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
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
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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
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
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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
String theory is still alive. buff.ly/3Z5iKlr
Trying out the Aeropress this morning. Any recipes to suggest?
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Trying out the Aeropress this morning. Any recipes to suggest?
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
Big fans of what Mistral has been doing here in 🇫🇷
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
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.
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...
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 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
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...
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 those outdated patterns encourage *worse* security, making people reuse the same convoluted password on every site
pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp8...
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No one:
French Royalty in the 18th century:
French Royalty in the 18th century:
January 4, 2024 at 9:58 AM
No one:
French Royalty in the 18th century:
French Royalty in the 18th century:
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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
Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Ravi Bhalla, "Hoboken hasn’t reported a single traffic death since January 2017, and injuries have dropped 41%."
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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
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.
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+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.
This is great! New from @racheltobac.bsky.social & @bitwarden.bsky.social - The hacker's guide to securing your organization. Great resource for organizational cybersecurity preparedness and resilience. bitwarden.com/how-to-stop-...
Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
Bitwarden is an integrated open source password management solution for individuals, teams, and business organizations
bitwarden.com
October 13, 2023 at 10:22 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.
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
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...
Only some of this was my fault 😀😒 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86CfVEE/
September 25, 2023 at 5:59 AM
Only some of this was my fault 😀😒 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86CfVEE/
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
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/