iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I never actually learned how to take a picture. That is, I think there’s a little more nuance than “point phone at pretty scenery / delicious plate.” I’m not about to study photography formally, but I am about to go on vacation. Anyone have a few good videos or a helpful beginner site / book?

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/04/2023

Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*nods knowingly* mercenary clowns

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I continue to think "O(n) with service growth" is the most ignored and/or (perhaps deliberately) misunderstood part of toil: sre.google/sre-book/eli...

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Google SRE - What is Toil in SRE: Understanding Its Impact

Learn what toil is in SRE, how it affects operational work, and why minimizing it is crucial for efficiency and morale.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎵 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Annie Hall... 🎶

@ boston.com
Ringo Starr returns to Forest
Hills Stadium
The 86-year-old drummer played the Queens venue for the first time since his former band performed there in
1964. The concert featured a mix of classic rock hits alongside his current arous.
Generated with Al, which can make mistakes

The picture is of Woody Allen.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In case it’s hard to tell what I’m actually saying here: Slowing down vulnerability disclosure is to cybersecurity as drinking sea water is to dehydration. Might feel better if you’re desperate but it will greatly accelerate your doom. This isn’t a fix for vuln process saturation

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really enjoyed this article: we have new toys, and those will guide tactics, rather than strategy. Leaving aside current challenges around “not having any strategy,” there is also a pretty large cyber-shaped hole in this line of thinking that scholars need to fill.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love this thread and replies.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks! Love Zach Bryan, looking forward to exploring the others.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t mean just NYC: I want celebrations of real history, depth and complex joy of communities, the familiarity of public places, cafes, people making art, etc. I don’t mind the gravel road in the middle of nowhere, but it’s not for me. Is there art that celebrates the joy and hustle of cities?

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love Americana and country music, including songs that celebrate the simple pleasures of country live: Avett Bros, Delta Rae, etc. But are there any songs that celebrate the joys of city living? The neighborhoods, the local coffee shops, street festivals, great restaurants, cocktails?

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dolly. Avett Brothers. If some brings their god in a beautiful, humble way that helps me appreciate the common bonds of us all, I’m here for it.

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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 24/09/2026

Chatted with @dpp.me, founder & CEO of Spice Labs, & @allanfriedman.bsky.social, Senior Technical Advisor at the Institute for Security & Technology, about PQC & Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOMs) for the latest @redmonk.com MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/david... youtube.com/shorts/VPflv...

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Cryptography Bill of Materials Explained #cbom #postquantumcryptography #softwaredevelopment

YouTube video by RedMonk

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Proud to say that I was at the first ever Fluff Festival, in Somerville during grad school.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026

I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Sunday and publishing the proof on Monday is weird.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love Prof Klonick, and read what she writes regularly, but I think there’s a fairly obvious difference between being annoyed by automated content moderation and having humans review inputs that may never have been intended to be shared with anyone.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Writer for NBC10 Boston fuckin HATES Mercury

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 11/09/2026

I think the sanest way to approach this llm stuff if you use it as if it’s a new abstraction from machine code. It’s another layer to communicate instructions to a computer. The biggest problem is we weren’t ready to communicate with computers in the way we do with other people. We fucked that up

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Came to share that, just in case @faineg.bsky.social had not come across it before.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh, you wanted *good* features? /takes a drag on cigarette Yeah, that’ll cost extra…

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Having some fun with late summer flavors: aquavit-infused croutons. (For a course with heirloom tomatoes and homemade smoked trout)

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/09/2026

[wipes hands] yeap. You got agents. See the message boards in your internal package manager? They must’ve nested there about ohhh 3 weeks back.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today in obvious solutions: realizing I can put a metal rack on the burner to better roast peppers.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Amazing writeup by @dangoodin.bsky.social of a BGP-hijack for a supply chain attack. He shows: 1) clear details of BGP attack w $ motive, 2) we have tools to prevent this, but you have to use them, and 3) how to write clearly about complicated security topics. arstechnica.com/security/202...

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BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Finally enjoying @nealstephenson.bsky.social ‘s The Diamond Age, and I can’t express the joy of discovering new words that I have to look up. I flatter myself reasonably well-read and -schooled, and it’s a fun treat to be sent scurrying.

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Right now there is a lady in college who is discovering Dolly Parton and will carry that music through the rest of her life in the same way I discovered Johnny Cash in 2003. I take comfort in that.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026

if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 25/08/2026

"We want a classified information system but we want it to work exactly the same as all of our unclassified information systems and introduce zero additional friction of any kind" is the cybersecurity "Claude, do a breakthrough" of the moment

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rand0h @akacki.net · 20/08/2026

True story.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(Not forcing one’s partner to listen to SBOM talk, making sure they have as many sequins as they want, and providing them with craft cocktails.)

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At least the company is good?

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Interesting inclusions on the list of banned items for the DC “grand prix“ event this weekend.

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“I'm only making fun of you because it’s something you care about deeply.” — my wife (In case anyone was wondering about the secret to a long and happy marriage)

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Very much this. Writing requires real precision of thought, more so even than giving a presentation or a talk.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/08/2026

Wait...do the math. LEDs took over around 2012–2015 and last 15,000+ hours (10–20 years). If you left home at 18 and bounce between dorms and 1-year apartment leases, the probability of ever living anywhere long enough to see a bulb burn out is practically zero. Jesus. Christ. Turn me to dust.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There were a lot of articles recently about how bad it was for Cambridge to hire someone who made up stories about their experiences, and now Yale has hired this man?

phillymag.com

David Brooks: Boo-Boos in Paradise

The classic 2004 examination of David Brooks’s “Bobos in Paradise” by Philadelphia magazine’s Sasha Issenberg.

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DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 16/08/2026

DilDog's Third Razor: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

there is absolutely no way that a modern physics department could tolerate a weird, autistic asexual with crank fascinations outside of his notional field of study. it's impossible that that person could exist today.

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Greg Otto @gregotto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: Delta is investigating that viral Wi-Fi spoofing incident. Everyone i talked to stressed two things: The flight was never in any real danger and everyone investigating this is extremely annoyed cyberscoop.com/delta-flight...

cyberscoop.com

Delta investigates in-flight Wi-Fi spoofing on post-DEF CON flight from Las Vegas

Delta and federal authorities are investigating a rogue Wi-Fi spoofing incident aboard Flight 591 from Las Vegas to Atlanta following DEF CON.

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