mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchPersonal: technophile, oenophile, lexophile, gastronome.
Professional: information, network, and computer #security #infosec #cybersecurity
Interests: #cyberpunk #linux #tech #privacy #hacking #reading #PDX
Music: most non-pop genres. I usually listen to #KEXP,and #KUTX, #SomaFM streaming
I love #food and #wine, you'd probably call me a #foodie
Way too many projects at any given time
Love to write but don't do much of it (see projects) and also #fountainpens and actual notebooks.
For #ISACACommunITyDay, the Portland chapter made birthday kits and then delivered these to local pantries, schools, and food banks.
The kit contains cake mix, frosting, and sprinkles to make the cake. Two birthday cards, a streamer, room decorations, part balloons, and a tablecloth are also all included.
"Little red dots", a newly discovered class of astronomical objects.
From Gizmodo: The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They're One of Astronomy's Biggest Discoveries in Decades
https://gizmodo.com/the-universe-is-full-of-tiny-red-dots-and-theyre-one-of-astronomys-biggest-discoveries-in-decades-2000808071
Lovely spring day here in #Portland for a few beers and some food at #Rosenstadt brewery.
Continuing the fun at Kachka Fabrika, which shares the same parking lot with Rosenstadt. The quality here is amazing.
From my pi-hole, here is some interesting trend. On the top, red means blocked, and from the hours of 4-7a, there's an 83% averaged of DNS queries blocked. At the same time period, avg. 92% of queries are coming from a single #Android device.
You're welcome to guess whether that's from the #cybersecurity professional or his partner's phone...
Defenders think in lists, but attackers think in graphs. I’ve brought that power to my Human 3.0 project by building a Substrate skill for PAI. It turns raw info into a connected web of insights automatically.
See it here: https://the15thstandard.com/blog/incorporating-substrate-into-my-human-3-0-project/ #AI #Data #framework
How are you connecting the dots in your data?
Continuing with the AI assistant project, we add a key information source:
If you’ve never used it, Zotero (https://www.zotero.org) is an awesome little research assistant, allowing you to capture reference material and full bibliographic information. A new plugin has been released adding MCP server support so you can easily incorporate all that painstakingly-collected information into workflows.
Check the quick overview: https://the15thstandard.com/blog/use-generative-ai-with-your-zotero-document-collections/
#AI #MCP #documentation
I know some people aren't going to like this and either respond negatively or block, which is fine. I debated posting these, which are really notes turned into posts about the month I spent diving into agentic frameworks or multi-agent harnesses or 10xtown or whatever people are calling it this week in order to really understand what a lot of people are spending a lot of time in.
There were successes, there were frustrations, but all in all, it was interesting, and all with the idea of making it more personal, rather than a disembodied chat window. More success than not, I'd say.
The pace of AI development is moving faster than most can track, it’s difficult to know what to use, and while everyone understands a chat interface, I think a lot of people are getting left behind w/r/t the emergent multi-agent workflow systems. To navigate this transition, I have started a new project exploring the Human 3.0 framework.
Human 3.0 is a philosophy developed by Daniel Miessler that focuses on a human-first approach to technology. In my post, I layout a proposed journey of moving beyond chatbox limitations to a more robust, agentic workflow.
Key highlights from the post include:
Read the full breakdown of the project and the technology behind it on my site:
https://the15thstandard.com/blog/human-3-0-a-march-2026-project/
Why settle for one AI model when you can build a specialized army? In this project, I've been testing hybrid setups in my personal AI assistant setup in order to balance local privacy with cloud power. With the advent of the latest capable open models, It is a great way to optimize cost and performance.
See my full hybrid configuration here: https://the15thstandard.com/blog/mixture-of-models-experiments-and-results/
