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Principal @ complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️‍🌈 […] [bridged from ioc.exchange/@kevinriggle on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025
Christmas: A day set apart by some as a time for turkey, presents, cranberry salads, family get-togethers; for others, noted as having the best response time of the entire year. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025
Minicomputer: A computer that can be afforded on the budget of a middle-level manager. —fortune(6)
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qkslvrwolf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @qkslvrwolf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025
Does anyone have any experience working with an ISM for certification and compliance stuff? If so, what are things you would want in an ISM you were going to hire, as an engineer? Many thanks for boosts.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025
neutron bomb, n.: An explosive device of limited military value because, as it only destroys people without destroying property, it must be used in conjunction with bombs that destroy property. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025
Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. —fortune(6)
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Oblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025
You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas #ObliqueStrategies
A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas'.
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Oblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025
Always first steps #ObliqueStrategies
A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Always first steps'.
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025
i'm now officially a minus one engineer
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025
Muir Woods, California, on film (Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II, Wolfen NC 500, developed at home in Bellini chemicals, scanned on Nikon CoolScan 8000ED) #BelieveInFilm #Photography #MuirWoods #California #Outside #C41 #Minolta
a scan of a color film photograph inside muir woods, california, with a fallen redwood trunk across a small creek, and a lot of vegetation and gravel on either side
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025
Gumperson's Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025
Androphobia: Fear of men. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025
Bershere's Formula for Failure: There are only two kinds of people who fail: those who listen to nobody... and those who listen to everybody. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025
Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025
Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025
hangover, n.: The wrath of grapes. —fortune(6)
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Andrew Wooldridge ⛰️ @triptych.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
Found this in my garage
Netscape new employee manual
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
genealogy, n.: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. -- Ambrose Bierce —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
(For the avoidance of doubt, the first six transcripts were also human generated. Just, they were generated by mostly me, and now the last five are generated by a paid professional who is actually good at it)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
The videos also have new captions, also 100% human generated and so much better
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
I will say more later, but if you are a fan of my Critical Point War Stories podcast and mostly read the transcripts, I am pleased to say that I have replaced the last five transcripts, which were LLM generated and frankly not very good for a technical podcast, with very high-quality, paid, 100% […]
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
I will say more later, but if you are a fan of my Critical Point War Stories podcast and mostly read the transcripts, I am pleased to say that I have replaced the last five transcripts, which were LLM generated and frankly not very good for a technical podcast, with very high-quality, paid, 100% […]
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025
Murray's Rule: Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025
Kington's Law of Perforation: If a straight line of holes is made in a piece of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest part of the paper. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025
diplomacy, n: Lying in state. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
gleemites, n.: Petrified deposits of toothpaste found in sinks. -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends —fortune(6)
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
relatedly, I've been looking for a change of pace with my work, so if you're hiring in the EU and "an infosec expert who translates Chinese technical reports to English for fun" sounds useful to you...
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
The default Magic Word, "Abracadabra", actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase "ha-Bracha dab'ra" which means "pronounce the blessing". —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
Croll's Query: If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of? —fortune(6)
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rsalz @rsalz.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
Drinking out own champagne, a phrase we use rather than "eating our own dogfood" :). PQ TLS key exchange now on www.akamai.com, techdocs.akamai.com, www.linode.com
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
I just gave my mate a laptop with Mint on it, this lappy's like ten years old and it's replacing a two-year-old one with win11 on it (and the linux one is faster, natch, another reason why this actually might be important, given that I've gotta live on a planet with a bunch of e-waste on it) and […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
I'm not normally, like, this rabid about computers, I don't like being the Linux Guy, I've spent fifteen years watching folk get frustrated with Windows and just kinda ignoring it y'know, all the way since WinXP days, it's Just Computers and it's not really all that important, except maybe it […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025
Me, 2003, borrowing someone's truck, going to start it up, cold day, looking all around, shouting to the guy "Where's the choke?" THAT'S where the terminal should be
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025
50% operating system market share looks like a banner across the Linux Mint support forums saying "Replies encouraging non-sysadmins to open the terminal will be removed"
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025
Linux Mint has passed that certain point, that Threshold, where a bad thing is slowly getting good, where you stop being glad when it works and start getting pissed off when it doesn't. Like imagine drinking wine out of a glass full of sawdust, the wine guy keeps giving you new straws so you […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 02/11/2025
@SnoopJ @xgranade Turning A Big Dial Taht Says "Nuclear Annihilation" On It And Constantly Looking Back At The Audience For Approval Like A Contestant On The Price Is Right
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025
Moon, n.: 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
Cohen's Law: There is no bottom to worse. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
Fuch's Warning: If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
mathematician, n.: Some one who believes imaginary things appear right before your _i's. —fortune(6)
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
Basic Conference Travel Cybersecurity Advice free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/20…
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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. —fortune(6)
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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/10/2025
We are now at a total of $3973.40; 79.5% of the way through my match. In 4½ hours. Okay this is probably not going to take a week
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