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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 1d

In grad school, we called up Fry’s to ask if they had it and the guy laughed at us. I honestly cannot recall if we were looking for the version with aliens or not. Eventually, we found Los Imortales 2 on DVD (from eBay, maybe?) which had the English audio track. Good times.

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Taylor Robin @hazanko.bsky.social · 2d

Geordi was a deepfake AI girlfriend pioneer

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 2d

I realize it’s probably too late for this advice to be useful this year but nevertheless: If you are applying to an academic job, write your own materials. Do not use generative AI tools at all.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 3d

The personal details of all F1 and other drivers could have been stolen via an FIA web portal

ian.sh/fia

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 3d

6, I think. But 4 of them are PlayStations.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 4d

Vladimir Kramnik should be banned and Emil Sutovsky should resign. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Chess pros demand Vladimir Kramnik be permabanned after Daniel Naroditsky’s death - Dexerto

Chess pros are calling for Vladimir Kramnik to be banned and for FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky to resign after Daniel Naroditsky’s death.

www.dexerto.com

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Amie DD @amiedd.bsky.social · 5d

We are giving a tech talk at @hackadayofficial.bsky.social Supercon with @dr.supersat.phd in a few weeks 🩷
What happens when your body is the dev board? Dive into the wild world of biohacking, rogue experiments, and deeply questionable decisions in the name of science, curiosity, and chaos.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 5d

www.chess.com/news/view/gr... Damn.

GM Daniel Naroditsky, the popular U.S. grandmaster, commentator, creator, educator, and author, unexpectedly passed away on Sunday at the age of only 29.

www.chess.com

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 6d

After the game, I asked why they did that and they sent me a long, salty DM about how I needed to learn how to play chess and know when to resign.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 6d

I played a 150+ move chess game in the 1 minute with 1 second increment time control. In the end, I had a king vs. a king, knight, and five pawns. My opponent under promoted four pawns into knights and bishops and then gave away/blundered everything except 2 knights and then eventually flagged.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9d

Continued (mis)use of National Guard in DC for no purpose in the third week of a shutdown.

The Trump at work. (Doing nothing.)

Two National Guard down a mostly empty 14th St mid-day Friday.

The Mission: Doing not much.

Three National Guard pass The Mission on 14th.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 9d

I have _almost_ written a hobby project in Rust several times. But then I realize that hitting the REST API is just gonna be easier to do with curl and a shell script. But then I start thinking about using jq to parse the response to craft the subsequent API calls…and then I go play chess instead.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 10d

* Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Peter Eckersley (RIP), J. Alex Halderman, & Eric Rescorla: For Democratizing the Availability of Encryption Certificates with Let’s Encrypt

secdev.ieee.org/2025/home/

Home-SecDev2025 - IEEE Secure Development Conference

secdev.ieee.org

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 10d

I was scrolling through the common questions in Beej's Guide to Network Programming (a portion of which I've assigned as reading in my course) and ran across this gem.

"My favorite solution to this involves a goto statement. You know this irritates your professors to no end, so go for it!"

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 11d

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11d

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 12d

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15d

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 16d

The old ratings were very silly. But notice ahead of time would have been nice. It was quite surprising to have a streak of 30 and then discover my rating had gone down. They must be getting so many customer service reports from people who didn’t see the news.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 16d

"And we're going to be doing _______ about it." You guys always forget that part.

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Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social · 16d

Chesscom changed their puzzle ratings. support.chess.com/en/articles/... This is probably a good thing. But boy was this surprising to discover.

Screenshot of my recent puzzles showing puzzles for Oct. 7 and 10. Oct 7 ends with a puzzle rating of 2699. Oct 10 starts with a puzzle rating of 1769 and ends at 1828.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17d

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18d

Here’s video of the incident

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