Lesley Carhart

Yeah a million bucks is great but have you tried —-after two years I can finally eat with the fork in my left hand.

Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.

If I gambled on both NFTs and the metaverse to the tune of millions and millions of dollars and even renamed my company accordingly I would be so canceled I’d be farming potatoes, but people are still quoting Zuck AI predictions on my daily news feed.

I hate this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/1vbsrpf/comment/p0w8t1z/?context=3

Don’t drunk text Meshcore with no region Don’t drunk text Meshcore with no region Don’t drunk text Meshcore with no region

Nobody warns you how tremendously disconcerting going back to an American restaurant is after living anywhere else long term.

• them walking off with your credit card & no tap to pay
• the huge portions and sodium
• the weird attentiveness for tips
• being IDed over 30
• flags everywhere

I thought everyone knew this but .... Neurodivergent story time! In the era of French aristocracy, American culture was just starting to get posh. And Americans (colonists then citizens) at the time decided great high class table manners meant copying high French fashion. So they adopted this weird "zig zag" method of eating where we only eat with the fork in our right hands facing up like you'd scoop food, but also only use the knife in our right hands. So every time you cut something you set the fork down and switch hands, then switch back. We can't eat with a fork in our left hand (if we were raised with strict table manners that don't care about handedness). America did that big revolution and our big freedom thing and never switched back. The rest of the world moved on to knife in the right hand, fork in the left turned downward whilst cutting stuff. You can always tell an American while eating by how we use the knife and fork. It's how they caught spies in WWII. Turns out it is incredibly hard to relearn XD

You might think you’re prepping for the apocalypse but have you seen Victoria’s LORA mesh networks?

Mad Max is actually kind of a shitty series because when you move to Australia as a punk and you find all the Mad Max people, they are.... pretty much like all the punks everywhere, and absolutely the people to leave your small child with. It's the... other ones you have to worry about.

Since we are doing eating and Australia this is how you eat fast food sushi in Australia - one of the cheapest quick bites you can get anywhere.

I'm not sure how I disassociate from Naperville further but honestly it's my biggest accomplishment I am living right now.

We can’t discuss systemic problems anymore because they don’t get clicks on x

Water has more problems because of its infrastructure and municipal funding. But to adversaries who may actually comprehend the horror of not having sewage systems long term and the health impacts, it’s a prime, increasingly vulnerable target. We’ve worried about water for a very long time.

I’m in Singapore, and somehow I accidentally booked myself a tiny Disney princess hotel room that I can barely move around in without bonking my shins. It is tremendously goofy and fun but I have also been on 70 hours of flights so I’m very tired

Most of us growing up in relative privilege have not lived at home without potable (or any) running water for more than a few hours or a day. Even less so with failed sewage. If we’re very remote and off grid, we even have redundancies.

It’s so completely the wrong message about priorities, and things will continue to get worse.

So I think for the average citizen and even politician when we think about attacks against critical infrastructure, our brains rapidly go to the one thing we can conceptualise - the grid failing. And that has driven investment and regulation.

In Australia and America (and similar countries with solid infrastructure) we only typically see one utility fail long term outside of major natural disasters. That’s electric power. We can imagine that short term. We have a plan to get a flashlight out. We have generators.

Par for the course on stupid messaging these days ofc

Just being a ticket desk volunteer for a few hours and being personable at a local BSides goes so much further than 500 Claude spam messages to strangers on LinkedIn…

I get so much AI spam related to jobs, and it’s so obvious because AI cannot articulate what my job is at all. “I am so impressed with your work in critical infrastructure intelligence forensics testing” ??? I even get AI headhunted by AI companies who also have no idea what I do. It doesn’t say a lot about the capability of their AI.

This is legitimately not a joke. I feel so stupid and clumsy. I'm not sure I will ever get it down even though I try every single time I go out to dinner. And I was raised with strict table manners and can eat with chopsticks perfectly, too.

Yes sis I can hack the RTU too

The “kind regards” I can’t This is the most Australian shit ever

I’ll be debuting a new paper tomorrow at #OTCEP withJan Hoff. It’s about how to detect and more relevantly, remediate large scale commodity malware infections in legacy Windows environments that are unfortunately extremely common in critical infrastructure. https://dragos.brightspotcdn.com/26/7e/547e75c5410ba8e2aec7525fae46/dragos-2026-otcep-ir-whitepaper.pdf

@benno@eigenmagic.net that’s gonna screw me up forever

Um, can anyone please help me with a contact at VirusTotal to unblock a school IP?

@Kugg@infosec.exchange cost to upgrade both purely financial and logistical and downtime / safety related. It’s very very expensive to do an upgrade certified safe and authorised by the OEM, if they are even in business anymore. You wait until you have millions of extra dollars. Controls are architectural defence in depth and monitoring

@praetor@mstdn.social this study is based on legal and employment statistics and convictions, not just public sentiment.

@wollman@mastodon.social @Kugg@infosec.exchange I see a lot of “installer is dead and left no documentation”

@praetor@mstdn.social and I absolutely know there are good people and people who at least let others live and let live in all those red states.

@jpm@aus.social but that’s why it has the grippy end

@lilstevie@infosec.exchange I also want a jousting stick and I would absolutely buy one on marketplace

@gwenthefops@transfem.social I agree. Events and companies based there are slower to move events, sadly.

@grumpydad@infosec.exchange never saw it even on the lgbt streams or networks. I’m sure it existed but I never ran into it anywhere.

@grumpydad@infosec.exchange I guess. I saw the birdcage and but I’m a cheerleader around 200 times

@Retreival9096@hachyderm.io hospitals, etc too. It’s a way bigger mess than people realise

They had better have chosen ACDC for the Australian emergency alert tone

I can’t think of a relatively mainstream dark comedy of the era that was that fair and kind to a trans character (who -spoilers!!!- ends up with a nice straight boyfriend).

@SarraceniaWilds@sunny.garden @ellie@ellieayla.net they unscrew

@wendynather@infosec.exchange it seems durable but that’s about it

I bought a Fjallraven backpack because they were so highly recommended, and I’m sorry, I don’t understand the point and I have massive regrets. Someone needs to sell me the bag I purchased, because it’s not padded well and has no luggage strap or extra security pockets. Why do people buy these?

@loke@functional.cafe I just wanted a daily work bag