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I'm tall and have shiny pants. Haver of Opinions. I do infosec work and run my mouth.

Motor City
Joined July 2007
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Hypothesis: SF went after Elon Musk adding beds at the Twitter office because they were afraid he might be trying to add housing to SF.
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Heard in public: "late 1900s" Unrelated, my hip is suddenly sore...
Is it bad that I'm preparing to cackle madly as California cities move from fucking around to finding out (urban planning edition)?
How many public toilets can $1.7 million buy? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY!
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Today's weather calls for rain, thundersnow, and temps around 40F. It's sky-garbage season. I'm told other places call it "Fall".
Grackles have found my birdfeeder. I can tell. There's about fifty of them, along with one blue jay.
So there's a state ballot prop backed by both the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO. This is either a very good idea or an absolutely terrible one for subtle reasons.
I'm always impressed by the level of "follow me on Snapchat!" behavior that @bumble considers acceptable behavior.
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Go on, Bumble support. Tell me to DM you about this so you can take this out of the public eye. Then make sympathetic noises and tell me to report the spammers. I haven't seen a response to a report of abuse in a year. Are you suddenly going to start caring?
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The NRA is modern-day Redcaps.
New D&D character concept. Halfling Paladin, a real crusader-type. Catchphrase - "Onwards, to second breakfast and glory!"
Pony wanted: a filter on dating apps for "has at least one word in profile".
Me: I need to reattach this button. I know how to do this. Also me: How does a spool of thread work again?
#infosecurity Let's talk about insanity in JDs. I recent came across a JD that wants a security engineer IC to "Find and remove outdated and vulnerable code and code libraries". This is unreasonable. This is one person, maintaining a company's worth of services.
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Plus, as we all know, there's no way a first security hire is going to avoid on-call.
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Here's a red flag for #InfoSecJobs - if the company brags about their funding and financial turnover but balks at paying competitive wages.
Hot take: chickadees are real-life Pokemon.
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Tech is getting out of control. I just updated the firmware on a bird feeder.
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