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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway, the original is a brilliant mess. An unwritten film that used a technique never used before, never used again.

I would just remake that original film, with a writer, and actually use the hi-con b/w technique again. I'd shoot it the way they did. It would be insane. It would be amazing.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 6h

The hilarious line from a rent a cop standing on a window washing crane “didn’t anyone tell you stealing is wrong!” in Tron:Legacy is worth the movie price alone

And yet more believable than anything in Hackers

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 16h

What about the AI features already built into the current gen game consoles?

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 1d

Very first thing that appeared ….

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Ronar the wah @ronarwah.bsky.social · 1d

this is how wahs exercise, by running on a escalator.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 1d

NextDoor is about to explode in anger.

(good)

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

WE DID IT!!!

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 1d

Minneapolis/St. Paul has incredibly better biking infrastructure than San Diego

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 2d

Impossible to enforce. Every business out there uses some sort of VPN.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 2d

App passwords are common across many industries including financial. They are quick to implement and offer reasonable security for one off use cases like this one to give limited access to data in another account without having to use your main credentials.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 2d

In 2005 I was working for a large bank who purchased google search appliances and plugged them in. They were unplugged a day later as they were happily returning customer records.

Not a new problem.

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Gematsu @gematsu.com · 2d

Sony Interactive Entertainment and AMD – Mark Cerny and Jack Huynh discuss shared vision for future of play

Sony Interactive Entertainment has released a new video featuring Mark Cerny, lead architect of PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro, and Jack Huynh, the senior vice president and general…

Sony Interactive Entertainment and AMD – Mark Cerny and Jack Huynh discuss shared vision for future of play

Sony Interactive Entertainment has released a new video featuring Mark Cerny, lead architect of PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro, and Jack Huynh, the senior vice president and general manager of computing and graphics at AMD, discussing the collaboration between Sony Interactive Entertainment and AMD focused on machine learning-based technology for graphics and gameplay.

www.gematsu.com

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 2d

This has been true as long as video games have existed.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 3d

Just under half of gamers worldwide are women, according to a new report published by the Entertainment Software Association

www.gamesindustry.biz/esa-48-of-vi...

ESA: 48% of video game players are women

2025 Global Power of Play report also found that mobile is the preferred device for women and players overall

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

As a Minnesotan now in SoCal who has had dogs all his life - it annoys me to no end to run into one at a SoCal grocery store. Which happens every time I’m in one. And they aren’t pretending to be service animals. Besides putting up the No Dogs sign - the employees chose to do nothing.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

Not the first time being reported to HR for "doing my job" but explaining to the idiot who reported me the multi year explicit history of a domain was fun.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

Imagine being reported to HR for "hating religion" when some member of a new church tries to hit their website only to get back a message saying "blocked due to being a sexually explicit site" since there is usually a lag time between something being registered and being reclassified.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

This also works in reverse. When I did corporate infosec that usually meant owning the egress filtering lists. HR would order us to ban "porn" so we did using subscription url lists. But a lot of "porn" domains expire and get reregistered by something else.

Like churches.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

These URLs aren't hijacked by "porn sites" — they're hijacked by scam artists who mass purchase expired domains to either rout traffic to a page crammed with gambling/sex/penis pill/dating ads or to embarrass someone enough that they'll pay a ransom to kill it.

UK libraries urged to remove children’s books with URL hijacked by porn site

Puffin issues alert to schools and local authorities over books in popular Spy Dog series by Andrew Cope

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

I had to google “Lee Greenwood”

I didn’t have to google “Bad Bunny”

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 3d

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

I've hit 45mph on the down slope of a hill in Iowa which exceeded the town I was entering speed limits by a bit.

But even today I can do 18 to 22 mph on flat road and assuming no wind.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 3d

Lately my fear isn't grandma driving a prius through a red light - it's idiots on class 3 bikes using bike lanes and paths which has increased dramatically over the last few years. And it's not just ebikes - many of these are ice based bikes which is much worse experience for everyone.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 3d

Class 1 e-bikes, which require pedaling and have electric assist that tops out at 18mph, are very different than throttle-operated class 2 and 3 bikes, which are themselves very different from the bigger, faster electric motorcycles that are proliferating under the “ebike” label.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 3d

My unpopular urbanist opinion is that big, hyperfast two-wheelers are a menace and should be banned from bike lanes/paths (with enforcement).

These things endanger everyone riding a bike or legal e-bike. Worse, they deter some from even trying.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 4d

I guess I haven't clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 4d

There was a lot of ML hype in the early 2000s that had its own mini bubble.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 4d

Apple disables faceid in a number of different circumstances. But the quickest way is to press the side button 5 times and you’ll be forced to enter in a paraphrase to unlock the phone.

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 4d

Apple's iOS makes it trivially easy to disable biometric and fall back to passphrase to log in

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 4d

Not a single word of this makes any sense

Tech Field Day - Microsoft Security Exclusive 10/9 @techfieldday.com · 4d

Infoblox is transforming DNS into a proactive, AI-driven security layer.

At Security Field Day, they showcased a decade of Protective DNS innovation as a cornerstone of Zero Trust.

@Infoblox #XFD14 #Cybersecurity #AI #ZeroTrust #SecurityLayer

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Tim Shea @gingerjet.net · 4d

No truer statement than this one

Developers: journalists are not your friends.

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