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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Really great op-ed in the Washington Post about what's great about Western civilization from Fareed Zakaria. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Nothing new, but I'm disappointed. Many years ago, Linux represented the alternative. The question was: "Why don't you just use Windows? It's easier." And the answer was, almost always: "To be free." The "bazaar" spirit of Linux and its distributions made us feel free. Personally, I've always […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I thought this essay expressed well how a lot of us feel seeing our particular expertise emulated so well by AI. www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-… popular.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@hrbrmstr No, I had not seen that! The current state of affairs is overwhelming, which is part of the reason I'm taking a break. There are some things that make me mad (business and hype, mostly), some things that frighten me (security issues and automated attacks), some things that excite me […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Looking forward to watching the recording of this session from Bruce Schneier! I'm learning a lot just reading the summaries of the talks at [un]prompted II. It's like peeping into the maelstorm of cybersecurity and AI. unpromptedcon.org/agenda-10-2026

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11:35 – 12:00
Integrous AI Systems Design

Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Toronto
In computer security, the CIA Triad represented the three security properties systems should have: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Of the three, integrity has been the most elusive; and, in an AI-powered internet-of-things world, the most important. This talk explores all the facets of integrity: data, processing, storage, and contextual. If we are ever going to trust these systems to take complex actions on our behalf – we are going to need to solve integrity.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Two massive Western Red Cedar trees in the Hoh Rainforest in Washington State. I love this species because of its beauty and resilience to damage and disease. Backpack for scale. #thicktrunktuesday

Two very large tree trunks with moss growing on them. There is a backpack at the base of one.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A little tiny stack of Chicken in the Woods mushrooms. Hope more and larger ones come! #FungiFriday

Orange mushrooms growing out of the side of an old stump. They’re small so I had to get up close. There’s some moss nearby.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

You can tell how wet it is there by the amount of moss growing on those big leaf maples, lol. Each tree is its own little ecosystem.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A muddy trail leading through a stand of vine maple in its fall colors in the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. #footpathfriday

Muddy trail leads through some vine maples in their fall orange foliage. In the background, there are very mossy skeletons of big leaf maple and then forested mountains shrouded in cloud.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It’s very refreshing to be among a small group where the language creator is introduced as being a very kind person, and he stresses that the goal of the Zig Foundation is to educate people. And the talks are full of people talking deep systems knowledge and art Quite a contrast from the norm […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Hoh River to Blue Glacier trip report. This was a good trip. 37 miles with 5.4k of elevation gain (most of that gain in the last 1/4 of the trip). The trail was in good condition overall but had some tricky areas towards the end (Elk Lake to Glacier Meadows) […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

View up a river valley that's deeply forested on both sides. You can see the silver water winding its way down. There are clouds caught in the mountaintops.

View of a large glacier that's crevassed with the summit of the mountain wreathed in clouds. The scene is eerie and beautiful.

Small green tent pitched under some fir trees with young alder and a wide river channel in the background. You can see distant forests and mountains in the back.

Big river with the water cloudy from glacial silt. There's a large tree that's upturned in the river. Some maples are turning red, but most of the trees are evergreen firs climbing the slopes of the valley. The sky is cloudy.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Me, in excited Bilbo voice: “I’m going on an adventure!”

Photo of a large backpack with supplies for a two day backpacking trip, including sleeping bag, pad, tent, food, and cooking equipment.

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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

www.techspot.com/news/114003-openai… Theory: AI companies intentionally have bad security practices, as it gives them stories to tell about how their project is too powerful for the masses.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@sundogplanets It makes me think how angry Tolkien himself was that the Nazis co-opted the Germanic myths to serve their purposes. Tolkien would absolutely hate these companies.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@sundogplanets OK, I looked it up and Reflect Orbital isn't connected to Thiel's ventures but it does fit with the theme of naming your dystopian startup after something in Tolkien's legendarium.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@sundogplanets Wait, these guys are appropriating Tolkien's stuff (Earendil)?! Is this a Peter Thiel venture? I hate this trend so much: Palantir (surveillance), Anduril (war robots), and Earendil now destroying natural night. It's all so dystopian.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The forecast is cold and overcast, so this is the probably the garden’s goodbye gift. 🫡 Everything did great this year except the peas which were wiped out early by some type of virus. #gardening

Cardboard box full of red and yellow tomatoes with different variety of squash. It is set on the ground amidst dying squash vines that have mildew on them.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Had another "humanity at its best" moment on transit today. The b/d lines were all fucked up today, rail blocked in the critical area, so there was a full on line discontinuity where LA metro needed to hoist people between stops by bus. We learn of this via an inaudibly quiet announcement upon […]

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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997. My deep dive […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm super excited to see the movie Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) this weekend! It's about immigrants from the Chaoshan region in China to Thailand in the early 20th century. There were so many people who emigrated during that time and I'm expecting that this story will […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

My hand holding a black and white photo over a wood counter. The photo shows a small grandma and middle aged Chinese woman flanking a young man in a white shirt.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Statue of Harvey Manning (1925-2006) in Issaquah, WA. He was an author of trail guides and an advocate for local trails.

Metal statue of an older man in a wide brimmed hat and boots, sitting on a large rock as if taking a rest. There are walking paths and trees in the background.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The other day I was talking with a loved one at a family gathering and said that the Constitution was meant to protect the rights of the minority from the oppression of the majority. It was quiet for a moment as they processed that. It's basic stuff, but so many of our fellow citizens have […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The bobcat killed another chicken the other day. We saw it jump in from the kitchen window and were out there yelling within 30 seconds. By that time, it had killed one chicken and was jumping out of the run. So that really lit a fire under me to upgrade […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Gate into the run. There's two posts with the raw edge piece of lumber over the top. There's not enough room for a large predator to get through. You can see the wire fencing and the coop in the background.

A log laying horizontal with two sides sawn away so there's a piece of lumber left about 4 inch thick. A chainsaw lies nearby on the grass.

The piece of lumber propped onto two wood rounds with a draw knife leaning against it.

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Tom Casavant @tom.tomkahe.com · 11/09/2026

it's weird that we don't talk about how so many of the world's mathematicians just use a Mastodon instance dedicated to math, and anytime a mathematician is quoted in a news article it's always a screenshot of a mastodon thread

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

OpenAI claims that they used 300 billion output tokens from a swarm of ~10,000 concurrent instances of an internal model that is almost certainly larger and more expensive to run than GPT-6. That's the total token output, including exploring related problems, which, along with spying on other […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@ike Tbh, I hardly ever go over to Seattle these days either, but it's nice to know this place is still around. And if for some weird reason I'm in the city at 2 a.m. and looking for food, I'll know where to go, lol.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I love this story. Beth's has been a thing in Seattle for generations and is one of the places from my younger days that's still around. I'm so happy for the new owner and the move back to 24/7 hours! May their tribe increase! One of my favorite memories […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The Seattle Times headline: Open 24 hours again, Beth’s Cafe returns to form, flavor intact
Sep. 7, 2026

There's a photo of a server with a hair bun placing food on a booth for a man and woman. There's a lot of hand-drawn crayon "artwork" on the walls from patrons.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

One consolation during the end of summer is that sweet corn is at its sweetest and cheapest. We had just the absolute best corn the other night from Fred Meyer at 3 for $1. In our family, we follow this procedure: Steam it (not immersed in the water) 12 minutes after the water starts to boil […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The bobcat struck again yesterday and traumatized the flock. They’ve been sticking close to me today in the garden and wood pile. This bobcat has been growing more bold. I will add netting above the run but if that doesn’t work then I’m tempted to leave my .22 by the back door. #backyardchickens

Two chickens and a gray runner duck inside a garden enclosure. You can see squash and tomatoes growing.

A young yellow chicken standing on top of a wood pile with a pear tree and some trellised vines growing in the background

A young brown chicken with a bright red comb, standing on top of a wooden pallet that is used as part of an enclosure for the garden. You can see a pear tree and some tomato plants in the background.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

“People exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love." #wendellberry

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry helped me to see that there have always been two types of American people: those that are always looking to expand and exploit the land, and those that want to conserve and care for it. He taught me the truth of the cliche that the best things […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A stack of about a dozen of fiction and essay paperback books by Wendell Berry.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

"Its new Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents operate things like ..." industrial control systems, humanoid robots, building automation and controls, autonomous driving systems, weapons systems.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@Sempf Hopefully the product quality has improved in the last decade!

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Bill @sempf.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Weird donut? No, this is a 10 year old LED ceiling light that we were replacing and I didn't LEDs were supposed to do that.

Some generic LED ceiling light where you can see how the LEDs burned marks in their cover.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

We see color because there are three differently tuned “opsins” in our eyes. When a photon of the right wavelength hits these proteins, they temporarily twist into a different shape. Ours correspond to the colors we call red, green, and blue. When you see yellow, the red and green ones are […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I scored a couple of yellow cedar logs (the ones on the far left and right in the photo). Thinking of trying to set up an “Alaskan” mill where you use your chainsaw to make rough boards. This would be a winter project.

Several large tree logs on a parched lawn. The ones in the middle are covered with ivy vines, but the ones on the far left and right are not. Those ones are the yellow cedar logs.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

We've been saving the frozen dog food insulation for at least a year and I finally figured out what to do with it. The roof of the wood shed has a lot of condensation when it's cold out, enough to drip down quite a bit of water. I'm hoping that insulating […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Underside of a wood shed roof looking up with a headlamp as it's getting dark. You can see lots of 2x4 framing and then dog food insulation in between the slats and held up with twine and sticks.

Another view with the head lamp and you can also see more stacked wood in this shot.

Probably about 30-40 insulation pieces on the grass. There are stacks of wood in the background and a metal ladder.

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I am trying to read sci-fi authors I never explored when I was younger, based on recommendations from friends. During #DefCon I had dinner with Bruce Schneier and @adamshostack who suggested a bunch, and I’ve started reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Best quote so far: “I’m sorry […]

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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I will be presenting at THREATCON1 in October, explaining how I figured out how a non-admin user could get code execution as `SYSTEM` on Windows 11 by way of playing a MIDI file. 😂

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

GenAI is just a technology. A lot of what we dislike about it is how people are overhyping and misusing it. This is because people are greedy, stupid, and short-sighted. As a Christian who believes in sinful nature, this isn't surprising. The reason why things aren't the way they *could* be and […]

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Man, I love this truck. Look at those lines, and even with a load of wood, the rear has no sag.

1973 Ford F250 in a grass lawn with a bed full of wood rounds. There are large western red cedar in the background.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓 @tsupasat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@neilk One thing I loved about the old DVD version of Netflix was that you could easily access obscure foreign movies like this.

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