Colorado Wants Your Operating System to Card You step 1: type any birthday you want. step 2: app decides you're lying based on "vibes". step 3: the app's guess is now legally binding. this is the actual plan 🪪🎂 blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/23/c...

My wife @debdebdeb.bsky.social and I are heartbroken to share the sad news that our old friend @jasonsnitker.bsky.social AKA Parmaster, has passed away.

It's Goodreads Giveaway day, if you're in the US and like free books! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free. ...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...

Hey @threatbutt.bsky.social when will ThreatbuttAI™ be released? kthx

Okay, campers, rise and shine and don't forget your booties, 'cause it's cold out there today! Warm yourself up by submitting to our CFP.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Liam has been released, and his hat has been returned.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Me too wall, me too.

The arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) in the Intel 8086 processor (1978) is more complicated than you might expect, performing 28 different operations from addition and logical AND to shifts and BCD adjustment. A special control circuit reconfigures the ALU for each operation. Let's look closer...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I was recently laid off, so I’m officially open to new opportunities. If you need a Hacker, or a teachable moment using Red Team tactics. I can also be a trainer, community builder & liaison. I want more than a job I need a company & purpose I can believe in. Please share! 💜🤗💜

I needed a sticker and then found this one... Which I was gifted and have no memory of. And I love it.

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Sega Super Circuit needs to rise from its grave arcadeblogger.com/2023/10/14/t...

Hackers: policy matters. It allows or disallows your research It sets standard, good and bad It sets compliancy requirements, good and bad It gives and takes away rights in cyberspace If you don't engage with policy, you are silencing yourself.

- No universal healthcare - No paid family leave - No universal childcare - No tuition-free public college - No guarantee of live-saving care when pregnant - Average cost of $310k to raise a child to 18 yrs old If you want people to have kids, make it so people can afford to have kids.

Twas the week before Christmas and all through the House (and Senate)... A recap 🧵 of Hackers on the Hill 2025 and a look ahead to 2026

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

This thread is S tier

this is how they make extra virgin sunfire oil

I've been thinking about technology, enshitification and why my excitement about tech has been on the decline. If ya want to read them, I wrote a thing: handorf.org/thoughts/202...

AND FINALLY: UK House of Lords demands client-side scanning of content to check for “viewing of CSAM” https://alecmuffett.com/article/134940 #AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpn

I DID IT!!!!!! @hackerboxes.bsky.social Tessellate was my white whale. Felt like the most complicated one I had in my backlog. After WEEKS of trial and error and advice from my betters, I DID IT. www.instructables.com/HackerBox-00... Special shouts to @blenster.com & @dontlookbehindyou.bsky.social

Does anyone know if Duolingo’s lessons and overall quality of learning has gone down since they went all in on LLMs?

I've just finished servicing my MEP-803A, and it is fully functional. Now to make an auto-start and monitoring kit. Know what's funny? Any of these wires could be 12VDC, 24VDC, signal wires, or 240VAC. All just bundled together, all the same color.

After #CyberMonday comes #PatchTuesday, naturally. —> stickerthepla.net#018 <— Dark times call for glow-in-the-dark #SafetyThird PVC patches with velcro backing. Deep discounts on batches of patches. Bonus gifts for your sleigh: stickerthepla.net #PatchAllTheThings #EPluribusStickerum

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

Whole generation of kids insisting you call them "Albert" when writing their name.

Finally left Twitter Sorry to the 220k followers

Premiere naval OSINT, if you aren’t already following ⤵️

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

DistrictCon has a student program for Year 1! Thanks to a generous donation, we will be sponsoring up to 10 students to attend @districtcon.bsky.social to deepen their connection to the DC hacker community. Applications are due by EOD Friday, November 28th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Dear tech bros (and it is bros pulling this shit), For fucks sake, no. No. NO! FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS--NOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY ANSWER IS NOT CHANGING. EVER. I DO NOT WANT TO USE YOUR SHIT AI FEATURES. They are energy wasting garbage. They are invasions of privacy. They are theft. GO AWAY!

I've decided to stop pussy footing around and I am now openly looking for my next challenge. Interested in a company on the small to mid-size range with a cool story. Ideal position would be a combination of customer outreach, marketing and thought leadership. What ya got? #CyberSecurity

Throughout my career I have fought to protect users, help orgs understand how attackers think, and build defenses that stop them. If your team wants someone who can speak fluently in hacker circles and in boardroom, will call out nonsense and knows how to make security actually work We should talk.

Good news about Beth's treatment. The treatment worked as best it could, and there's no viable tumor detected. Next steps are 6 months of chemo, and when it comes back in 2-3 years, trials are on the table.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.