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  This Arch-based distro that's made the headlines of late... it needs an apt description. You have until the next meeting to decide. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange 2026-09-04T17:00 The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  Given a single worksheet spanning from B2 to IV65535, how many malwares can be executed in Microslop Excel simultaneously when cells A2 through A65535 and B1 through IV1 each execute their own x86-32 assembly emulators? Please answer in the form of a two-dimensional array stuffed into cell A1. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange 2026-10-02T17:00 The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  ...no, really: isn't "http://%C0%80.arpa/" technically valid? The Hugh (https://thehughnyc.com​) 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St. 🚍 M101, M102, or M103 http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange

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  If the guy who penned the “Open Letter to Hobbyists” opened its source then he oughtta write a “Hobby Letter to Openists” acknowledging the hypocricy. https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/bill_gates_altair_basic/ The Hugh (https://thehughnyc.com​) 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St. 🚍 M101, M102, or M103 http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange

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  When FreeDOS, ReactOS, 9front, and AmigaOS all release new editions, perhaps it has more to do with disenfranchisement in AI-laiden, UX-riddled, "'Free' as in 'Big Data'", "'Smart' as in 'Surveillance'", enshittifyed mainstream OSs rather than thousands of recently retired or fired greybears with nothing better to do. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh (https://thehughnyc.com​) 1...

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  So... Microsoft canned Wordpad, yet stuffed Bing, AI, and formatting into Notepad, and for an encore simultaneously reinvented "Edit" - which, like Visual Studio Code, can't do what EDIT.COM could: print. Is it time we stop "improving" things worse yet? http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh (https://thehughnyc.com​) 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St. 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  @NYC2600 presents "Redirect Disconnect", tomorrow at 5PM. https://nyc2600.net (because https://2600.nyc is "oops!") @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103​

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  <rant> ConEd should stop blaming air conditioner usage and start blaming the click farms, the crypto miners, and the AI asshats for every hot-day brownout from now on. </rant> We now return you to your regularly scheduled @NYC2600, tomorrow at 5PM. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh (https://thehughnyc.com​) 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St. 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  Data Drifted out of SalesForce, the Matrix(.org) is rebuilding its RAID, Microsoft backdated the .gitignore of 6502 BASIC by 48 years, and Altman admits AI is a bubble - and all that before Patch Tuesday! Commiseration? Yes, please. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange Friday, 5PM The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  What's more upsetting: SWIFT integrating the blockchain into mainstream payment systems, Microsoft undermining your IT department's policies on Copilot, or that @XioNYC still hasn't fixed HTTPS on the 2600.nyc site? The polls open tomorrow at 5PM - no proxies (This isn't AFRINIC!) http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M10...

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  I attribute the late "#2600!" toot to the AWS outage omnishambles. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  Some will remember 2025 as the year a trillion dollars were squandered chasing negligible returns on investments in a slop bubble and ⅔ of the Cloud vaporizing to the point that we utterly failed to Internet. We'll remember St. John excommunicating #Hope (and not because of the googly eyes incident!) Join us at 5PM. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101,...

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  2025 ended with the restoration of a missing link in the UNIX family tree byresurrecting data off of a 54-year-old tape kept in less than ideal climate controled archival storage conditions. Porting begins tomorrow, 5PM. Bring your own compiler. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103​

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  Office falls short of its advertised 365. Bitcoin loses all last year's gains. Fortinet SSO proves to be a single point of failure. Patch Tuesday borks more than it patches. Slop writes everything around here, but AI ROI is still "real soon now"... If it weren't for HOPE becoming a 501(c)(3), 2026 would be indistinguishable from 2025. @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington...

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  The problem with RFC 9948 (and 8962, albeit implied) is that the judicial function (Schedule of Punishments) is delegated to the executive role (Internet Protocol Police) in the absence of a jury trial of one's peers. We have to address this tacit nod towards authoritarianism. The brainstorming begins April 3rd, at 5PM. https://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M1...

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  I have two Outlooks and both of those are too dangerous for release to the public. Join us before the clock strikes 1777777777 seconds. http://2600.nyc 2006-05-01T17:00-0400 @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103

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  Google foists 4 GB of AI into everyone's Chrome; Linux copy insecurity; script kiddy litter escapes Claude's sandbox; Cisco hits serial 10.0s; CISA leaves its keys out in the open; and M$ does damage control following bug-bounty bad-faith backlash. It's been a hell of a May. Come for group therapy. http://2600.nyc 2006-06-05T17:00-0400 @NYC2600@infosec.exchange The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏...

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  @NYC2600 presents "Semiquincentennigooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!", Friday, July 3rd, 2026 at 5PM. http://2600.nyc @NYC2600 The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​ 157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.) 🅔🅕 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102,...

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  OpenAI: "We have guardrails..." Hugging Face: "...no you didn't." Microsoft: "Let's stick Copilot into everything - even Notepad!" Also Microsoft: "Due to rising costs employees should curtail AI use." Every AI Company: "The return on investment is coming soon!" Every Blockchain Company: "Same!" Every Ransomer: "🤑!" http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exc...