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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 6h

Another one of the problems with increasing use of unmarked cars & unmarked cops:

You swerve to get around some random white car you think is driving like a jerk and get into a tiny fender bender - but surprise! It's four fully armed angry men who now claim you've committed a felony assault on them

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 7d

Granted I'm not a military expert like Pete Hegseth but from afar it kind of seems to me like logistics, cyber security and drone operators are essentially carrying the weight of most modern warfare.

That said, if they're getting rid of mandatory phishing "exercises" I'm game.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 10d

Opinions wanted:

If you regularly eat lunch with coworkers & they talk about work for the majority of the lunch - do you mentally bucket that as work time or as a break?

Let's say the discussion isn't all gossip or blowing off steam; at least 50% is work talk.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 10d

This is referred to as a Kavanaugh stop, right?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11d

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 13d

Blocking off traffic to funnel everyone through a suspicionless search ought to be illegal too.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 13d

I'd love to see more details specifically about this stop to know what about the U-turn was illegal. Was it "This street has a no u-turns sign" or was it "We consider all U-turns in this intersection to be temporarily illegal while we're stopping every driver for no cause". :P

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 13d

Why should it be illegal for an autonomous car to avoid a warrantless DUI searching checkpoint? Cars can't get drunk.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 15d

I don't know if y'all know this amazing fact, but -- both Cockatoos and Conures are capable of squawking loud enough in one's office to actually overwhelm the noise canceling on a good pair of headphones and cause audio clipping.

It's amazing.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 16d

I dunno, it doesn't quite have the same snap that the others do.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17d

Today's hot take: "Vulnerability" as a term has become meaningless in the industry.

I propose that at a system level, a vulnerability is not a *vulnerability* if there are other intact, effective compensating controls. Many of the things we call vulns should just be called bugs

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18d

I received a survey from the heritage foundation. My responses will probably never be read and this was probably pointless, but I responded anyway.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18d

The struggle is real and the vacuum is evil

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 19d

Can you believe how unsafe it is to have those crazy waymos every... oh wait, nm

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 20d

This video is the coolest thing I have seen this month, thank you for sharing it!

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 21d

For no reason at all and not subject to any particular specific current news item, I've recently been thinking about Matthew Prince's blog post from 2017.

Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

Get the latest news on how products at Cloudflare are built, technologies used, and open positions to join the teams helping to build a better Internet.

blog.cloudflare.com

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 21d

I wonder if we are going to see AI / agentic attacks hit much sooner and faster than AI / agentic defenses because defenders face so many more consequences for making mistakes than attackers do.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 24d

There's two types of people in this world. Those who have never run a not-yet-full filesystem out of inodes, and those who have run a spam filtering daemon in quarantine mode.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 25d

deadpool is wearing a helmet and holding two swords and says very nice !

ALT: deadpool is wearing a helmet and holding two swords and says very nice !

media.tenor.com

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 25d

Six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting office workers, despite being trained not to.

Further study also shows that the office workers can be easily tricked into clicking the phishing emails, also despite being trained not to.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 25d

A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to (Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 26d

This administration would very much like to just be able to murder anyone they claim is a Terrorist and that's clearly the precedent they're trying to establish.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 27d

One of the difficult things about trying to find alignment across the aisle on facts is that it's increasingly difficult to find facts on the internet, vs facts interspersed with opinions.

Did X person say Y? Here's 500 out of context clips, all of them by partisan commentators.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 28d

Maui seems to be proving that banning short-term rentals actually does drastically reduce housing costs for locals.

Maui Condo Market Collapse: What It Means For Travelers

Maui’s condo market just plunged. The collapse is already reshaping visitor decisions as the future of vacation rentals remains uncertain.

beatofhawaii.com

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 29d

Two things kids these days will never know the simple joy of.

1: Watching disk doctor shuffle those ANSI blocks around and stack them up while defragging your disk, and

2: Degaussing your monitor. "THNANGGgggggg....." (wigglewigglewiggle)

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today I'm inundated with yet another reminder that it's far easier to criticize than to create, and pointing out flaws is so much quicker than solving problems.

Choose to be a problem solver, whenever and wherever you can.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you weren't in tech back then: Most of the time your severance depended on training the cheaper overseas worker who was replacing you.

Disney did it again in 2015: www.nytimes.com/2015...
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Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. (Published 2015)

American tech workers in Orlando found their jobs and desks transferred to immigrants brought in under H-1B visas by an Indian firm.

www.nytimes.com

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