Thomas H. Ptacek

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Full of passionate intensity.

So... yeah... we found a guest to talk to us about zero day markets and exploit pricing. He's... credible, I think?

(David and I tacked an "SCW: After Dark" bit at the end because he couldn't make the original interview).

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/06/24/mdowd/

Zero Day Markets with Mark Dowd

We have Mark Dowd on, founder of Aziumuth Security and one of the authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment, to talk about the market for zero day v...

Moss wrote a little bit of code and now it's arguably easier to give a Fly Machine access to an AWS resource than it is to give it to an ECS task. https://fly.io/blog/oidc-cloud-roles/
AWS without Access Keys

How we made it a lot easier and more secure for your apps on Fly.io to work with other clouds.

Fly
Just finished recording the next SCW, at 8:30PM on a Saturday, because our guest was in Australia, and I am extremely psyched about this one.
Michael started a Fly.io newsletter, which went out to users yesterday, and we got a flood of replies (anticipated!) and... they were... nice? People seemed to like it? Very few people accused us of being criminals? Maybe we should write more.
The Bobby Womack version of this song is very funny; the preacher knows he's gonna stay, he told him so!
I like to think it's a metaphorical California.
I lived in California for several years. I fucking hated California. But I don't know what you do about the first dozen bars of "California Dreaming". Maybe they're right? I don't know.

Hypothesis: it is impossible to ruin a dish with cinnamon.

Further evidence: made oyakadon, thought I'd grabbed togarashi, grabbed cinnamon, still totally edible.

Masterful. (I've been drinking, I don't have better words.) https://blog.dave.tf/post/linux-pid0/
What is PID 0? · blog.dave.tf

Yes, there's a PID 0! An explanation of what it is, and a quick walk through linux early boot code.

I had a blast at the Supabase open source meetup last night! Missed my talk and want to see what it was about? Check it out on TikTok!

https://www.tiktok.com/@xeiaso.1337/video/7377427463229492485

TikTok - Make Your Day