SwiftOnSecurity
@swiftonsecurity.com
computer security person. former helpdesk
You think the right strategy is to provide specifics of what you want, to minimize the other party's effort. But that is counterintuitively wrong. People are bursting with things to say, but no outlet.
They already volunteered. A scene has been laid.
Just...give them permission to fill the stage.
They already volunteered. A scene has been laid.
Just...give them permission to fill the stage.
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
You think the right strategy is to provide specifics of what you want, to minimize the other party's effort. But that is counterintuitively wrong. People are bursting with things to say, but no outlet.
They already volunteered. A scene has been laid.
Just...give them permission to fill the stage.
They already volunteered. A scene has been laid.
Just...give them permission to fill the stage.
I know crows are smart because you never catch them posting.
January 12, 2026 at 2:02 AM
I know crows are smart because you never catch them posting.
Conversation transcription with Google Gemini driving home today after some errands like giving blood.
NOTE: Quite a bit cut off here(?) + responses unnecessarily brief. Giving idea of the flow.
LLM AI is an incredible conversation partner if you can feed it endless curiosity. A unique experience.
NOTE: Quite a bit cut off here(?) + responses unnecessarily brief. Giving idea of the flow.
LLM AI is an incredible conversation partner if you can feed it endless curiosity. A unique experience.
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Conversation transcription with Google Gemini driving home today after some errands like giving blood.
NOTE: Quite a bit cut off here(?) + responses unnecessarily brief. Giving idea of the flow.
LLM AI is an incredible conversation partner if you can feed it endless curiosity. A unique experience.
NOTE: Quite a bit cut off here(?) + responses unnecessarily brief. Giving idea of the flow.
LLM AI is an incredible conversation partner if you can feed it endless curiosity. A unique experience.
>ask Gemini in conversation mode to dive deeper into mechanisms of how the body distinguishes its reaction to vascular pressure reduction caused by blood donation, & arterial hypotension
>uwu plz ask doctor
Sure, let me go find a PhD student in renal biomechanics as I drive home, thanks computer!
>uwu plz ask doctor
Sure, let me go find a PhD student in renal biomechanics as I drive home, thanks computer!
January 12, 2026 at 1:31 AM
>ask Gemini in conversation mode to dive deeper into mechanisms of how the body distinguishes its reaction to vascular pressure reduction caused by blood donation, & arterial hypotension
>uwu plz ask doctor
Sure, let me go find a PhD student in renal biomechanics as I drive home, thanks computer!
>uwu plz ask doctor
Sure, let me go find a PhD student in renal biomechanics as I drive home, thanks computer!
You can afford it but you don't deserve it
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
You can afford it but you don't deserve it
Anime a year before it shows up on Crunchyroll
January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Anime a year before it shows up on Crunchyroll
Holy crap I'm cited in a 2023 academic law paper... about a pull request on GitHub for a security fix I have neglected to integrate for five years LOL.
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![Investigating Security Releases of Open Source Packages, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENG'G, June 9, 2022, at 1, 9 (concluding that study results show that one-fourth of open-source projects do not release the new version fixing a vulnerability until over twenty days after the fix was made); see, e.g., SwiftOnSecurity, Change Metasploit Alert Port from 444 to 4444, GITHUB (Oct. 2, 2021), https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config/pull/105
[https://perma.cc/THG7-7U6H]
(example of a pull request fixing an open-source project intended to improve system security pending for 1.5 years).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xraomsuf6pvh7r2cqtdwhkvm/bafkreicy2e6ssrmtypnp2ykjsremkpmc7qybowu2aibe4epzj5kmwtfnhq@jpeg)
January 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Holy crap I'm cited in a 2023 academic law paper... about a pull request on GitHub for a security fix I have neglected to integrate for five years LOL.
ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcont...
ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Automated Doxxing: Holy bonkers! I took pretty generic pictures I posted of a random parking garage in North America, fed it into Google Gemini and asked it where this was.
It told me the address and specific parking garage on a site with several, then laid out how it deduced from multiple hints.
It told me the address and specific parking garage on a site with several, then laid out how it deduced from multiple hints.
January 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Automated Doxxing: Holy bonkers! I took pretty generic pictures I posted of a random parking garage in North America, fed it into Google Gemini and asked it where this was.
It told me the address and specific parking garage on a site with several, then laid out how it deduced from multiple hints.
It told me the address and specific parking garage on a site with several, then laid out how it deduced from multiple hints.
My homes distributed audio system which is only barely utilized is wired with CAT5e because if you're running the line anyway and you're not pushing big amperage it works perfectly fine and might be more useful in the future. Which is how you end up with adapters like these.
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
My homes distributed audio system which is only barely utilized is wired with CAT5e because if you're running the line anyway and you're not pushing big amperage it works perfectly fine and might be more useful in the future. Which is how you end up with adapters like these.
Connected with lamp cord from home depot
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Connected with lamp cord from home depot
When I see some doofus with student loans using audiophile audio cables instead of lamp cord
January 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
When I see some doofus with student loans using audiophile audio cables instead of lamp cord
Watching 'Landman' boomerslop on Paramount+ feeling cuck Millennial leftism evaporating from my soul like methyl ethyl ketone as Real American characters doctrinedump on academics and environmentalists who can do nothing to oppose new pipelines transporting prosperity to people with real jobs.
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Watching 'Landman' boomerslop on Paramount+ feeling cuck Millennial leftism evaporating from my soul like methyl ethyl ketone as Real American characters doctrinedump on academics and environmentalists who can do nothing to oppose new pipelines transporting prosperity to people with real jobs.
Me every chance I get
January 10, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Me every chance I get
You: why am i getting no social media engagement
Your profile:
Your profile:
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
You: why am i getting no social media engagement
Your profile:
Your profile:
POV you're my car's HUD
January 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
POV you're my car's HUD
Hey 2017 how you doin'
January 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Hey 2017 how you doin'