mainframed767

@mainframed767@infosec.exchange

Do you know anything about hackers? Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? Ever read Neuromancer? Ever experienced the new wave? Next wave? Dream wave? Or cyberpunk?

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jwz, to random
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Welp that's less than ideal

mainframed767,

@jwz is this an old Mac?

Viss, to random
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RIP vmware

mainframed767,

@Viss I'm shocked a company known for buying software and squeezing every ounce of profit from it has done this. Shocked!

mainframed767, to random

Well, if every Canadian didn't know about flipper zero, they do now.

mainframed767, to random

Boeing treating their planes like Ikea furniture and just forgetting to install some bolts is... troubling.

Maybe some industries shouldn't focus solely on profits and share price.

mainframed767, to Zelda

Nintendo should really do a Zelda 2 remaster. Make it either a pixel or a 2.5d game.

Viss, to random
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ugh 6am
no

mainframed767,

@Viss ugh, airport bungholes. The worst.

mainframed767, to retrocomputing

I Asked Bing to draw me a mainframe terminal, and....

mainframed767, to chrome

mainframed767, to random

Before you finalize your product, you must fight the final boss: The Scrum Master!

mainframed767, to Netflix

Wow, Netflix really wants to lose business. Saw a movie with a little lock on it. A movie I watched last month. Now I can't watch it because "Unavailable on am ad-supported plan due to licensing restrictions".

So now, not only am I paying to watch ads but I have a limited selection.

Time to cancel.

mainframed767, to IBM

So IBM made a decision that managers must be in the office 3 days a week, or else (they're fired). Which is hilarious given that people don't work for companies they work for managers. Good leaders will just bounce and over a year or two will take the good people from their team with them.

But of course the EY (or whoever) consultants knew this and is probably where they're doing this in the first place because it's cheaper than layoffs.

mainframed767, to retrogaming

Just finished reading this great writeup by @Sidneys1 about reverse engineering a Windows95 game. Very cool:

https://sidneys1.com/reverse-engineering/2023/02/23/reverse-engineering-a-win95-game-I.html

mainframed767, to Netflix

mainframed767, to random

Has someone named the effect where the more letters from certs a person has after their name the less useful they're gonna be?

hacks4pancakes, to random

I get asked a lot by people how they can do professional speaking engagements. It's not a terribly complicated formula:

~ Pick an area of expertise you are credentialed in (experience, degrees, papers, etc) and can speak to a variety of audiences on.
~ Work on your speaking skills with formal education. I recommend Toastmasters and their Pathways. It's tried and true and a lot of fun. I recommend them to EVERYONE.
~ Do free talks for a couple years at community events to practice and build a portfolio of talk topics and then recordings. For infosec, events like recorded BSides that post talks on YouTube are great.
~ Work on your branding. Good professional looking headshots. Good bio. Get outside editing help.
~ Reach out to a speaking bureau in your region which covers the general topic you would like to speak on, and propose yourself as a speaker with the aforementioned portfolio. They will interview you and review your credentials and recorded talks.
~ Explore the fees on their site from similar speakers to set your general reasonable ballpark. It is probably more than you think. The agent will take a percentile.

mainframed767,

@hacks4pancakes how does one find a local speaking bureaux?

mainframed767,

@hacks4pancakes I get it, appreciate the response.

mainframed767, to random

Holy moly did not realize the number of kickers stations @somafm added! Loving the Bossa Nova station right now.

mainframed767, to random

The talks are just so good. Really love the talks I've watched on YouTube so far.

repeatro, to retrogaming
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I experienced the Mega Man series on Game Boy as a kid as really challenging.
Have already caught up Mega Man II and IV on NES yet and look forward to the other titles. 🤖

What are your experiences with the classic Mega Man series? :wily_ufo:

mainframed767,

@angelus_04 @repeatro same. My friends figured out the controller 2 trick for megaman 3, which I used to cheat all the time.

mainframed767, to random

mainframed767, to random

The worst part about setting up zpdt is not the arduous licensing process from IBM, or setting up the OS, or IBM changing the product name every two years. Its having to sling around 80GB worth of compressed disk images, uncompressing them all and having to then deal with almost 300GB worth of disk images.

At least hercules supports compressed DASD images, jeez.

#zos #zpdt #rduz #rdz #mainframe

mainframed767,

@promovicz For All Mankind gives a good idea of what the 90s would've looked like if significant tech advancements were made and its basically what you're describing (and IBM significantly helped NASA during the space race, its why JES2 jobs have HASP error messages, where HASP stands for Houston Automatic Spooling Priority, and you still see those messages today)

mainframed767,

@promovicz I DID NOT. WHOA! I wonder how often actual real mainframe error messages have showed up in TV and movies.

mainframed767, to random

Strongly recommend you read this post by @pluralistic about the HOPE conference.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

I also just love this quote

But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.

mainframed767, to Amazon

Amazon: You bought a monitor recently. Wanna buy another one? No? Well we'll just check in every single time you log on to see if you change your mind.

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