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@coleens_@infosec.exchange kale seems a dubious choice. i’d like the things i ingest to not make me sad.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Maker of sculptures, software, hardware, altar goods, bling, and messes. Hammer aficionado. Skull fairy.
Not particularly nice, working hard to be kind.
Feel free to follow me if you want pretty pictures, light gardening, snark, rage, and a bias towards being kind.
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@aud@fire.asta.lgbt @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange being LGBTQ+ in the 80s where i was a kid was definitely Very Rough
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@cannibal@infosec.exchange @defcon@defcon.social it’s been a busy week, so just some biscuits and gardening.
#makeshitmonday
today’s mild annoyance:
the chrome on my locker lock flaked off. it’s worse than grabbing a razor blade. on the plus side, i now know i have a good sense of touch and can differentiate between the barious cuts
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@coleens_@infosec.exchange for what it’s worth, watching you deal with a ton of shit leads me to think you’re doing it right.
Doing some reading about agentic systems, and a striking issue is how hard it is to get a non-deterministic system to behave safely. For humans we build systems to help us be safer but we seem to want to throw away those lessons.
Vast amounts of work have gone into making our tools reliable, and now we're hellbent on throwing that away.
These are the first 5 secondaries, only 35 more feathers to go.
Freshly assembled tax feather
Cutting some feather blanks.
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@wordshaper @briankrebs this is why i try to buy the drinks for our legal team. they care about privacy, and care at their wit's end.
i wonder what Turing would make of the state of the world and the state of computing
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@RickiTarr@beige.party that’s gotta help build a good solid persecution complex ala “i’m really committed, and look at how poorly i’m treated by others”.
Also testing the 3d wing construction using bamboo bones.
Cutting the out a feather layer from a recurring form
pro-tip: work gloves where the grip layer has worn off and all that’s left is lycra should be binned
Tulip time!
also, the mountain was out this afternoon.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange We're talking VC. Virtually nobody in that space is in their right mind. While there are notable exceptions, they are the exception.
Put in most of the garden today. Rip my gloves that gave up the ghost while i was mixing in composted chicken manure.
I'm reviewing risk management guides for generative AI, and i realized I need to form a band named "inappropriately anthropomorphizing"
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@AtanasE@mastodon.social it really depends on the problem. usually it’s the first option with a hint of the fourth.
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@wendynather i need to build an agentic system that will enable me to pet cats while running pen tests.
Holmes has things to say
i’m calling this piece “nature hates you”. i’ve pulled about 25kg of Himalayan blackberry, english ivy, and bamboo. all of this grew into mu yard from various neighbors.
one of the joys of my allergies clearing is i can smell ball point pen ink sitting at my desk. can't say i'm thrilled with the olfacotry breakthrough, but given the number of pens on my desk, I can't say it's surprising.
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@rose_alibi you could send hime a link to https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/collection/gameboy-pocket-ce90c87 and ask about calibration.
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@misternineham heck, you could use a blade with 3/8 kerf and you’d still be officially oversized
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@accidentalciso@infosec.exchange I'd start with looking at David's writing: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daa780_have-had-bad-days-at-work-and-made-some-mistakes-share-7444778834266136576-s8ZJ
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@ethanschoonover yikes - stuff like this is part of why I hate riding though that section.
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@attoparsec i suspect future historians will refer to this time as the rise of the apex con-artist.
i was thinking about the causes of my distaste for agentic ai comes from. a non-trivial amount of my youthful reading was Heinlein’s competence porn. i dodged the military worship, but caught the desire to be good at what i do, and to be able to do a lot.
agentic ai appears to reward not being competent in a lot of cases, and that is galling.
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the only high point was that i picked it up 40 feet from the end of the ride.
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@cannibal@infosec.exchange that looks like a highly useful and precise reference sticker
just finished fixing the flat. i’ve got to admit, a bolted through axle makes the while process of remounting the rear wheel a lot easier.
The mountain is out along with the rhododendrons
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@mast0d0nphan @attoparsec that would be the MO of an emotionally stunted man child with orders of more money than empathy.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange i’m imagining that the deflection in a sherline column from looking at it mean exceeds the allowable support flex for those spindles