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tac0shell
@patrickriggs.com
Offensive security (hacking), maker (3d printing, woodworking), US Army veteran, soccer fanatic (DC United, Cambridge United, Eintracht Frankfurt/Bayern), counterculture enthusiast.

- https://masto.hackers.town/@tac0shell
- https://patrickriggs.com
Before you engage the rabbit hole to generate a #BIMI compliant SVG logo for your domain, know that later you will need to obtain a Verified/Common Mark Certificate (.pem file) and it will run you $1-1.5k/year. I didn't know until I'd spent about 3 hours inside Inkscape. Damnit. #whyamilikethis
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's been a personally eventful year and not necessarily in good ways.

One bright spot is I finally sat down and started extricating my finances from the AWS money pit. Why did I have Namecheap AND Route53 entries? And Workmail is expensive for what amounts to a bunch of vanity email spam catchers.
July 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
You *don't* need another project. You don't need another project. You might need another project. You need another project...
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—suc...
www.eff.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Normalize not posting numeric time commitments next to online #training material. I can't remember these ever being accurate, if I am supposed to read the material, comprehend it, AND perform lab work.

Also, I'm an extensive note-taker, which balloons time spent. This course took me a full day.
March 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Not all heroes wear capes, but some dress as wizards.
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Well, then. "Verifying" my bsky account with a DNS TXT record for my website was staggeringly quick and easy.
January 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Unihorse is the best character on Bluey. I don't make the rules.
a cartoon dog reading a book to a unicorn
Alt: Chili reading a book to Bluey and Unihorse. Unihorse says "...aaaaaaand why should I care?"
media.tenor.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I was surprised this evening when metered street parking in downtown Denver didn't require one of my several installed parking apps or having to install a new one and then suffering the agony of inputting a credit card while my family waits for me to finish so we can make our dinner reservation.
I just want to say that I’m really fucking tired of downloading apps. Want to park? Download an app. Want to see kids school band concert? Download this app for tickets! Want to talk to kids teacher? No more emails, download this app! Oh, and each school subject will have a different app!

FUCK
December 28, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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Nazis need to be punched.
i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs
To those asking, here's Vance's comments.
When news broke that the terrorist in Germany was a Saudi immigrant, Vance implied blame on all immigrants/Muslims.
When it came out that the attacker was an Elon Musk fan, AfD supporter, and anti-Islam, Vance defended AfD.
He's said nothing else about it.
December 21, 2024 at 6:07 PM
JFC when did live Christmas trees get so expensive? I've always been a hard anti-artificial person but after 2 holidays back in the States, I'm reconsidering this position.
December 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM
My phone: Notification...
My phone: Notification...
My phone: Notification...
Me: What is going on over there?
My phone: Notification...
Me: Oh, I've been added to a Hackers.Town starter pack
My phone: Notification...
November 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
There is nothing easy about navigating the #minecraft ecosystem. Cascading numbers of required accounts, instances connecting with each other, searching for ways to GIVE money to companies to buy stupid minecoins.
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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imagine being the CEO of spirit halloween. you only work a single month a year and you make 10 billion dollars. your only job is sell skeleton. life is good.

and then some FUCKER from *Home Depot* says “let’s make one taller than god.”
October 19, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Chuck was absolutely NO help doing the yardwork today.
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM
On Friday, we get all the screenshots so next week they can't say it isn't a finding.

My preeecccciouuuuusssss screenshotssssssesssss
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Say good night to the Internet, Chuck.
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Is this where #infosec bird site fled to? Noice.
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Hello. I am not a Tweet.
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM