Mark Bryant

@Spartan_1986@infosec.exchange
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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.

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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.

Hard to find the original, but I love this
#BladeRunner #Gopher #AltaVista

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.

#yourewelcome

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

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/

Could coffee be the key to 'healthy aging' in women?

The caffenated brew could lead to healthy aging in women, while drinking soda was "strongly associated with lesser likelihood of healthy aging."

USA TODAY
I dub thee Pterodactyl flower!
you are a fucking EMAIL CLIENT you can't say that shit

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!