mav

mav

@mav.wtf

no war but class war. idiot sandwich, struggles a lot, tries hard, fails often. nerdfighter, infosec, defcon goon, volunteer, hardware hacker, etc. mental health advocate, when I can. -> over on hackers.town

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If you're publishing at Substack I will never give you money and I will never share your stuff. Full stop.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

substack just announced a new enterprise media offering (whatever that means) in partnership with bari weiss’ website “because of its commitment to pursuing high-integrity journalism.” if you’re still publishing there, it’s time to get the fuck out. on.substack.com/p/the-new-me...

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Walter Koenig, 1936 to 2026. He gave Chekov an earnest heart, fierce loyalty and "nuclear wessels", from the Enterprise bridge in 1967 to the Enterprise-B in Generations. Rest well, Mr Chekov. #startrek #walterkoenig

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The problem with Bread Week is that there is no such thing as a challenging loaf of leavened bread that can be made in 90 minutes. Paul Hollywood described this bake, at the end, as "the worst technical challenge in 17 seasons." defector.com/the-not-so-g...

defector.comThe Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Fails To Rise For Bread Week | DefectorWelcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home…

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"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social

Elrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.

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Replying to @wolter.bsky.social

I am fifty fucking years old. My entire life has been democrats not undoing what republicans did, then losing to republicans that make things worse, repeat. The phrasing is simplistic, to be sure, but every democratic gain they tout is a band aid on a compound fracture.

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Replying to @josie.zone

Long ago, the four genders lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Gender attacked.

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repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids puberty blockers are medicine hormones are medicine nobody is carving your kids up children know who they feel like

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This is a vastly oversimplification, but as a Trekkie, I often think that liberals are the ones who believe the needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few, whereas leftists understand that, as Captain Kirk did, at times the needs of the few to be fought for by the many.

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Trying to raise the $550 it’s cost me so far to rescue a new dog. Adoption fee, and vet fees. She has giardia so med fee for that. ANYWAY, maybe you’d like to buy a mug today since the Mr is getting grumpy at me. 🤷‍♀️ 🐾 more in my shop surly.etsy.com

I'm just glad *someone* cares

Charlie Alzamora@chalza.bsky.social

For training purposes, the depths of your despair is being monitored for quality assurance.

Well FUCK

mary@witchymary.fansubcar.tel

yeah plex might as well be dead dead i think

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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Hey, just a humble, respectful request. For the love of fucking god, stop fucking attacking Donald Trump with blatant and repulsive homophobia. If you think going after fascists by calling them gay or producing AI slop of them in dresses or making out, you're part of the fucking problem.

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Much of the modern digital world only exists because of human social norms. The Internet's backbone exchanges data at light speed because a bunch of regular folks, essentially, shake hands & agree to do so. Lots of fragile, vital infrastructure only survived because nobody decided (yet) to knife it.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

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Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

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The security patch was ready in eleven minutes. The approval process took eleven days. Was the real vulnerability sitting in C-suite? When mechanisms for managing risk became mechanisms for creating it, next Sick Sad World

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I love Zohran but nyc isn’t doing shit for all the people with long covid and all the people who are about to get long covid. 🧵

On April 5, 1977, people with disabilities occupied government buildings across the country with simple demands: access to education, jobs, and public spaces. It has been fifty years since the Section 504 sit-ins, but the fight for those with disabilities continues.

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looking at bluesky from blacksky is like looking at facebook from bluesky

Jacky Alciné@jacky.wtf

I know it's not a competition between @bsky.app and @blackskyweb.xyz but if it was, I think Blacksky might have a literal head start on this, lol.

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EA just killed Bioware and the next Mass Effect, in development since at least six years. "Around 50 staff had been working on a new Mass Effect that is now canceled." This period is a never-ending nightmare.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...