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neurovagrant

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org

Security ops engineer, former congressional sysadmin, writer, voracious reader. he/him. Opinions here mine only. Autistic/depressed/anxious/hungry.

#solarpunk noob, #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

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Got therapy later today, think I may wear my Metric band shirt.

Too subtle, maybe?

neurovagrant, to random
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Just occurred to me in conversation that the existence of latitude and longitude mean the Earth itself is just a big wraparound spreadsheet.

...i might be working too much lately...

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You've already got a bat, let me morph into a crow in V Rising you bastards

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Why do I keep getting no-follower, locked, French language accounts trying to follow me? Seems like what could be called "inauthentic behavior." I've been blocking them.

neurovagrant,
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@Nonya_Bidniss seeing similar

neurovagrant, to random
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Need a Stardew Valley mod that allows you to hypnotize and kidnap townspeople and put them to work on your farm like in V Rising.

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actual brainworms in a whacked-out presidential candidate

this has to be a simulation, right? we can agree on that now?

that we're at the point in the sim where the player's gotten bored and is just flicking all the disaster switches?

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I am slightly boggled that this on-the-nose "RFK had a brain worm" piece in the NYT does, indeed, appear to have been published in the New York Times and not, say, The Onion.
https://fedi.andrlik.org/@daniel/112405197183484426

neurovagrant,
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@cstross I don't know what we did to this timeline's Writer's Room but I regret it immensely.

Actual brainworms? Come on...

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I just realized the Holodeck actually runs on Excel.

neurovagrant,
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@danhon I’m reminded of that reddit thread from a few years back when an engineer inherited a prod stack and relized they were literally operating prod out of Dropbox

neurovagrant, to Cybersecurity
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Just facilitated @DomainTools Neurodivergent Employee Resource Group meeting, which we've been doing now for over a year!

Really interesting dynamic today, and in addition to checking in, we talked about caffeine & stimulation, and then folks spent a while talking about raising ND kids.

If you want to know what our Neurodivergent ERG looks like: https://www.domaintools.com/resources/blog/celebrating-neurodiversity/

And @deoan and I wrote about ND strengths in infosec here: https://www.domaintools.com/resources/blog/removing-the-mask-how-neurodiversity-strengthens-cybersecurity/

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Why is it important to welcome and nurture neurodiversity in cybersecurity?

I'll leave it to those touchy-feely goofs over at RAND, whose study on neurodiversity and national security found many benefits, but beyond those a necessity due to:

“missions that are too important and too difficult to be left to those who use their brains only in typical ways.”

neurovagrant,
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@project1enigma 100% agreed

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vaguely wonder if there's some catfishing going on targeting vulnerable US servicemembers and convincing them to travel to fucking Russia

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"Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service Divorced From the Internet for US Spies"

presumably they've already lost the keys to at least the PRC, if not the Russian Federation as well.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/162220/microsoft-creates-top-secret-generative-ai-service-divorced-from-the-internet-for-us-spies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

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existential kermit-flail in the darkness

neurovagrant, to random
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"Catch Deepak Chopra at Cisco's mega event!"

y'all okay over there, Cisco peeps?

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Any suggestions for authenticator apps that don’t cloud sync, extract data, phone home to Mountain View, or similar?

Thanks in advance.

neurovagrant,
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@johne Appreciate all suggestions!

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It is fitting that this inspirational message text was auto-generated in the Dunkin' Donuts brand colors.

https://botsin.space/@inspiro/112396392399721166

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"windows plans to lock down DNS"

the last time they did this, they fucked up etc/hosts because it was a valid way to block Windows telemetry from stealing user data and phoning home.

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"that was a perfectly good /etc/hosts file and look what you did, Microsoft! you gave it anxiety!"

neurovagrant, to random
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dopamine-seeking sugar fiend mode today

neurovagrant, to random
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oh, the coffee is good this morning.

good omen for the day/week.

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idly considering submitting talk to TOOOL's Defcon village: "Fidgety Escapes: Neurodivergence and Lockpicking"

but probably can't do it justice in time.

need to set aside like one day a week just for developing ideas and projects and talks and HAHAHAHAHAHAHhAHAhahahahaha haha ha

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so san francisco has gone full cyberpunk, i guess.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/rent-bed-pods-downtown-techies-18388110.php

neurovagrant,
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@Viss ngl, if i had to go back to SF I'd consider it...

...maybe one i could lock, though...

laptop, steamdeck, clothes... save up for a rainy day...

neurovagrant,
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@Viss mostly because god knows i ain't gonna afford much more...

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