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20 years ago Harlan Ellison said I was "a superannuated teen-age golem with a slack jaw, a slow manner, a typical pointless surliness at a world unwilling or unable to accept him as Superlative, and on sum a twerp easy to dismiss" I am still very proud of that. www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...
The story - Penny Arcade
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
www.penny-arcade.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
20 years ago Harlan Ellison said I was "a superannuated teen-age golem with a slack jaw, a slow manner, a typical pointless surliness at a world unwilling or unable to accept him as Superlative, and on sum a twerp easy to dismiss" I am still very proud of that. www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...
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In truth, they are both misanthropes whom reality has taught to defend themselves with a razor-sharp bulwark of words. The similarities were always very clear to me.
20 years ago Harlan Ellison said I was "a superannuated teen-age golem with a slack jaw, a slow manner, a typical pointless surliness at a world unwilling or unable to accept him as Superlative, and on sum a twerp easy to dismiss" I am still very proud of that. www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...
The story - Penny Arcade
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
www.penny-arcade.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In truth, they are both misanthropes whom reality has taught to defend themselves with a razor-sharp bulwark of words. The similarities were always very clear to me.
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This holiday season, run our IP Check at your family’s house, a free tool that answers a question we hear constantly: "How do I know if my home network has been compromised?"
www.greynoise.io/blog/your-ip...
www.greynoise.io/blog/your-ip...
Your IP Address Might Be Someone Else's Problem (And Here's How to Find Out)
Your home network might be part of someone else’s attack. GreyNoise IP Check shows if your IP’s been caught scanning the internet—free and private.
www.greynoise.io
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This holiday season, run our IP Check at your family’s house, a free tool that answers a question we hear constantly: "How do I know if my home network has been compromised?"
www.greynoise.io/blog/your-ip...
www.greynoise.io/blog/your-ip...
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Today's update: IETF mailing list members are asking for technical help on how to completely block all emails from DJB.
For anyone unfamiliar, DJB has taken to spamming IETF mailing lists with lengthy diatribes with headers like "IETF as a Criminal Organization."
His current crusade against the IETF reads like the work of a sovereign citizen shouting about the Magna Carta. It was popular on Reddit.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today's update: IETF mailing list members are asking for technical help on how to completely block all emails from DJB.
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It was the GOAT. See?
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It was the GOAT. See?
Flyer at local caffeine dealer…😩
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Flyer at local caffeine dealer…😩
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
The other person that butters bread in this house is a psychopath.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The other person that butters bread in this house is a psychopath.
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Yesterday, there was a completely clear night here in Heidelberg, and between 5am and 6am, my trusty little #SeestarS50, patiently waiting on the balcony, managed to catch 3I/Atlas - so here's a little animation of an extrasolar object in motion :-) 🧪🔭🎢
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yesterday, there was a completely clear night here in Heidelberg, and between 5am and 6am, my trusty little #SeestarS50, patiently waiting on the balcony, managed to catch 3I/Atlas - so here's a little animation of an extrasolar object in motion :-) 🧪🔭🎢
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X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
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The Sharp Rateca Puter (1979)
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Sharp Rateca Puter (1979)
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New, by me and @lorenzofb.bsky.social: CrowdStrike has confirmed it fired a "suspicious insider" who passed screenshots of company systems to a prolific hacking group — which then went on to post them publicly.
CrowdStrike fires 'suspicious insider' who passed information to hackers | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike denied it had been hacked following claims from a hacker group, which leaked screenshots from inside CrowdStrike's network.
techcrunch.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New, by me and @lorenzofb.bsky.social: CrowdStrike has confirmed it fired a "suspicious insider" who passed screenshots of company systems to a prolific hacking group — which then went on to post them publicly.
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It's gonna be a Baudelairian Jihad after all.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's gonna be a Baudelairian Jihad after all.
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
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In retrospect, it should have been obvious that worst but most seductive aspects of the early mass internet—USENET, IRC, Listservs, finger/.plan—would take over everything else, and also become much, much worse than anyone could have imagined as they expanded in scale.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In retrospect, it should have been obvious that worst but most seductive aspects of the early mass internet—USENET, IRC, Listservs, finger/.plan—would take over everything else, and also become much, much worse than anyone could have imagined as they expanded in scale.
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lmao I love the skill check to enable Vim mode in Obsidian
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
lmao I love the skill check to enable Vim mode in Obsidian
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whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring
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November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
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Rebecca Heineman, known best for co-founding original Fallout developer Interplay alongside Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, and Troy Worrell in the early 1980s, has died aged 62. https://bit.ly/4oP8CJ7
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Rebecca Heineman, known best for co-founding original Fallout developer Interplay alongside Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, and Troy Worrell in the early 1980s, has died aged 62. https://bit.ly/4oP8CJ7
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"Psychocandy", the debut album from #TheJesusAndMaryChain is forty years old today!
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Psychocandy", the debut album from #TheJesusAndMaryChain is forty years old today!
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they call it a hex editor bc you are casting little spells on the computer
September 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
they call it a hex editor bc you are casting little spells on the computer