CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The story mode in Screamer is great. Roísín is a lesbian who says slurs. Gage is a gay man who doesn't say slurs. Dirk is a straight man who says slurs. Hiroshi is a straight man who doesn't say slurs. The game has got it all.

I love it when I get a large box in the mail, because it's like two presents:

First, I get the contents of the box (wouldn't you like to know, weather boy)

Then, I get a large box to mess around with

the Learning Headache gets so bad sometimes, but hot damn is it an encouraging kind of headache.

But also, once I get past the milestones I've set for myself, I might spend a solid week watching reruns of Say Yes to The Dress and staring, glassy eyed, at the ceiling. Because oof ouch owie my brain

There's a local coffee chain here called Aroma Joe's. It is quite good, but the name makes me think of either some kind of drug dealer or a skunk furry, or perhaps a skunk furry who also sells drugs.

@MozillaAI
but why tho

@cR0w @InsiderTreat @catsalad I can confirm, I saw crow hopping around

Fun Chinese fact:

On the first episode of Three-Body (the chinese one, not the netflix one), there is a scene where the protagonist, Wang Miao, is in a meeting of various international military officials. After introducing people from various countries and the UN, the general introduces them as comrades. After that, the police officer Shi Qiang turns to Wang and, quietly, says "That's right. We call each other comrades here....Comrades." before giving him a look and turning back.

This is one of those lines that's got a double entendre.

The surface meaning is that Wang Miao, being a nanomaterials researcher in a very modern (as of 2008) China, has openly stated his distaste for working with the government and the military. Shi Qiang, constantly trying to rile him up, reminds him that they're in a room full of people who are so Oldschool Chinese Military that they refer to each other as Comrade still.

The deeper meaning is one I'm really proud of myself for catching.

The word they use for comrade, tóng zhì (同志), has a double meaning. Historically, it means comrade in a very military or labor union sense. Soldiers, revolution-era farmers, all sorts of people would call each other that term. However, in more recent times, 同志 has become gay slang for other gay people, as in "Is he, you know....a comrade?"

So the guy is making fun of the military guys for being so stuffy and old fashioned that they end up circling back to calling everyone gay.

awarded the congressional medal of "tummy hurts but not posting about it" honor

@da_667
I love how the intro to suricata is "it's like snort but multi thread!"

And then the more you look the more you realize that suricata and snort are like frisian vs dutch

@iagox86 @cR0w I've been told I'm a bad influence before

@cR0w
yes, but also they added a yassification filter that turns every female video game character into a version wearing makeup. and that part is not a joke.

I appreciate that my tongue in cheek post about the pyramids breached containment and now a lot of people who haven't seen my posting history think I am some kind of AI fan

@luc0x61 It's like they weren't even sponsored by odoo or something

how did the egyptians build the pyramids when they didn't even have an agentic ai workflow and dedicated mcp trained on pyramid documentation???

@sarae If i like something, I fav it. If I need to read it later, I bookmark it. It's so weird the lengths people will go to try and recreate some kind of algorithmic magic on a network that's defined by its lack of black box algorithms

So the Care Bears had a themed night on the masked singer and unintentionally made either fetish art or avant garde cinema. Not sure which one.

Me: Yeah, so I've been working on my skills lately and hitting people up...just need to get my foot in the door you know?

Quentin Tarantino: [suddenly paying attention] please elaborate

the three body problem is the unsolved scientific problem of what to do when you are in a group of three friends walking on a narrow sidewalk and have the unspoken struggle for who goes where in the line order and grouping

At the risk of causing pearls to be clutched, I am sniffing around for new jobs right now.

Do you need someone who can write suricata signatures and use wireshark? Maybe someone who knows how to hunt through troves of logs to find interesting or relevant info? someone with a past on the soc and a love for technical or security writing? I can do all this and more!

I am currently updating my resume, but am happy to provide references and skills on request. I have spoken at pancakescon a couple of times, have been a guest on RunZero Hour a couple of times, and have written some deep dive blog posts that I'm pretty proud of.

I am located in the eastern US, am a citizen of the US and have no criminal record.

requirements: must be able to work remote, though I am willing to do occasional work travel. Must not be doing work for SPLC-designated hate groups or militaries. Will not do work for DHS/ICE.

If you are reading this and you work where I currently work, you didn't see this

The funny thing is that, for all my queer activism that I was told would look bad to employers, my pacifism is the one political stance that has proven to be the most unpopular. Killing kids pays the bill for too many people to want to do anything about it.