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For reasons, we use a sales tool called Apollo at work. To use it, your employees have to sign into a few of the scammiest websites anywhere, with fake privacy policies and Google App configs that scream “send my email to North Korea”. That’s gross incompetence and I’m doing what I can to push us to find a better vendor.

Packing, step 1: remove all the TSA-unsafe stuff from my backpack while still at home.

I’ve never seen a vendor brave enough to make this claim.

I’ve been thinking about my mom lately, for no real reason except that the happiness of her memories is now greater than the sadness of not having new ones. One of my favorite things I’ve done was to sit down with her and write down every bit of family lore she wanted to talk about: child memories, funny family nicknames, how she and my dad moved around when they were first married, war stories her uncles had shared, how her mom ran a diner and was known for her baking, everything. We had grand…

I get invited to the most unexpected events. The more astonished I am that someone would want me at a thing, the more likely I am to accept. That’s how you open the tap to being invited to even more things later. Practice saying yes when you can.

I logged into one of our vendors for the first time to make some urgent changes. Every third time I tried to click on something, instead of going to that thing, I got an obnoxious full-screen onboarding screen with no way to close it: If I hit my browser’s back button, half the time I got a “submit this form again?” popup. If you really want to thank me because you really value me as a customer, please stop asking me stupid questions and let me use the site I logged into.

Synology just released DSM 7.4 highlighting their new “storage efficiency” feature. Note that you can’t actually use this feature unless you’re dumb and/or rich enough to fill your NAS with only Synology’s own overpriced drives. It’s unavailable to the other 99.9% of us paying users. I’m so over their antics.

That feeling when you get to the point where can tell what a company’s compliance regime is going to be like based on the layout of their trust center. “Oh, standard Vanta format. It’s probably fine.” And then you realize that this is not an S-tier superpower.

How’s my morning going, you ask? Well, I dropped my left AirPod into my cup of freshly brewed coffee, and my first reflex was so try to fish it out. Now I have one working AirPod and my fingers are stinging from being slightly boiled. Yeah, going just great I’d say.

I need a fidget toy that’s a Morse code key I can use to send myself notes during meetings: “ask boss about thing he said” or “read about new subject”.

Cloudflare Drop: Drop a folder. Or a zip. Summon your site - HTML, CSS, JS. See it live instantly. Cloudflare announced their new Exfiltration as a Service app today. Admins, be sure to lock this jackassery down ASAP.

I have a uConsole computer and a new NVMe adapter for it. I’m not going to walk around with a terabyte of unencrypted data. That wasn’t an option. I found several good HOWTOs for booting a uConsole off an encrypted NVMe drive, yet none of them worked well on their own. Each left out one essential detail or another. This is my mashup of those instructions. For testing, I wiped my NVMe drive and started over, following these steps exactly, and at the end booted into a working system. I claim zero…

Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds | Hackaday I appreciate few things more than taking an absurd idea to perfection.

I have a ClockworkPi uConsole and although I’m having great fun with it, it comes with just 32GB of SD card storage. Even if it were bigger, SD cards are dog slow compared to almost anything else. I bought a HackerGadgets NVMe adapter and Crucial P310 1TB NVMe SSD to speed things up. Sequential operations In these tests, /dev/mmcblk0 is the SD card, and /dev/nvme0n1 is the NVMe adapter. Reads root@uconsole /h/me# time dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=8192 8192+0 records in 8192+0…

Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸 When I see someone waving a flag today, I regret that my first wary instinct is to suspect they may actually hate our country. They might claim to appreciate specific parts, so long as those parts precisely match their own corner of it, but otherwise not so much. I love my country. That means I love the people in it, even if they don’t look like me, sound like me, think like me, worship like me, love like me, or simply exist like me. If your family was around before…

Opinion | Birthright citizenship overreach by the Supreme Court ends term - The Washington Post: A more modest ruling, relying on those statutes, would have left the constitutional issue for a future court to consider if and when Congress deliberates on the issue and decides to change the rules. I use to pay for a WaPo subscription, but their takeover by rightwing extremists ruined it. Imagine wringing hands because SCOTUS made a ruling based on a plain reading of the Constitution.

It’s Friday night and I’m registering a domain, as one does.

Scientists Made Tiny Diving Suits for Cyborg Cockroaches. They Can Breathe Underwater for 3 Hours: Researchers […] have built a soft, wearable oxygen system that lets cyborg cockroaches survive and move through water and low-oxygen spaces. The attempt turns a land insect into something closer to an amphibious robot, one that could someday crawl through flooded rubble, drains or collapsed tunnels after disasters. “Can we? Sure! Should we? Eh.”

Happy 28th birthday, honeypot.net! 🎉

My team at Factory’s growing (FTE, onsite in San Francisco). Come work with me to beef up 1) our security stance, and 2) our IT program. We’re growing rapidly and I want to get ahead of scaling issues. You’ll work directly with me, with agency to define and evolve your own role. Today we need hands-on-keyboard IC work. Want to grow that into a director-level role? This is the time to join. Security Engineer: factory.ai/careers/s… IT Operations Specialist: factory.ai/careers/i…

Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses | The Verge: This week, it quietly announced that your glasses’ Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription. Me: You know, these ugly creeper peepers could not possibly make me want them any less. A PM deep in the heart of darkness: Hold my creatine.

I started today’s presentation with “I went into security engineering because I love public speaking and I’m really good at it”. Sometimes you have to commit to the lie.

I saw a guy wearing a nylon shirt and matching cargo shorts, both clean but faded from too many washes, a plain non-matching ball cap, black sneakers, about 30 tools clipped to his belt, and a couple of ID badges. He was a phone lineman, maybe an electrician, perhaps a fiber optic engineer, with a broken in outfit he’d worn to work every day for months. The perfection nearly caught my breath. Guy dressed like that, there’s not a room in the country where a security guard wouldn’t buzz him in.

My OpenClaw, summarizing my day’s adventures: “Solid evening flow though. Car bodywork → Animal Crossing → Cyberpunk. The perfect arc of ‘paid labor, chill labor, and violent labor.’”

I’ve had fun building Scrapwire. Lately I’ve had fun playing with OpenClaw, too. I didn’t like its communication channel options, though. Signal is great but the integration is a little flaky. Same with iMessage, and that could be a privacy risk. WhatApp? LOL no. So I made a Scrapwire channel for OpenClaw, and now I’m talking to my little AI cat via Scrapwire, Veilid, and cypherspace. There’s no central server to spy on me or gather metadata, no direct connection requirements that expose my…

For the life of me, this looks like an angel reaching heavenward.

Even our fruit is getting into the AI business.

Enjoy the little things in life, like the unsubscribe button in an email taking you to a form requiring you to type in your full name and email address and reason for leaving, so you feed the email to SpamSieve instead, and then a few minutes later seeing that a brand new email from the same company went straight to spam because the filter knows how to file it appropriately now. Life’s too short not to appreciate the quiet moments of beauty.

AI prompt of the day: You export an app’s user list and want to import it into Okta before you sync the 2. Okta gives you a CSV template to download, usually (always?) called okta-csv-template.csv, but its format varies per-application. “Please rewrite employees-export.csv in the format of okta-csv-template.csv.” This saves so much tedium.

Meta Has Created a Prediction Markets App - The New York Times The app would be independent of Meta’s other social media offerings, although sources told the paper that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app. Oh sure, why not. I suppose they’ve already ruled out selling vapes or meth, or at least haven’t added those business units to their annual filings yet. I truly wonder if Meta’s Downfall as a Service umbrella has ever rejected an idea as being too detrimental to…