Detection Analyst
GCDA, GSOC, Sec+, Comp Sci degree (past glories: Fortran, VAX, Pascal, DOS, Windows 95/98, OS/2 Warp, Windows NT, MCP, Windows Vista)
My only claim to fame: I've been gainfully employed > 15,000 uninterrupted days; including today.
Detection Analyst
GCDA, GSOC, Sec+, Comp Sci degree (past glories: Fortran, VAX, Pascal, DOS, Windows 95/98, OS/2 Warp, Windows NT, MCP, Windows Vista)
My only claim to fame: I've been gainfully employed > 15,000 uninterrupted days; including today.
I consider this a win for anti-(regional)monopoly action and counter enshittification operations.
Had Comcast been even a little customer focused instead of greedy focused it would be different, but they weren't and it isn't. I'd say they should go back to old fashioned cable T.V., but pick your favorite effin birds sentiment and apply liberally.
Had some malware Invoke-WebRequested onto one of our devices this week. Was able to secure a copy of same and have been wandering through its files. Found one named 100k_companies_with_url.json in a folder full of json and csv files. It's 10,633,629 characters of json on a single line. Searching for specific strings with something like an app or grep was fairly useless as I could find matches but not isolate all the data for that match - namely the list values of the json field. So I did something I've not done in... decades? Long time anyway. I used awk. Between my rustiness and, well, awk, I spent the next two hours tweaking and coming up with new and exciting perturbations of the command at the cost of some work productivity. You could say I fell into an 'awk'ward rabbit hole.
There is nothing I love more than research finding that coffee is good for your health
in this case, a four-decade-long study of 50,000 women
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/06/16/coffee-healthy-aging-women/84225332007/
The sharpest image ever taken of Venus.
From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki.
The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken.
It's real!