vastidity.bsky.social
@vastidity.bsky.social
Linux, BSD, Python, ML/AI, DFIR, InfoSec, Engineer, Artist, Musician.
♥Blender 3D ♥Coffee #ADHD.
I am 6'4" & sadly, cannot be a passenger in your Miata :(
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It always gets harder when you're about to level up, don't forget that. Trust and keep going.
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Here I go again posting randomly and not enough.

Just a reminder I have the same username on Twitter/X, Mastodon, and here.
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Did not realize I had not posted since 2023 wow

Time to see how many people from bird world are around
May 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Business idea: company which sells radar reflectors designed to be suspended from the back of a horse.
September 17, 2023 at 11:07 AM
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You know it’s still Covid time when
you have figure out if RAT was the detection or the delivery.

Rapid Antigen Test
or
Remote Access Trojan
September 17, 2023 at 2:41 PM
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more proof bullying works
September 17, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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www.usajobs.gov/job/702252000

Infosec jobs be like
You need six certs

Meanwhile the FBI says other skills are needed

I could have been a special agent
Special Agent - Education/Teaching Background
FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Many come from professional backgrounds, such as education. Your methodical and analytical ability ...
www.usajobs.gov
September 17, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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OpenBSD -current now has the "2ndEdition" version of the "One True Awk", which corresponds to the upcoming 2nd edition of "The AWK Programming Language" book.

"Support for UTF-8 and comma-separated value inputs has been added."

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
September 17, 2023 at 6:13 PM
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Slides for Alexander Bluhm's EuroBSDcon 2023 talk "OpenBSD Attack Mitigations" www.openbsd.org/papers/eurob...
September 17, 2023 at 6:16 PM
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Beautiful haiku, but now I’m worried something from the upside down is invading your town. 👀
water suspended
in gray felted pendulums
leaves. daytime, arid
September 17, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Time to go to sleep
September 5, 2023 at 5:26 AM
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it’s a mic and a synth and new episodes of Retro Tech are coming!
July 26, 2023 at 12:58 AM
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Happy Monday!

"Zenbleed", a CPU use-after-free vulnerability.

AMD have just released updated microcode for Zen2 and later CPUs.

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/24/1
July 24, 2023 at 3:56 PM
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Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed and OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=169021508718971&w=2

One takeaway is that -release users will need to manually reinstall bootblocks in order to load the new microcode, eventually.
July 24, 2023 at 4:35 PM
I saw a BMW just like this on the way home. It had such a beautiful blue. I got home and looked it up: "Portimao Blue" I absolutely want to paint my car this color when the time comes for a paint job.
July 18, 2023 at 3:18 AM
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We just enabled account sign-ups again, so any outstanding invite codes can now be used to create an account.

Thanks for your patience!
We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues. We’ll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality.

We’re excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!
July 3, 2023 at 3:38 AM
June 3, 2023 at 11:19 PM