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Scott Wilson

@scottwilson@infosec.exchange

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27+ year information security “professional”.
 I like non-alcoholic #beer, #gardening and yardwork, playing guitar, and reading #books (mystery, thriller, suspense, #scifi, fantasy, astrophysics, and cosmology).

Stage IIIB #ColorectalCancer survivor.
 I'm a middle-aged, middle class, Christian, husband, dad, doggy-daddy, and friend. I’m supporter of #LGBTQIA rights, a #BlackLivesMatter advocate, a believer in #TransRights and proponent of equality. I support #Ukraine.

Only hand-crafted, artisanal memes.

Posts are on auto-delete (1 week).

Home Page	https://bscottwilson.com
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Scott Wilson 13h ago

Fuuuuuuuuuu….

Raleigh, 98 F, high 102 F, “feels like” 109 F (42.8 C)

#wx #hot #heatwave

Scott Wilson 13h ago

Julia’s little zines are superior tools for gaining a deep understanding of the subjects chosen! Highly recommended!!!

#education #computing https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/114739483818374844

Julia Evans (@b0rk@jvns.ca)

Attached: 1 image The reason this zine is called "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is that I learned more useful things while writing this zine than when writing any other zine, even though I've been using the terminal every day for 20 years. It really left me feeling like the terminal is full of hidden secrets -- because "the terminal" is made up of so many different pieces, there's no single terminal manual you can read! Here's the table of contents (which as a bonus shows the components of the terminal!)

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Scott Wilson 13h ago

Julia Evans 13h ago

The reason this zine is called "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is that I learned more useful things while writing this zine than when writing any other zine, even though I've been using the terminal every day for 20 years.

It really left me feeling like the terminal is full of hidden secrets -- because "the terminal" is made up of so many different pieces, there's no single terminal manual you can read!

Here's the table of contents (which as a bonus shows the components of the terminal!)

Scott Wilson 13h ago

Hackread.com 14h ago

💡 Kali Linux 2025.1c is out

✔️ Fixes update errors from lost signing key

🛠️ Adds new tools like azurehound and binwalk3

🎛️ Redesigned menu with MITRE ATT&CK

🔗 https://hackread.com/kali-linux-2025-1c-fix-issue-adds-tools-interface-update

#CyberSecurity #KaliLinux #InfoSec #HackingTools #PenTesting

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Scott Wilson 14h ago

It has arrived. #nopesauce h/t @Viss

Scott Wilson 14h ago

Martin Seeger 15h ago

Why do you think they want access to your Social Media Profile for a visa?

Even they are not so stupid to believe that a suicide bomber will announce his upcoming performance is there.

It is plain and simple to suppress dissent.

Please, don't be surprised.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lseerczlx22z

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)

Welcome to thin-skinned authoritarianism. Brought to you by the “free speech” party. Hey @MarshaBlackburn care to comment? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842359/Norwegian-tourist-21-barred-entering-US-ICE-guards-meme.html

Bluesky Social

Scott Wilson 15h ago

Nullstring 🏴‍☠️15h ago

"people said calculators would make people not be able to do math, relax about chatgpt!"

BITCH - THE CALCULATORS WOULD GET THE ANSWER RIGHT THOUGH

Scott Wilson 17h ago

I unloaded all my Firefox tabs and switched to @Vivaldi 😎
https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/114738625983050807

Scott Wilson 17h ago

Ian Campbell 17h ago

Some folks seem not to understand:

1. Using a local AI agent does not mean data isn't being mined and returned.

2. Differential privacy tends to augment other privacy-by-design, it cannot replace it.

The first 2 items apply to every company, not just Mozilla. But:

3. Mozilla has already opted for and announced an ad-first strategy. They chose the path.

Scott Wilson 17h ago

Ian Campbell 19h ago

"firefox's privacy-first AI has features you can trust"

pal the trust horse left the barn ages ago there

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Larry Garfield 4d ago

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅4d ago

@Crell When people think that X company is too late to the AI LLM bullshit thing.

fuminghumanist 4d ago

@Crell Melon Tusk, the 'green tech innovator' of electric cars, solar roofs, and batteries solved the AI draining the grid problem by illegally running a bunch of heavy polluting gas generators. Everything is ok now.

firstprimate 4d ago

@fuminghumanist @Crell

Not the first time.

https://www.vehiclesuggest.com/the-diesel-secret-behind-teslas-largest-supercharger/

Green or Not So Green? The Diesel Secret Behind Tesla's Largest Supercharger - Vehiclesuggest

Tesla is setting the gold standard for innovation, performance, and most notably, sustainability. Tesla’s Supercharger network is often cited as a testament to its commitment to making green technology accessible and convenient. However, a recent revelation has cast a shadow over Tesla’s eco-friendly image. One of the company’s largest and most celebrated Supercharger stations located […]

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PixeKnight 4d ago

@firstprimate @fuminghumanist @Crell OMG, yeah, I always suspected that just switching to EVs doesn't actually help all that much (BY ITSELF).

Like, we also need to shut down most of fossil power plants, only then does it make a dramatic difference.

Not to say switching to EVs bad, just that it feels like an excuse for governments to not invest in green energy, while we need to do BOTH.

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist EVs on dirty electricity are still better than gas cars, since power plants are more efficient than your car is.

But yes, greening the grid is a required step that needs to be moving a lot faster.

@Crell @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist not even power plants are needed, a diesel generator as the one in the article above will do, to make it more efficient than an ice.

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Companies like Nissan, Honda and so on use this observation for their serial hybrids.

What entirely spoils these cars: Their tiny batteries and no charging port. So even for the typical daily 40 km round trip they need fuel even though you could conveniently charge them from your roof for these short distances.

@Waslich @Crell @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist

NiceMicro 4d ago

@Crell @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist an EV is still a car, has tiers that make noise and microplastics, take up space, require half of your city covered with tar.

If you cared about the environment, you advocated for public transit, that is the most energy and space efficient way to move people around.

EVs are a scam to make selfish people who want the government to subsidise their luxuries but also want to feel like they are doing something good.

#fuckCars #warOnCars #urbanism

PixeKnight 4d ago

@nicemicro @Crell @firstprimate @fuminghumanist 💯 yes, public transport is the best solution to transportation.

And denser housing (apartments around 2 to 4 stories tall imo is optimal)

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@nicemicro @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist More walkable cities with public transit is lovely. But that's simply not viable for large swaths of the country, especially areas that are not cities. And even if we committed to it, it will take decades to rebuild all our cities to not need cars. EVs are a necessity and even in the most optimistic case will be for decades.

Your vitriol towards people with their own wheels is counter productive.

PixeKnight 4d ago

@Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist yes, it's not necessarily viable in rural areas, I agree, but it is totally viable in cities, and I would argue even in suburbs.

Just make bus routes around the suburbs that can take you to a train station (that you'd also have to build) that can then take you to the city centre.

How do I know that works? Because I used to visit my friend who lived in suburbs that way.

And since most people live in cities and suburbs, it will reduce pollution.

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@a_e_sayapov @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist You need to get say more places than city center.

I live right near a local light rail station in the Chicago area. We have the 2nd best public transit coverage in the counter after NYC. It's still impossible to get to 90% of places without a car, in less than 2-3 hours.

It took a century to build car cities. It will take at least 50 tests to unbuild them.

PixeKnight 4d ago

@Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist That's because there isn't enough investment into public transport.

Because there isn't enough public transport investment, it's shitty, and because it's shitty, no-one uses it, and because no-one uses it, it doesn't get investment.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@a_e_sayapov @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist Indeed.

To be clear, I'm in favor of more/better public transit. I'm Yes-and on EVs, bikes, ebikes, public transit... We need all of the above.

PixeKnight 4d ago

@Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist fair nuff.

But yeah, my point basically is that we need to start somewhere.

NiceMicro 4d ago

the problem is, that EVs are "not a start in the right direction", it's a scam, so the status quo of the car industry milking the american public dry can continue, just even in a worse, more tax-payer subsidized way.

how is it a "good thing" to let the already rich get tax-subsidies on a more dangerous, more expensive car instead of sustainable development?

in the list of "public transit, EVs, ebikes, bikes", there is one that is not like the other.

#urbanism #warOnCars

PixeKnight 4d ago

@nicemicro I meant start investing in public transport

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Yes, if you have lots o time.

Writing this from Berlin, Germany. Guess we can agree that this city and its suburbs got a pretty decent public network with even the most remote places seeing regular service. S-Bahn run at 80 to 100 km/h. Trams and metro at 60 km/h. Still you barely reach an average speed of 15 km/h when using public transportation, because of the delays and detours. Cars move here with an average speed of 30 km/h.

@a_e_sayapov @Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Well, and I really don't like the fact that cars are so much faster, but 30 km/h is the benchmark to met for people to change from cars to public.

Well, and then there is the cost: Once you wasted your money on a private car, the PV charged electric car drives almost for free, while public transport is 4,70 € per trip. Get another persons in your PV car and safe money; even with acquisition and service.

@a_e_sayapov @Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist

NiceMicro 2d ago

@taschenorakel @a_e_sayapov @Crell @firstprimate @fuminghumanist
yes, but the fact that the default assumption is that "you already bought a car" is very silly. Most of us aren't born with a car, and while the 4.70 euros would be a bit much for my liking (I spend 2400 KRW on a single trip (~2 euros) on a bus that is as fast as cars. But, paying 4.70 would probably still be less than your vehicle expenditure.

NiceMicro 2d ago

@taschenorakel @a_e_sayapov @Crell @firstprimate @fuminghumanist also also, let's not forget, that the PV charged electric car is paid for partially by the tax payer, the electrical infrastructure is paid for by the tax payer, the roads are paid for by the tax payer.

Why does the tax payer subsidize the least efficient way of moving people around instead of the most efficient one?

This boggles my mind and it makes me angry. And it should make you angry, too.

NiceMicro 4d ago

@Crell EVs are as much a necessity as any other scam.

yeah, let's build cars that are heavier (and therfore more dangerous), can burst into flames you can't extinguish, require more rare materials to build, and are so expensive that you need other people to pay for it through taxation.

EVs are only good for the car companies and for the people who are already rich to get subsidized.

The car industry is the king of america, and the EVs are just their way to keep their crown.

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@nicemicro How's that misdirected hate working out for you. Managed to convince many EV drivers that they're the evil enemy?

I thought not. Get out of my thread.

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Analyses' of the full production chain have shown, that producing six liters of diesel consumes about 45 kWh of electricity.

Six liters of diesel power the most efficient combustion cars for something like 100 km.

The energy just needed to produce these six liters of diesel would power most recent battery electric cars for up to 300 km.

Go figure.

@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist @Crell

Jargoggles 4d ago

@fuminghumanist @Crell
He has a long and extensive history of environmental violations.

adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)4d ago

@jargoggles @fuminghumanist @Crell

His mere existence is an environmental violation.

Hot Dog Water Moccasin 4d ago

My wife telling me about the power cutting twice at her entire complex today, and we just approved a data center. In the desert.
We gon'die.

@Crell ... and while artists who could do perfectly good (and in some cases I'm sure, excellent) drawings of a girl with 5 tits are going without work and could really do with the commissions.

Glenn Seto 4d ago

@joachim @Crell Shout-out to the artists involved in that one scene in Total Recall and all the lovable pervs it awakened something within!

Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪4d ago

@Crell Please share the pic of the girl here, so that not everyone reading this has to generate it on his/her own.

@Crell no link?

Dav Ito :polyam::nonbinary::omnisexual:4d ago

@Crell
reminds me of how normal people have water restrictions during a drought.
and then there are golf courses that still are still somehow still green.

Nicole Parsons 4d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/ai-to-prop-up-fossil-fuels-and-slow-emissions-decline-bnef-says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/23/ai-gas-trump-climate-fossil/

Data centers are being forced upon us all so the fossil fuel industry can keep its oil energy addicts & captive consumers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligene-ai-data-centers-electricity-bill-energy-costs/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/customers-could-pay-for-data-centers-energy-costs-without-reform.html

https://www.volts.wtf/p/who-is-paying-for-all-that-data-center

The fossil fuel industry funds cryptocurrency & AI data centers to keep oil prices high for petrostate despots like Putin & MBS. And Koch Network.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price-2025-6

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 4d ago

@Crell Any house that needs AC is somewhere hot, right? Or it wouldn't need AC in the first place?

So there's at least some sunshine, right? Or it wouldn't be hot?

So the AC is powered by the house's own solar panels, right? Because there is no conceivable reason why not. So, why should the city care how much you run your AC? You'll just be exporting a bit less power, on a day when there's more than enough power to go around anyway.

@TimWardCam @Crell great for 'houses', sure. But if you're in a multi storey building you don't have enough roof for panels for everybody's cooling.

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 4d ago

@Niall @Crell Sure. I very deliberately said "houses" for exactly that reason. Gotta start somewhere.

Morgan ⚧️4d ago

@TimWardCam @Crell friendly reminder that most people in cities rent our homes and many of us (probably most idk) live in apartment buildings 😕 I'd use solar panels if I could

mtconleyuk 4d ago

@raphaelmorgan @TimWardCam @Crell And in the meantime, those nice country folk don’t want the big solar arrays situated near them because they ruin the view …

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 4d ago

@mtconleyuk @raphaelmorgan @Crell My answer to that (I've been in the planning business as a councillor) is "if you want to keep your view the same then all you have to do is buy it and refrain from developing it (and hope that you don't get CPOd because development is in the overriding public interest.)"

@raphaelmorgan @TimWardCam @Crell in Germany it is popular to use small portable solar panels in windows and on balconies and plug them into the nearest electrical socket. I don't know what it requires of the wiring in an apartment, so might not be possible for everyone.

Morgan ⚧️4d ago

@Laust @TimWardCam @Crell that's something I've considered! I'd have to save up for it and do more research though, so right now I'd rather pay the extra 25 cents or whatever to use renewable energy from the company

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@raphaelmorgan @Laust @TimWardCam

Technology Connections has argued that self hosted solar is actually bad for the grid, as it undermines revenue needed to maintain the wires, even if they're just a backup for you.

Certainly grid scale solar/wind is more efficient. My city bulk buys from a green provider rather than the incumbent company, so our electrons are already green.

Larry Garfield 4d ago

@TimWardCam That assumes everyone has their own rooftop solar farm. While a lovely idea the future, it is not even slightly where we are today.

@TimWardCam @Crell
This is why I say all new housing should be required to have power generating capability. Maybe geothermal for apartments instead, or both.

@Crell
Retreating to cool places is recommended. 😎

zombiewarrior 4d ago

@Crell "girl you make me wish i had five arms"

@Crell Why is she speaking true facts?

Woozle Hypertwin 4d ago

@Crell If only we had this foreign communist thing called "government regulation", where the AI companies were required to drastically reduce usage during power-shortages...

NiceMicro 4d ago

@Crell yeah but think about it in winter, when you can keep your house warm by generating girls with 5 (or even more!) tits!

David Scott Moyer 4d ago

@Crell Especially since a woman with five tits was hand engraved in 1692.

Kevin Russell 4d ago

Take AI offline?

Lady Artemis 4d ago

I have a housemate who insists on showing me AI YouTube videos. I've stopped protesting and simply leave the room.

It's funny how fiercely people will pressure others to enjoy some bullspit they know is harmful, but don't want to admit is harmful. This AI spit from a man who typically would despise things that prevent people from having their basic needs met. It hurts my head, heart, and soul.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 4d ago

@Crell Five, you say?

Glenn Seto 4d ago

@Crell Is this what vegans felt when they cautioned people about the ecological impact of cow farts, only to be met with shrugs or outright ridicule?

(Why yes, I am paying a small karmic debt here myself.)

This is Hell 4d ago

@Crell @tayfonay PREACH

@Crell fast extinction or superfast extinction? Why not do *both*!