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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 6m

yeah I have a dock but most of my gaming time is on a bus

normally I would simply hack the security camera monitor, but vertical orientation would make mapgames less than fun

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 3h

been feeling a lot like some grand strategy lately

terra invicta, stellaris, dominions, something like that -

except they're all pretty painful on a Steam Deck tbh

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 3h

oh hell yeah there's a Hathaway 2 release date

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

What trans person would want to work for this government

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

the CORRUPT NEWS MEDIA won't tell you that the warez scene has had this technology since at least the 1980s

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6h

They're animating the law enforcement seizure notices now. This was just uploaded to the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters site that was threatening to dump Salesforce customer data. The dark web version remains online.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

so, not beating the evil allegations,

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

Microsoft had a pilot of this intending to use homomorphic computing

The Data Furnace: Heating Up with Cloud Computing - Microsoft Research

In this paper, we argue that servers can be sent to homes and office buildings and used as a primary heat source. We call this approach the Data Furnace or DF. Data Furances have three advantages over...

www.microsoft.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 11h

cursed texts with ominous auras

Are you part of a Somerville polycule? You seem familiar

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

You're gonna LOVE Gamma Ray I tell you what

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 12h

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

hmm thought of an ATproto app that fits the criteria of being something I want to build, something I can build, and something only I would care enough to build

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

great now I'm thinking about Dominions 6

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

You do not want to ask this guy what he thinks about immigrants

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

Anyone who knows about Vril needs to be investigated for either their politics or their terrible taste in metal

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 4h

This, too, is yuri.

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 5h

Got a Lyft driver who's showing her husband Twin Peaks and identifies with Laura Palmer. Electrician was against offshore wind turbines, because he's concerned about them being too loud for whales. My city's mayor is a regular cosplayer

All character sliders are maxed in Massachusetts

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 5h

We will live to see this again.

On the day that he announced his resignation, Richard Nixon ordered cottage cheese, pineapple slices and a glass of milk.

Robert Knudsen/Nixon Library

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 11h

yes and it gets worse in ways i can't even post

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 11h

cursed texts with ominous auras

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · Jul 15

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

slate.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

hearing that there's finally been a collapse of sponsorship dollars in devops. Maybe it can be good again

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

The most dangerous state actor and cyber threat the United States has ever faced is the President of the United States

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 1d

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

once again anarchists are way ahead of the curve here

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 16h

Hearts of Iron scraping the barrel recruitment standard

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

lmfao

By the 1380s in Europe, the plague predominantly affected children.[138] Chalmel de Vinario recognised that bloodletting was ineffective (though he continued to prescribe bleeding for members of the Roman Curia, whom he disliked), and

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