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ksaj

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Tailored Access Operations since 1989

  • Not Scarlett's Dad - Guitarist -
    Mentalist - Raspberry Pi and
    Microcontrollers - Offensive
    Operations Model (Y2K1) -
    Quantum Djinn Slayer -

Rectum? Damn near Uranus!

#raspberrypi #guitar #alife #lisp #commonlisp #stratocaster #metal #neoclassicalmetal #microcontrollers #artificiallife #fedi22 #musician #mentalism #magic #socialengineering #infosec #pentesting #hacking #retrocomputing #electronics

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I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring for Speaker of The House. Do I get lobbyist money now?

ksaj, (edited )
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@jerry Around Mar a Lago, they refer to that as taking a Data Dump.

ksaj,
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@jerry @_alice As long as you stick to declaring your innocence, even while telling interviewers exactly how you borked the lawz.

ksaj,
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@jerry Do you have hidden friendships in Russia? I'm running out of vodka.

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    @jerry If this was a momentary thing, it's not sad. It was probably fake or something.

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    @jerry Ah. Well, joining and instantly quitting suggests something is going on. Anyone with even the slightest amount of curiosity in the world would stick around to find out what this is all about.

    My spidey senses tingle when this sort of thing happens.

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    Does any company make a hot water heater that uses the waste heat from air conditioning to help heat the water? Was just staring at my utility closet where my water heater sits right next to my furnace and suddenly it seemed obvious and dumb that I use electricity in to heat my water, then use more electricity to pump heat out of my condo and into the air outside

    ksaj,
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    @jerry Our AC/Heating and water heating are all one big combined system where I live. Apparently it is super efficient.

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    Finally, some pirates at the pirate parade

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    ksaj,
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    @jerry This is a blast.

    jerry, to random
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    The lessons of today: do not roll your own encryption and do not host your own dns

    ksaj,
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    @jerry Back in Y2K I ran my own DNS. I loved it.

    But nothing will make me do that in today's environment! Yeeks! 😬

    jerry, to random
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    I had a pretty bad day today, but at least I wasn’t kicked out of office by my own political party.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry The best part is that they didn't want him in in the first place. That entire part of his career is probably something he'll try to bury at family reunions.

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    Am I bent out of shape about the CSAM acronym being hijacked? Yes, yes I am.

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    @jerry I'm loving the fact that mentioning this is enough to start holy wars.

    The same people still use terms 'revenge porn' and 'animal porn' and even 'snuff porn' in which their arguments clearly apply, yet they don't care. IE: It's a made up self-aggrandizing of those who pretend they know better than you.

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    Happy Cyber Security Awareness Month, when all the security blogs post their CSAM tips

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    @jerry Here is some CSAM material for your enjoyment.

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    jerry, to random
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    Doing fireball shots with the kids

    ksaj,
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    @jerry lol the liquor stores here have them up by the cash register. Always reminds me of the way corner stores do bubble gum or chocolate bars. Only, this is a completely different kind of impulse buying!

    ksaj, to random
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    @jerry Can you alert mastodon.world to the following bot spammer pls?

    I tried to report it but I get a 404 message about a record not existing.

    @atomicchanting9

    ksaj,
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    @jerry That might be why the report kept giving me a little 404 message. whenever I pressed Submit.

    I still had to block the account in order to not see the message in my Notifications afterward. Small bug, but at least there's an easy-to-guess workaround.

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    I had a problematic dream that, after Trump won reelection, he passed a law that required all websites include a scrolling banner of his truth social posts

    ksaj,
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    @jerry You could put Stephen King out of a job.

    jerry, to random
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    A few more pics of my new orchids. The purple one is a dendrobium and the other is a regular phal with some super cool spots.

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    ksaj,
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    @jerry @vidmo We just leave out a few jugs of water overnight. The chlorine oxidizes, so the water is much less harsh on plant and fish life.

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    G'morning @jerry

    Since the recent upgrade, I've noticed something very odd with the site. It continually forgets that I use the glitch interface when I start up in the morning. I have to go into preferences, not change anything but save anyway, and then it goes back to the multi-panels that I want.

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    @jerry @jrdepriest I don't mind the URL either way, but it always starts off in single-column format before re-saving the config.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry @jrdepriest Yes, I've already changed the link to https://infosec.exchange/deck/notifications, which brings me to my usual starting point with 3 panels instead of 1 super-wide one.

    It's an unusual change they made, since it doesn't appear to "fix" anything. But all good.

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    More bad news...

    ksaj,
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    @jerry It is strange that people pop in for a day, don't participate in anything, and then get annoyed that nobody noticed they were even here.

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    This whole business of infosec.exchange not having exclusively infosec content has me so upset that I will be posting more cat and orchid pictures to make myself feel better

    ksaj,
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    @jerry 🤣 Let's have only threads about each new CVE as they are discovered, in real time 'cos this is teh intarwebz and we are crazy 'leet!

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    Open Thread for infosec.exchange folks:

    We're all in this together. But when we go home at the end of the day, many of us have other hobbies or interests, completely unrelated to infosec.

    What is yours?

    I'll start: I'm a guitar player, and heavy metal enthusiast besides. Here's a short demo I made for a zombie movie that didn't make it past the cutting room floor.

    What do you do when your customers aren't watching?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrxQDz18jqs

    ksaj,
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    @jerry I've actually been showing some of your photographs to my partner, who loves gardening and growing orchids (and some other air plants), and is probably secretly wishing for Santa to bring an awesome camera with awesome lenses.

    So you have a quasi-anonymous fan already. 😀

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    I hope the R’s had to pay out the nose to have me report their stuff as spam

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    @jerry This one is bizarre. If you can't keep a Bible in a Library, what could possibly be found inappropriate for a library?

    Methinks the spam you get is straight up click bait at the same time.

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    I am going to be disabling image uploads and image serving, moving to moderated signups, and instituting some extensive block lists on infosec.pub due to the pervasive problems with CSAM attacks on lemmy instances.

    No, it’s not happened to any of our instances yet, but I don’t need that headache. And if anyone does, I promise you that I will make it my life’s mission to see that those responsible are convicted and rotting in prison where they belong. ❤️

    Edit: h/t to @infosec_jcp for pointing out the problem to me.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry @infosec_jcp That's quite a daring kind of attack to conduct, given that it raises the likelihood of various legal entities hunting them down. Pretty senseless, too.

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    @jerry @Enigma @infosec_jcp Child Porn is quite an appropriate term for it. I don't know why there is always this drive to throw new terms and acronyms after everything that already exists.

    Especially since the old term covers self-made images and videos, whereas CSAM kinda misses the boat.

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    @NosirrahSec @jerry @Enigma @infosec_jcp There are all kinds of porn that do not imply consent. We don't have special 4 letter acronyms for them.

    Porn means only that it is for sexual gratification. Here, find me a definition that even implies implied permission.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Apornography

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    @jerry @NosirrahSec @Enigma It's a fair point if it was true. Find even one definition for pornography that says anything about permission.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Apornography

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    @NosirrahSec @jerry @Enigma @infosec_jcp @jerry brought it up. Yell at him lol.

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    @jerry @NosirrahSec @Enigma @infosec_jcp Hehe My apologies for agreeing. 🤣

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    @jerry If you work for companies whose names appear on bright signs at the top of the building, yes.

    If they aren't using up the floor space, they don't get to keep their name aglow up there.

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    Got back from the beach and found this

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    @jerry When you're thinking "Oh golly, is my pet ever going to be glad I'm back after being left alone all day!" and then come home and see this...

    You know your place in a cat's world. 😹

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    I do hope that someday we can move on from depicting “cybercriminals” as someone wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry Does Disney get a few pennies every time someone in a GF mask is shown in media?

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    I think I may need to switch careers from CISO to “fediverse admin and feline photographer”

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    @jerry I randomly found this review of your newfound art somewhere random online:

    "They say a cat's purr and an orchid's bloom are like nature's perfect snapshots, and this photographer knows how to capture them both in 'purr-fect' harmony!" -- ChatGPT

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    I managed to get a pic of the super blue moon before the sun came up on Thursday morning. Conditions weren’t great but not terrible.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry It was overcast here. But at least I got to see it the day before it was official.

    It's funny that right now we have a giant moon in the sky, but it shows up late, so you have plenty of darkness for the other sky watching reasons before the moon shows up.

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    I saw someone digging on people who post cat pics today. So I am doing my part to make this a bad place

    Thor, distinguished apex feline royalty.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry Cell phones have made me miss cameras that actually do things with focus and field of view.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry I'm setting up to do a video series using Raspberry Pi. I bought a 4-headed camera HAT, and plan on putting various lenses in front of them so it's not just different angles, but different period.

    I'll of course have to document that because that in itself is a pretty cool project.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry I bought it because of the 4 heads, but they are all on the standard Raspberry Pi ribbon cable - meaning they are very short.

    So, adventurous me realized that I have these mini lenses that are meant for putting in front of the cell phone lenses, and that greatly extends what I even wanted to do with the 4 Pi cameras to begin with.

    Sort of a happy accident.

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    The people at bingo were convinced they could see blue in the full moon to tonight

    ksaj,
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    @jerry It's overcast here, so you can see grey. Does that count?

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    It’s moony at the beach tonight

    ksaj,
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    @jerry It has quite an unreal look about it. Full moon is coming, and you are likely to turn into a werellama.

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    Damn

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    @jerry I'm still drinking my morning coffee, and stared at the pic a little too long trying to figure out what was so shocking.

    Derp! 🤣☕

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    Oh, come on.
    https://www.comicsands.com/alice-cooper-gender-affirming-care-2664383141.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    ksaj,
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    @georgetakei He literally said that feeling like a guy means raping women.

    I guess that explains "Only Women Bleed."

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    HERE YOU GO.

    This Thug shot is real. #Trump #mugshot https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-georgia-surrender-indictment-08-24-23/h_4f2ed97bfb6e6c9bd51e556c1ea0a6c0

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    ksaj,
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    @GottaLaff Let's all start referring to him by his inmate number. He loves nicknames, and this one is a real good one! #P01135809

    jerry, (edited ) to random
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    I wish I could offer an “exit survey” for people who decide to move from infosec.exchange. Would love to know why and if there was anything we could have done better…

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    @jerry I currently only know of one person who moved from here to another instance.

    You don't have to feel bad about them. Their reason was infosec was very much a minor interest compared to the instance they chose to land on.

    Basically, it's not something you did. And it demonstrates one of the cool things one can do to personalize their Mastodon experience.

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    Dang, I did not realize how much the 8 core nginx server was limiting performance of Infosec.exchange. I am really sorry. Should have noticed it much sooner.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry Cores matter more than speed, for sure.

    I wanted a fairly cheap laptop, so I went for a fast one with only 2 cores. Super cheap.

    I can't believe how long I have to wait for some things to start! The speed is meaningless when you have to wait so long for a process to even start!

    My slower clocked 12-core Mac that I use for recording music runs like melted butter. Smooth and delicious! It is way the heck faster even though it is also way older than this craptop!

    Max cores totally matter.

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    Hey gurus: When I use strfile, carriage returns get omitted from the strings. But it is clear from other fortune files that there is a way to compile the files without losing the carriage returns.

    The man page doesn't show anything that would output a file with carriage returns intact. How is it done?

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    Removing the ability to block someone on a social network? Wowza. I better get some new servers going.

    ksaj,
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    @jerry There are people in my block list for so long I don't even remember why I blocked them.

    Elon wants to remind me why.

    I use Twitter less and less as this change progresses. I still call it Twitter, because I think X will be unbearable. I'll be long gone (hopefully most of my acquaintances that haven't even started migrating will too!) by the time it is totally X and no sign of Twitter left.

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    "You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." -- Charlie Chaplin

    "Unless you're 30,000 feet in the air." -- This lucky airborne photographer

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    @jerry @Nonya_Bidniss It'll be gone on the 30th anyway, since all my posts have a 3-month auto-delete on them. But yes, I left it because well, everyone, including myself right here for temporary posterity, falls for it once. And there are enough people explaining it that people can appreciate the picture and see one of the hundreds of people pointing out the fact that it is a hoax.

    Given how good Dalle-e's kin have gotten, there will surely be a heck of a lot more like this. I doubt this was the first one, but it's certainly the most attractive one! 😅

    It might not be a sign in the sky, but it is definitely a sign of the times.

    There is an amazing comment in the thread that shows other examples from the same source. That was a brilliant response that makes this whole exercise worthwhile.

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