Mark Risher
mrisher.bsky.social
Mark Risher
@mrisher.bsky.social
Outgoing CEO, Ex-Google Identity/Security/Spam lead, now in Paris. Biracial, father, husband, he/him. Still trying to perfect the morning pour over.
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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String theory is still alive. buff.ly/3Z5iKlr
String theory is not dead yet
Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles and forces.
buff.ly
November 23, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Trying out the Aeropress this morning. Any recipes to suggest?
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Big fans of what Mistral has been doing here in 🇫🇷
Mistral Chat update has a lot of free stuff paid at other GenAI vendors such as artifacts, image generation and analysis, web search and its French so le Chat mistral.ai/news/mistral...
Mistral has entered the chat
Search, vision, ideation, coding… all yours for free.
mistral.ai
November 19, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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One day I’ll make James Hoffman proud
#coffee #chemex #pourover #leica #leicaq3
November 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM
There's so much unproductive folklore around cybersecurity out there, a lot of it based on the flawed assumption that "what's hard for me must also be hard for the attacker." Wrong.
November 10, 2024 at 7:10 PM
NIST updated password guidelines that the byzantine "symbols and capital letters" and "change every 90 days" requirements "SHALL NOT" be required

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 those outdated patterns encourage *worse* security, making people reuse the same convoluted password on every site
pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp8...
Inkd.in
October 19, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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No one:
French Royalty in the 18th century:
January 4, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Ravi Bhalla, "Hoboken hasn’t reported a single traffic death since January 2017, and injuries have dropped 41%."
The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths
In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2023 at 7:20 PM
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Explained to coworkers today that that the correct ratio of Thanksgiving pies to Thanksgiving eaters is 1:1, and I think I've found a hill worth dying on at long last.
November 22, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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another banger
November 20, 2023 at 6:42 AM
+100 @racheltobac.bsky.social is the realest of real deals, and her book with @bitwarden.bsky.social (even for those of us using other password managers 😉🥰🔐) highly recommended.
October 13, 2023 at 10:22 AM
Truly excited by how quickly passkeys are catching on: Safer *and* faster than passwords is a rare one-two punch in the security world! @google and Chrome offering seamless support across all your devices blog.google/technology/s...
Passwordless by default: Make the switch to passkeys
Google is making it even easier to get started with passkeys by offering the ability to set them up for all users — by default.
blog.google
October 11, 2023 at 6:41 AM
Only some of this was my fault 😀😒 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86CfVEE/
September 25, 2023 at 5:59 AM
Helpful explainer animation from @financialtimes.com about how “transformers@ — the Google innovention leading to the wave of generative AI — operate internally. We used this tech for yesrs on Gmail antispam and other areas, and now it’s everywhere ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
September 21, 2023 at 8:34 AM