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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NTSB says the FO from the MIA incident auto-defenestrated via a cockpit window. Video of the other guy falling from the door (no slide?) makes the window seem like an odd choice. Long way down. Turns out there are ropes and descenders for this purpose. Cool video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5l...

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Cockpit Escape Reels 747-300

YouTube video by flightcrewguide.com

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Corporate infosec training is filled with breathless assertions like "a single click on an emailed link can install malware" etc. I don't know if that's true or not, but one of these is: - The wrong people are being subjected to mandatory training - The material undermines itself by crying wolf

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amazon / 21 Air Flt 7598 cockpit voice recorder @102 sec before impact: "A pilot called for ﬂaps to be set to 20 degrees, and the other pilot cautioned they were too fast. The other pilot made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording."

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Watching game 1 of the Futures League championship series. The New Britain Bees are absolutely wrecking the league leading Vermont Lake Monsters in Burlington. Currently 9-0 with bases loaded and no outs in top 6th. Go Bees!

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Crazy moment from the 7/11/25 Nashua @ New Britain FCBL game. It starts at 2:01:30 with Dave York's walk. fcblnetwork.com?B=2488677 Final tally: - 1 manager ejected - 50 baseballs - 1 ball boy ejected - 2 fans hit by thrown ball - 1 ten game suspension It's the only ball boy ejection I've seen.

Screenshot from live broadcast of baseball game. Following his ejection, New Britain Bees manager Matt Gedman throws a 5 gallon bucket full of baseballs toward home plate.

Screenshot from live broadcast of baseball game. Nashua Silver Knights batter Keldrin Rodriguez waits just outside the batter's box. The dirt circle is littered with stray baseballs. Also, a bucket.

A New Britain pitcher throwing a baseball toward the Nashua dugout. They've been heckling him as he picks up the 50-ish baseballs littering the field. The ball sails well over its target, hits an older couple sitting in the accessible seats at the top of section 115.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

First round NBA draft pick Ebuka Okorie went to school with my daughter for a few years. Their pre-K class had a "letter of the week" which included a show-and-tell segment on Mondays. Kids brought things starting with A on the first Monday. Next week, things starting with B, etc.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@bcantrill.bsky.social A SPARCstation LX with a Cycle 5 (SS5) upgrade board was part of my personal tech stack for well over a decade. It felt like a miracle in the days before Mac mini. What was Cycle's relationship with Sun, and what was the opinion of these frankenboxes inside Sun?

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My 12 year old watching the sword fight at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity: "I feel like they could have killed each other by now if they weren't so busy aura farming."

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My domain has wildcard email delivery, so I can make up addresses on the fly. I always use "theirdomain@mydomain" when filling forms. This approach is super useful for figuring out how/why something got my email address. e.g. How did BabiesRUs get ahold of "hospitalmaternityward@mydomain"? Hmm???

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Current status: Wife and I are shouting at the television because the bird on the live stream is diligently feeding only one of her chicks. FEED THE OTHER ONE, MOMMA BIRD!

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If Rocky can make a form-fitting (ish), flexible space suit, why did he roll around in a ball?

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Heath Howard @heathhowardnh.com · 14/03/2026

By attaching 20 unrelated amendments, I killed an anti-vax bill. There are ways to fight back against this stuff, it just takes a little creativity and some courage. Did I get booed by 240 House Republicans? Yes. Was it worth it? Also yes. #NHPolitics #NH01

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface.

Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces.

Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done!

But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.

The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.

screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s

Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version.

Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

@johncullen.bsky.social I'm listening to Broomgate and really enjoying it. Thanks!

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 31/12/2025

Great to see this workflow. Just my style! Not only is it great to see somebody so confident and comfortable in their editor, but also to explain what's going on so eloquently. Essential viewing! youtu.be/qjWkNZ0SXfo

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One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics

YouTube video by Tsoding

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Today, my 14 year old is headed to round 2 of her first ever job interview. It's a cool role (a summer job) and she's a good fit. I'm really excited for her.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This thing is interesting: www.flexoptix.net/en/t-c12-rs2... Seems to be a tiny computer with two ports (ethernet and serial) in the shape of an SFP module. I've dealt with some very dense/compact network deployments where such a module would have been handy.

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Industrial SFP Serial to IP Converter | RS-232 or RS485/422

Industrial & Intelligent Serial to IP (Ethernet) ConverterUse FLEXBOX to configure to almost any vendorRS-232 or RS-485/422 Selectable with Software100BASE-FX and/or 1000BASE-X SFP InterfaceApplicatio...

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@alyssam-infosec.com Can you explain how this is done? www.flightaware.com/live/flight/... Can a Cherokee be fitted with an autopilot which facilitates this? Maybe it's just really tedious GPS enabled hand-flying? Thanks!

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N6914W Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for N6914W including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

@rstephens.me I didn't like your 2022 Monktoberfest talk. ...I loved it! ⬅️🍌👂

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I don't understand the detection mechanism here. The laptop was being remote controlled, so any extra latency was in the "user reacts to info on screen" loop, which seems wildly variable between humans. Can anyone better explain the signal used here? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

A barely perceptible keystroke delay was the smoking gun that led to the uncovering of a malign imposter.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

@bcantrill.bsky.social On 0xF you mentioned working on "lbolt" early in your time at Sun, and how it was only allowed to be set at 100Hz or 1000Hz... Was this thing exposed to the operator as "hires_tick"? I don't remember ever reading about lbolt, wonder if they're one and the same. Thanks!

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My mother, who believed that the RFID reader which granted access to her gated community did so by reading a *bar code* from the RFID box stuck to her windshield, always referred to this font used on checks as "magnetic ink". I assumed she was confused, that it was a font optimized for early OCR.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Now that Juniper is part of HPE, the video which precedes company-wide meetings (webcasts) includes lots of B-roll of HPE discover. And lots of that B-roll features @thectoadvisor.com. Nice to see you at our company meetings, Keith :)

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A Dyson sphere around the solar system (stop at Neptune) made from a single layer of the foil used for Hershey's Kisses (about half of standard household foil thickness) would require a mass of aluminum slightly larger than the mass of Earth. Sam Altman should get on this project immediately.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@stefanyshaheen.com Becca has not stopped talking about meeting you today. "I can't believe the author signed my favorite book!" Thank you, and Go Knights!

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I just explained to my 18 year old that people used to pop their car stereos out of their dashboards and carry them around like little lunchboxes. I'm not sure she believed me.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In Costco yesterday I noticed a memo on the bulletin board near the timecard clock. It explained how employees can update their preferred first name in the payroll system. It was a nice bright spot, given (gestures around) everything.

A memo to Costco employees titled "Employee Preferred First Name is now visible in Timeclock & Timekeeping System"

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The joke's on all of us. The whole Internet is becoming this very same tarpit.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Something @tracketpacer.bsky.social said caused me to discover that AUI connectors (think: SFP slot in the days of 10Mb/s Ethernet) came with both threaded fasteners and those weird sliding clips. I don't think I've ever seen a threaded one. Or maybe I dismissed them as "game port"?

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

KY police shot and killed a man in his home while executing a search for a missing weed whacker a couple of weeks ago. They were are the wrong house. They thought they were at 489 Vanzant Rd, but were actually at 511. The house was clearly labeled 511. So how did this screwup happen?

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This kid just learned she'd been accepted into Tufts University. We're so proud of her.

Dad, kid and Mom showing big smiles. Kid is holding a Tufts University flag.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

30+ years ago, Intel made a neat "pizza box" workstation: The LP486E or "panther". It had a bunch of cool features (EISA! SCSI!) and was a really nice package, with one standout bonkers decision. The speaker (typical tiny, PC speaker) was integrated into the power supply. Weird.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Got an automated call with reminder/instructions about an upcoming medical procedure. Computer voice read instructions (arrival time, fasting, etc...) and then: "press 9 to hear again". I pressed 9, and a *different computer voice* repeated the message. First time I've bumped into that.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@renice.bsky.social We spoke about secure automated turn-up of new equipment a couple of years ago. You hinted at the time about expecting helpful changes (usable BMC certificates?) from server vendors. Any movement on that front?

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Currently sitting outside the fence at a small airport, watching and listening on the radio as a small plane takes off and lands and takes off and lands... My 15 year old daughter is in the left seat of that plane. I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching her do this.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

It turns out that regular expressions in the world of W3C XML datatypes have implicit ^ and $ anchors on the ends. Sure, why not?

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I've been making use of YANG models for a network automation project. It's going okay-ish. It'd be easier of there wasnt' so much of it. The files used to model all possible configurations of a single device total ~700k lines.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Okay, hear me out: Heated Couch. Yes, it's a chilly morning here in New Hampshire.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I'm accustomed to seeing uncontested races, but I don't think I've seen this before.

Snapshot of a ballot for an upcoming election. The same name appears in both Democrat and Republican columns.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

The Harvard Bridge connecting Boston to Cambridge, over the Charles. My marriage certificate says: "0 Mass ave, Smoot 313"

A terrible photo of the Harvard Bridge shot with an iPhone from a high floor of 200 Clarendon St, Boston.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Recent weeks I've bumped into several conference talk recordings with an inverted audio channel. Nearly unwatchable for me. Different conferences, production teams. What process failure is producing this outcome? Today it's @filippo.abyssdomain.expert‬ @ RWC2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfO...

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Modern transparency logs (RWC 2024)

YouTube video by IACR

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I've started generating little bits of a software project. I write half of the code, go:generate writes the other half. Parsing the source was tricky, but so worth it. I wish I'd started down this road much earlier.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I've had a couple of experiences watching somebody write configuration files in vs code with an ai assistant feature enabled. It's worse than useless. So much time wasted cleaning up after it. They love this feature. Wouldn't consider turning it off. "But look how *fast* it did that!"

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

redact.dev has a nice looking UI. I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying watching it wipe out my twitter history.

redact.dev

Mass delete your tweets posts & DMs on 30+ sites

Mass delete your Messages, Posts and Comments on over 30+ services.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

I tried to use an LLM to help me write a few lines of code. It did not go well. Write a Go function which finds the midpoint between two int64 values. Results should be rounded up. The function must support all possible input values.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Found something interesting in "my" MacBook with MS Teams installed. pgrep -lfi damage I haven't found any exploitable bugs, but its mere existence is shocking.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

My oldest skipped her Gov/Civ class yesterday because the Supervisors of the Checklist were in session at our town hall. Friends, she is now a registered voter! Seemed like a good enough reason to skip class.

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Chris Marget @chrismarget.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Cisco created a page specifically to collect remembrances of Nick Russo. Meanwhile, users of r/networking were doing the same thing. Until the mods noticed. "This submission is not appropriate for /r/networking and has been removed." Amazing.

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