Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025Christmas: 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) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025Minicomputer: A computer that can be afforded on the budget of a middle-level manager. —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin Riggleqkslvrwolf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @qkslvrwolf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025Does 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. 001
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025neutron 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) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin RiggleOblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas #ObliqueStrategies 012
Reposted by Kevin RiggleOblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025Always first steps #ObliqueStrategies 001
Reposted by Kevin Riggle✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025i'm now officially a minus one engineer 002
Reposted by Kevin RiggleAdrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025Muir 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 1196
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025Gumperson's Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025Androphobia: Fear of men. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025Bershere'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) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025Heaven, 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) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025hangover, n.: The wrath of grapes. —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin RiggleAndrew Wooldridge ⛰️ @triptych.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025Found this in my garage 001
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025genealogy, n.: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. -- Ambrose Bierce —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin RiggleKevin 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) 001
Reposted by Kevin RiggleKevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025The videos also have new captions, also 100% human generated and so much better 101
Reposted by Kevin RiggleKevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025I 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% […]ioc.exchangeOriginal post on ioc.exchange 101
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025I 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% […]ioc.exchangeOriginal post on ioc.exchange 101
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025Murray's Rule: Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025Kington'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) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025diplomacy, n: Lying in state. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025gleemites, n.: Petrified deposits of toothpaste found in sinks. -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin Riggleabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025relatedly, 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... 0115
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025The default Magic Word, "Abracadabra", actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase "ha-Bracha dab'ra" which means "pronounce the blessing". —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025Croll's Query: If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of? —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin Rigglersalz @rsalz.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025Drinking 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 101
Reposted by Kevin RiggleDan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025I 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 […]retro.socialOriginal post on retro.social 2540
Reposted by Kevin RiggleDan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025I'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 […]retro.socialOriginal post on retro.social 219
Reposted by Kevin RiggleDan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025Me, 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 103
Reposted by Kevin RiggleDan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/202550% 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" 2211
Reposted by Kevin RiggleDan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025Linux 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 […]retro.socialOriginal post on retro.social 139
Reposted by Kevin RiggleGlyph @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 004
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025Moon, n.: 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025Cohen's Law: There is no bottom to worse. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025Fuch's Warning: If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. —fortune(6) 100
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025mathematician, n.: Some one who believes imaginary things appear right before your _i's. —fortune(6) 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025Basic Conference Travel Cybersecurity Advice free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/20… 000
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. —fortune(6) 000
Reposted by Kevin RiggleGlyph @glyph.im · 29/10/2025We 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 122