Kidergarten-level telecom hacks, back on the menu. Broadcast engineers know better anyway. Got it. Go get 'em radiomans #salttyphoon #fcc #nincompoopery

Wait, lol people were using Cloudflare as a fancy ass WAF? ROFL classic. #cloudflare

Hey, look, they put my thing on YouTube. I do feel a bit vindicated that my skepticism-laden Ted-like-talk shared last summer now has a quite a few in agreement these days. Not that any of those who are saying AI is a perilous bubble watched my rambling thoughts, lol. I just like it when I'm on […]

Dear designers: "beautiful and uncluttered" is a nice goal, but disappearing oft-used controls you find unsightly is a fucking horrible move. Firstly, it has to be plainly functional. Firstly! That is to say, stop hiding the scroll bar as a default, mfrs.

Wait, investors are selling credit default swaps on AI datacenters they've funded for the MAMANGOers? So when the likes of Meta and Microsoft finally admit AI is not really going to do what the marketing has implied, they just walk away from their leases, and we're holding the bag- like my […]

Time to start hacking physical on/off switches onto things. Software controls are a problem when I can't tell what's (who's) using my microphone.

Gmail system will apparently send a bogus Delivery Status Notification for an email not sent by you, and all I need to do is set you up as the bogus Return Path: in the header? Jesus fuck. Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from 690480f24cd3a.hotair.com ( […]

Fuckin yeah. AI outlook realism. I'd very much like to go bowling with this guy. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Still like the "draw a picture" option. Rough seas today, but the day is over. Drawn with a brick, good evening all.

The basil did great this year, but holy shit did my fennel plant go crazy. Anybody got a favorite fennel dish they'd recommend?

So... if I weed away all of Microsoft's hand-wavy AI marketing, M365's "predictive text" is, firstly, a fucking keylogger with a pinky-swear promise that's it's ok. Goddamn.

Loving the uptick of posts and talk lately about running shit raw directly from UEFI.

The desktop techs at work switched me to win11 yesterday. Spent today trying to unfuck it. Some small wins, but kinda unsuccessful. What the fucking fuck.

To think, I was actually coming around on my opinion of Microsoft and even Windows in the last 10-15 years. Yeah, 2007-me was fucking always right. Everyone got played.

Garage might need a quick straighten-up heh.

Here's 2 "red flag" words I at which I cringe when seen in reference to cybersecurity's purpose : ENHANCE OMFG THIS MAGIC VENDOR THING WILL ENHANCE OUR CYBER- AMAZEBALLS. "enhance" is used when people have no fucking idea what a proposed solution will actually do. They also use it when they […]

Drum brakes, easy to rip apart, hard to remember where all those @#$& springs go back in lol. But at least I painted the backing plate all purty.

Imma load StarFlight into DOSbox and forget about whatever EA has devolved into. I advise you do the same.

Cannot believe that search bias is still the fucking problem. I mean, in the early aughts it was "algorithm bias" and now it's "intentional bigcorp, bigtech, and political bias". Having seen both, I'd happily go back to sifting through random Webcrawler or AltaVista results. They were flawed […]

TL;DR endstage computo-capitalism enshittification rant Trusting my tools just gets harder and harder the more people concede that corp AI things just get to pillage and coopt everything they do. First I wonder if the new helpful $corp software feature that just "turned itself on" works only […]

You know. One doesn't need an FCC license to power up an antenna and transmit. You only need one to do that "legally". And what the hell do laws mean anymore up in this place? Not an incitement or encouragement to break our very extremely important federal laws, just sparking conversation […]

Warning - long diatribe about corporate-citizen sociopaths. CEOs are supposed to be so insightful, intuitive, and full of big-picture wisdom. It's true, but many times it's in a totally sociopathic way. When the CEO of Kellogg's Gary Pilnick fully understood the plight of his customers- the […]

My engine. It a fall outta der truck! Oh noes.

My favorite office decoration. It's the details that matter.

Updated Office 365 at work and yep, Outlook "fixed" the config: fucking switched browser to goddamn Edge, storage to OneDrive. I hate that I have to hawk over every fucking config to find out what Microsoft forced on me. Pretty sure the new "Editor" tab in Word (unremoveable from the ribbon, at […]

A tale as old as schools with computers and kids lol. The Information Commissioner's Office apparently just found out what kids do with computers. Ah the memories come flooding back. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203pedz58go

Just being bored and noticing who seems to spend all day harvesting my info on LinkedIn. One thing continually stands out: sales lead-generating companies in Pune, India like "Leadcrafters", "Ziff-Davis Digital Marketing" spending all day, every day scraping my shit. I remember Ziff Davis from […]

Time to back the trailer up my long ass drive into the back. I might actually be getting ok at this.

My freezer died while I was away. Good times. https://i.imgflip.com/cmfik.gif

Thanks for coming to my AI TED talk! I love being included in the discussion because they value my collaboration including critical observations, voice, and pointed questions. (Thanks to UIUC's CITL for hosting me as part of their "Summer of AI".) […]

My time is way too valuable to perform all the work my old truck needs at my home garage, or so I thought. Mechanics across town apparently pay themselves $150/hr and bill each individual thing at a minimum of 4 hours. Got a ~$8K estimate for a job where the required parts retail for around $1K […]

My kind of side gig, maybe. Probably need to vet their targets though. Politicians weaponizing shit or letting others do their dirty business and hanging them out to dry ain't novel at all. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/congressman_proposes_bringing_back_letters/

I'm off on a tangent in my mind about Yahoo! and the name they gave their cybersecurity team: --"Paranoids"--. Just looking at it pisses me off. It gives a vibe like jocks got to name the nerd team, like they picked a name that makes them both ridiculous and easy to dismiss. Anybody here ever […]

Vibe coding has just reinvented the skript kiddie. Great.

Dropped the boy off at college and unloaded all his stuff yesterday. Back home. Agh the quiet all up in this place.

Pulled this monster out of mothballs. Thinking it's time to attack many cones and scrub much rubber. Old school BMW power combo!

When implementing SOCK_RAW capabilities in my netbang tool, I ran into a wall trying to get Windows to allow this (surprise. Winsock hasn't allowed this since WinXP). And then @_r_netsec pointed to a guy messing with AFD.sys to drive around that. And in his bibliography was my old friend bool […]

Ublock's "element zapper" is fucking stellar for driving around web legal-click-thru agreements. By clicking, I agree to blah blah? ok great, (summoning soup nazi energy) NO CLICK FOR YOU MFRS

Ancient conf swag shirt makes me happy 😊

Mfing chicken eggplant parm. F yeah 😎

ok I just scored a really nice deal on a high torque Milwaukee 1/2" cordless impact wrench and I'm inordinately stoked about this. Tools, man. oh yeah, junkyard scavenging power for meeee.

What the fuck is going on with Vice Media? I guess I should've expected it, honestly. My bad.

The boy wonder took the Wii with him when he moved, so naturally I needed to get another one to hack up.

I've not touched my source for so long, I might need to take a hot second to recall what I was doin, and what might have possessed me to write things the way I did. My comments should help. Shit who tf wrote these comments.

Nothing like throwin your hat in the ring.

Pickleball: why the fuck? Discuss.

Breach comms amirite? Turn the same old sleight-of-hand in hopes to downplay things and color your impression of the event. What the hell. Here's a cheat sheet for ya: "To our knowledge..." -> We have plausible deniability here and are clinging to it for dear life to avoid the accountability […]

Time to cancel Paramount. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/02/paramount-settles-with-trump-for-16m-over-60-minutes-interview-with-kamala-harris

The gas pump was playing annoying ads. I tried to find the button magic that turns them off. I found the ??? interface instead lol

Whee! I removed all my shit from the cloud and finished last year :) <--- this is the new version of superiority complex equal to "I don't watch TV" but today I will be that guy lol