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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange

@foone@digipres.club I'm not even a coder. I just write integrations and scripts. So far my experience is that I can get it nice and good by-hand, or I can basically spend the same amount of time arguing with an LLM or fixing its output to match the real world needs, and WRITING THE SCRIPT isn't the part that takes the most time or creates the most risk anyways, it's the administrative overhead. I keep thinking that if we were a code-driven shop, we'd probably have more success, but I'm not even sure if that's true or if people are blowing smoke.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @foone@digipres.club

@foone@digipres.club I had a great conversation with a colleague about this. Since I was five years old, I've been using tooling created by some of the smartest people in the world to do this stuff efficiently and precisely. Switching work patterns to take the form of "an unproductive conversation with a subordinate" isn't a good use of my time or skills. It's not like photographers bemoaning the advent of Photoshop, it's like handing a trained fine artist an old box of crayons and saying, "You'll love this, even kids can do it!"

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

A group of rich old men was sitting at an outdoor table I was walking by this morning (I work in an affluent neighborhood). I overheard them teaming up on one who was like, "maybe the global warming thing is real, like it's the ozone or something?" I walked over and was like, "hey guys, just letting you know that the Ozone thing is fixed. We got together, changed what we put in refrigerators, and solved it." One guy was like, "I bought a TON of the old stuff and still use it! HAHA!" so I was like, "Well guys, I guess we know which one of you likes pissing in the pool." The guys got a laugh out of it. Then I pivoted. "You ever drive down the highway and see hawks?" "Yes" "I didn't see a hawk until I was fourteen years old. I spent six years in the woods every weekend and never saw a bird of prey. We got together and fixed the DDT thing too, just like the ozone. I get to see hawks because my parents generation decided to fix a problem. Global warming is real, and you're choosing whether or not to fix it for my kids. By all means, make fun of the bamboo toothbrushes and plastic bag bans, but don't pretend this isn't real and not all of our responsibility to fix."

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @astra_underscore@wetdry.world

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world I caretake for a disabled person with intense BPD and alcoholism, and almost every sentence pivots from happy reminiscing to crying or anger. It's wild. I can't imagine having 1% of that level of emotional instability.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @IngaLovinde@embracing.space

@IngaLovinde@embracing.space @mcc@mastodon.social On a sidenote... Isn't it wild that audio CDs didn't include a few kilobytes of metadata, or album art? I know the format is old, but it seems like it would have been apparent even in the late 1980s that this digital medium had room for that sort of thing and that it might be handy to show album art or song names on the deck.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @Palace4Software@mastodon.online

@Palace4Software@mastodon.online I have been around long enough to remember writing my own XFree86 modelines, and I eagerly switched to Wayland back in 2018. It's been great to see the experience steadily improve.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @remaster@mastodon.social

@remaster@mastodon.social A note with a bunch of esoteric safety warning signs in different languages would be unifying. Every time I'm in the EU or UK, I am fascinated by the things in public they choose to warn me about.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @IngaLovinde@embracing.space

@IngaLovinde@embracing.space @mcc@mastodon.social I believe the CDDB data was mostly track length and numbers, right? Like, that data would be somewhat unique per album. I think Gracenote ended up owning that data, but also supplemented it with data derived from the music itself to let tracks be identified through fragments played or recorded in various services. It all ended up under one roof.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social

@mcc@mastodon.social the 'Google' app on my android does it, and did it long before the rise of LLMs. Open it up, hit the microphone button in the search field, then hit 'search a song'. As far as I know, Google, Apple, my car's infotainment system, et al all use Gracenote's proprietary music identification system, which stood on the backs of thousands of volunteers contributing to CDDB (including myself) before it got monetized and paywalled in late-stage web 1.0 dotcom fuckery.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

Sometimes I have terrible ideas that I wanna get out there mostly for fun, but also as a warning.

Today's Bad Idea:

Testosterone Gummy Supplements:
"Chews Violence"

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

Replying to @ralfmaximus@mastodon.social

@ralfmaximus@mastodon.social @tezoatlipoca@mas.to @jcrabapple@dmv.community It's definitely an 'electronic' sound, but it definitely correlates with disk activity. Only one of the two SSDs makes it. I gather that I also hear a bunch of other electronics differently than a lot of people. CRTs, low-quality wall wart adapters, and sometimes a 90hz 'hum' that permeates the whole neighborhood (usually in winter). I have no idea what that's about, I'm not a kook who thinks ESD is hurting me or anything, I'm just often like "what the heck is that?!" and then I find it and unplug it, and nobody else in the room seems to be able to hear the difference I do.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

Replying to @tezoatlipoca@mas.to

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @jcrabapple@dmv.community @ralfmaximus@mastodon.social weirdly, I can hear the SSD on my work computer. It's not a satisfying sound though, more like an ant dragging its fingernails on a chalkboard.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Inconvenient in real life, but if they didn't let me 'takeout', then I would be forced to litigate... or trebuchet an RS/6000 into their headquarters.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @paul@tapbots.social

@paul@tapbots.social By the end of the decade, I am gonna be paying for groceries with Raspberry Pis.

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GreenDotGuy @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

"We asked Billionaires what their plans are for the next decade..."