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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 8m

Just had to do this to figure out who to contact for coordinated security disclosures.

The server immediately kicked me for not having a verified phone number.

The hoops I'm jumping through to help them un-fuck THEIR security holes really make me understand why people sell their exploits instead.

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RiotDad @riotdad.bsky.social · 1h

Happy throw a pie in the face of a big day friends.

Images of black-and-white photo depicting Anita Bryant‘s face covered in whipped cream and pie crust. Text reads;

TODAY IN GAY HISTORY
ANITA BRYANT GETS PIED, OCTOBER 14, 1977
While speaking at a press conference, notorious anti-gay activist and singer Anita Bryant was hit in the face with a pie by gay rights activist Thom Higgins. Bryant was known for leading the "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal gay rights laws.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 3h

What a fucking crock of shit.

"Dear Leader made our lives more difficult to appease his own ego, but we are better for it!"

Go sell that shit in Salt Lake; the rest of the country ain't buying it.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 14h

You cannot tell me ANYONE in this movie was intended to be straight, look at them

www.imdb.com/title/tt0113...

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 18h

Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a group of young people is gathered in a subway car, with one reading a paper as another looks on, while a subtitle reads, "Wait a minute. The 14th... that's the same day the worm ends its run." Second, a person with a striking hairstyle and colorful clothing stands in front of a vibrant, patterned backdrop, saying, "Hackers of the world, unite." Third, a person leans out of a car window, passionately shouting, "Hack the planet!"

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 14h

Today, we should take a moment remember the great Harry Anderson, whose performances on "Cheers" and "Night Court" still bring joy and comfort to many.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 14h

From his humble beginnings, he became a prominent figure in American media, helping people to think carefully and laugh often. He was a fixture, regularly watched and appreciated by millions.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 14h

On this solemn Day of Remembrance, I think we should all take a second to think of a great American, born this day, whose nonviolent and approachable style brought millions of Americans joy and an understanding that even adversarial encounters don't need to be uncivil.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 22h

John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

My masters thesis was basically an elaborate, 50+ page Tommy Tutone joke involving elliptic curves and the fact that 8675309 is a prime (and a twin prime at tha!).

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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 1d

Hello, it is me, Technology Broseph. I will now dictate what the future of humanity looks like. My qualifications are that I once tripped balls with a billionaire who then funded my abstract eternal life research venture

Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree slightly with the term "microaggression", here.

Not because "microaggression" is incorrect or anything, but because "petty cruelty" feels like a much more honest description of the intentions and attitudes behind it.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Also the misspelling of Mamdani's name here is inexcusable. Particularly because it's been up for DAYS. Quickly moving from microaggression to macroaggression under Bari Weiss's rule.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

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zendarva.bsky.social @zendarva.bsky.social · 1d

Most men in this country never actually grew up past Junior High.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

As an American emigrant, I'm on Canada's side. Trump is hurting bystanders; Canada is protecting itself.

Also, why the fuck do the immigration lines at Toronto Pearson say "American and international"? IT'S CANADA. American *IS* international. Stop coddling the most nitwitted of my countrymen!

Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 1d

Boo hoo. Poor American businesses are being hurt exactly as intended. Instead of crying at Canadians and describing our feelings as "bruised," maybe talk to your politicians who caused this. Boo hoo

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

CNN headline: Canada's boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

Sophia Petrillo

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mars @marsargostan.bsky.social · 1d

Luigi not from Super Mario Bros.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 1d

Ettore Boiardi

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

"Password based key derivation"

"Fixed IVs are easier"

"User space entropy daemon"

"Keys in source control"

"Hash inputs aren't separated"

"We write crypto ourselves"

"I can't reuse nonces?"

"JSON serialize, then hash"

"HSM with custom code"

"Shamir secret splitting rules!"

Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

"ECB is fine, right?"

Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social · 2d

“Let us use ASN.1”

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

"ECB is fine, right?"

Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social · 2d

“Let us use ASN.1”

Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 2d

in honor of spooky month, share a four word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"parser differential certificate forgery"

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Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social · 2d

“Let us use ASN.1”

Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 2d

in honor of spooky month, share a four word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"parser differential certificate forgery"

julie, like boowelry @julie.alady.top · 2d

in honor of spooky month, share a four word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“force pushed to master”

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 1d

Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes, unable to sleep.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck the Kent State apologetics horseshit.

If they wanna get trigger happy, I say the goddamn well never ought to live it down. Your name shall forever be The Guy Who Killed Kenny (what a bastard!).