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  So this was an amusing development. Many of you enjoyed my recent video where I shared the "Trashing Our Rights" game involving handcuffs, a diskette, and a bin. As you would have seen, the very start of my YouTube video involved a clip from the movie Hackers where a handcuffed Dade Murphy tosses a yellow floppy into a trash can before being put into an FBI cruiser and ultimately shouts "Hack the planet!" from the open rear window. Classic. After uploading, I found my cha...

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  Are you coming to Vegas for hacker summer camp soon? My video this week describes the greatest game you can play while in town during @defcon@defcon.social ☺️ Surprise: It doesn't involve gambling! 😉👍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_xxbHoFHUY

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  Many of you are coming to Vegas for @defcon@defcon.social ... but how many of you are doing the super awesome bonus move of staying in town AFTER the con for training? Red Team Alliance is running our RFID/PACS training class "Breaking Physical Access Control" August 10th & 11th and seats are still available... https://training.defcon.org/collections/def-con-training-las-vegas-2026/products/breaking-physical-access-control-electrical-fundamentals-rfid-credentials-and-hands-on-off...

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  The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable. I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?

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  I love how flying makes even the most dreary, rainy day one of absolute perfection and beauty. 🌧️ You will never convince me that this is not an absolutely gorgeous way to spend an afternoon. 🛫 (I am very happy with my life.) 😌

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  @mindthesec@bird.makeup I have been trying for almost half an hour to submit to your CFP but no matter what I do and no matter how much I edit my submission, your web site only displays this rather opaque error. Anything you can do to help? @wendynather@infosec.exchange speaks highly of your event and @Weld@infosec.exchange will also be there so I'd love to toss my hat into the ring... if only the ring would accept my hat. 😄👍🎩

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  Well, we're prepared to try another version of the Irish music recordings and see if YouTube complains yet again and calls us all terrorists. Here's the video that we *might* toss at YouTube and hope that it doesn't get nuked again... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwT4_gqiKk0HOiHPyn2JkiwkYh2vzswM/view?pli=1 ... anyone care to offer suggestions or place their bets on what will happen? The channel that is under development already has a strike. If this song STILL gets flagged,...

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  ICE are clearly hiring only the best and brightest fascist high school dropouts with anger management issues and poor dexterity. (cc @radleybalko@mastodon.social )

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  OK, internet. Time for me to admit something and then solicit your advice. Admission: I have not purchased a TV in well over 20 years now. I haven't owned a TV for at least 15 years. 📺 While - yes - I have lived with folk way back in Philly who had one every so often, the last TV that I *purchased* was literally a CRT with a tube. Tarah and I didn't have a TV at all for the near-decade that we were married. Your Advice: Is there a decent resource that you folk trust when i...

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  @ryanc anyone sleepin' on this toot is failing the internet today. you are, as always, a treasure

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  At first I thought thought I had found a candidate for most horrifying reCAPTCHA process ever devised. 🤔 Then with a closer look, my Sus-O-Meter went off the scale. ⚠️ (UPDATE: OK, yeah, just as I suspected... this is clearly malware. I spoke with the business and helped them understand the fact that their website was compromised.) LOL, would any of you ever trust a web site to: 1. inject a long text string into your clipboard 2. ask you to open Command Prompt 3. then expect you to blind...

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  Groan. Clicking on URLs in my signal chats now launches some sort of weird google-based quick browser instead of my default installed Firefox app on my Android device. Time to play everyone's favorite fun game: Who Fucking Changed What Fucking Thing (I believe I updated Signal pretty recently and also I just pushed to Android 16 today. This version of Android apparently has something called "instant apps" relating to default links I think? Seems like yet another f...

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  today's XKCD gave me a solid laugh 😂

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  I had a very nice time on the @1password podcast, and the episode is out now... https://youtu.be/wd74Pnwd-50?t=1541 ...we discuss some outrageous stories, but in spite of the fact that today is April 1st, I assure you they're all true! 👍😁👍 Thanks for having me on!

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  Reason number 834763 that I am infuriated by Republicans: They have managed to make me feel sympathy towards TSA employees. 😡 (But at least there were no openly armed D student incels with anger issues here in the airport)

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  (This has now been solved, see below) Hello, internet... calling all of my German-speaking friends: can any of you identify the song being played here? Even if you do not know the song per se, maybe you can help me by picking out some of the lyrics and thus being able to spell them properly in a web search which might help identify the song name? EDIT 1: Fun Twist, we are learning that this might be Pennsylvania German as opposed to continental German. 🐎 EDIT 2: We have identified this song...

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  It's amazing and excellent to see @pluralistic 's term being touted and amplified by an entire national government... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration

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  Ok, internet. I'm reaching out here. 😮‍💨 I've been trying for a few months now to find someone capable of doing a machining project. After MANY frustrating conversations with machinists who find this job either too small (for their big shop) or too large (for their boutique shop) I'm posting here for reach and boosts, etc... My goal is to take steel rod stock (likely stainless, but this is flexible based on pricing) in either 7/16" or 15/32" diameter...

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  Way to go, LAX. This is a very functional system and makes perfect sense. No problems at all with these logistics and your airport roads. 😂