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Nino Stephen
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Security @ Google.
Experimenting with impractical ideas for the lols.
Golang | Stoic | Tinkerer
ninostephen.me if you want to see me doing stupid shit 👋🏼
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Buying Hooters to turn it into the world's first pay-what-you-can food pantry with virulently sexual undertones.
Hooters in Talks to Prepare a Bankruptcy Filing in Coming Months
Hooters of America is working with creditors on a plan to restructure the business through bankruptcy court in the coming months, according to people with knowledge of the arrangements.
www.bloomberg.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've been thinking about what the next really step for AI and AI agents would be for a while. I'm not interested in the hype. This is my attempt at thinking through the direction we might take
www.ninostephen.me/blog/thought...
Thought-Execution Protocol (TEP) - A Framework for AI-Machine Coordination
TEP is my attempt at designing a universal framework for AI-to-AI and AI-to-Machine coordination. AI agents was a good start. The next logical step is ensuring seemless communication between intellige...
www.ninostephen.me
February 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
January 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Security flaws in a Subaru web portal let hackers unlock, start ignition or access a year of detailed location history for millions of cars.

The flaws are now patched. But they revealed powerful tracking abilities that Subaru employees can still access. www.wired.com/story/subaru...
Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars
Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still ca...
www.wired.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Something to think about
A good list
To know Where are these ?

Just in case
January 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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DUOLINGO NO
January 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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(please re-post for reach - thank you!)
Learned a cool new Linux trick? Know an interesting quirk in a network protocol? Or have something else to share?

Write a 1-page article for the #6 issue of Paged Out! :)
pagedout.institute?page=cfp.php

Soft deadline is Feb 1st.
January 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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December 23, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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Look up.
#Superman is only in theaters July 11.
December 16, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Merlin is an app from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social which is Cornell Ornithology, I mostly use it to identify bird songs, really good also for photos.
Merlin is the best! I use it all the time.
December 15, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Great talk by @adamhjk.me! I learned a lot, and the lessons are the ones that make me reflect, even when I don’t do open source business (yet?).
Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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if you’ve been curious about CHARACTER LIMIT, you can stream it right now for free on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/5OXcn49...
November 21, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Oh. Good.
November 20, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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If you ever wanted to see the Bluesky firehose feed as a Windows XP screensaver... firehose3d.theo.io?discardFrac=...
Bluesky Firehose
The bluesky firehose visualised in 3D
firehose3d.theo.io
November 17, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Here’s the patreon for deck blue, who is serving up a really useful Bsky app i just started using: patreon.com/deckblue
deck.blue was in maintenance mode until a few weeks ago but I was laid off and now I have time to work on it again, video support was just added and I'll add DMs next, as well as oauth as soon as it's possible

you can read more about the whole situation in the latest two blog posts here
November 13, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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I spent the last few days learning the SQLite C interface and writing a Go wrapper so I could access my database without the high-level abstractions provided by existing libraries. This isn't very pragmatic, but it gave me a reason to finally learn cgo, and how SQLite works under the hood.
November 9, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Tim Walz talked about how free school lunch reduces the unequal burden of domestic labor on women by removing one daily chore, and I immediately set up a recurring donation.
August 7, 2024 at 1:05 AM
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com , if it isn't too much to ask, could you write my friend (Vatsalya) a letter letting her know that she is a very kind & lovely person?

I appreciate her kindness. Like me, she is a big fan of your books. So, a letter from you is the best way to acknowledge that kidness.
August 3, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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I wrote about @npr.org ‘s decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-p...
Disabled people's exclusion from indoor spaces is a civil rights violation, not an annoyance
NPR tacitly endorses the removal of Long COVID sufferers from public life
www.thegauntlet.news
March 12, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Today the Alabama Supreme Court made IVF essentially illegal by declaring un-implanted embryos “human children.”

What happens in a red state never stays in a red state (see: the Dobbs decision that started in MS) - we can’t ignore these places.
February 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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To be fair she DOES look like a chicken
November 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM
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We are hiring rust engineers who want to build kubernetes controllers!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/dittoliveincorporated/jobs/4263846006
August 12, 2023 at 10:55 PM