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Although it's rarely expressed in outright terms, people often use a very simple heuristic when solving fashion problems: they wish to look rich, which is often disguised as "respectable."
I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵
I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵
September 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Although it's rarely expressed in outright terms, people often use a very simple heuristic when solving fashion problems: they wish to look rich, which is often disguised as "respectable."
I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵
I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵
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"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."
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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
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I get the attractiveness of saying that the world cannot be worse. I have ADHD too motherfucker I need catastrophic consequences to compel action. That is not a theory of the world that is your fucking mental illness modeling your coping strategy and inflicting it on everyone. Go to therapy asshole.
August 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I get the attractiveness of saying that the world cannot be worse. I have ADHD too motherfucker I need catastrophic consequences to compel action. That is not a theory of the world that is your fucking mental illness modeling your coping strategy and inflicting it on everyone. Go to therapy asshole.
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let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.
I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.
July 1, 2024 at 8:59 PM
let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.
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I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.
June 28, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.
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Two years ago after researchers found backdoor in an encryption algo used to secure radio comms for police/military/intel agencies around world, the org behind the algo advised users to deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the algo. Now researchers also found security issue with that
Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked
Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.
www.wired.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Two years ago after researchers found backdoor in an encryption algo used to secure radio comms for police/military/intel agencies around world, the org behind the algo advised users to deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the algo. Now researchers also found security issue with that
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If lightweight cryptography was a good idea, we’d just call it “cryptography.”
July 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If lightweight cryptography was a good idea, we’d just call it “cryptography.”
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Troubleshooting walkthrough: Cascade Into Darkness
This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently.
🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥
It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.
This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently.
🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥
It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.
July 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Troubleshooting walkthrough: Cascade Into Darkness
This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently.
🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥
It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.
This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently.
🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥
It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.
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NEW: To work on Defense Dept. computer systems, Microsoft engineers in China remotely instruct American “escorts,” who often lack advanced technical expertise.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack…
www.propublica.org
July 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: To work on Defense Dept. computer systems, Microsoft engineers in China remotely instruct American “escorts,” who often lack advanced technical expertise.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
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“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!”
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used ...
www.duckbillgroup.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!”
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
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I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
June 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg grants class certification for the CECOT detainees
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg grants class certification for the CECOT detainees
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop.
Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.
signal.org/blog/signal-...
Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.
signal.org/blog/signal-...
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is a...
signal.org
May 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop.
Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.
signal.org/blog/signal-...
Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.
signal.org/blog/signal-...
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Seem that the Valkey community, annoyed by Redis's attempt to stab them in the back, has gotten to the point where it's started to outperform Redis 😅. An awful lot of the "AWS contributes nothing, and makes all the money" falls flat here - @quinnypig.com
www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-...
www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-...
Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in the Dust - Momento
Valkey is not only thriving, but now outperforming Redis 8.0 in real world benchmarks.
www.gomomento.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Seem that the Valkey community, annoyed by Redis's attempt to stab them in the back, has gotten to the point where it's started to outperform Redis 😅. An awful lot of the "AWS contributes nothing, and makes all the money" falls flat here - @quinnypig.com
www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-...
www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-...
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Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org/introducing-...
blog.torproject.org/introducing-...
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org/introducing-...
blog.torproject.org/introducing-...
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Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with...
How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb
How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb
May 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with...
How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb
How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb
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It is criminally stupid of Microsoft to enable this by default.
As one example issue, let's suppose one of your employees has "kitty videos" in their OneDrive. Now you'll have an archive of "kitty videos" on your enterprise network too!
As one example issue, let's suppose one of your employees has "kitty videos" in their OneDrive. Now you'll have an archive of "kitty videos" on your enterprise network too!
Who at Microsoft though this was, in any possible way, a good thing to do?
www.techzine.eu/news/securit...
www.techzine.eu/news/securit...
Microsoft introduces huge security risk in OneDrive
Microsoft is rolling out a new OneDrive feature that synchronizes data from personal accounts with business accounts. The feature, officially called
www.techzine.eu
May 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It is criminally stupid of Microsoft to enable this by default.
As one example issue, let's suppose one of your employees has "kitty videos" in their OneDrive. Now you'll have an archive of "kitty videos" on your enterprise network too!
As one example issue, let's suppose one of your employees has "kitty videos" in their OneDrive. Now you'll have an archive of "kitty videos" on your enterprise network too!
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The AWS team published a key-committing variant of XAES (https://words.filippo.io/xaes-256-gcm/)!
Still FIPS-compliant, and with a proof.
Key commitment ensures the ciphertext can only be decrypted with one key, to avoid issues in higher-level protocols.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf
Still FIPS-compliant, and with a proof.
Key commitment ensures the ciphertext can only be decrypted with one key, to avoid issues in higher-level protocols.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf
May 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The AWS team published a key-committing variant of XAES (https://words.filippo.io/xaes-256-gcm/)!
Still FIPS-compliant, and with a proof.
Key commitment ensures the ciphertext can only be decrypted with one key, to avoid issues in higher-level protocols.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf
Still FIPS-compliant, and with a proof.
Key commitment ensures the ciphertext can only be decrypted with one key, to avoid issues in higher-level protocols.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf
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I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it
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Tired: Israeli intelligence using expensive 0-days trying to compromise White House communications
Wired: Israeli intelligence standing up a front company and tricking the White House into paying for the privilege of revealing their communications
Wired: Israeli intelligence standing up a front company and tricking the White House into paying for the privilege of revealing their communications
I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it
May 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tired: Israeli intelligence using expensive 0-days trying to compromise White House communications
Wired: Israeli intelligence standing up a front company and tricking the White House into paying for the privilege of revealing their communications
Wired: Israeli intelligence standing up a front company and tricking the White House into paying for the privilege of revealing their communications