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 0
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 0
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 1
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 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. —fortune(6) 000 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025@whitequark as you say, they do appear to be trying to convert as much of their reputation into cash as quickly as possible before anyone notices. 000 0
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 2
Reposted by Kevin RiggleOblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025Always first steps #ObliqueStrategies 001 1
Reposted by Kevin Riggle✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025i'm now officially a minus one engineer 002 2
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 19
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 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025Androphobia: Fear of men. —fortune(6) 000 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025@mattblaze not someone setting fire to your house for the quality of your alt text? 000 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025hangover, n.: The wrath of grapes. —fortune(6) 000 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025@futurebird (Rich people always struggle to realize that, and we cannot emphasize this enough, _poor people spend money_. If I could put rich people into reeducation camps and get one thing through their heads it would be this.) 100 1
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025@futurebird Really the mistake had always been to consider the wealthy as the mountaintops, when in fact they’re the oceans and money is water 101 1
Reposted by Kevin RiggleAndrew Wooldridge ⛰️ @triptych.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025Found this in my garage 001 1
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 0
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 1
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) 001 1
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 1
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025The videos also have new captions, also 100% human generated and so much better 101 1
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 1
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 1
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025So if you had been turned off by the poor quality before, please give them another look! 100 1
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 0
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 0
Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025diplomacy, n: Lying in state. —fortune(6) 000 0
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 0
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 15
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 0
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 0
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 1
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 40
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 9
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 3
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 11
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 9
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 4