CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@artemis I was bullied as a kid, and the way I fought back was crushing it academically and rubbing my peers’ faces in it. This probably led to a vicious cycle of bullying, but they were going to do it anyway.

I was so insufferable that the school admin/teachers promoted me into middle school a year early, hoping to humble me somewhat. It didn’t work.

I got tall in high school and found a friend group. The bullying tapered off, but not my attitude. I was an angry kid.

Spent the summer after my junior year in and out of the hospital with cancer. The experience changed my life direction for the better and put me on the track I am now. Certainly I needed something radical, but I would not recommend it to others.

So we have (yet another) live action “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” movie coming out. I’ve always wondered why nobody has done a live action “Sailor Moon”. Same general nostalgia timeframe—is there a licensing hangup or something?

@xabean Stews and other “one pot” or slow cooker type meals tend to work well for this. Also casseroles. Basically any meal where all the ingredients end up getting cooked together means that you can put the leftovers in single-serving freezer containers and heat them up later.

Some of my favorites include red beans and rice, jambalaya, rice pilafs and stir-fries with whatever ingredients are on hand, potato hashes with whatever ingredients happen to be on hand, etc.

@jerry Naps are the best!

We are old.

@timb_machine Hah! Just barely made it in before the deadline!

I may regret this. You may regret this.

I've just put out a Linux forensics scenario for you all to play around with. There's a contest. You r submissions are due by 2026-04-15 23:59 UTC.

Linux Forensic Scenario

Introducing a contest based around a new Linux forensic scenario I created. Submissions for judging are due by 2026-04-15 23:59 UTC!

Righteous IT (righteousit.com)

#DFIR #Linux

I may regret this. You may regret this.

I've just put out a Linux forensics scenario for you all to play around with. There's a contest. Your submissions are due by 2026-04-15 23:59 UTC.

Linux Forensic Scenario

Introducing a contest based around a new Linux forensic scenario I created. Submissions for judging are due by 2026-04-15 23:59 UTC!

Righteous IT (righteousit.com)

@laprice South Florida has been having “once per century” flooding for the last 5-6 years. Sigh.

@mrundkvist @quixoticgeek

My general rule of thumb for consulting work is to take the typical annual salary for a full-time employee in the position and multiply by .0015 to get the hourly consulting rate. Daily rates are 8x that value.

Using my formula in reverse, your €1300/day ask works out to an annual salary figure of almost €110,000. Not sure what folks in your field make on average.

If you’re not mad… you’re using an ad blocker!

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

(thatshubham.com)

“You forgot Caturday again, didn’t you?”

#Caturday #PetsOfMastodon #Maddie

@dougburks I think I'll stick with my "ls" like the other fogeys on the porch. You kids get off my lawn!

Maddie is ready for her close-up…right now, human!

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #PetsOfMastodon #Maddie

@derekmceachern As I embarked on my consulting career, maintaining extensive custom aliases just got to be too much hassle as I moved from job to job. Weirdly, I do have a .emacs file that I bring everywhere because I really dislike the default syntax highlighting colors in Emacs—perhaps because my terminals are black text on white.

@paul_ipv6 Very true. I was making my blogging life more difficult than it needed to be because I forgot this lesson.

@alice @Elvis_Duck Can I play too? I want a mashup of “Alien” with a reality show like “Survivor” (or maybe “Love Island”). Brings a sharp point to the whole “sole survivor” concept.

@apgarcia I wish there was a version that included the seconds but not all the other chaff you get with “full”.

I wanted to try and blog more regularly. But I got to a point where the "easy" blog ideas I had were exhausted. I was left with cool topics that required extensive research and writing. It just seemed "too hard" to get started on any of those topics. And so my blog has languished for many months.

Recently I realized that I didn't have to unpack those "cool but difficult" topics to write something useful. So here's a quickie on some useful tips and tricks with the Linux "ls" command.

Linux Notes: ls and Timestamps

Confused about timestamp options and output with the Linux ls command? Here are some of my favorite tips!

Righteous IT (righteousit.com)

For my fellow bloggers the lesson here is that not every post has to be an earth-shattering revelation. You have something useful to say even (or perhaps especially) on topics you have already mastered. Get out there and get writing!

#Linux #CommandLine

Hey developers, the IT department talks shit about you too.

@Viss @jerry Or outright manipulation and insider trading