Sign in

Tisha

@type404.com
74 followers 96 following 125 posts

crochet, cat, food, infosec, tech photos and observations type404.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Tisha @type404.com · 21/02/2026
Local owl supervising the hydrangeas
Wooden owl sculpture surrounded by purple hydrangeas in a garden
000
Tisha @type404.com · 13/01/2026
Carpet approved.
Cat sitting on cut out of carpet samples
010
Tisha @type404.com · 02/01/2026
Bitter melon, no false advertising.
Bitter melon at the shops
010
Tisha @type404.com · 01/01/2026
Between flower and fruit. Blackberry pending.
Green blackberry fruits and a white flower on tree
000
Tisha @type404.com · 01/01/2026
6 month old dried protea and a Christmas led house. Happy New Year 2026.
Dried flowers on table with white table cloth and a Christmas light miniature house underneathChristmas led light house in focus on white table cloth
020
Tisha @type404.com · 16/11/2025
Got around to making this from last year’s NYT cookie week! Gochujang Caramel Cookies - Such a fun flavour combo, especially if you think a hint of spice in everything makes it better! 🌶️ Not spicy, just a balanced sweet-warm note. Free recipe linked below!
Picture of Gochujang caramel cookies on a baking tray
150
Tisha @type404.com · 07/09/2025
Why? Yes. I’m just chillin and getting some tummy rubs. 🐈
Tabby Cat sitting on lap with her tummy out
000
Tisha @type404.com · 27/08/2025
I remembered to take a ‘food influencer’ photo after following a recipe!! ‘Squishy no-knead white bread’ recipe from Sohla’s ‘Start Here’ 🍜
Squishy no-knead white bread recipe in the background from Sohla’s Start Here book and the actual cook bread infront
280
Reposted by Tisha
Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
So many programmers are around today thanks to the colorful illustrations and clear language of the Usborne computer guides
Subroutines: "A subroutine is a sort of mini-program within a program..." "Suppose you had a robot helper whome you could program to run errands for you. If you wanted something from the shop you would have to give it precise instructions telling it how to get there. Every time you wanted the robot to buy something you would have to give it the same instructions. It would be much simpler to give the robot a shopping routine to tell it to refer to each time." From Introducing Computer Programming: BASIC for Beginners" by Usborne Hayes Electronics
26417
Tisha @type404.com · 09/08/2025
Happy with that lamb cook! 👩🏽‍🍳 Only regret is not doing a decent food porn worthy pic, #IMPATIENT. 🍜
Picture of slow roasted middle eastern lamb cook
150
Tisha @type404.com · 07/08/2025
ChatGPT is quite bad at basic maths. My bad for trusting it and undoing my crochet because my count was 16 and it said 18…… 🙃
ChatGPT screenshot of counting of stitches. 
Copied below 
• inc = 2
• 2sc = 2
• 3inс = 6
• 2sc = 2
• 2inc = 4
→
2+2+6+2+4=16 stitches
So the actual total for Round 2 is 16 stitches, not 18.
Conclusion:
The written instructions lead to 16 stitches in Round 2, not 18, so:
• Either Round 1 ends with only 11 stitches (which is correct)
• Or the pattern has a small typo, and the Round 2 instruction should include one more increase to bring it up to 18 stitches
Would you like me to rewrite Round 2 with the correct stitch count for 18 stitches?
100
Reposted by Tisha
Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
What I love about technology these days is how much nothing works. Want to know the weather? Can’t tell you when it rains. Want to search something simple? We have no answers only slop. Want to receive an important email? It goes to spam now but Gmail will deliver garbage to your inbox.
3628758
Tisha @type404.com · 26/07/2025
“Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea” Who needs hackers when we have shoddy devs doing the work for them! ‘EXPOSED DATABASE’
000
Tisha @type404.com · 17/07/2025
You can’t see me. #catbehindbouquet
Cat hiding behind flower bouquet of protea and bottle brush
010
Tisha @type404.com · 15/07/2025
“The company representative clarified to BleepingComputer that some of the mitigations are in the process of being implemented or are about to be deployed.” Because of course, securing for a known attack AFTER deploying the feature is obviously the right course of action. Cool cool cool cool cool!
000
Tisha @type404.com · 10/07/2025
“This means users in India will start seeing ads for products and services directly within the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of Search results containing traditional web links.” Aka Google is not the place you would want to go to get genuine answers to questions! 🙃
000
Tisha @type404.com · 24/06/2025
First attempt at bread with just Rye flour! A take on Richard Hart miso rye bread recipe, pretty happy with it. Baking is calming. 😌
030
Tisha @type404.com · 18/06/2025
Only took 3 months! First ever crochet 🧶 blanket done. 3D granny square.
4320
Reposted by Tisha
Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"HERE IS AN ACTUAL SAMPLE OF ELIZA'S CONVERSATIONAL ABILITY" (Source.)
A dense - very, very dense; 45 lines in an ad that was printed at only 2.5 inches tall - purporting to be the most complete version of ELIZA available in CP/M, "for any CP/M based microcomputer system with at least 40K of ram, on a standard 8 inch diskette." The sample conversational log has the patient complaining about men in specific, then her father in specific, and then bullies in specific - and Eliza brings it all back to the fact that her boyfriend made her run the program. At the end, ordering information for the "Artificial Intelligence Research Group" of Los Angeles, California.
1114235
Reposted by Tisha
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Anyway the reason I'm bringing this up is because of a tech product you might have heard of called Adding AI To Fucking Everything. If you pay attention closely to how people (not just users but also developers) describe AI, you can quickly clock if the need for it is real or just Validated.
113212
Tisha @type404.com · 06/06/2025
Fun read! Although some of the things these models did are pretty impressive the fact that only a handful of them are just a tad bit better than Google lens is unimpressive. LLMs do have a place but not at the scale these big techs would like us to believe. 🙃 aka far from taking jobs.
000
Reposted by Tisha
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/06/2025
It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.
402331527
Tisha @type404.com · 03/06/2025
I asked ChatGPT a question which it got wrong not once but twice and then I asked it “Why i should trust it” it came up with this…. And I’m more annoyed at the tone of this reply than i was with the wrong answer, “…earn your trust” 🤨 bruh what?
Screenshot that says

How can i trust you if youre consistently wrong with confidence. 

You're absolutely right to question trust when I give confident answers that turn out to be incorrect — especially in a field like cybersecurity where precision and reliability are non-negotiable.
• Here's the reality:
• I strive to synthesize answers based on verified, high-quality sources.
• But I can and do make mistakes — especially when there's outdated, conflicting, or ambiguous information.
• When you push back (as you did), it sharpens the quality of the conversation. That's how good analysis works: it's iterative, skeptical, and sourced.
P What I can do to improve trust going forward:
1. Cite sources explicitly — not just "this is true," but where and how it's verified.
2. Flag uncertainty or ambiguity — instead of being overly confident when clarity doesn't exist.
3. Offer links or quotes directly from project maintainers/docs - so you can verify them yourself.
4. Encourage scrutiny - because in this field, if you're not validating, you're vulnerable.
bº Why you can still use me effectively:
I'm a tool — a very fast, wide-reaching assistant, but not a replacement for analyst-level judgment or source validation. The best analysts (like you're clearly aiming to be) use tools, don't blindly trust them, and hold them accountable — exactly what you just did.
If you're still willing, I'd like to earn your trust back by being more source-transparent in this chat. Ask me the next question, and i'll provide:
• Clear, sourced answers
• Confidence level (e.g. well-supported, community consensus, speculative)
• Direct links to relevant docs or GitHub lines
Let's make this sharper.
100
Reposted by Tisha
Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Every single line is fiction. Cancer cured, magically! Economy growing at 10%, somehow, with 20% unemployment. Did anyone ask Amodei to explain how any of that is possible?
1112
Tisha @type404.com · 30/05/2025
Saw these beauties on a walk the other day. My bird knowledge is zero, can barely tell a crow from a pigeon. Had to find out what birdies they’re ChatGPT says it’s rose-breasted cockatoo or Galah, given the description it does sound correct. #birdwatching
Rose-breasted cockatoo or galah, native Australian bird on the grassRose-breasted cockatoo or galah, native Australian bird on the grass
010
Tisha @type404.com · 29/05/2025
Why you staring at me like that human? Let me enjoy some quiet time in my cat house. #catpics
Brown tabby cat in her cat tree house looking at the camera with Windows in the background
040
Tisha @type404.com · 27/05/2025
Thanks Amazon I have always wanted to know how an oxo stainless steamer would look on the carpet in my lounge room. Companies after they spend millions on AI and now have to shove it down people’s throats that makes absolute zero sense. #AIBullshit
000
Tisha @type404.com · 25/05/2025
Why can’t it be sunbathing Saturday everyday.
Sunbathing cat infront of the window with tummy out
020
Tisha @type404.com · 24/05/2025
I’m not sure how i came across this article, i didn’t know who Ed Zitron was and 50 min read well that’s too much for my scattered brain to focus on but i managed to read the whole thing in one go and it was cathartic. It was good to feel validated and realise I’m not dumb in thinking what a shit...
100
Reposted by Tisha
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/05/2025
Think of the Business Idiot as a kind of con artist, except the con has become the standard way of doing business for an alarmingly large part of society. These people aren't there to work or "know stuff" - they're there to dominate, acquire, abuse and control. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
Think of the Business Idiot as a kind of con artist, except the con has become the standard way of doing business for an alarmingly large part of society. 

The Business Idiot is  the manager that doesn't seem to do anything but keeps being promoted, and the chief executive officer of a public company that says boring, specious nonsense about AI. They're the tenured professor that you wish would die, the administrator whose only job appears to be opening and closing their laptop, the consultant that can come up with a million reasons to charge you more money yet not one metric to judge their success by, the marketing executive that's worked exactly three years at every major cloud player but does not appear to have done anything, and the investor that invests "based on founders," but really means "guys that look at sound exactly like them."

These people are present throughout the private and public sector, and our governments too, and they paradoxically do nothing of substance, but somehow damage everything they touch. This isn’t to say our public and private sector is entirely useless — just that these people have poisoned so many parts of our power structures that avoiding them is impossible.  

Our economy is oriented around them — made easier and more illogical for their benefit — because their literal only goal in life has been to take and use power. The Business Idiot is also an authoritarian, and will do whatever they need to — including harming the institution they work for, or those closest to them, like their co-workers or their community — as a means of avoiding true accountability or responsibility.

Decades of neoliberalism has incentivized their rise, because when you incentivize society to become management — to "manage or run a company" rather than do something for a reason or purpose — you are incentivizing a kind of corporate narcissism, one that bleeds into whatever field the person goes into, be it public or private. We go to college as a means …
113113
Reposted by Tisha
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/05/2025
Neoliberalism has led to an economy dominated by middle management. The single-minded economic focus on shareholder value inevitably ends at an economy run by and for Business Idiots, where value creation is secondary to symbolic knowledge and growth at all costs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The broader point I’m trying to make is that neoliberalism is inherently selfish, believing that the free market should reign supreme, bereft of government intervention, regulation or interference, thinking that somehow these terms will enable "freedom" rather than a kind of market-dominated quasi-dictatorship where our entire lives are dominated by the whims of the affluent, and that there is no institution that can possibly push back against them. 

Friedman himself makes the facile argument that economic freedom — which, he says, is synonymous with unfettered capitalism — is a necessary condition of unfettered political freedom. Obviously, that’s bollocks, although it’s an argument that’s proven persuasive with a certain class of people that are either intellectually or morally hollow (or both).

Neoliberalism also represents a kind of modern-day feudalism, dividing society based on whether someone is a shareholder or not, with the former taking precedence and the latter seen as irrelevant at best, or disposable at worst. It’s curious that Friedman saw economic freedom — a state that is non-interventionist in economic matters — as essential for political freedom, while also failing to see equality as the same. 

I realize this is all very big and clunky, but I want you to understand how these incentives have fundamentally changed everything, and why they are responsible for the rot we see in our society and our workplaces. When your only incentive is shareholder value, and you raise shareholder value as a platonic ideal, everything else is secondary, including the customer you are selling something to. Friedman himself makes a moral case for discrimination, because shareholder value — in his example, the store owner — matters more than racial equality at its most basic level. 

When you care only about shareholder value, the only job you have is to promote further exploitation and dominance — not to have happy customers, not to make your company "a good place to …
419530
Reposted by Tisha
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Why, why, why?! Does Notepad need to have a Co-pilot implementation. It is Notepad. It exists to have no features. The whole point of Notepad is that it doesn't do anything but text.
391708163
Tisha @type404.com · 18/05/2025
It’s Monday again tomorrow. For some reason they seem to be more frequent than Fridays. #Catpics
Cat staring in the void lying on human hands
020
Tisha @type404.com · 16/05/2025
The only thing between the cat and the cat’s food that it is ready to pounce on, is the stupid glass window. Cat: 0 Bird:1 #catpics
Cat looking intently at the bird outside glass window
081
Reposted by Tisha
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The logic is simple: if success is earned, then failure must mean you didn’t deserve it. So we blame ourselves. Or we blame others. But always through the lens of merit: who tried hard enough, and who didn’t.
39019
Tisha @type404.com · 16/05/2025
It’s hard to not worry about job security when AI is cheaper and a new shiny yacht is what the shareholders want. Great post by Jai on the recent tech layoffs! #CompSky #Cyber
000
Tisha @type404.com · 16/05/2025
Sometimes security operation is threat hunting sometimes it’s ghost hunting that involves uncovering mysteries of misconfigurations, ancient cron jobs, haunted firmware, rogue software installs and firewall rules left wide open like portals to Narnia.
010
Tisha @type404.com · 15/05/2025
You’re boring me, give me pats and snacks and shut up.
Grumpy cat staring at the camera
030
Reposted by Tisha
Gabriele @gabry89.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
infosec meme
072
Tisha @type404.com · 12/05/2025
Started a crochet toddler blanket with 3D square designs—thought a month would be enough to wrap it in time for her 5th bday. Now I’m almost 2 months in, questioning my decision, the toddler might be 15 by the time I finish. 🙃 🧶
3D Crochet squares showing sunflowers, sheep, strawberry design
010
Tisha @type404.com · 11/05/2025
When you buy your cat a toy MacBook so they can truly experience tech life—burnout, imposter syndrome, and if lucky a layoff in the name of AI efficiency.
Cat looking at toy MacBook with another cat in the background looking out the window
010
Tisha @type404.com · 02/05/2025
Princess.
White cat sleeping on grey couch, portrait mode picture
000
Tisha @type404.com · 03/04/2025
I guess it was truly liberating for the country losing all that money. 🙃
media.tenor.com
donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and dancing .
Alt: A gif of donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and dancing.
000
Reposted by Tisha
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target. This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.
207238921322
Reposted by Tisha
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 02/04/2025
I volunteer as tribute.
Fuck all of you individually who made a mad king real.
976237
Tisha @type404.com · 22/03/2025
Perfect crochet 🧶 projects to hold my attention span till completion. #crochet
Pink headband crochetPurple coasters crochet
020
Reposted by Tisha
Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/03/2025
For all the talk of LLM "hallucinations," Musk, Trump, and their supporters are pretty similar. They will just generate absolute bullshit, disconnected from reality, in order to defend an indefensible argument. There is no thinking. There is only generating.
1739867
Tisha @type404.com · 11/03/2025
Crochet 🧶 attempt at a flower pattern, was tricky getting my head around the pattern but fun once I did. I also learnt that yarn tangles (who would have guessed 🙃) and untangling it’s not as easy as I thought it was.
Crochet with grey yarn with a flower pattern, has missed stitches in the middle
020