Blogs are old news, right? Well, here's one for nonsensical rants and manic musings -- lordinateur.xyz ; You're not likely to find anything remotely interesting or logically sound. But perhaps it'll serve as a reminder that with enough boredom, you too can post random crap to the interwebs.

So if you're like me and you enjoyed TIS-100... but also you're interested in QIS... there's a quantum circuit simulator in the form of a visually-creative puzzle game on Steam called Quantum Odyssey... it's fairly decent and it goes through gate basics for new folks. #quantum #qis #steam #puzzles

I quit smoking a week ago (woo) but I've since been crotchety and I was thinking, other than yelling at kids on my lawn, what else do old people do these days? So I spun up a shitty blog so that you too can skim it, get pissed at some guy on the web, and morph into a curmudgeon >:V lordinateur.xyz

Today I messed around a bit in #OpenSCAD and made a battery dispenser for D batteries. I'm not very good at CAD, but the code-first approach seems fairly intuitive to me. Though I had to dust off the trig skillset for proper wall thickness on the little ramp. Printing now, wish me luck.

Here's your reminder that in general, using the public cloud to host blockchain nodes is a waste of money. Blockchain nodes are NOT designed to scale. (And here, I'm not talking about dApps on the blockchain, or the distributed OS itself... (1/10) #blockchain #scaling

Things to ask for when choosing a text-based comms proto:

- is it encrypted? (e2e?) which cipher suites?
- is it open source? (and are the repos active?)
- is it decentralized?
- who runs it? who is it backed by?
- how are groups/channels organized?

Remember to assume breach :)

What role should GPTs and other LLMs take in software engineering? Had a friend chuck a ton of untested code from ChatGPT into his production workflow, only to have the gall to look dismayed when it broke his env on a first-run. I'm kind of required to fly by the seat of my pants due to... (1/7)

What's an infosec engineer's favorite dairy? Swiss cheese!

No but for real, gotta remember that all implemented controls have scopes that they fail to adequately cover, use cases that aren't accounted for, and control risk tossed into the mix.

A few days ago #AuthQuake is released by #Oasis. (1/1)

I had the absolute pleasure of showing the Dark Crystal to a friend who had never seen it before. I can only describe his expression throughout as "befuddled." Perhaps I failed previously in my duties as friend (eh? rotten!) but today the ancestors smile upon my house.

Dear certain enterprise ISPs:

If your status page hasn't updated itself hours after our NOCs tell us that someone dug into one of your rainbow roots, it's probably time for some self-reflection.

Sincerely,

Tired engineers everywhere who were likely going to be up late but like to complain anyhow.

Let's talk blockchain. Not crypto necessarily, but the underlying tech. Is it sufficiently redundant, to the degree to which it can be considered "highly available" ? Surely so, with a record of the state (and presumably, the history, if peers are so inclined) on all involved machines. (1/6)

Discovered "spaced repetition" flashcards when I was using Logseq to study for my Security+ a couple of years ago. But, found attentiveness to gh issues to be lacking and the bugs a plenty. Plus, interoperability on FreeBSD required a bhyve (never got the Linuxulator to work for it) (1/3)

Terrible at maintaining any sort of social presence. So instead, please enjoy my favorite poem.

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A repost of a repost from Cathy Snider at CU Boulder.