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@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech if not having it is keeping you from getting a job and if having it causes you to get more job inquiries than those who don't "keep up" it's real enough.
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Matt Franz
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchRecovering SecOps Director (currently an IC again) with no delusions of ever becoming a CISO. Ex-Mandiant, Cisco, Ping (Identity not golf), Tenable, and Gemalto.
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Such a fucking foot-gun
The fact that a shitty state like South Carolina (the first state to secede) continues to exercise so much power in America tells you all you need to know about what is wrong and how we didn’t resolve what we needed to resolve in the Civil War.
https://guardbase.ai/attack-matrix/ valuable or framework slop?
Ugh. Too close. Maybe because my daughter made the "mistake" of getting into tech. Spent 2-3 hours pair-vibecoding with her last night.
LOL
The way to make this World Cup perfect is to boo POTUS.
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@kevin@fedi.kbg.sh I have a usable performant Linux Desktop and browser (a 16 GB ARM ChromeBook with close to 10 hours battery life) who cares about R&D?
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WHich leads to https://ziglang.org/ <- Antigravity is trying to get sporevm to work on a Pi5 😏
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@bosconet@ioc.exchange Yes, the most useful dishwasher skill when you have no idea if the cycle finished.
Ah, yeah it is scary teenagers and not lax gun laws https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/us/florida-july-4th-shooting
So what is the fucking problem? https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/politics/kfile-troy-jackson-anonymous-alias-commenter-canadians-for-lepage
https://odysseylinux.org/ <- I doubt this is for Human Beings with a website like that. WTF.
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@KnaveMurdok@mastodon.social @joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech Everything will be different in a year or two. It is a fucking Hamster Treadmill.
Caption this. Wrong answers only.
Sure this isn't a @theonion headline?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/politics/iran-strikes-kushner-witkoff-flawed-ceasefire?cid=ios_app
Oh CNN, out of the mouths of babes….
Anduril is the new Amazon and Facebook in terms of potential employers I give the big 👎️ to when they bug me on LinkedIn.
It is great having a SOC Analyst in the house! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-targeted-phishing-deconstructing-attack-anna-franz-8nv7e/
Happy Birthday 🇺🇸 you earned it!
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@mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com @bboeckel@toot.thoughtworks.com Great article--especially calling out tool calling as a big problem.
Playing around with this https://ki-utvikling.nav.no/cplt
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-analysis <- 🤡 "The misstep compounded an earlier mistake — the failure to understand that Iran would close the strait in the first place. That this is still an issue a month after the MOU was agreed upon suggests its 60-day timeline for a full deal, including on Iran’s nuclear program, was absurdly unrealistic."
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/comparing-open-source-ai-code-security-harnesses <~ your favorite H word
Giving Claude access to your Elastic clusters on k3s is 😹
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This is getting some viz following the HF nonsense - https://blog.calif.io/p/privilege-escalation-in-eks
Might actually make it Vegas during Blackhat this year. First time since 2003. The curse/blessing of being one of the few security folks so you get pulled into sales conversations.
Well I made it almost made it 11 mins in before getting too disgusted with the 27 year old founder because I remember how arrogant I was at that age and most people are https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kubernetes-bytes/id1580068566?i=1000775179593
Pro-tip. Ask a dumber model to find out what is confusing in your design (gemini-3.5-flash here)
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Yup. But that Kentucky and South Carolina and even West Virginia. Well…
