Rob
@multirob.bsky.social
Freelance dev with a security buff, math and science-interested, lapsed book consumer, hobbyist nature photographer, experienced tracker (animal and human). He/him. Mostly try to be a good human. I physically cringe whenever I hear the word "cyber".
@bennjordan.bsky.social Have you been able to play with Flock's gunshot detectors yet? That seems like a fun application of your background in acoustic engineering. Would an alert be triggered if, say, someone popped a balloon nearby? Or clapped two pieces of hardwood together?
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
@bennjordan.bsky.social Have you been able to play with Flock's gunshot detectors yet? That seems like a fun application of your background in acoustic engineering. Would an alert be triggered if, say, someone popped a balloon nearby? Or clapped two pieces of hardwood together?
I've been saying for almost a decade that most of the complexity in software engineering is caused by resume-driven development. Here's a screenshot of someone that proudly contributed to that. (Context is re: silly interview questions.)
September 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I've been saying for almost a decade that most of the complexity in software engineering is caused by resume-driven development. Here's a screenshot of someone that proudly contributed to that. (Context is re: silly interview questions.)
While watching this video, I realized that OpenAI absolutely has the resources to have thoroughly done the same experiment -- but instead, Sam Altman decided to stand on a goofy stage and lie about his product.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWo...
I Put ChatGPT 5’s ‘PhD Intelligence’ to the Test
YouTube video by BrainCraft
www.youtube.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
While watching this video, I realized that OpenAI absolutely has the resources to have thoroughly done the same experiment -- but instead, Sam Altman decided to stand on a goofy stage and lie about his product.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWo...
Welp, I guess that's it for archive.today for me:
August 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Welp, I guess that's it for archive.today for me:
I keep seeing this phrase used as though there haven't already been half-a-dozen constitutional crises recently.
Our collective loss of long-term memory is crippling us.
Our collective loss of long-term memory is crippling us.
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
April 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I keep seeing this phrase used as though there haven't already been half-a-dozen constitutional crises recently.
Our collective loss of long-term memory is crippling us.
Our collective loss of long-term memory is crippling us.
Getting pretty tired of trying to survive Republican economies, tbh.
April 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Getting pretty tired of trying to survive Republican economies, tbh.
@textfiles.com National Park Service is looking for anyone willing to pick up books and journals from their DC HQ tomorrow. Just in case you might know anyone in the area.
April 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
@textfiles.com National Park Service is looking for anyone willing to pick up books and journals from their DC HQ tomorrow. Just in case you might know anyone in the area.
The number one reason I'm dragging my feet on anything AI-related is that all of the people shouting the loudest about it are the ones that have carved a wide swath of destruction through society over the last 15 years, or are unrepentant dev hype-chasers.
March 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The number one reason I'm dragging my feet on anything AI-related is that all of the people shouting the loudest about it are the ones that have carved a wide swath of destruction through society over the last 15 years, or are unrepentant dev hype-chasers.
If you used 23andMe, please consider signing in and deleting your data from it ASAP:
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...
oag.ca.gov
March 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you used 23andMe, please consider signing in and deleting your data from it ASAP:
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Pirate archivists: YouTube is reportedly trialing a roll-out of DRM on all videos, so if you have a list of stuff you've been meaning to grab with yt-dlp, you might wanna step on it.
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...
[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with `tv` (TVHTML5) client · Issue #12563 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...
github.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pirate archivists: YouTube is reportedly trialing a roll-out of DRM on all videos, so if you have a list of stuff you've been meaning to grab with yt-dlp, you might wanna step on it.
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...
This reply got me blocked by the person I was replying to, which means they are also no longer going to be able to broadcast info to me on issues they care about, on which we are probably 99% aligned.
This is not a good strategy for turning things around.
This is not a good strategy for turning things around.
People can be both entirely opposed to what's happening and also frustrated with *all* of the people that have contributed to it happening, whatever their reasons.
But yeah, some more leftist vs. liberal vs. democrat infighting oughtta get us some wins.
But yeah, some more leftist vs. liberal vs. democrat infighting oughtta get us some wins.
March 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This reply got me blocked by the person I was replying to, which means they are also no longer going to be able to broadcast info to me on issues they care about, on which we are probably 99% aligned.
This is not a good strategy for turning things around.
This is not a good strategy for turning things around.
archive.today has been persistently hitting me with reCaptchas for the last few days.
On the one hand, that's pretty annoying.
On the other, it's given me lots of chances to contribute to future glitches in robotaxis.
"This bike looks like a crosswalk to me..."
On the one hand, that's pretty annoying.
On the other, it's given me lots of chances to contribute to future glitches in robotaxis.
"This bike looks like a crosswalk to me..."
March 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
archive.today has been persistently hitting me with reCaptchas for the last few days.
On the one hand, that's pretty annoying.
On the other, it's given me lots of chances to contribute to future glitches in robotaxis.
"This bike looks like a crosswalk to me..."
On the one hand, that's pretty annoying.
On the other, it's given me lots of chances to contribute to future glitches in robotaxis.
"This bike looks like a crosswalk to me..."
We're gonna need a generation of leftists in all offices (local, state, and federal) that are ready to throw hands when the occasion calls for it.
March 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
We're gonna need a generation of leftists in all offices (local, state, and federal) that are ready to throw hands when the occasion calls for it.
Just got an interesting email from a friend & former client.
Scammers are now routing emails through Docusign. Example: create a Docusign document from the "PayPal Security Team", add target to the document.
Nice way to float through spam filters.
Docusign sucks anyway.
Scammers are now routing emails through Docusign. Example: create a Docusign document from the "PayPal Security Team", add target to the document.
Nice way to float through spam filters.
Docusign sucks anyway.
February 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just got an interesting email from a friend & former client.
Scammers are now routing emails through Docusign. Example: create a Docusign document from the "PayPal Security Team", add target to the document.
Nice way to float through spam filters.
Docusign sucks anyway.
Scammers are now routing emails through Docusign. Example: create a Docusign document from the "PayPal Security Team", add target to the document.
Nice way to float through spam filters.
Docusign sucks anyway.
A brief DeepSeek primer, for those who have seen it mentioned recently but don't read tech news every day:
January 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A brief DeepSeek primer, for those who have seen it mentioned recently but don't read tech news every day:
In multi-factor authentication, a factor is a) a thing you know, or b) a thing you have, or c) a thing you are.
Passwords started out as a thing you know, but now should be a thing you have (an unguessable, randomly-generated password, stored in a password manager).
Passwords started out as a thing you know, but now should be a thing you have (an unguessable, randomly-generated password, stored in a password manager).
January 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In multi-factor authentication, a factor is a) a thing you know, or b) a thing you have, or c) a thing you are.
Passwords started out as a thing you know, but now should be a thing you have (an unguessable, randomly-generated password, stored in a password manager).
Passwords started out as a thing you know, but now should be a thing you have (an unguessable, randomly-generated password, stored in a password manager).
There are a lot of people that need to see this old video from 1945, via the National Archives, again:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There are a lot of people that need to see this old video from 1945, via the National Archives, again:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
It has been a long time since I had a more heartfelt "honestly, fuck you" reaction to an academic text.
(From "Computing and Technology Ethics" by Burton, Goldsmith, Mattej, Siler, and Swiatek).
(From "Computing and Technology Ethics" by Burton, Goldsmith, Mattej, Siler, and Swiatek).
January 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It has been a long time since I had a more heartfelt "honestly, fuck you" reaction to an academic text.
(From "Computing and Technology Ethics" by Burton, Goldsmith, Mattej, Siler, and Swiatek).
(From "Computing and Technology Ethics" by Burton, Goldsmith, Mattej, Siler, and Swiatek).
I see more people complaining about Google's "AI" suggestions in searches. Add this to the "My Filters" tab in your uBlock Origin settings:
```google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)```
(Just the text inside the backticks.)
You -are- using uBlock Origin, right?
```google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)```
(Just the text inside the backticks.)
You -are- using uBlock Origin, right?
January 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I see more people complaining about Google's "AI" suggestions in searches. Add this to the "My Filters" tab in your uBlock Origin settings:
```google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)```
(Just the text inside the backticks.)
You -are- using uBlock Origin, right?
```google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)```
(Just the text inside the backticks.)
You -are- using uBlock Origin, right?
Just saw @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's video re: injury from signing 50,000+ pages for Everything Is Tuberculosis, and maybe he should contact Shane at Stuff Made Here: youtu.be/cQO2XTP7QDw
(Not a serious suggestion, I was just reminded of Shane's very cool solution to this problem.)
(Not a serious suggestion, I was just reminded of Shane's very cool solution to this problem.)
January 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Just saw @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's video re: injury from signing 50,000+ pages for Everything Is Tuberculosis, and maybe he should contact Shane at Stuff Made Here: youtu.be/cQO2XTP7QDw
(Not a serious suggestion, I was just reminded of Shane's very cool solution to this problem.)
(Not a serious suggestion, I was just reminded of Shane's very cool solution to this problem.)
There's a misplaced apostrophe in the alt text in my previous post and I don't know how it got there but it most certainly was not because I typed it that way, because I would never.
December 7, 2024 at 7:03 AM
There's a misplaced apostrophe in the alt text in my previous post and I don't know how it got there but it most certainly was not because I typed it that way, because I would never.
Some brilliant graphic artist snuck Blaster into the background of an unrelated video and I don't know who they are but they deserve a cookie (and some righteous tunes).
December 7, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Some brilliant graphic artist snuck Blaster into the background of an unrelated video and I don't know who they are but they deserve a cookie (and some righteous tunes).
Maintaining lists of nuisance accounts seems to be a popular hobby here, so here's my troll roll:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 27, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Maintaining lists of nuisance accounts seems to be a popular hobby here, so here's my troll roll:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Booksky, I need your tips for removing the dadblasted stickers from the spines of BWB books, or I can't buy from them anymore. I have not yet successfully removed a single one of their stickers without making a terrible mes and it's really starting to bother me.
November 23, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Booksky, I need your tips for removing the dadblasted stickers from the spines of BWB books, or I can't buy from them anymore. I have not yet successfully removed a single one of their stickers without making a terrible mes and it's really starting to bother me.