Plaid

@plaidtron3000@jorts.horse
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"Fantastic orgy of destruction" is my middle name. It's hard to explain that to HR managers.

Shitpost machinegun.

Also huge nerd, but you'll have to wade through shitposts and #monsterdon toots to find anything of substance.

PronounsHe/His
ProverbsWhat profiteth it a kingdom if the oxen be deflated?

Nothing has ever made me feel as old as realizing Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50.

"Your kids are turning 30, don't you feel old" No.

"You're at the age where friends and acquaintances are passing away." That's true.

"RHPS is doing a 50th anniversary tour."

MY BONES OH GOD MY BONES

@starkraving666 and I got the og switch back when it was relatively new to take on our glamping honeymoon. Since then we have played hundreds if not thousands of hours of MK8 and a bunch of other games on the switch. It’s been money well spent. We’re both pretty excited for the new Mario Kart.

Pre-ordered the new Switch

I’m a consumer whore.

Fun fact: You can make Google Gemini hallucinate really easily by asking it to define semi-coherent nonsense.
Gemini knows its star trek

One other note - you may say ‘but Kevin, the incident response data wouldn’t know about GenAI phishing!’.

Mandiant’s data shows phishing as initial access has dropped for the past 3 years in a row. It’s almost halved since execs hit the GenAI juice.

Sophos data shows same, phishing only 6% of incidents now.

Stop being drunk on sales pitches.

Climbing into bed to nap off a migraine, where @starkraving666 is already napping

Her: you feeling ok?
Me: no I have a headache
Her: oh no, come here

I try to get closer to cuddle but she’s aimed all her bony extremities at me and immediately fallen asleep. I try but it’s like trying to snuggle a pile of elbows and knees and eventually give up.

HEY, #Seattle #retrocomputing folk!

Are you doing anything this Friday? Wanna come test out an (in-progress) Dial-Up ISP?

Bring a modem, your old computer(s) and a phone cable and come have fun!

Don't have a modem? No problem! Bring some old computers anyway. We'll get you connected!

Address and other details are available at https://devhack.net/

/dev/hack

seattle hackerspace focused on community and building cool things

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (
web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
Melissa Lewis (@melissa.news)

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67480/piracy-it-s-a-crime-psa

Bluesky Social

Friend: Which one, Mastodon or Bluesky?

Me: Mastodon has scientists and experts in their field who love to share about their lives, and everyone is super nice. Bluesky is not so much.

Friend:

Me: Mastodon is Star Trek. Bluesky is Star Wars.

Friend: Why didn’t you say that first?