Philip Guenther

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he/him; recovering system/network admin; hacking on email and OpenBSD since the '90s
@regehr this reminds me of the time @irene’s grandmother took me to a Munich-themed Brazilian churrascaria in Beijing, and it turned out to be a Korean BBQ restaurant serving mostly Chinese food

New jargon dropped: "lonely skill" That's a skill you have which no one understands to be useful, or maybe even a skill.

Example usage: "I know exactly how much peanut butter is necessary to eat those two stalks of celery." <blank looks> "It's a lonely skill."

TFW the stew you made for dinner is too delicious and as a result you both burn your mouths on it.
On our hike at Purisma creek open space today we encountered ~100 banana slugs, including this pair. With their yin yang positioning, we’re pretty sure they were about to mate (more baby slugs! ​)
Regular reminder: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

Are you still using the 2-argument open?

(A short post on @cpansec by me.)

https://security.metacpan.org/2025/06/06/two-arg-open.html

#perl #security #infosec

Are you still using the 2-argument open?

The 2-argument open function is insecure

security.metacpan.org
OMG: young owls hanging out on a branch over our driveway! Squeeee!  
Fabulousness from Rose Ann Prevec. ;)
Coworker found these while cleaning his home office; apparently from the OpenBSD kiosk at a USENIX conference back in the day… 
Met this big boy while pruning a (sadly neglected) cork oak