Gee. Thanks Fediverse. When I complain about Windows, I literally never thought about running Linux in my life. As I stare at my shelf full of Linux laptops. Or look back at my decades of working and playing with Linux systems. Or the Linux stickers on my desk. Or ... Sometimes people just […]

@ai6yr That's not a movie, that's the FCC's actual plan for 2029 or so...

That sinking feeling watching the Point Of Sale at my local pup reboot, and realizing it's still running windows 7.

TIL: Everyone said "feck /etc/default/grub*" and went with Boot Loader Snippets? Making me hunt around 5 files is better how?Give me one monolithic file to break. I was so desperate, I resorted to using grubby

Has someone built a tracker for percentage of cat posts on infosec.exchange? As far as I can tell $StateOfWorld is inversely proportional to $CatPosts. It's probably at least as good as pizza index. We need a bot. Probably written in Perl.

So about 20 minutes ago I mentioned Paracord Planet to @ai6yr as a source for bungee. My wife just got a Facebook ad for Paracord Planet, which she'd never heard of. It may not be microphone based, but damn the tracking is real.

Is it weird that my recipe for boxed Mac and Cheese includes a deglaze step?

If you run an enterprise Linux version in GCP, be aware that the update to the Google cloud agent breaks things. Specifically, it will zero out the google-sudoers group. A reboot _may_ fix things, or it may not. If it doesn't, you need to hope you've got a normal local user with a password you […]

Has kitties #caturday

The void looked at the empty plate, and was disappointed.

I went to see Willi Carlisle live for the first time last night. He's at the start of a US-wide tour. If you can catch a show, do it. If you're over 50, you may well be one of the oldest at the show. Do it anyway. The opening band was damn good too. https://willicarlisle.com

Sometimes the void mews back. Apparently our garden kitty mama had five.

Just heard a very good phrase: Emotional Support Tabs. No I will not close them.

If you've got nothing going on music wise at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBqYZGO1kyg

Ok, #askfedi, why on earth does this stuff taste … spicy/hot? Or tongue numbing? I’m not sure which. My dad labelled it “dwarf green sage”, but it’s nothing like what I think of as sage. And it does something no green herb I’ve had does - makes my tongue actively […] [Original post on social.coop]

When your hotel is next to Dollar General and Ollie's, you have to begin questioning life choices.

About to present at DAFITC. 10AM.

If anyone's going to DAFITC next week in Montgomery, I'll be presenting Tuesday. Come see what I've been brainholed in for the last year. And we can get some food/drink(s) after.

OMFG, I own a piece of history.

Walmart competes aggressively on price, but I never expected them to be the cheapest source for discount Cesium-137.

I don't happen to have a contact at Idaho National Lab, do I? I've got some questions about licensing decisions.

If anyone's going to DAFITC next week in Montgomery, I'll be presenting Tuesday. Come see what I've been brainholed in for the last year. And we can get some food/drink(s) after.

The Little League World Series is running on the TVs at my local. I just noticed they listed a team as "Chinese Taipei" instead of Taiwan. Corporate America is so afraid.

Curiosity question: Does anyone know of a cybersecurity company specializing in Agricultural OT?

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Curiosity question: Does anyone know of a cybersecurity company specializing in Agricultural OT?

wget http://some.thing pgrep wget tail -f /proc/<pid>/4 #(or more)

So how the web scrape is going... I'm estimating completion by Wednesday. I'm 170 base sites in. Each one points to about 30 others. This is with a depth of 1. Every 10.0s: echo number of sites archived ; ls /var/lib/topgen/vhosts/ | wc -l ; echo; echo current; ps -ef | grep wget | grep -v […]

So what am I doing on my birthday weekend? Herding a very large webscrape. It got stuck on the live video at cnn.com. Killing the wget broke the scraper process. Had to hack out a bunch of the sanity checks in topgen-scrape.sh to get it running again.

I'm currently building a little cyber lab setup. For fake Internet I'm using topgen. Doing topgen-scrape to pull down websites for the fake Internet. wget with depth 1. It's on line 50 of 300ish. It's pulled down 1500 sites, because each site in the top level list links to ~30 other sites […]

Find someone who understands you and will put up with you. I just reviewed the last couple of text messages from my wife. 1) headed home. [Telling me to put pants on so we can go out later] 2) write calc.exe exploit [A reminder of something I need to do next week at work]

$gods! I just want to know the characteristics of a given plant variety. After dredging past the AI plop, the advertisements consisting mainly of AI plop, etc. I finally find an article by someone who's grown the freaking plant. Except it's AI plop, with links to TikTok. We've broken the […]

The day after we bombed Iran, I told a coworker we would soon be hearing a call to restore a Pahlavi to the throne. And here we go: https://www.politico.eu/article/exile-iran-prince-reza-pahlavi-50000-defectors-topple-regime/

Not that there's any evidence such a thing happened, but man what a sentence to read when there was a massive, widely exploited SharePoint zero-day discovered less than a week ago that was used on systems in at least three federal agencies.

Am I the only person thinking that DEFCON Bahrain shouldn't be a thing?

If you're a side job backwoods 'DJ', don't buy class 3b lasers. You will put somebody's eye out. As the 'DJ' almost did at my local pub, bouncing an 8 pack off the glossy ceiling.

Goal accomplished for the day. Two fewer windows laptops in the world Two more linux laptops Several pounds of e-waste diverted Better picture on my TV because windows isn't screwing up the streaming Better sound because direct USB out is an option Biggest issue, convincing HP uefi to boot to […]

Question for the hive mind: Say you developed a new variety of plant. (A new pepper for instance) Is there some official registry? Do you just YOLO name it? Should you have some group verify that it's unique? @thebiologistisn

You know what's kind of cool? Running into a problem installing Linux, starting to search for an answer, then realizing the answer is in a book that you wrote and have sitting on the shelf next to you. Problem solved.

Every plumbing job requires three trips to the store: 1 -- you get what you know you need (a new faucet for the kitchen) 2 -- you get what you discovered you needed as you realize how broken the old stuff really is (new branch piece and P-trap to replace the old janky leaky ones) 3 -- you get […]

And somehow appropriate that I'm lifting a glass to this one tonight. https://youtu.be/RL90DI56hys?si=TRJ7Wfg0v2OC1jQc

My company has positions open for Cybersecurity Instructors. It's an Air Force contract in Little Rock. Hybrid remote possible, but some on-site required. US citizen, and clearance capable. No particular cert or experience gatekeepers. Pay and work environment is good. No nights, weekends, or […]

My company has positions open for Cybersecurity Instructors. It's an Air Force contract in Little Rock. Hybrid remote possible, but some on-site required. US citizen, and clearance capable. No particular cert or experience gatekeepers. Pay and work environment is good. No nights, weekends, or […]

Proposed vocabulary changes. - quit call it AI Slop. Instead call it AI Plop. - quit calling it AI. Instead call it an Ignorance Factory. e.g. "The ignorance factory dropped some really stinky plop into this code."

Truly stupid corporate policy: If you buy a commercial grade monitor from Samsung and use it in a "non-commercial" environment, the warranty drops from 3 years to 3 MONTHS!

You know what really grinds my gears? Watching TV and seeing people who lived by thier sword pulling it out and sticking it in the ground.