Poptar7
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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.
July 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Also, we are not talking about a lot of calls here. After Hurricane Helene, FEMA was inundated with over 100,000 calls a day.

The Texas floods generated a small fraction of that, but still overwhelmed Noem’s FEMA
July 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.
April 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Senate democrats unveiling plans to save the republic
February 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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==Training Lesson==
INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵

My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience.

New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.
January 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM