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• Post #4451319

  We said goodbye to the Miles cat last week. The Ancient One had been with us for 23.5 of his 24.5 years, and he told us it was time. The local weather forecast is stuck on "cloudy, with tears off and on all day". #InMemoriam #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

• Post #4317872

  My cat had been deaf for the last few years of his life, but he could tell I was talking to him when he looked at me, so I kept the habit of talking to the cat. It's going to take me some time to get out of the habit, even though the cat IS NOT THERE ANYMORE to talk to. #Grief #Loss #Cats

• Post #4206083

  The "17 minutes remaining" of this backup has been going on for over an hour. Is time an illusion?

• Post #4169820

  The couch is WRONG. It should have a cat in a cat bed right there, but there is no cat. There is no cat bed. #Grief #Loss #Cats

• Post #4154220

  This was a hard day. Today we said goodbye to the Ancient One, our twenty four and a half year old orange tabby cat. He was so affectionate, and from the first moment he saw me he had decided I was his person. The house is going to feel so empty and quiet, and so will my heart. #Cats #OldManCat

• Post #4152060

  Life near the coast #Pelicans

• Post #4090709

  It's been a while since I've posted a #Caturday picture of the Old Man Cat. He continues to be extremely old and extremely grumpy and extremely cuddle-motivated. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

• Post #3895428

  What's that you say? A Critical and a High Severity vulnerability in WordPress? On a Friday? Good thing nobody uses WordPress, eh? 😢 #WordPress #Vulnerability https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/

• Post #3525298

  Oh look, it's a Bay Area baseball team that's announced themselves to be sellers at the trading deadline, Susan Slusser is covering it in detail, Matt Chapman will probably be traded before the month is out. This is all so bloody familiar. #MLB #Baseball #WhatYearIsIt #WhatTeamIsIt

• Post #2007672

  Today I stumbled across a show on PBS about Judi Dench. Well, Judi Dench is amazing, so I started watching it. I found myself put off by watching three men dissect many of her film roles, and gave up halfway through. Yeah, there were no women commentating. I found myself resenting these men talking purely about the acting, and not at all about the 20-year gap between her first films (when she played an ingenue) and the bulk of her film career, where she played an older woman. Not at all about...

• Post #1823850

  RE: https://universeodon.com/@blackops/116471645555829150 You know you've been in IT for too long when you see this gorgeous photo of a building in the winter and look at the pattern of the windows and think "what kind of router is this?"

• Post #1823849

  Isn't it funny how in novels and fanfics the protagonist, no matter their age, likes music (and other media) that was popular when the author was a teenager?

• Post #1823848

  You know it's going to be a long day when you're already refilling the hot water boiler for the Nth cup of tea of the day and it's only 8:30am. #Tea #TeaPowered #PoweredByTeaAndSpite

• Post #1823847

  Yes hello, I am "dump the loose-leaf tea into the mug instead of the strainer" levels of tired today. #Tea

• Post #1823845

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116489574280084326 I have had a confirmation that it can work on the Amazon Linux kernel, but also RHEL says "fix deferred" for all affected RHEL versions: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-31431

• Post #1823844

  Today I am "I forget how long I left my tea steeping" levels of tired. #Tea #TeaPowered #SoTired

• Post #1706087

  It's April 25th! The #PerfectDate

• Post #1675632

  Today I wrote a sentence in German in a professional email, and only used a translation tool to confirm I had a word or two correct. I hope it didn't have too many mistakes in it that didn't occur to me.

• Post #1539167

  I feel seen #Duolingo #SoManyPasswords

• Post #1539165

  The #OaklandRoots soccer team is playing at the Oakland Coliseum tonight. That rusting decaying pile of concrete is where I truly learned to love sports. My #baseball team is gone from there now (asshole team owner John Fisher wanted more $$), but it's lovely to see the stadium in use. That "Let's Go Oakland" chant ringing in the stands is making me feel things, let me tell you. #Nostalgia #RootedInOakland #FuckJohnFisher

• Post #1539164

  Bruce Schneier is making a fascinating point about personal trust (trusting your friends) and social trust (trusting a random person will behave in a predictable way) at the SANS AI Summit. They are not the same but they're still both called "trust".

• Post #1539163

  For AI, we can't treat it like a friend. No toxic anthropomorphism.

• Post #837535

  Months ago I saw a gorgeous painting by @TishaPaints and I fell in love with it. I told myself I would use it as a motivation to finish the computer security class I was taking, and then pass the certification exam. Last night I passed the exam, and tonight I got to buy the painting. There are a bunch of others at https://tishamark.com/shop if seascapes appeal to you as well.

• Post #499365

  Do you like security and also music?

• Post #452139

  Looks like Friday the 13th hit the Men's Figure Skating at the Olympics today. Congratulations to the surprise gold medal winner #MikhailShaidorov #Olympics #Figureskating

• Post #452138

  My local classical music station does a semi-scroll display of their current tune, 8 characters at a time, when I tune in from my car. Some days this gets me silliness like "Reverie with Horn and Orc". No, it's not inspired by Boromir's last moments in Fellowship of the Ring. #KDFC #ReverieWithHornAndOrc #RIPBoromir #LordOfTheRings

• Post #452135

  Hey Security folks - tell me about your rules and detections for OpenClaw - IDS, SIEM, other! #OpenClaw #IDS

• Post #452134

  Relatable: seeing the instructor in this online class scroll up through his command history for 30 seconds instead of retyping a command But also: use a shell where you can search your command history instead of only scrolling up

• Post #294573

  Shoutout to the AV and backstage team at @pancakescon. They made it so effortless to get set up and speak, even stepping in with less than 5 minutes' notice was easy. #PancakesCon