It’s Bandcamp Friday. Anyone have any MSP artist recommendations to check out?

Do I know anyone here who pro DMs one shot event games in Seattle?

Upcoming Ego Likeness & Stoneburner events

I really appreciate the people showing up for their neighbors. Doing the hard work to show that compassion and care strengthen society. Please remember that as others are worthy of your care and support, you too are worthy of care and support. Remember to take breaks, drink water, eat a snack.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

Your super hardcore technical advice is great and if people can't use it, it's not useful. You have to meet people where they are on the ground

** Important Announcement!** If you plan on attending Wild West Hackin' Fest @ Mile High 2026 and would like to book in our hotel room block, deadline is this Friday, Jan. 16! More info here! wildwesthackinfest.com/location-info/

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s being scared and doing it anyway

If your product lists events as “X Days/weeks/etc ago”, I am _begging_ you to add an on hover or similar way to get an actual date/time stamp If your product has articles/events but doesn’t bother putting any sort of date on each event. Well, I dunno, I guess there’s a specific ring of hell for you

The first piece I taught myself (outside of a lesson) was Auld Lang Syne, last year on New Years. I had been taking lessons for about a month. It's not embarrassing to see where you've been. It's a reminder of how far you've come. youtu.be/KiDzggQWmfk Last year's - youtu.be/bLXcBDNaFU0

Back when I was practicing Kendo, one of the new students asked me how to deal with the blisters you'd get on the bottom of your feet. "Oh, moisturize your feet." "I can't moisturize my feet, I'm a dude." Fellas, don't let toxic masculinity get in the way of being a BETTER WARRIOR(?!?!?!)

It’s mythmas marathon time at Birch Keep again

Last night I went to make a purchase on Amazon. I added a new card that has my name and my billing address, and I had it shipped to my normal mailing address. This morning I received an email saying they believed an unauthorized purchase was made, cancelled the order and test my password. Wtaf?

I'll be performing next week! We're having so much fun with our silly little format, and Servant of Two Maestros does some awesome musical improv that I can't even If you're in Seattle, come check us out!

My "Death by Dashboards" talk from WWHF is up!

Big medical expense coming (we're okay). Any credit cards offering bonus point multipliers on healthcare expenditures (he says with almost no hint of sarcasm...thanks peak capitalism)?

It's been so long since I've made videos. But occasionally one will come up in a convo, and it'll prompt me to go back and re-watch some of them. Other than the "I can't believe I was so X back then" reaction, it's funny to me to see what my start menu shortcuts looked like at different times 😂

Plexamp phoning it in with their minimal surfaced stats considering how much data they have access to. Cements their place as "Barely clearing the extremely low bar of 'Best in home media server'". I think the big stand out is Kpop Demon Hunters, given how recently it came out. We listen to it A LOT

This setting was just pointed out to me in Bsky's Accessibility settings

Interestingly, my home audiobook server has way better stats than Audible. Not to say audible doesn't collect them, they just don't bother surfacing them to their product...I mean customers. (My audiobookshelf stats are very skewed because I just onboarded to it in Oct)

The ADHD habit of having to delete and repost a media post 4 times because you keep forgetting to add the alt text each time. :(

Between offlining almost all of my media consumption with plex, and aggressively setting privacy/do not sell settings, I'm not getting any recap/wrapped/rewind style stuff. It's kind of a shame, because I like the idea. 1/2

My music lessons got moved from Skype to Teams a while back. Now that I've been using Teams more on a personal account, I've been getting a lot of scam spam. Each one is obvious (look alike domains, crypto investment, etc). Reported to MS. All have come back as not conflicting with their policies.

what people think hacking is like: Mr. Robot what hacking is actually like: Hmm. That’s weird

Hey ~ Today (or anyday), why not watch some Native American & #Indigenous made short films from around the world? Bonus: the hosts Ariel Tweto (Inupiaq) & Bird Runningwater @birdrunningh2o.bsky.social (Northern Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache) are adorable as can be! 🎬 fnx.lightcast.com/content/sc_5...

Please define what “higher priority” means in your product. Is priority 1 the “highest priority” because it is the first priority? Or since 5 is numerically higher than 1, is it “higher priority”? English is too ambiguous to not explicitly define this in a tool tip where priority is assigned.

DM: There’s a barrel near the hearth. Make a religion check. Players: For the barrel? DM: Yup Players: uhoh…

I’m not on social media as much as I used to be, so most of my interactions with it go something like this: Phone: youve got a new notification in Facebook Facebook: actually, the notification is in Instagram Instagram: HEY! Have you checked out Threads? Someone you might know just posted there! 😤🤬

Bug is fixed in next update github.com/mozilla-mobi...

I cannot express how angry this makes me. Not only do we have to deal with the Ticketmaster monopoly, but if you want to see a band playing here, you have to get an additional app and give Intuit all of your data too! How exciting! blog.ticketmaster.com/intuit-dome-...

Just my quarterly shout into the ether that single click "phishing training" doesn't represent the real world risks of phishing and is basically useless as an education tool.

Hey @firefox.com , why is my iOS Firefox mobile app resetting google to the default search engine constantly, despite my not only changing the default but disabling google all together? I use you because you're one of the only non chromium browsers left. Please don't make me go searching again...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Finalizing the design for a block print greeting card, I’ve been making a new one each year for vending at a local dark holiday market with a Wild Hunt procession. Looking forward to busting out my carving tools and little print press (I gifted myself a press last year and oh the time it saves).

"Hey cursor, do you think you can add a gitlab instance to the app stack defined in the compose.yml?" "sure, here you go!" "cool, thanks....but...uhhh....this doesn't actually run." "You're absolutely right. Allow me to waste a bunch more api calls while you walk me through the correct solution!"

I was today years old when I learned that Rutherford from Lower Decks is Pillboy from The Good Place. Also, if you haven't watched one of those shows, definitely do.

The number of times I've accidentally bought pirated media from eBay, Walmart, etc. This is what happens when you don't make media available to buy. I'd rather buy something and support the people that created it. But investors value subscription dollars more than "regular" dollars, so here we are.

Unscheduled live fire exercise at Camp Pendleton over I5 closes down the freeway in a location that basically doesn’t have any detour. Ordered by the White House. Blocks a major La <-> SD corridor. In the middle of the day. A very specific day. I’m sure it’s a coincidence dot.ca.gov/news-release...

Someone recently said a very sweet and kind thing in my comments section, about liking my voice any watching my content just because it's soothing. That inspired me to list the creators who resonate with me in the same way... www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4l7... ...what a list that turned out to be!

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Feds, If you want to open up a dialog with offensive security professionals in the area, showing up at their house without context is going to skew that conversation towards defensiveness and suspicion. start a conversation first. Email, phone, etc. if they don’t respond, maybe don’t just show up.

I've been declining Win11 update ads for months. There was a full screen one at login the other day that took 3 clicks to get passed. Last night Win11 was installed during what looked like a normal OS update. I should have read closer, but none of the previous indicators were present.

Come play in one of the two Kubernetes Capture the Flag events we're facilitating at #DEFCON 33! Fri – Sun : Learning CTF w/ Walkthrough Saturday: Competitive CTF First Place Prize (for a team on-site at DEF CON) is a Bambu Labs A1 Mini 3D printer! containersecurityctf.com @defcon.bsky.social

The good news is that the LLM I'm using to assist class development is inserting a lot of vulnerabilities. The bad news is that they're not the vulns I want or need. It does save me time, but I cannot imagine just letting these things develop an entire codebase and then just...shipping it.

I have _TWO_ new songs dropping at @defcon.bsky.social this year. One is on the @defconmusicorg.bsky.social soundtrack, it’s an ode to Hacker Jeopardy in collaboration with @lintile.lol called DFIU. One is a 56-bar free verse that will be exclusively available on The Subnet (details below).

When the bobbin runs out exactly at the end of a long seam. :successkid:

New word of the day: Quixotic. "foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals" Growing up with Don Coyote and seeing Man of La Mancha got me interested in Quixote, but it wasn't till much later that I read it. You'll hear me occasionally refer to things as windmills because of this.

Your mission briefing awaits. Time is of the essence, submit your talk before the gate closes. wkf.ms/45fLrjH Priority Deadline: Friday, Aug. 29, 2025 Final Deadline: Monday, Nov. 3, 2025 #WWHF #MileHigh2026

One of the things I really love about teaching is that it forces me to really learn things. Not just the thing itself, but how it works, why it works that way, where it came from, etc. Not just how to get something done, but how to do it properly. But man is it easy to get nerd sniped 😅