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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Some more really old vendor swag from my first ever conference…

David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21h

@jef I feel like having one site near DC well preserved is really important (just like awareness they were nuclear tipped). But around here (especially with housing development) I’m not optimistic.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21h

@jef Are many of the SF sites still more or less intact? I think all the DC facilities are gone. Many are parks, the one I visited is apparently a Rivian service center. One radar site still has a couple towers and radomes, and a local astronomy club uses it for events. One remains in Lorton […]

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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23h

@jef I’ve ridden that elevator! (Not sure if they still let visitors do that, or if I just had a very flexible docent). I was also surprised just how easy it is to slide the missiles back-and-forth on the rails. I also spent some time exploring W-94 in Gaithersburg, MD, while it was abandoned […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: defcon.social/@Wednesday/1173733858… I ask a computer questions because I want the right answer. Tell me again how this works with AI? And “most of the time” is NOT acceptable. For most of the time, I can just ask a human.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Also, this is probably still my all time favorite from Stephenson. Been too long since I read it.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I'm re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008), and hit this fairly prescient passage. "Crap" (well-written but subtly false information) deliberately inserted by into the "reticulum" (Internet), with the goal of then being able to sell services to filter […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Screenshot of a few paragraphs of Anathem, where the characters discuss disinformation campaigns on the internet powered by "Artificial Inanity" programs.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@xabean And that makes sense, if you factor in shipping (which probably amounts to zero for the volume of returns they get, though maybe I selected an expensive return path), re-stocking, verifying the return can even *be* resold, etc...

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Amazon is haggling now? I bought a pair of Thread/Matter controlled plugs, discovered I can't get them to work in Home Assistant, and went to return them. I'm 90% through the return process, and amazon makes this counter offer.

Dialog box from Amazon offering a $17 refund for a $74 product, letting me keep the product. (Essentially, adding a discount to my original purchase?)

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@adamshostack but…”the username” would show more than 5 dots…

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

TIL a recent? Zed update shows you the JSON path to the item you have the cursor at.

The image is a screenshot of a JSON data file being viewed in a code editor.

At the top, a breadcrumb navigation path is visible: `fuel.json > results > result > data > dsr > DS > PH > DM0 > X > M0`.

The JSON content contains technical data, including:

* An **Id**: `"F570D012-997E-4923-B2AA-E1FC85DB993E"`
* A **Start date**: `"2026-09-23T07:11:15"`
* Fuel categories: **"Kerosene"** and **"Propane"**.
* A series of data entries containing timestamps labeled as **"G0"** and numerical values labeled as **"M0"** (e.g., 2.63, 3.24, 2.73, 3.12).

The text is presented in a dark-themed editor with syntax highlighting in various colors like orange, green, and blue. Some lines of the JSON are truncated or wrapped.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I wasn't even going to post it here, because it's just a rant that felt good to jot down, but since it's now been on the hackernews front page and shared elsewhere, it looks like it touched a nerve: (Read the comments at your own risk. There's brain worms there, too.) […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

And now we know the origin story of Miracle Max’s wife (not a witch!), Valerie.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Who do I know who's going to JawnCon next month? I'd love to meet fedi-folks in real life, even if it's just to say hi. I feel like I've become disconnected from the community (and from the industry as a whole), and would love some time to chat about...<gestures to everything>.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

You know the way that things go When what you fight for starts to fall And in that fuzzy picture The writing stands out on the wall So clearly on the wall #lotd

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@newsguy.bsky.social Ah, I see now...someone else still owned the trademark. That's unfortunate. And amusing that I read the owner is the NY Sun -- so the Sun will own the Star...

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@newsguy.bsky.social Couldn't pick up the Star name? Was kinda looking forward to the nostalgia...

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

About to get on a phone visit with healthcare. This was an odd note to see: "Please note that during your telephone visit, you need to be physically in DC, Maryland, or Virginia in order to have a telephone visit with this provider and should not be driving during the visit." Now I almost wish […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This just in: Unshelled pistachios are a pain in the ass.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

[mental health nadir] @0xabad1dea I hate days like that. When it hits me, I try to focus on "this isn't real -- it's 90% chemical." Not sure if that helps, but for me at least, it's reminder that there's nothing wrong with what I've been doing (or not doing) Also, just wanted to say that […]

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough». Wtf is wrong with people? If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you? A wrong answer is free

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

“I hate the kerning on this font!” My daughter, as an aside while showing us some notes from her geology class on volcanoes.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

[re: Woodworking rant about the community being judgemental] @xabean that’s pretty much what mine looks like (built by *my* dad decades ago). It’s covered with 20 years of crap (it’s a horizontal surface in a garage) but I’m happy to clear it off and take some pics if you’d like.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright, we told you what to dream! #lotd

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Saw someone post an unsourced image with "the Great Lakes' real names", so just a reminder that there are lots of Indigenous languages and the many different nations have called them different things at different times. Also, in general but especially, as I […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A map of the Great Lakes (Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin) prepared by Charles Lippert and Jordan Engel. It is oriented with east (Waabang) at the top as per the medicine wheel compass rose in the lower right corner. The lakes are Niigani-gichigami (Leading Sea; Lake Ontario); Waabishkiigoo-gichigami (Neutral’s Sea; Lake Erie); Waaseyaagami-wiikwed (Shining Waters Bay; Georgian Bay); Naadowewi-gichigami (Iroquois' Sea; Lake Huron); Anishinaabewi-gichigami (Anishinaabe's Sea; Lake Superior); Ininwewi-gichigami (Illinois' Sea; Lake Michigan). There are many, many other place-names on the map; see the linked blog post for names and translations.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@montef Heh. Just you wait. This is a crazy season - they’re pulling out all the stops and just having fun.

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excited about the Roman space telescope launch? Why not read how it all began in my exhaustive feature for Scientific American tracing back its origins as a spy satellite. Super fun, super interesting, super telescope. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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NASA’s new dark energy telescope has a wild backstory

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@xabean hugs. As they say, “You are doing great.” (You are!)

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

TFW you're doing a great job ignoring anything work-related while on vacation, then someone posts something about AI slop...

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I want a Firefox extension that knows how to replace every single "N months ago" label with the actual exact timestamp (using patterns for how the data is hidden in tooltips, click-to-expand, etc.). That shit is SO unhelpful. Like if I'm looking back at git history, I don't care that a change […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@caseyliss I was thinking about your need for a word to describe a car headhunter (research, not negotiation) while driving and listening. Blurted out “concierge!” and was proud of finding a good answer. Then I thought … CARcierge. Hope this helps. :)

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Living dangerously - about to totally flaunt the “30 minute rule” between eating and getting into the pool. Not like I’m going to do much more than float around anyway.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Today’s stupid complaint: professional news link postings where the text of the toot is the same as the card headline is the same as the card preview text. I just read the same 12 words three times and I STILL don’t know if I want to read the linked article. I’d bet if there were alt text on the […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@hrbrmstr It’s a rough landscape, yes. I only vaguely looked into it when it happened, but figured it was worth a mention. Sometimes those are nothingburgers, sometimes an alternative is preferable.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@hrbrmstr Hasn’t there been some controversy with Organic’s leadership or something?

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