Parsers and parsing accessories. Para-academic. Rootless cosmopolitan redneck. Writes for @Status451Blog. 'Juvenile but not white supremacist' -- @splcenter
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whoever it was that suggested giving your cat a treat at the same time you need to take meds every day was a genius
because even if you forget, your cat won't
it was somebody on Tumblr and I only ever saw a screenshot, but whoever came up with it is doing the Lord's work
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Every router, every wifi access point, every IP phone, every fax machine, all the cabling. Yes, even the cabling.
Knowing House IT stuff, I don't think I'd sleep well until the networks were rebuilt from scratch and every computer wiped and the internals visually inspected before being put back in service.
Every printer, every copier. Every nook and cranny.
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Santa is a fastidious LISP programmer:
- he's making a list
- he's checking it twice
- also have you seen that beard
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right, so, me not knowing really anything about the world of memecoins, I apparently sent a few DMers a coinbase address
but if people are insisting on sending me memecoins about my cat, I'm not gonna say no
G9aQdwMgPXxVWhZ4TsGCZzXn1fLHzNELrKdppNjRPPBv is also me
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I feel like anti-mask people are either unaware or ignoring that mask regulations are an incredible win for civil rights, specifically anonymity. Places we normally consider quite progressive (eg France, NYC) had blanket bans on face coverings for YEARS.
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Some may say "but these people were amateurs, look at all of them posting selfies online!" By and large that's true, and it's why we'll still have a Republic at the end of the day.
A mob of amateurs is a convenient place to hide professionals.
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When Len died, @dakami was one of the first people who reached out. He DMed his phone number. That’s just who he was.
When a trans friend of ours couldn’t afford surgery, he paid for it so that dysphoria wouldn’t get in the way of her hacking. That’s just who he was.
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A #langsec take on berthub.eu/articles/posts/re…:
Okay, so basically the reason mRNA vaccines work is 1) a parser differential between how the immune system interprets an unfamiliar token (the 🔱 nucleoside) and how ribosomes interpret it,
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Mathematically impossible means NO ONE can do it. It is mathematically impossible to build encryption that protects you but not terrorists.
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Friend: "I don't want to get an Elf on the Shelf. What can I tell my kid?"
Me: "In this house we don't acclimate children to surveillance."
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You know how the Puritans named people for virtues and stuff? Mathematicians could totally do that too. "Analytical Roberts." "Scalene Jones." "There-Exists-At-Least-One Henderson."
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COVID19 struck down reactionary, authoritarian anti-anonymity legislation, and threw a massive wrench into the surveillance state’s toolkit overnight. I’m honestly rather delighted by this.
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It's a very well-researched and respectful article, but to the best of my knowledge, Len was not Satoshi. Worth reading for the history and the conclusions about mental health, though.
Len Sassaman and Satoshi
L: leung-btc.medium.com/len-sas…
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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If you want to eliminate fake news, find business models that don't rely on whoring users' attention out to advertisers. (13/14)
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Ethereum isn't a smart contracts language, it's a collection of vulnerabilities that happens to implement a smart contracts language.
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Len heeft specifiek gevraagd dat hij in een sober, simpel graf wou liggen.
Het feit dat jij het woord "pover" gebruikt in je titel is eerlijk gezegd een belediging voor mij als weduwe.
@HLN_BE
hln.be/nieuws/ligt-de-uitvin…
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You can either have e-commerce, e-government, and the Internet of Things, or you can have no encryption and NONE OF THEM.
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anyone who thinks "I know, I'll put my enemies' names on a list!" needs to take a big step back & look at what they're doing with their life
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"Medical devices are one of the few places where the phrase 'remote execution vulnerability' is meant literally." @perrymetzger #langsec2017
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Y'all, I just got a mission from God.
On New Year's Eve, as the clock ticks over to 2021, let's get everyone in the world to sing @JourneyOfficial's "Don't Stop Believin'", wherever they are. Lean out a window, rock out on Zoom, anywhere. Just don't stop.
piped.video/watch?v=1k8craCG…
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Friends, I come bearing sad news; Sasha, the Most Interesting Cat in the World, passed away in his sleep sometime early in the morning on January 9, 2024. He would have been 18 this summer.
He was cremated this afternoon in a private ceremony and will live in our hearts forever.
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Okay, since this hellsite is going on at length about Jigsaw Puzzle Baked Bean Dad, who I won’t link directly because the pile-on is big enough already, here’s a story about how my dad introduced me to auto repair. A thread.
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"Bitcoin wastes power," they said. "Proof-of-work should do actual work," they said. Be careful what you wish for. usenix.org/conference/woot16…
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Journalists: Stop thinking that just because nerds are smart, we can do mathematically impossible things.
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My account's been reinstated. Thank you for all the kind words, everyone.
And no, I didn't delete a single thing. Not one word.
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Let's get Ahmed Mohamed and his family to @_defcon_ and show them a community that appreciates precocious kids. dallasnews.com/news/communit…
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These bans were often prejudicially motivated; black men wearing face coverings were assumed in NYC to be robbers, the French laws were aimed at Muslim traditional dress, fuelled by a combination of terrorism panic and moral panic.
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Fellow autists, I have a proposal. Have you considered chainmail shirts?
I love weighted blankets, but they're hard to walk around my flat with. The great thing about my chainmail shirt is that it's a weighted blanket I can walk around in.
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So stop looking for other people to idolise. Be the hero you want to see in the world, instead. 10/10
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blog.torproject.org/blog/jac… is a gross disservice to the Tor community. People deserve to know why Tor evicted its resident sociopath.
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Hey @oscon, I hear you're blocking devs on Twitter who ask why you're blocking devs on Twitter. Will you still bug me for free talks now?
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Why I don't feel welcome in conversations about women in technology. medium.com/dear-blank/bd6321… If you discuss, discuss without me, kthx.
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btw while I'm here I guess I might as well say I'm unagented but I'm a professional writer and I'm happy to write the book that tells the story that @HBO just made up
@notthreadguy is documenting our quest to find out what's really inside the laptops
let the bidding commence
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Translation: "That boot you're demanding will come down on your necks, because you're self-centred enough to think it's your foot in it." nitter.app/alexstamos/status/9166…
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You don't just kick sociopaths down the road and play like you've done the necessary. That's extending their social license to operate.
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now that the US is getting the hell out of the graveyard of empires, can we start just calling it the Twenty Years' War or something that doesn't pretend as if we got anything useful done there
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“In our house we don’t enable the surveillance state. Your parents are cowards.”
Maybe leave off that second bit if your kid isn’t up for a fistfight, but still.
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As much as you frustrate me, Internet, I can't find it in me to tell you to go to hell. But may I suggest going to Houston instead? (15/15)
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Lately I've had a lot of DMs asking various things about Len. While I love to talk about him and don't want to close my DMs, I am not an information dispenser. He was my *husband*. That means I loved him and I miss him. It doesn't mean I know everything there was to know.
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Everything about imgur.com/a/c4WNF is brilliant. (Remember that awesome LED skirt from a while back? That's her!)
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The sense of ownership and pride that this act of fixing my own car created is indescribably beautiful, and a big part of why it came out that way is that my dad set me up for success at every step. He never left me hanging.
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Going to Berlin and people are like "punch a Nazi for me" ok sure soon as I remember when I left the keys to the time machine
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feminists be like "the future is female" and I'm like WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT, THE FUTURE HAS THREE TITS AND COMPOUND EYES AND COMMUNICATES IN PHEROMONES
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aight so I'm at the delirium bar tonight if any #ethcc folks wanna chill but if anyone gets weird about Len I'm going straight home
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"Coq is French computer science's revenge on the entire English language." #contextfree
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When are we going to start calling the branch of progressivism that says "anyone who opposes us is Fair Game" by its true name, Scientology?
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"What kind of new, esoteric vulnerabilities did [attackers] use to get into [vehicle] systems? None. All buffer overflows." #langsec2017
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The list of pricy tech conferences that don't pay speakers is as long as your arm. Let's make a list of ones that do. consthatpaytheirspeakers.org…
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I’m not going to go point by point through Jigsaw Puzzle Baked Bean Dad’s anecdote, since you can’t teach the wilfully ignorant. Besides, I’m more interested in how to do it *right*.
Given that less than a month later I was patching a hole in my muffler, I’d say Dad sure did.
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Voluntarily cancelling oneself is the modern-day equivalent of falling on one's sword, and he did it in the most honorable way an officer and a gentleperson can. Captain Crozier, I may be a civilian, but the Department of Defense ultimately writes my paycheck, and I salute you.
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The person who needs to review @notthreadguy's podcast before it drops is me and I promise to do it ASAP. I don't think it will take long. We had a great time recording and it was smooth sailing.
Talk to you all tomorrow. I'm making an early night of it.
nitter.app/i/spaces/1ynKODNjkNVGR
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Shorter Tim Cook: "Not only no, but hell no. Attached please find several reasons why the hell not."
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Everyone: "Don't parse HTML with a regex."
This developer: "Fine, I'll parse natural language with a regex instead"
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The moral arc of the universe tends toward entropy. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
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For the record I continue to believe it highly likely (>95% probability) that Len was not Satoshi, but I'm honestly and manifestly convinced that CodeCon was a vehicle for the ideas, projects, and principles that gave rise to bitcoin.
like I unironically leaned into this memecoin thing because it's telling me things about the supply side of attention economics that I didn't know before, and that's interesting
which is an entirely codecon vibe
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Yes. You should point out that it is actually illegal for Apple or any other US employer to ban its employees from discussing their compensation.
Apple just banned its employees from talking about pay equity on Slack — a week after giving its CEO, Tim Cook, a $750 million bonus. Need I say more?
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What I wonder is, why do some girls feel like they have to ditch that first love, while others never do? I never gave up on Spiderman. Ever.
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If you're whining about dick jokes in #hackerjeopardy rather than congratulating @banasidhe, you're the problem.
Who has two thumbs and just won a Black Badge at #defcon #hackerjeopardy THIS GRRL!
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Does it even matter any more? If so, why?
People who never met him are now remembering him for his greatness and that's a gift no currency can buy. I am enriched in love by all these efforts and it dramatically raises my priors that Len's name will ring out through history.
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"If you're a programmer, what you're doing today should be automated tomorrow, so you can do something more interesting tomorrow." #SP16
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"More heat than light" is a useful distinction.
That said, you can get around okay without light to see by, but without heat, you freeze to death.
When warmth isn't available by other means, there's always friction.
An astonishing amount of conflict fits this pattern.
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the future is shy
and quiet
because it's scared
that someone will kill it
because of what it wants to be
which is simply
everything
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Dear @DevDocs: I have been waiting for a site like yours for a long, long time. Dear everyone else: devdocs.io/
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meat isn't just a lousy engineering material, it's an error-prone computational substrate, why did anyone build anything out of it anyway
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Hey hacker fam. This summer it’ll have been nine years. I’d like to invite you all to join me, wherever you are, and #PourOneOutForLen on Friday, July 3.
Whether DEFCON is cancelled or not, we’re still all in this together.
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Instead of expecting me to reason out the workings of a complex machine all alone, he stepped me through them, with the machine itself as a visual aid.
Instead of making me invent every step myself, he showed me each step, had me repeat it, then said “ok now do it backwards.”
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IT HAPPENED AGAIN, IT HAPPENED AGAIN! nitter.app/_youhadonejob/status/5… h/t @abuVeliki
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If we must have wars on abstract concepts, how about a war on learned helplessness? A war on scope insensitivity?
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Moral authoritarians thought they could bully @lambda_conf into collapsing.
131 people said "Not on our watch." I'm floored. Thank you all.
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I do kinda wish we had a 299 RELUCTANTLY OK error code. 299 YOU SPEAK HTTP LIKE YOU'RE TWO. Or something. teddit.net/r/programming/com…
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I am so comfortable dying on the hill of "nobody is disposable" that I've built a vacation home there.
Again: this is why they are called mental health *problems*. The people have not been able to solve the problems themselves. A caring culture would coordinate to help them solve the problems. This "cancel culture" simply wants to dispose of them.
Nobody is disposable. Nobody.
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.@rezendi "Last October in this space, we urged Boeing and Northrop Grumman, paragons of innovation, to build a working Millennium Falcon"
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No two people's critical thinking filters agree on everything, yet folks want Facebook to build a universal one? Good luck with that. (7/14)
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Anyone whining via social media that uses HTTPS about terrorists "using encryption" can be safely assumed to be ignorant on the topic.
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Holy smokes. In less than a day, friends of civil society raised an entire platinum sponsorship for @lambda_conf. indiegogo.com/projects/save-…
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If you're reading this in a web browser, please install and enable the Snowflake extension for Tor. Rationale below.
serene.cx/snowflake/
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Slides from my #lambdaconf keynote, "Functional Programming Without a Functional Language," are up. github.com/lambdaconf/lambda…
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