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  My absolute pet peeve is someone sending an AI-generated email that takes me like an hour to write a response to.

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  @Viss@mastodon.social I dunno, but I've been rather surprised Azure's not more popular than it is given how many orgs are locked into doing business with Microsoft in other ways.

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  Well, this is a phrase I just saw in a course description (not at my school): "The biblical basis and societal impact of cybersecurity"

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  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@XedYourLastY/116975872109996382 I think this is the most likely of these to be accurate.

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  I've had baby robins, baby grackle, baby blue jays, baby squirrels, and baby bunnies this year. I feel like I should start charging for daycare.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielcornell/116963813168908488 I wonder, when did we do away with "PCAPS or it didn't happen"?

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  Restructuring my lab DNS. I'm sure this will go perfectly fine.

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  You know, I can't wait for when "AI Psychosis" hits the DSM.

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  I've never encountered something that causes so many install errors as SecurityOnion. This is bonkers.

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  ... Well, this is wild. A Windows laptop of mine seems to have been blocking other wired systems on the same switch on my desk from talking to the DHCP server in by basement?

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  We have it no where near as bad as, say, California... But I really hate it that our current dystopia comes with is own dystopian lighting. The weather outside right now is currently yellow.

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  Jesus christ. I just watched ChatGPT consult the Merriam-Webster dictionary for firewall syntax.

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  Alright, let's go. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/openai-could-reportedly-run-out-of-cash-by-mid-2027-nyt-analyst-paints-grim-picture-after-examining-companys-finances

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  I hate Bloom's Taxonomy so much.

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  Jesus. I've only been online for like 5 minutes so far and the news is an absolute dumpster fire. I think this is not a day to Internet and it's not lost on me how frequently I've been saying that to myself these days.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116850379352639328

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116834862534262890 The answer here is No*. * The CS degree that's focused on writing code is a bad CS degree. Many CS degrees are bad CS degrees. A good CS degree should include writing a lot of code, but should focus on architecture and infrastructure in upper-level courses. Writing large code from scratch is something rarely done in 100/200-level college courses. The CS degree's programming content may need to focus more on critical readin...

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  Ok. Proxmox cluster upgrades mostly complete. Homelab is now up to 40 cores, 128GB of ram, and 9TB SSD storage with another 12 TB of USB drives for cold storage. Let the shenanigans commence!

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  Dear AIs/Grammar Checkers: "I have a preference" does have the same denotation as "I prefer", but it does not have the same connotation. Stop recommending "I prefer" when I want the connotation of "I have a preference." Both literally mean "I like X over not X". However, "I prefer" is more direct assertation that implies a stronger preference and a stronger obligation to meet that prefer...

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  RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116611159697312350 I really wish we would stop doing things that suggest we're on the Fallout timeline.

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  I trust everyone's having a totally normal Thursday. Nothing crazy going on, right? /s

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116614243837896870 Jesus, how did this get green lighted in the first place? AI is notoriously bad at this. Also, why would anyone ever need an AI for inventory management?

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  Gah. Attempting a repair of a mostly dead laptop and I accidentally triggered the magic smoke.

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  *sigh* Mythos messaging is starting to hit regular people. I've already had to explain twice, now, how Mythos isn't going to decrypt all network traffic. This is exhausting.

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  This, to my mind, is one of the most deeply interesting discussions to be had about AI - the financial inefficiencies it's likely going to introduce. I'm not sure how many tails the AI snake has, but it seems likely to eat all of them. https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-death-of-pc-ownership-framework-computer-ceo-issues-chilling-warning

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  Random hot take of the day: The alien book gets the order wrong when teaching reversing. Start off with "advanced" static analysis so that students first experience having to collect data out of machine code themselves. Then, introduce the "basic" tools (strings, dependencies, etc) by framing them as automating some of the things previously done by hand.

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  RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/116284778632962494 I wonder how freaked out Cisco and Palo Alto are right now about the possibility of retaliatory actions.

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  Me (Trying to generate some quick code for my lecture): Generate some C code that demonstrates running a base64 decoded powershell command. Co-pilot: I can't do that. Running an arbitrary base64 decoded string is something malware often does. But, here's some C code to base64 decode an arbitrary string and here's some C to run an arbitrary string in Powershell.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116284918587233931 Oh, for fuck's sake. Professors have a hard enough of a time getting permission to do real-world demos in cybersecurity classes. This is not going to help.

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  Today's annoying lesson - domain privacy limitations. Ugh. Luckily, this was just a project domain that I can easily give up.