mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchI am a meat popsicle.
This is Andrew Brandt's non-work profile, where I may discuss information security topics as well as non-infosec things that are on my mind.
I'm a malware researcher and writer about security topics for an infosec vendor, and a volunteer docent at the Media Archaeology Lab retrocomputing lab (@mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I hack old stuff and also, occasionally, fix it. Drinker of beer, player of videogames, and nerdcore enthusiast.
Earlier in my career I was a journalist, but always a technologist. I worked for PC World and MacUser magazines as an editor. I was also a staff writer for the UC Berkeley student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. In the mid-90s I worked for KRON-TV in San Francisco on a tech magazine show called Next Step that was syndicated internationally on Discovery networks.
For purely malware- and security-related toots, please follow @threatresearch@infosec.exchange
Someone visited the @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org yesterday who happened to have a photo on their phone of their ancestors who literally rode the Oregon Trail in covered wagons in the 19th century, and I asked to photograph the picture in front of the startup screen for Oregon Trail. Honestly looks like a great 8-bit rendering of the scene on the monochrome Apple IIc.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oregontrail #history #HistoryColorado #appleii #apple #MediaArchaeology
More BSOD should include music.
I was fooling around with a "new" Windows 98 machine at @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org and started up a Simpsons game. It played fine for a while but the system isn't perfectly stable, so it eventually crashed...with the Simpsons theme continuing playing in the background.
Seems super accurate TBH. Has their ever been a Simpsons opener where they flip on the TV and it bluescreens? Might be a missed opportunity.
Tried listening to the hearings with RFK Jr. this morning, voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard and answers infuriating, gave up after five minutes.