the saga continues: testing suspicious amazon cables 👹

Hidden inside a building in Alabama, the FBI has created its own small town as a dedicated cyber training ground for simulating cyberattacks.

this claude fable example shows what happens when agents get too proactive. it's not just the prompt injection, it's the proactivity.

The Holy Trinity of App Download Questions- Who made it? How do they get paid? Who are their investors?

Check out our new trailer for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC! youtu.be/ssOE56qZCDw

Poland passes 5-year prison sentences for "trash streaming" aka the streaming of abusive materials like crushing of animals, rape, murders, humiliation of other citizens www.usnews.com/news/world/a...

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

This amazing 2-hour documentary on Colossal Cave Adventure is a great retrospective on how far we've come in game design. But also feels like an evergreen topic on the topic of gameplay vs graphics, particularly for ASCII games! https://youtu.be/LRhbcDzbGSU?t=467 #advent #documentary

ICYMI there's a new FOSS (free and open source software) cybersecurity tool in town and it's called SO-CRATES!

Awesome stickers arrived on the same day I got my first ever new work laptop.. I think the uConsole is honestly more deserving, but doesn’t have much empty surface area.

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Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

So, it seems the blade mount in my new Ryobi jigsaw is offset to one side by 2mm?

https://youtu.be/T5YYqkCEhJA #nickcave

When I was in school I printed out hundreds of pages of BBS manual on my family's dot-matrix printer, carefully tore all those tractor feed edges off, and put it all in a 3-inch binder to take to school and study in my free time. Mostly so I could run Tradewars 2002 for my friends.

There is literally no series of words I’d ever want less in the same sentence, let alone in this particular order.

I was trying to think of a way to describe the straight men who have hit on me throughout my life and basically all I could come up with is it’s the type of guy who would say something like “Actually, it’s SIR Terry Pratchett”

Just sharing again because it makes me happy. youtu.be/GA8z7f7a2Pk?... #music #math #musicsky

This is still an all timer from her tbh

Welp there’s no unseeing this

why fiddle with elaborate, confusingly deep software interfaces when you could be working with a straightforward, tactile analog system like this one

I hate Mondays. It seems I always lose things at work on those days -- my reading glasses, my keys, my dreams, my will to live...

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

today in AI adventures a guy I used to work with, a full on corporate suit type who is super into genAI as a fixit for everything got up in a team meeting and blasted everyone for using AI because ....wait for it.... he thinks making PPTs is an art form & using AI to generate slides is "cheating"

Tried the new Opus model. Immediately got a cyber violation halt. 😅

Was playing with a rather expensive UVC usb camera. Poked the wrong thing. Now it’s a mass storage device, even after reboot. Seems its uboot is borked. Grr

Woo. Installed a serpentine belt in my Yaris 10 minutes before it started pissing down and the daylight disappeared

the most heartbreaking scene in toy story 5 is the 30 wordless grinding minutes of irl Tom Hanks joining and rising through Sea Org

I told you, the ten years of Harambe’s curse is about to end

Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott was the world's first female radio astronomer. She played a foundational role in how we understand the sun & universe today. During #WWII she developed top-secret radar technology for tracking enemy aircraft. She died #OTD in 1981. #WomenInSTEM #radioastronomy

Microsoft has banned Nightmare Eclipse from GitHub: github.com/Nightmare-Ec... This is the researcher who disclosed several zero-days after Microsoft also deleted his MSRC account They now moved on GitLab: deadeclipse666.blogspot.com

Only know it from @dereklowe.bsky.social This is an epic TIWWW post

the hungry observatory

Quoted the words “I AM” to Claude. First guess? Popeye. Then Exodus 3:14. Then.. nothing. This is somehow hilarious.

I've been reworking my Harlan Ellison ASCII art piece. I've filled it with quotes by Harlan & excerpts from his stories. Took longer than I thought it would & involved loads of reading & interview watching. I swear I could write his bio now. A couple of you lucky people have seen the full thing 😎😉🤖🖖

You're looking at a Rainbow Tripod Fish (genus Bathypterois) observed on a blackwater dive near Cozumel, MX. This species demonstrates "ontogenetic vertical migration": young of this species mimic jellyfish near the surface, but descend in depth as they age. (📷: Frida Yolotzin, Blackwater Cozumel)

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I got this in today but I’m waiting on the monitor cable so I can’t demonstrate it this is the SGI IrisVision, the first 3D accelerator for your home computer. it’s essentially a Personal IRIS on a 3-board stack they didn’t sell because anyone who was doing 3D in 1990 already *had* a Unix box

The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...

Zombie user account let hackers control the city’s water

DEC was way ahead here. This is an RK-07 disk drive from a PDP-11 system in the late 1970s. Yes we made games on it.

Speaking from 40 years of experience in computer security? You'll never go wrong betting on shit being even worse than it appears at first glance.

Sealed underside of bench top. I should have painted it black first to get the “90’s cinema / arcade carpet” feel I was going for

The weirdest color ISA MDA card is alive (mda graphics gremlin core, color attribute byte decoding). This used to be a PC/104 DeviceNet network card (Molex/Woodhead SST-DN4-104-1). Now it is a video card.

I'll take 2, and then drive them down the road side-by-side with some sort of structure straddling them. www.nwminitrucks.com/inventory/19...

Now in addition to Zork you can play Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT or Adventure), the seminal 1976 text-based game created by Will Crowther, later expanded by Don Woods. The grandaddy of all text-based adventure games. The inspiration for Zork. Rendered in the PDP-11 original font.

My polite and effective way of saying this is this screenshot and a heavy handed but gentle stare at…quite a few of you.

IRC client so I can get anything else for free

Tfw people realize mixer racks are sideways server racks.