MzBlackwood 

@MzBlackwood@infosec.exchange
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Infosec Nerd. Mental Health Advocate. Capitalism is your real enemy. #k12infosec #edusec #alertmonkey #vulnmanagement / ISC2-CC / Sec+ / 30 years of IT/ Helpdesk -> Sysadmin -> TAM -> PM -> Sysadmin -> Infosec Engineer

You can’t compete with me, I want you to win too.

Grace Hopper has a posse.

I'm worried that all of the justified hate and anger being justifiably directed at Jeff Bezos will mean less justified hate and anger for Elon Musk.

Let's do both!

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve been made redundant at my job. If you want to hire an excellent Apple platforms developer (iOS, etc.) with 17 years of experience, time at Apple, and lots of SwiftUI experience, or a great Ruby on Rails developer, reach out.

Full-time or freelance. Ready to go immediately. Please spread the word. #Swift #RubyOnRails #GetFediHired

Join the anticapitalist bloc at the 2025 Budapest Pride! #FreeMaja

"On the 22nd of February, the hungarian parliament accepted a modification of the child protection act. It basically makes it impossible to organise the Budapest Pride. The law is not the first one explicitly targeting queer and trans people, it was preceded by others. Just to mention a couple of them, they banned the „promotion“ of queer sexualities and genders in schools and in the media by connecting it to pedophilia, declared that humans can only be men and women, replaced the term gender with „sex at birth“, and legally erased trans and intersex people to change their gender in official documents.
(...)
What is happening in hungary is not a local problem, it’s an attack on all of us – on everybody who wants to live in a world that is not driven by trans- and queerphobia, racism, sexism and exploitation, but in a world of solidarity and freedom.

Do not let the fascists dictate if we can exist!

Join our anticapitalist bloc at the 2025 Budapest Pride on June 28!
If you cannot: organise solidarity parties to support us in criminalisation, take solidarity photos or just share this information!"

https://emrawi.org/?CALL-FOR-SUPPORT-KOMMT-ZUR-PRIDE-IN-BUDAPEST-AM-28-06-25-3684

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Trans #Hungary #Pride #Solidarity #BudapestPride

CALL FOR SUPPORT // KOMMT ZUR PRIDE IN BUDAPEST AM 28.06.25!

Aufruf zur Teilnahme am antikapitalistischen Block der Budapester Pride am 28.06.2025. Wir spiegeln hier einen Aufruf von Gefährt*innen der Feminista Akcio. Die Gefährt*innen sind auf Unterstützung am Tag der Pride angewiesen, da nur eine große Masse an Menschen verhindern kann, dass einzelne Demoteilnehmer*innen per Gesichtserkennung identifiziert und mit Geldstrafen belegt werden. Solltet ihr keine Kapazitäten haben an diesem Tag anzureisen, wird sich genauso sehr über Spenden und das (...)

EMRAWI
Oh and AppleTV can be a Karaoke machine now. So I guess we got that. . . le sigh
Lol, file management, window management that I'm pretty sure we already have, and menu bar transparency. . . Sure am glad capitalism drives all this innovation, otherwise I'd feel like these were already solved problems 25 years ago. . .

Happy Pride to everyone...

except buses. They know what they fuckin' did.

#Pride #pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

Day 1 of RMISC. It was mostly good. I participated in most of the Women in Cybersecurity track. Met some new people, learned a couple things re: quantum computing, and then got very pissed off about an allyship panel that was three old white dudes explaining how they were allies because they treat all people the same. . . I walked out when one of the guys said “woke probably swung too far left when it became possible to ruin careers by making false accusations of impropriety to HR”. . .

I didn’t have the guts to confront in that room. It was sad because it made a safe room feel unsafe. And because it diminished my respect for the person who chose to make that panel part of the track.

Then I ran into Rick Howard and chatted for a bit and got to listen to @briankrebs give a wonderful keynote with a much more honest and grounded tone than we are likely to see from the rest of the speakers this week. . .

Anyway, the day I was looking forward to most of the conference is over now. Only slightly marred by being reminded that some folks still see the bare minimum as worth epitomizing. 🤷🏻‍♀️ two more days of plucking nuggets of value from some presenters and making connections.

Oh and also, swag.

It's a weird Tuesday. Graduation was this past Saturday. All the circumstances were pompped. Hats were tossed. 8 separate live streams (11 if you include the Friday Graduations for the online schools and whatnot) flawlessly executed by a dedicated team of IT professionals. I had nothing to do with that part. I just watched and listened.

Then the holiday weekend. The dashboards are quiet. Too quite? Not really. The correct quiet for the current status of the district. It will pick back up soon enough. . .

And then tomorrow (and the rest of the week) is RMISC.

Makes it feel like I should be doing a lot of work today, but also like I can't get too into anything that might span more than one day. It's a Monday-Friday Tuesday. . .

Tomorrow afternoon I get to listen to @briankrebs give a keynote. The rest of the week I'll see if I can glean some nuggets of wisdom, maybe learn a thing, or hear a perspective I've not considered before.

It's hard for me to get hyped about conferences. Especially with the AI cheer teams leading every session.

They say it's about the networking. But I think it's really about the swag.

I do need more socks. . .

Some song lyrics feel like personal attacks, “I’m not cool, and I’m not smart, and I can’t even parallel park” is one such lyric.