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  MSFT had five compelling releases of Windows over a span of 35 years - 3.11, 95, XPsp2, NT4, and 7. all others are varying degrees of junk. #hottake

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  new CarPlay apps just dropped #napster #winamp

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  Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad is perfect reading for the generative AI age. Tons of superfluous machines in these short stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad

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  Flickr reporting a security breach of a third party email provider.

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  I preferred the cyberpunk future world of my imagination.

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  @da_667 ssldump? https://adulau.github.io/ssldump/

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  @da_667 counterpoint: LLMs are opaque, weird machines (in the Sergey Bratus sense) that reveal surprising things when interrogated. https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/wm/ similar to the execution abstraction in the classic "Next 700 Programming Languages" paper https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf anyhow, just advocating for why sometimes they're kind of neat.

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  Lucky Charms are neither lucky nor charming. #discuss

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  after years - years! - of letting them fester i'm chewing through PRs in awesome-honeypots. several pre-dated COVID, that's how long i let them linger. thanks to all who contribute.

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  @ryanaraine recently talked history with @mroesch on his security conversations podcast. marty talks about the creation of #snort , it's surprise and sudden growth to a popular open source tool, and basically creating the business model of selling atop an open source platform - turns out what enterprise buyers needed was distinct from what open source users needed, and so it didn't cannibalize the market. he also talks about the blocked checkpoint bid, going public, and the cis...