jbaggs

@jbaggs@infosec.exchange

I've been in and out of information security professionally, but somehow always have related projects. Mainly working with zeek and network level detection at the moment. SDR, cycling, and climbing enthusiast.

I boost a lot. Topics range far and wide from security and "the cybers" and may include politics, food, humor, science, law, nature, art, and other sundry unsavories. I occasionally post my own projects and thoughts.

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hacks4pancakes, to random

In a world where 97% plus of people don’t mask anymore despite rampant airborne respiratory illness - and we still do, the absolute most irritating “helpful” people on social media are the, “tHaT iSnT thE BeST rEsPirATor HeRE is InFODump” people who have zero context about where you are, what you can get away with without being literally assaulted or fired in terms of masks, or even if you are double masking, swapping out for clean masks, etc. it isn’t helpful. If we are masking, we damn well are aware of the risks and we are the LAST people you need to convince, including shaming us and trying to look clever.

jbaggs,

@hacks4pancakes @mwl Agh.

jbaggs,

@hacks4pancakes @mwl I got: "What's wrong with you? Are you sick? Why are you wearing a mask?" from the nurse practitioner that was reading me back my yearly blood work to let me know my cholesterol was fine, and I wasn't diabetic. A+ job there.

I honestly feel like the world has gone half nuts.

jerry, to random

5 days off starts now. Orchid pics and mastodon upgrades are in our future

jbaggs,

@jerry Jerry knows no time off.

MLE_online, to random
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I made too many pinto beans earlier this week and I knew I would get tired of that many beans, so I made chili with some of them tonight

jbaggs,

@MLE_online I inherited a network in the past where the password was bean related. That was not so good. This looks infinitely better. Are the beans from the company you are awaiting a shirt from?

jbaggs,

@MLE_online It's an awesome looking chili.

mattblaze, to random
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Assuming the election ends up being Biden vs. Trump, this may be the first time in modern history that both main presidential candidates already had ongoing Secret Service protection going in to the campaign.

jbaggs,

@mattgriffin @mattblaze Whoever has the job of coming up with code names for presidents is going to be disappointed.

lzg, to random
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    jbaggs,

    @lzg The hippie to yuppie pipeline was pretty distasteful to anarcho-punks in the US from the late 70's forward, if my memory is representative.

    The whole "free love but on men's terms" has always been pretty skeevy as well.

    (Don't get me started on hippies.)

    jbaggs,

    @lzg Ah. That gives context. In your search for retreats, have you looked into writer's retreats / residencies?

    jbaggs,

    @lzg How long? The US Forest Service rents out some of their facilities:
    https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5290342

    jbaggs,

    @lzg ...and they appear to have broken their TLS configuration right after I posted that. Hopefully just updating certs or something, but I promise it is a thing.

    jbaggs,

    @lzg Nah. Generally when I inadvertently wreck things it's far more spectacular.

    jbaggs,

    @lzg I didn't realize quite what a shambles the site was at this point. (I'm getting a 30% success rate just on connecting to it.) Also there doesn't appear to be a lot of consistency across regions. The Pacific Northwest had that website, while the Pacific Southwest just offers up a PDF file. In any case, there are some rentable cabins / fire lookouts out there.

    inkican, to technology
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    SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025
    https://interestingengineering.com/military/secret-us-hypersonic-jet-2025

    jbaggs,

    @hyc @inkican I think the point is this is a hypersonic drone (not sure why they didn't use that term) , and all of the engineering challenges that go with that.

    It's like a really fast cruise missile, but not a missile, and it does surveillance.

    paulrickards, to random
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    Trading the pen for the laser: I'm going to try some of my #PenPlotter designs on a laser cutter soon. I think something like differential growth would work well since it's a single path and should provide a very interesting positive and negative in the material.

    Here's an animation of how I build (err, growth) them.

    #Maker

    An animation of a circle that grows so quickly that it distorts into arms that stretch out, folding over and branching into new arms. It ends when the arms reach a hidden circular boundary and begin to wiggle in place as if behind held by an invisible force.

    jbaggs,

    @paulrickards I've got an itch to make this sort of design for a planar disk antenna. Both to decrease wind loading, and make it not so obnoxious to look at, but I suspect the cost of cutting through an aluminum plate is going to make it not viable. Beautiful work.

    luckytran, to random
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    Great piece on why Dems should do more on COVID.

    "This didn’t have to be an all-or-nothing choice. By framing Covid precautions as either “lockdown” or “a free for all,” the Biden administration has missed an opportunity to better protect its citizens & send clearer messages around Covid & the risk of long Covid, & promote the kind of commonsense mitigations that create no significant disruptions to “normal” life. With the 2024 election coming up, it must do better."

    https://newrepublic.com/article/177849/biden-democrats-covid-pandemic-2024

    jbaggs,

    @SwindlerOfInsanity @luckytran I think a lot of countries took their lead from how the US framed it.

    jbaggs, to random

    Okay. Miso ramen with nam pla prik. Why not.

    lzg, to random
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    jbaggs,

    @lzg

    Heat, heat will tear us apart again

    evacide, to random
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    I did not have "unauthorized secret Lubovitcher tunnels" on my 2024 Bingo card, yet here they are: https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-synagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf

    jbaggs,

    @grumpasaurus @evacide I was thinking more along the lines of ""Foucault's Pendulum", but I'm not sure what living author could give it the Umberto Eco treatment.

    lzg, to random
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    jbaggs,

    @lzg Stealthy. That's very nice.

    jbaggs, to random

    @dangoodin @joesabin It's entirely disrespectful, and not aimed at you Dan.

    Talking to me about how "I just don't get it" isn't exactly the pinnacle of respect either. Anyway, I'm going to log out and do more productive things. Sorry for becoming a lightning rod in your thread.

    jbaggs,

    @dangoodin I am painfully aware of what a Trump administration would mean. I think a lot of people on the left are as well.

    jbaggs,

    @dangoodin Ah. I am not making any claim of equivalency, nor do I hear it in my social circles, so that is a big difference. I'm not sure how to reach people that think they are one and the same.

    I do hear statements like things are bad with one and worse with the other. I personally don't feel that severity, but I get how some do.

    I'm sorry for going off half-cocked. There are times I probably should refrain from going on line or getting into a conversation I don't have the energy to properly explain my views at the moment.

    dangoodin, to random

    Neoliberal critics: Neoliberalism and bipartisan politics are so fucked that I'm willing to risk Trump retaking the White House and following through on pledges to:

    1. establish internment camps for undocumented immigrants

    2. abuse his power as retribution against anybody who has previously challenged him

    3. appoint more judges and justices who think there should be no Constitutional protection for abortion and specifically appoint judges in the mold of Clarence Thomas

    4. require federal employees to take a patriotism exam and be terminated if they refuse or fail

    5. take legal action to have local district attorneys and their staff removed from office if they don't perform to his satisfaction

    6. fire staff and disband college accreditation boards and pursue civil rights cases against schools that have affirmative action policies in place

    7. withhold US aid to Ukraine to pressure Zelenskyy to make a deal with Putin

    8. require that school principals be elected by parents each year

    9. push for legislation that sentences any person convicted of selling drugs to be executed

    10. pardon all defendants charged with participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 riots

    11. investigate Comcast, NBC and MSNBC for treason

    I could go on, but I won't.

    Assuming Trump wins the Republican nomination, we have a binary choice: Either Trump retakes the White House and he attempts to fulfill as many of these promises as possible or Biden wins and doesn't attempt to do any of these things.

    By all means, criticize Democrats and liberals. Heaven knows criticism is warranted. But please don't forget what's at stake if left-leaning folks provide the tipping point that makes Trump our next president.

    jbaggs,

    @joesabin @dangoodin I fucking do get it, you absolute knob. There are right wing factions gaining power all over the world currently. I am terrified of that as well. (Also there's a whole topic about how the right wing movements are reaching across national boundaries, and what passes for the left in the US can't even figure out how to get everyone into the same tent.)

    Last comment you were going on about how problems "all started" in the Carter- Reagan era and now you're trying to lecture me about the fall of the Weimar republic as if I had no knowledge of history. Get bent.

    jbaggs,

    @LiveByReason @dangoodin There is a lot of blame for the Republican party in the direction the country has gone, but unless we miraculously become a parliamentary democracy (yes, I know they have their own problems) or such I don't know that a third party is the answer.

    When I've lived in areas where it was viable I have tried to vote for more progressive candidates, and I think shifting the Democratic party is a long term project worth doing. It's really difficult with lobbying being what it is though, and "reaching across the isle" / "come to the center" politics while the right keeps kicking the Overton window doesn't leave me overly optimistic.

    jbaggs,

    @dangoodin That is indeed the stampeding elephant threatening to trample us all, yes.

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