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cyber, adv sim, VECTR dev, Java/Rust/Vue, MACAT (https://macat.io), catpoasting, screaming at the moon

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jan 26

i published a tech preview of a side project. not announcing it anywhere else aside from here for now since it still needs a lot of work. it's buggy and will ruin your computer (intentionally... because cybersecurity adversary simulation). closed source for now, might change later. www.macat.io

MACAT - Adversary Simulation

www.macat.io

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · 4d

It’s ridiculous. CISOs of nobody companies (like tiny regional healthcare) are zoinked out on LinkedIn AI fumes vibrating in place: “I need to defend against quantum AI metamorphic malware that’s going to implode our future fusion plant”. No, you need to turn on MFA and configure your firewall.

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Oct 1

Who’s your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

Egon Spengler - Ghostbuster Jedi in a suit with a proton pack

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Sep 26

Ruin a book with a car:

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Nissan

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Sep 13

A gaggle of Deleuzians tried to scramble my brains with their profoundly weird books and I don’t think I ever recovered… but I’m slightly more normal now and way less angsty and isolated.

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cretaceous Park

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Aug 26

terrible study ignoring the c-level goof brigade overhiring for the past 5 years trying to blockchain and metaverse everything. of course a number of service industries have stopped ballooning up on untrained hires in tech and support roles as the economy sputters

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Aug 15

True but looks like they’re self-diagnosing or went to some mold quack FMD. Mold’s everywhere. Unavoidable in temperate climates. Every time lawns mowed kicks up a ton of spores. If he’s got MCAS and broad molecular mimicry issues, good f’ing luck, going to need a good immunologist

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Aug 14

more chickenshit corporate lies to evade severance by doing stealth layoffs

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Aug 11

For some historical compare - in 2017 the NSA ran a project called Unfetter which was defunded. Despite being a useful OSS threat intel tool, the cost to continue led to the project dying. For Attack Flows & micro emulations this is probably a total death sentence.

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ugh. From what I can see, they RIF’d the dev team on Attack Flows back in June / July. The administration’s attitude towards cyber makes me believe MITRE will be more aerospace-focused for the next few years. I wouldn’t be surprised by cuts at McLean next

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · Aug 10

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 9

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jul 31

No one is paying for it. $1T in spending globally and no company is making anywhere close to their costs on it and there’s no path to positive ROI. They’re throwing massive amounts of time and money at vibes

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you get time, this is worth a read regarding the current AI bubble. I don’t know what happens long term but the revenue being low and consumer products being so bad is a problem. Torching billions on unreliable ai has to be screwing up the job market

www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

www.wheresyoured.at

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jul 17

It guzzles tokens like it’s in a hot dog eating contest compared to Claude and OpenAI. It’s not necessarily more expensive, just chews them up and also gets yapping really easily.

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METR @metr.org · Jul 10

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jul 10

What do we get from $1T+ invested in GenAI so far? Chat and Claude code are ok-ish for improving debugging and scaffolding. There’s frame gen tech for gaming. Enterprise copilots are faceplanting though. Maybe the job market sucks because we lit $1T on fire and aren’t seeing real returns?

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jul 9

Seaorm migrations are so nice

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jul 8

I made a video showing off some of MACAT's adversary simulation features
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMIO...

Back to dev soon after all the recording fun - going to start on building a portable version that has content built-in pretty soon.
#cybersecurity #atomicredteam

MACAT Feature Introduction and How to Use

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jun 27

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jun 24

Screaming fluffy tuxedo cat with fluffy paws

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jun 23

I used to do something similar with physical pen/paper. It felt helpful. I haven’t had to do it in a while. What tool are you using?

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jun 20

the temperature regulation and acoustics are a worthy trade off for having to clean it. I had zero carpet in a house for a long time with almost all hardwood flooring and laminate in kitchen. The only way I’d ever do that again is if I lived alone like a reclusive wizard.

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thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jun 18

MS is killing me. When did it get this bad?

We’re trying to get my Dad a new laptop and with win 11’s out of the box annoyance level, he’s going to bury it in the woods unless I turn off all the widgets, ai trash, one drive, and ad bloat… and pray they don’t force push more bloatware updates

thebleucheese 🎷 @thebleucheese.bsky.social · Jun 18

I keep seeing things that say cold water immersion makes muscle growth slower. I haven’t dug in enough to know if the evidence is definitive but there are a few studies like this pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Post-exercise cold water immersion attenuates acute anabolic signalling and long-term adaptations in muscle to strength training

We investigated functional, morphological and molecular adaptations to strength training exercise and cold water immersion (CWI) through two separate studies. In one study, 21 physically active men st...

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