Canyon R
@canyonr.com
I’m an IT Professional with 25+ years on the front lines of infrastructure, operations, and support. I’m a tech geek, wayward gamer, and avid fan of Celtic Folk music.
He/Him
Opinions are my own and don't represent my employer, or anyone sane really.
He/Him
Opinions are my own and don't represent my employer, or anyone sane really.
Finally home after a great #defcon33. Huge thanks to the organizers of @defcon.bsky.social and all the Goons for putting on such a great con. And special thanks to the @defconpolicy.bsky.social crew for making me feel so welcome. See you all next year!
August 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Finally home after a great #defcon33. Huge thanks to the organizers of @defcon.bsky.social and all the Goons for putting on such a great con. And special thanks to the @defconpolicy.bsky.social crew for making me feel so welcome. See you all next year!
Great talk on community building by @hdm.io and @circuitswan.bsky.social at the @dianainitiative.bsky.social. Definitely one of those talks that I didn’t know I needed till I was there. #defcon33 #CommunityBuilding
August 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Great talk on community building by @hdm.io and @circuitswan.bsky.social at the @dianainitiative.bsky.social. Definitely one of those talks that I didn’t know I needed till I was there. #defcon33 #CommunityBuilding
Great talk by @ednas.bsky.social on setting up a #vishing program in your own company and super tips for getting started. #defcon33 #SECommunity
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Great talk by @ednas.bsky.social on setting up a #vishing program in your own company and super tips for getting started. #defcon33 #SECommunity
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You sure about this, Google?
August 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
You sure about this, Google?
Having a great day at #defcon33, mostly hanging out at the @defconpolicy.bsky.social village. Meeting cool people and having great conversations.
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Having a great day at #defcon33, mostly hanging out at the @defconpolicy.bsky.social village. Meeting cool people and having great conversations.
Just had an amazing encounter with @shwood.com @deviantollam.bsky.social and the not pictured @emmie.bsky.social and Justin Robert Young!! #FanboyMoment #defcon33
August 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just had an amazing encounter with @shwood.com @deviantollam.bsky.social and the not pictured @emmie.bsky.social and Justin Robert Young!! #FanboyMoment #defcon33
Great opening talk from @heatherwest.bsky.social for Policy@Defcon! She even tried to answer my ridiculous question. Super excited to see what else the #PolicyAtDEFCON33 village has in store. #DEFCON33 #HackersMeetPolicymakers
August 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Great opening talk from @heatherwest.bsky.social for Policy@Defcon! She even tried to answer my ridiculous question. Super excited to see what else the #PolicyAtDEFCON33 village has in store. #DEFCON33 #HackersMeetPolicymakers
Badge unlocked! Congrats @thedukezip.bsky.social on the great design and important work on the B.A.D.G.E standard. #defcon33
August 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Badge unlocked! Congrats @thedukezip.bsky.social on the great design and important work on the B.A.D.G.E standard. #defcon33
Just remember that Security is like an Ogre. It’s cumbersome, no one wants to think about it, everyone assumes it lives in a swamp and that it will block you when you try to cross a bridge. Also, it has layers.
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Just remember that Security is like an Ogre. It’s cumbersome, no one wants to think about it, everyone assumes it lives in a swamp and that it will block you when you try to cross a bridge. Also, it has layers.
I don’t care what that study says. The four presentations of Autism are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.
I don’t care what that study says. The four presentations of Autism are Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnon
I don't care what that study says. The four presentations of autism are Albedo, Rubido, Negredo, & Citrinitas. /j
July 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I don’t care what that study says. The four presentations of Autism are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.
It’s impressive how the authors got through this entire article without using my favorite new word of the AI era, “slopsquatting”.
Generative AI Exacerbates Software Supply Chain Risks
Malicious actors are exploiting AI-fabricated software components — presenting a major challenge for securing software supply chains.
www.darkreading.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It’s impressive how the authors got through this entire article without using my favorite new word of the AI era, “slopsquatting”.
So this is just Sam confirming that they haven’t reached that stage of the enshitification pipeline, yet.
“Altman emphasized that modifying the model's output based on who pays for the ad would be ‘a trust-destroying moment’ for its users.” 🤷🏿♂️
Sam Altman Says GPT-5 Coming This Summer, Open to Ads on ChatGPT—With a Catch
The ChatGPT maker eyes new monetization paths with cautious ad plans as it gears up for GPT-5 amid rising legal challenges.
www.adweek.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
So this is just Sam confirming that they haven’t reached that stage of the enshitification pipeline, yet.
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I got tired of OpenID and decided to write about RSA padding. What could be simpler than RSA padding?
Except I made the mistake of asking whether RSA PKCS1v1.5 padding is probably secure and it sent me down a rabbit hole of insanity.
Except I made the mistake of asking whether RSA PKCS1v1.5 padding is probably secure and it sent me down a rabbit hole of insanity.
June 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I got tired of OpenID and decided to write about RSA padding. What could be simpler than RSA padding?
Except I made the mistake of asking whether RSA PKCS1v1.5 padding is probably secure and it sent me down a rabbit hole of insanity.
Except I made the mistake of asking whether RSA PKCS1v1.5 padding is probably secure and it sent me down a rabbit hole of insanity.
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"Now I am stuck in a cold bed," he added. "This feels dystopian." futurism.com/man-sleep-ai...
Man Unable to Sleep When His AI-Controlled Mattress Suffers an Outage
A San Francisco-based YouTuber had a sleepless night after his Eight Sleep cooling cover refused to behave, following an app outage.
futurism.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Now I am stuck in a cold bed," he added. "This feels dystopian." futurism.com/man-sleep-ai...
“We can’t do high standards anymore, we’re all just babies in the gutter now.” #OutOfContext
June 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“We can’t do high standards anymore, we’re all just babies in the gutter now.” #OutOfContext
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
(Repeat previous answer)
The amount of websites and applications that run on Amazon’s cloud platform (also Google’s and Microsoft’s to a lesser degree). Every couple years they’ll have an outage and half the internet just stops working.
(Repeat previous answer)
The amount of websites and applications that run on Amazon’s cloud platform (also Google’s and Microsoft’s to a lesser degree). Every couple years they’ll have an outage and half the internet just stops working.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Most of the protocols that tie the Internet together are at least forty years old and were designed without any security controls in mind. It's a miracle that this stuff works at all.
Most of the protocols that tie the Internet together are at least forty years old and were designed without any security controls in mind. It's a miracle that this stuff works at all.
June 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
(Repeat previous answer)
The amount of websites and applications that run on Amazon’s cloud platform (also Google’s and Microsoft’s to a lesser degree). Every couple years they’ll have an outage and half the internet just stops working.
(Repeat previous answer)
The amount of websites and applications that run on Amazon’s cloud platform (also Google’s and Microsoft’s to a lesser degree). Every couple years they’ll have an outage and half the internet just stops working.
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The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.
New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems
Puzzle-based experiments reveal limitations of simulated reasoning, but others dispute findings.
arstechnica.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.
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"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc.
Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.
Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.
-le - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
en.wiktionary.org
June 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc.
Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.
Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.
Blorp indeed.
blorp
June 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Blorp indeed.
Started the first episode today and so far it’s amazing. Cory Doctorow is talking to all the right people about the how and why of the current state of the Internet and why it’s not what we were promised. #enshitification
New CBC podcast by Cory Doctorow featuring @goldste.in & more! www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Don't Be Evil | Understood | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room during the internet’s early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced they revealed a deeper conflict inside the company: w...
www.cbc.ca
May 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Started the first episode today and so far it’s amazing. Cory Doctorow is talking to all the right people about the how and why of the current state of the Internet and why it’s not what we were promised. #enshitification
Having a debate with @babsbythebay.bsky.social if the diner we’re having breakfast at is “Skibidi” or not. Please send help. #oldsters
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Having a debate with @babsbythebay.bsky.social if the diner we’re having breakfast at is “Skibidi” or not. Please send help. #oldsters