Katherine
@skunk.beer
She/They 🏳️⚧️
Incident Responder, Misuses ppc64le, Open ISA advocate, should not be trusted with Elasticsearch
Opinions are my own, not my employer's, etc.
Incident Responder, Misuses ppc64le, Open ISA advocate, should not be trusted with Elasticsearch
Opinions are my own, not my employer's, etc.
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Watching @rosepaladin.bsky.social fight with OpenStack has been quite the experience. I think she knows where my last shreds of sanity went to now.
July 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Watching @rosepaladin.bsky.social fight with OpenStack has been quite the experience. I think she knows where my last shreds of sanity went to now.
Hear me out, sneak one of these into your group's dice for D&D and see how long it takes for them to notice
I think cats discovered it first
A four-sided shape that will always come to rest on the same side no matter what side it starts on has been built by mathematicians, decades after it was first proposed to exist.
July 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Hear me out, sneak one of these into your group's dice for D&D and see how long it takes for them to notice
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
A rant on the last five years of my career and the last two in particular. Two more days in that place and then on to anything else.
32x33.institute/certified-gr...
32x33.institute/certified-gr...
Certified Great Place To Work
I started this article at the top of the eighth hour of Severity 1 bridge calls where I have said a cumulative six words and spent most of that time waiting on the person who started the bridge to sho...
32x33.institute
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A rant on the last five years of my career and the last two in particular. Two more days in that place and then on to anything else.
32x33.institute/certified-gr...
32x33.institute/certified-gr...
"Let's go throw a GPU in a server" she said, "It'll be quick she said". Now the air compressor is out, weird DIMM errors are popping up and @rosepaladin.bsky.social snuck an extra NIC in the replacement server. Two hours later, the GPU is finally installed.
May 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"Let's go throw a GPU in a server" she said, "It'll be quick she said". Now the air compressor is out, weird DIMM errors are popping up and @rosepaladin.bsky.social snuck an extra NIC in the replacement server. Two hours later, the GPU is finally installed.
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"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
April 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
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I taught a couple of cybersecurity merit badges to my daughter’s Girl Scouts troop and the parents were amazed that I made it so easy to understand for a bunch of 8 year olds
I pointed out that I had years of practice explaining the Internet to senior military officers, so this was a breeze
I pointed out that I had years of practice explaining the Internet to senior military officers, so this was a breeze
March 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I taught a couple of cybersecurity merit badges to my daughter’s Girl Scouts troop and the parents were amazed that I made it so easy to understand for a bunch of 8 year olds
I pointed out that I had years of practice explaining the Internet to senior military officers, so this was a breeze
I pointed out that I had years of practice explaining the Internet to senior military officers, so this was a breeze
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Hey folks,
I’m preparing to update my risk assessment map and I am including a new factor: hospitals complying with anti-trans EOs and whether AGs are putting pressure to stop that.
If your hospital system is complying with anti-trans EOs and hasn’t reversed course, let me know here or in DM.
I’m preparing to update my risk assessment map and I am including a new factor: hospitals complying with anti-trans EOs and whether AGs are putting pressure to stop that.
If your hospital system is complying with anti-trans EOs and hasn’t reversed course, let me know here or in DM.
March 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hey folks,
I’m preparing to update my risk assessment map and I am including a new factor: hospitals complying with anti-trans EOs and whether AGs are putting pressure to stop that.
If your hospital system is complying with anti-trans EOs and hasn’t reversed course, let me know here or in DM.
I’m preparing to update my risk assessment map and I am including a new factor: hospitals complying with anti-trans EOs and whether AGs are putting pressure to stop that.
If your hospital system is complying with anti-trans EOs and hasn’t reversed course, let me know here or in DM.
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They pulled an SF medic literally currently deployed to an active combat zone out and flew her back to the states to get separated, because she's trans.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Trump pulled trans soldier out of combat and fired her—Lawsuit
The special forces sergeant says she is scheduled to be discharged from the Army on March 26.
www.newsweek.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
They pulled an SF medic literally currently deployed to an active combat zone out and flew her back to the states to get separated, because she's trans.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Simply add another project. You will not regret another project.
In seriousness, now more than ever, control over our data and how it gets used is important. The on-ramp to being able to manage your own information is simpler than you'd expect and can even be fun.
In seriousness, now more than ever, control over our data and how it gets used is important. The on-ramp to being able to manage your own information is simpler than you'd expect and can even be fun.
March 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Simply add another project. You will not regret another project.
In seriousness, now more than ever, control over our data and how it gets used is important. The on-ramp to being able to manage your own information is simpler than you'd expect and can even be fun.
In seriousness, now more than ever, control over our data and how it gets used is important. The on-ramp to being able to manage your own information is simpler than you'd expect and can even be fun.
Every so often I get the urge to lab something absolutely impractical and it usually ends years later with learning a new field. Or in a month with a bit less sanity. Anyway, my ebay history is filled with GPON gear. This can only end well.
March 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Every so often I get the urge to lab something absolutely impractical and it usually ends years later with learning a new field. Or in a month with a bit less sanity. Anyway, my ebay history is filled with GPON gear. This can only end well.
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Open GPE > single-click on one of the "Administrative" folders > "Action" option in the toolbar > click "Filter Options" > Enable the keyword filters checkbox, then type in "copilot" > Click "OK" > Click on the second "Administrative" folder under "User Config" > double-click "All Settings"...
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Open GPE > single-click on one of the "Administrative" folders > "Action" option in the toolbar > click "Filter Options" > Enable the keyword filters checkbox, then type in "copilot" > Click "OK" > Click on the second "Administrative" folder under "User Config" > double-click "All Settings"...
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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.
February 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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If you know any military leaders — from junior NCOs to 4-star generals — probably a good time to reinforce the idea with them that their oath is to the Constitution, not the President, and certainly not the Secretary of Defense.
February 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If you know any military leaders — from junior NCOs to 4-star generals — probably a good time to reinforce the idea with them that their oath is to the Constitution, not the President, and certainly not the Secretary of Defense.
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Three easy questions to figure out a cybersecurity person's actual competency on big issues:
- Can a hacker take down the US power grid?
- Is AI going to replace security analysts?
- What operating system should business computers be running?
I promise, you'll get 'em.
- Can a hacker take down the US power grid?
- Is AI going to replace security analysts?
- What operating system should business computers be running?
I promise, you'll get 'em.
February 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Three easy questions to figure out a cybersecurity person's actual competency on big issues:
- Can a hacker take down the US power grid?
- Is AI going to replace security analysts?
- What operating system should business computers be running?
I promise, you'll get 'em.
- Can a hacker take down the US power grid?
- Is AI going to replace security analysts?
- What operating system should business computers be running?
I promise, you'll get 'em.
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i think that the quality of discourse in the software industry would be a lot better off if programmers were a bit more willing to admit that sometimes we just do stuff because we *like* it, instead of because it's objectively good or bad.
February 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
i think that the quality of discourse in the software industry would be a lot better off if programmers were a bit more willing to admit that sometimes we just do stuff because we *like* it, instead of because it's objectively good or bad.
This 1000x over. "Your C kills journalists" is a take I've heard uttered in full honesty. Heard similar against Rust. Maybe we can like or dislike a language without it being a moral stand? Software that works > The Platonic ideal of perfect code
it doesn't mean that i will necessarily trust the software those people are writing, but we don't have to have a big flame war of "Rust is a BAD LANGUAGE" versus "unsafe languages KILL BABIES". sometimes we just enjoy something and want to keep doing it!
February 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This 1000x over. "Your C kills journalists" is a take I've heard uttered in full honesty. Heard similar against Rust. Maybe we can like or dislike a language without it being a moral stand? Software that works > The Platonic ideal of perfect code
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America’s unions will stand up to *anyone* trying to harm working people, including DOGE. We’re ready ✊
February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
America’s unions will stand up to *anyone* trying to harm working people, including DOGE. We’re ready ✊