Ed

@EdBruce@infosec.exchange
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Just an old geek. Learned about computers on a CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation). Then the math teacher at HS got an old Navy surplus computer with drum memory. It had a high speed optical paper tape reader. From there it was BASIC, Cobol, FORTRAN, CMS-2Y, Jovial, Ada. Did some Java and C but never got that good. In retirement learning Rust.

Note: the main picture is from the B-24 my father was co-pilot on in the South Pacific

Dissent"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"

Faking airplanes and hacking GNSS: the dark side of aviation radio communication. 👨đŸģ‍đŸ’ģđŸ›Šī¸đŸ§­đŸŒđŸ˜ĩ‍đŸ’Ģ

More details:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dlaskov_aviation-cybersecurity-gnss-activity-7408186061966708737-ocxe
Substack: https://it4sec.substack.com/p/faking-airplanes-and-hacking-gnss

A sudden 5 percent dip in performance reliability made my knees go shaky and I leaned on the cabin hatch. For twelve seconds it seemed like a good idea to slide all the way down to the deck and just stay there.
@stfn @nixCraft I past that a few decades ago
By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can. They finally settle on Debian Stable or Mint because they realize they no longer have the "mental bandwidth" to spend 6 hours configuring stuff or fix broken systems just to check their email or watch Netflix. 😊
Microsoft Teams is experiencing issues, with thousands reporting problems sending messages, including delays đŸ¤Ŗ

Due to the extensive redactions in the #Epstein files, analysts predict a steep rise in price for black pixels, toner and ink.

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf

Picture of a #Wolf
#wolf #bot
Going out on a limb here, but I had so much to say about the topic of the Prusa OCL announcement and who gets to decide what is and isn't open source that I actually started a goddamned blog on my website and will almost certainly regret it in the morning. https://www.alpenglowindustries.com/blogs/all-blogs/open-source-is-not-all-or-nothing
Open Source is Not All or Nothing

I'm probably going to alienate half of you by starting off with this: I don't like Joseph Prusa and I don't like his printers.  So I find myself in the awkward and not particularly pleasant position of having to admit that when it comes to open source hardware licenses, he has some pretty good points. Existing open sou

Alpenglow Industries
HourlyWolves present:
#wolf #bot

Grounded intellectual work, when it happens, if it ever happens again, is uncomfortable. It tells you things you don't want to hear, makes arguments that threaten positions you hold, points out problems you'd rather not see.

The public intellectuals of the past, at their best, did this.

Our current crop // slop does the opposite.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how

Westenberg.