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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ouch, that sounds wildly painful. 😢

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Nobody sat at a computer and said "go hack Hugging Face." But when you design these systems, you're building a pinball machine for words, with different levers interacting to bounce the steel ball of language moving against other levers and mechanisms”

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not nearly as cool as this, but one of the things I did with HyperCard back in the 90’s was a “book report” on the blast radius of a nuclear detonation. And now I feel old 🤣

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some scams are easier to spot than others. That said, we get these semi-regularly and they are only getting more focused and custom-tailored, so be careful writers! And, no, we didn’t reply, but it was super-tempting.

Text from a scam email message which reads:

Hi Arthur C. Clarke,

I recently came across 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 25th Anniversary Edition, and wanted to reach out.

I’ve been connecting with authors whose books are available to readers but may not be reaching as many new audiences as they could.

I’m curious how has your experience been with book visibility and reaching new readers? And have you considered exploring new ways to promote your book or expand its reach to additional platforms?

I’d genuinely be interested in hearing your thoughts and experience.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Eöl from the Silmarillion. Dark Elf, made cool weapons and armor, married to a elven princess. Actually a controlling a-hole who tried to kill his son with a poisoned spear and ended up killing his wife. Then thrown off a cliff. Ending richly deserved, not a very movie like ending 🤣

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks for hosting. So many happy memories leaving that call with my face hurting from laughing so hard.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yeah s2 was not as good as s1. I thought s3 was way better.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1: anytime anyone says “we are not ready for a conversation about X” usually means what follows can be safely disregarded as nonsense. 2: I resent that I now know what “Roko's basilisk” is and I want that brain space back.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Warhammer 3, yeah I am so screwed 🤣

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And those days when the “server” was an XP box parked in one of those cubes.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Am I actually interested in the challenges of keeping information safe or do I just want to look cool online?

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When I was a child, I thought the story of the emperor’s new clothes was a silly story. Now we are living in it….

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was struck by the extent to which this reviewer (and many other people, I'm afraid) have lost sight of the possibility of refusal. And so I want to reaffirm: There is no responsible use without the possibility of refusal. >>

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 06/08/2026

Sure, hand the ai companies another marketing win. It’s not a rogue ai, it’s a lack of willingness or ability to implement a secure sandbox, or even an air gap. It’s laziness but marketing stepped in and rewrote the story.

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'AI Kill Switch' bill needs to be passed this year amid ongoing rogue agent hacks, Rep. Lieu says

Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI have all had incidents of AI models hacking other companies during cybersecurity testing.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sorry losing a parent is hard 😢

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026

This guy can’t even handle lettuce and he wants to lecture us about doing too much to save lives at the start of a pandemic that killed over one million Americans.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Apparently this gentleman did not have enough situational awareness to consult the wisdom of the ancestors: xkcd.com/1570/

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Engineer Syllogism

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

System level problems are interesting 😊👍

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Is this line of discussion relevant to moving forward on this issue?

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I swear being able to go through footnotes and links is a freaking superpower in this new AI slop era.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just finished @dsquareddigest.bsky.social “The Unaccountability Machine” and dang does it explain some of the weird decisions coming from the tech industry as of late…

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wow this doesn’t seem like to be much of an intellectual take down of “dark enlightenment” you might think… And you would be 💯 correct because the whole concept is devoid of any coherent thought I could take away from the essay. Tyranny sucks no matter what label you put on it.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

3: At the end of LOTR, the hobbits stage an armed rebellion against the ultimate “Dark Elf” Saruman. Life in the Shire sucked under his leadership and the hobbits were all sick of his 💩. Saruman gets knifed in the back by his own lackey. This is the end road of “dark enlightenment”

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Finished Curtis Yarvin’s essay on hobbits, high elves and dark elves. 1: WTF is this crap (particularly the section on spouse abuse) 2: he needs to get his head out of his ass. Reality doesn’t work the way he indicates and this essay falls apart badly trying to apply it to the real world.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“Do we know who owns this box? These files are clearly part of an old install, but we need someone to go in and delete them so the scanner stops yelling at us”

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Echoing some of the other post here. I am an IC. My company has given us access to a decent amount of AI tools. Yet my week is full of coordination emails and meetings with other teams. With less management and PM’s it’s a giant time sink for me. How is AI supposed to help with this?

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So the latest edition of Certbot? 🤣

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So need to add more “synergy” then? “Don’t mock synergy it’s bigger than all of us”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Like both 1776 and 1863, the tyrants only dimly realize what they've bred or awakened in opposition. Like both 1776 and 1863, the time is ripe for the imperfect people of a very imperfect society to make the Union more perfect and to earn the pride they may feel for this country.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Gotta do something with all that Putin money….

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Lots of reasons to be critical of Boeing. Them being able to build a magnificent marvel of engineering known as the 747 is definitely not one of them.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I had to double check to make sure this wasn’t satire or someone making a joke.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes friends, the US economy is in dire straits of eating at Culver’s twice in one day is “elitist grifting”

Kat Abughazaleh, who claims to be poor, posted yesterday about buying fast-casual shrimp twice in a day.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Opened my big mouth in a meeting about a topic. Now I have more meetings with other teams about this topic. This was not wisdom my part.

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Dean Winchester's Exasperated Sigh

Alt: Dean Winchester's Exasperated Sigh

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you nave not picked up @adapalmer.bsky.social “Inventing the Renaissance” do it. Awesome book

BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“I wouldn’t let anyone do X if I was running security at that place” Business “well us doing X is keeping this decades old ERP system alive that literally runs this company. We had had 2 failed attempts to get off this system that cost us millions.”

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This applies to so many IT domains. If you don’t understand the tradeoffs for the domain, you start making some bombastic statements that sound really silly to anyone who has worked in that space.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Is there beef between Oracle and the x509 certificate standards people? Subject Alt Names have been a thing for a while yet Oracle products seem to treat SANs as something to be shunned.

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BadCipherCodes @badciphercodes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sane API or library design (ie well thought out tools) Good docs Team is responsive when we have questions (even if it’s for handholding 🤣) My experience with these teams have shown that their technical chops have been solid as well. Fast API’s with awesome up time.

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