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Tilde Lowengrimm

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I believe in the life-enhancing and capability-extending possibilities of technology as well as its potential to surveil, control, and misdirect. I work towards tools […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ infosec.town/@tilde, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Why is every single emu in the entire world a monsterfucker? They're all more into heir human zookeepers than other emus? How? Why‽

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Names matter. Translating (or, especially, transliterating) names badly result in texts which make less sense and are less memorable. Here are half a dozen better translations so you can pick up on the wordplay and look smart in front of your friends. **Dustin** was the first person crafted […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

I think society would be better if more people dressed like Pokémon gym leaders more often.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/12/2025

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

Elim Garak invented Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

I aspire to one day offer a player or reader clues revealing an insight with one hundredth as much bone-chilling horror as when the Alvarezes finally understood the implications of the worldwide layer of iridium at the K-T boundary after the peak biodiversity of the Permian.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

Don’t tattoo “DNR" on your chest. Nobody is going to delay CPR for even a second unless you have the state-specific signed, dated, & notarized paperwork handy, and even then it's probably not going to be noticed unless someone is waving it in the rescuer's face and advocating for you.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

Can you imagine what it would be like if the Federalist Papers constantly nagged you to subscribe so that you could receive Publius' latest newsletters right in your mailbox with bonus content for premium subscribers, and were interrupted by mid-essay ads for Better Help and Squarespace?

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell. Focus on application logic and flow control rather than spending all your time mangling strings and escaping quotes! Write neat elegant stanzas rather than […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

So many institutions simply refuse to send any actual information via email — you have to log into their site to see what the heck they're talking about when they say “you have a new message" or “monthly statement available”.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Utterly terrifying nightmare in which some sort of bundled crapware sneakily made its way onto my machine and uninstalling it involved completing a series of increasingly unhinged and downright psychotic CAPTCHAs.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

I am fascinated by the legal theory that Congress cannot delegate any authority to executive _agencies_ , but absolutely _can_ delegate everything & the kitchen sink to the "unitary executive".

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

I feel embarrassed that every time I want to compare strings or numbers in bash or zsh, I have to look up the extremely fiddly syntax to make sure I don't dig myself a new grave. But really, the shells should be embarrassed to be so unintuitive about this stuff.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

I'm not a huge fan of the military in general, but I have incredible respect for the brave aviators of the crow early warning & air defense network which keeps our neighborhood free of raptors and safe for our pet parrot. Thank you for your service. o7

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

There are no wikis or forums any more — if you want information about a project, you need to join one of two chat clients. Slack, the corporate one owned by Salesforce, will sometimes send you a surprise bill for like two hundred thousand dollars. Discord, the gamer one, is microtransaction hell.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw. By declining to report an apparent US launch of five missiles, he likely […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

I'm enjoying The Pitt — very much the prestige TV successor to ER. But they just featured a spider bite. My suspension of disbelief is forever ruined.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Why should resistance be constrained by non-violence when oppression has no such limits?

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

I hate when tech tells me to check with my system administrator. It's just rude (and often lazy). It's like a plumber asking "Is there a man around I could talk to?" because they don't want to have to explain themself. Just show me the actual information you notionally want me to pass along to […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

OH via the Frontline Fifth Podcast: > People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be _assembled_ with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo. Before the use of […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

In a show I'm watching, a supernatural entity just prophesied a divine weapon "more powerful than ten thousand swords", and this monologue is superimposed over apocalyptic imagery which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear war. A weapon more powerful than ten thousand swords, huh? So… a single […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

My favorite way to enjoy excellent art is by looking at screenshots of screenshots of it without any links back to the original. That slaps actually and is very healthy.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Go off, I guess, but I would simply not attack Poland even if I was planning a dead-eyed denial hours later.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Apple demonstrated three very impressive technical accomplishments in yesterday's announcement and I think that they really illustrate a spectrum of the sort of engineering which is often on display with new & improved gadgets. #1 A full-featured smartwatch which runs for like a week or […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

People criticize the Star Wars prequels for heavy-handed writing about oblivious idiots, naïve caricatures, and unnecessary obsession with a couple of families and some marginal institutions. But have you seen the news? Those bland scripts and often-wooden performances look sparkling by comparison.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

It is truly amazing what you can achieve when you work hard and believe in yourself instead of actually checking your work.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

Based on the magnitude of the manosphere's freakout, I was really expecting Superman (2025) to be much woker? Just felt like basic bog-standard by-the-numbers Superman with a bit of Gunn flair and a perfect sublime impeccable Luthor.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

Being unemployed gives me much more time do deal with the day-to-day administriva which so often gets put on the backburner. But coping with my own personal tech debt really makes me miss working with specialists who can work through this stuff ten times faster than I can.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

I'm beginning to wonder whether having a handful of surveillance organizations which hoard everything they can learn about everyone's finances whether you want them to or not and suffer zero meaningful consequences for losing it every couple of years might not be a great way to run an economy […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

I'm gad to see that Sam did, in fact, finally get the horns.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

I'm trying to backup an IMAP server to a local maildir using isync/mbsync. A perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do, you might imagine. Absolutely wrong. How could you be so utterly mistaken. Install from Homebrew. Write a config file. Run the binary. Get an error: `Assertion failed […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

Remember when you were a kid and you learned about Superman and thought it was totally ridiculous that Krypton was going to be destroyed but nobody did anything about it? I miss feeling that way.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

It was DNS. And — worse — it was mostly my fault.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

Samalamadingdong!

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

Sometimes, an item will come bundled with screws. And I think to myself: well, obviously _I_ wouldn't use a Philips or Pozidriv bit for this; I don't think that would stand up to the force needed to properly bind tightly into the stud. But surely designers know what they're doing and picked the […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

Sure, sex is good. But have you ever spent a beautiful day cycling around listening to books while you acquiring additional library cards? Seven. I have _seven_ different ways to place holds on Libby now. And I received no less than four (4) unprompted compliments. What a day!

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

After @redqueen, I'm once again available for work under capitalism. There are some things that I'm very good at, but they aren't always well-expressed by the way we tend to write job descriptions and resumes. Just because a position puts the words "product" or "management" next to the spectrum […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

Lizard! Lizard! Lizard, lizard, lizard! Lizard, lizard! www.instagram.com/p/DNWCqadTDh7

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

It's always a good day when you're recompiling ffmpeg from source.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

I listen to the news on a regular basis (a mistake, I know). It is just bananas how utterly incomprehensible the Trump/Republican rejection of the status quo is. Some of the basics which don't surprise us any more are nonetheless pretty weird. But just because […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

I got to bring out the full bisexual lighting rig for the portrait booth at a Locked Tomb larp yesterday. I managed to sneak in a few selfies at the end because of course I did. It was perfect timing, because I also just had my hair recolored last week. Yay for my new profile pic!

The hottest person you know (me) stares stoically into the distance as if contemplating a future filled with fully-automated luxury gay space communism rather than just more death-cult capitalism. Dark eyes reflect my determination and resolve — as well as triple catch-lights conferring a slightly alien perspective. My impeccable cheekbones are bisexually illuminated with vivid magenta light on one side and a gentle teal from the other. I'm wearing round spectacles with thin rims and arms which denote me as an intellectual who reads Theory, as well as a purple plaid shirt marking me a practical type who also engages in Praxis. My hair is a coruscating effervescence of lavender and indigo, swept into an asymmetric messy queer bob over a sideshave undercut. This picture isn't _explicitly_ saying that I'm a queer anti-fascist baddie ready to do my part to usher in a better tomorrow, but that's definitely the subtext.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Is Rhys Darby playing his exact character from Our Flag Means Death as Q in Strange New Worlds? 🍿

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

TIL that the NYT can't spell "enshittification" right. archive.is/BtZD0

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

I just rewatched everyone’s favorite artsy-ay-eff zombie movie _28 Days Later_ , and finally saw the sequel (which is tragically not directed by Danny Boyle). For a 2002 movie, _Days_ holds up incredibly well — it’s clearly older, but not dated, if that makes sense. _Weeks_ on the other hand is […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

I regret to inform you, but I did a poll over here, and the results are very clear: both Zords and EVA Units are classified as Gundams.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

In the beginning, Hasbro/Wizards released a new Magic set roughly every eighteen months. Then then twelve, then six, then every quarter. The last ones have been every other month. In six months we could be seeing a new Magic set every other week until they're arriving every day […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

It's an unpopular opinion but I'm just going to come out and say it. I don't think I should have to pay the soda tax on LaCroix just because someone once whispered the word "grapefruit" somewhere near it.

Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025

Forget straws, please stop including cables. I don't mean if your thing has weird pogo pins or a magnetic whatever, you're fine keep it up. But if your gizmo has a standard USB port, there's no need to include a six-inch flimsy cable with a micro/mini/C one one end and USB A/C on the other […]

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