BradRubenstein

@BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bananas.
🦥🏳️‍🌈:donor:

Tech Project Therapist (moderately retired)
#ProjectManagement #FinTech #OrganizationalBehavior #Finance

My friend Adam and I wrote a contrarian how-to book, Risk Up Front, distilling decades of our experience running projects and project teams (link in profile).

Also:
#theater toots, bad #puns, #language hacks.
Disclaimers:
Boosts ≠ endorsement. Toots ≠ truths.

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BradRubenstein, to languagelovers

Me, explaining English spelling/pronunciation to a friend:

  • comb
  • tomb
  • bomb

Me: "You see, the 'b' is silent..."
Them: "I think you skipped a step."

@languagelovers

BradRubenstein,

(cough)

@moonwalker @languagelovers

kennwhite, to random

Beautiful sunset tonight in Badalona Spain.

BradRubenstein,

The high particulate pollution levels this week make for dramatic sunsets.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/es/barcelona/307297/air-quality-index/307297

@kennwhite

SteveBellovin, to random
@SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org avatar

Not sure who needs to hear this, but US passport renewal times have gotten quite reasonable. I mailed mine off on January 12 and got it back today—22 days, end-to-end.

BradRubenstein,

Triggering flashbacks here: For some things (like notarizations) the acceptability of foreign passports for identification is not a foregone conclusion.

https://www.nationalnotary.org/notary-bulletin/blog/2015/10/international-ids-acceptable-notarizations

@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @20002ist @adamshostack

BradRubenstein, to random 
% beer<br></br>user beer<br></br>% sudo beer<br></br>root beer<br></br>

🍺

treed, to random

How do you deal with the fact that Gmail/Calendar don't understand Microsoft invites? Thunderbird doesn't even display them in a readable format. It is becoming a real problem.

BradRubenstein,

It was becoming a real problem fifteen years ago. Now it's just an ongoing disappointment.

@treed

pbump, to random
@pbump@journa.host avatar

A national poll asked Americans if they had heard of Trump's various legal issues, throwing some fake ones into the mix.

On none of the six real ones, from MAL documents to E. Jean Carroll, did a majority of Republicans indicate awareness. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/02/most-republicans-arent-aware-trumps-various-legal-issues/

BradRubenstein,

It is useless to argue with a man whose opinion is based upon a personal or pecuniary interest; the only way to deal with him is to outvote him.

— William Jennings Bryan, 1893

@Lizette603_23 @pbump

BradRubenstein, (edited ) to random

Tired: Wordle
Wired: Tradle !

https://wordlegame.org/wordle-games/tradle

spla, to random Catalan
@spla@mastodont.cat avatar

Segons Zuckerberg, Threads ja té 130 milions d'usuaris actius al mes. 😳

BradRubenstein,

130M d'usuaris i res a decir... 😢

@spla

0xabad1dea, to random

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”

BradRubenstein,

Nobody has ever returned a float that was made with butter brickle ice cream and root beer, just sayin'.

@dcoderlt @0xabad1dea

rmondello, to random
@rmondello@hachyderm.io avatar

Best things to do in Madrid?

BradRubenstein,

Weekend brunch at Café Comercial (Gta Bilbao 7)!

@rmondello

BradRubenstein,

If you're an absolute glutton for museums, get the Paseo del Arte (a ticket to the three majors), then don't be surprised if you spend most of your time at the Thyssen.

If you want a small quirky off the beaten path museum, check out Museo Sorolla (it's really his house).

@rmondello

BradRubenstein, to random

I remember when Republicans used to say, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

https://news.yahoo.com/nikki-haley-says-texas-secede-185700053.html

jerry, to random

Infosec.exchange is patched, infosec.space is giving me fits and down for the moment.

BradRubenstein,

Thank you @jerry ! 🙏

regehr, to random
@regehr@mastodon.social avatar

it's fun to see people in the USA fight argue about our food https://deadspin.com/the-great-american-menu-foods-of-the-states-ranked-an-1349137024

BradRubenstein,

France packs that much drama into just cheese.

@regehr

garrett, to random

SLC airport is a big ole’ hallway so they can put your layover gates as maximally far as possible.

BradRubenstein,

A 2-hour layover in GRU is an olympic event (and I want my g.d. medal).

@garrett

BradRubenstein, to random

Change my mind: Passkeys suck. I try to use them, then quickly give up.

Every interaction I have with passkeys is manifestly worse than my current generated random passwords in a reasonable password wallet, with TOTP 2FA for high-value sites.

Passkeys feel like:

  • More clicks, not fewer.
  • Obtrusive, inscrutable browser UI (firefox, chrome, safari, you name it). Modal dialogs that are aggravatingly misleading.
  • More exposure to corporations sharing my access tokens in ways I don't understand, not less.
  • Attestation is DRM for logins - it makes life worse.
  • Account recovery (or token backup) seems like a nightmare.

Who benefits from this?

Am I just not their target audience? Is it just too early days before a bright future? Do I misunderstand the value prop?

BradRubenstein, to random

Change my mind:

Attestation for passkeys and FIDO keys is bad. It privileges the perceived security of institutions over my own security and privacy.

It is DRM for logins.

coreyspowell, to space
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social avatar

Saturn seen in ultraviolet light -- a very different look for the ringed planet.

In this Hubble image, the bright middle zone shows that Saturn's rings are heating up the planet's atmosphere.

How does that work? Scientists haven't figured it out yet...

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-009

BradRubenstein,

Is the idea that the narrow equatorial blue band is cooling from the shadow of the rings?

I'm more interested in why the pole radiates so much UV...

@coreyspowell

BradRubenstein, to random

Chita Rivera, dead at 91.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/975467882/chita-rivera-dead

xor, to random
@xor@tech.intersects.art avatar

started the slow switch of my domains off of Gandi (they wanted to charge me $120/yr to renew https://1923.press! more than 2× the market rate!)

BradRubenstein,

What's you fave registrar these days?

@xor

BradRubenstein, to random

If you want to know what's cookin',
You got to stir the pot.

— Cajun saying (AFAIK)

@languagelovers

rodhilton, to random
@rodhilton@mastodon.social avatar

Gonna start playing the "Heartbeat Theme" from Killers of the Flower Moon on my phone whenever I bring my wife things so she thinks I'm trying to poison her.

https://open.spotify.com/track/0g6278gomIurDYvJ2aq3nC?si=cee3272be17c4deb

BradRubenstein,

Also try some chrysanthemum tea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qEp5pEp-fI

@rodhilton

wslack, to random

The world is confusing. At work, people say that you shouldn't send a meeting invite without checking in first on available times. I don't like that - I have an open calendar, just book!

In personal life, people seem to prefer me suggesting a time/place without seeing their cal - and I don't like that either, it makes the other person have to say "no" because they are busy.

BradRubenstein,

I ghost those people. 😄

@wslack

ktemkin, to random
@ktemkin@chaos.social avatar

multilingual people: how the heck do you keep words from slipping across language boundaries?

I find that I’ll be speaking Spanish (which I’m rusty with, but have spoken for like 20 years) and I’ll go to say e.g. “o” (or) and get the German “oder” instead

BradRubenstein, (edited )

It's funny cause I'm in a naturally trilingual environment (eng, esp, cat) where most everyone else has native fluency, and I'm all word salad.

They understand everything I'm saying, but it drives them crazy. I really need to concentrate and focus in order to stick to a single language vertical at any one time.

(Also, so many sociolinguistic mistakes - everyone has something like internal gaydar-like sense by which they know which language to use in which circumstances, and I get it all wrong - a weird and consequential blindness, hopefully temporary).

@ktemkin

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