Understand to be useful, believe to be beautiful.
Hardware aesthetics 🔌🎨
Telecom decadence 📡💅
For my introduction, check out the oldest pinned post.
@da_667 idk shitposting is always time well spent
The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/eff-wisconsin-legislature-vpn-bans-are-still-terrible-idea
I owe y'all some thanks for your outpouring of support and understanding over these past few months. And if you're on your own strugglebus, I wish you the best of fortune. I swear, once you figure out your routine, it gets MUCH easier.
@Alice are you familiar with the "at night" series by andreas levers? i think you'd like it.
Before bug bounties, before root shells, before the word hacker meant anything at all there was a blind kid who whistled 2600 Hz and bent Ma Bell to his will.
Joybubbles tells the story of Joe Engressi, the original phone phreak and a reminder that hacking started as curiosity, play, and defiance.
Sundance screening.
https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/6932fad21a5535277891b127
@jerry 🫂
“The Conscience of a Hacker” by The Mentor is 40 years old today.
"Virtual Woman is a software program that has elements of a chatbot, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, a video game, and a virtual human. It claims to be the oldest form of virtual life in existence, as it has been distributed since the late 1980s."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Woman
@catsalad bite back.
@da_667 i'm seeing this at the same time i'm watching that episode (・o・)
@Alice Looks great! Did you use butthole be-gone cream? If that's not a thing, it should definitely be a thing.
@SynapticRewrite definitely understand what that's like. do what you can to practice self-care. even little acts will make a difference.
New podcast from me -
Destination Cyber
Episode 15: Lesley Carhart https://kbi.media/podcast/episode-15-lesley-carhart/
@SynapticRewrite long time no talk. good to see you're back in action!
@briankrebs tabicide is your browser's way of telling you to use your history instead ^_^
"This has an em dash—it must be AI!" 😩
GenAI uses em dashes, in part, because it was trained on material written by authors like me. Without our consent, might I add.
The machines can pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
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