scholarship for helping young Fire/EMS cadets afford school in areas where it's tough to get academy/school funded by the departments. If you're interested, you can contribute some last-minute EOY tax-deductible funds to it:

Exceptions to every rule exist but, broadly speaking, buying anyone younger than GenX a thing that is "hand wash only" or "dry clean only" is essentially a white elephant gift. ;)

The Susie Wiles thing sure seems like a "Finally tell the truth about a bunch of things everyone already knew you'd been openly lying about to establish cred then slip a BIG lie you care a lot about in the middle" type deal. Notice the "Oh yeah also he didn't do anything bad with Epstein" bit?

I loved my time in federal service, but this is a *horrible* deal on its face. Anyone want to take a giant pay cut for 2 years to work for political appointees who mostly hate you AND risk your original job being gone when you're done?

As with most things there's truth on both sides of this debate. Are many H1Bs brought here b/c the company needs to find a certain skill & can't? Yes. Are many brought here b/c they're cheaper & easier to abuse than Citizens? Also absolutely yes, that's well-documented. H1B is a complicated thing.

I'm super out of touch, why do so many Instagram reels have a very quiet audio track underneath the main audio, which drones on and on about the thing you're watching at almost subvocal levels? Is this a secret hypnotism thing or something?

The US legal system is really really weird.

It's getting much tougher to find chill background music on YouTube Music among the vast wastelands of AI-generated junk (which I wish would come with a label I can filter out). What's your favorite go-to background sounds for trying to focus on work while tuning out the world?

A blast from the past. The dell was our second "family" computer after a Packard Bell 286. At $68 per MHz, the Dell today would cost $3,236,800 (Intel Core i5 3.4GHz)

I don't know what to say about this article. The sole reason Western Nations started outsourcing manufacturing to China is the cost savings explicitly provided by having no labor or environmental standards. This is WAI; It's always been global.

Thanksgiving is for finding truly cursed music: bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie...

I cannot express enough how careful people need to be near the ocean. Just because a point isn't currently at the waveline doesn't mean a big wave won't come take you off it. Buddy system, Don't turn your back, respect the dang waters.

To find out where you stand on whether military members should be allowed to disobey illegal orders from superiors: An army Private shoots a baby in the head to punish the mother for some crime. Their Sergeant told them to do it. Should either of them be punished? If so, why?