Johnny Xmas

I could automate this but who cares

So here’s what’s banned at the Great American State Fair Raspberry Pis and laptops are banned, but not servers/desktop computers or any of the other dozen nano-computer platforms. Also why is “Router” (woodworking, I assume) the only singular item? Of I bring two, it’s cool?

My new bike helmet does not seem too enthused about what’s about to happen to it

Another week, another 3-year-old company trying to sell an agentic SOC solution that promises to replace 20 analysts and costs slightly more than 10x what they do. Who is buying this?

This is not America’s 250th birthday. We were independent colonies until Delaware cast the final necessary vote to ratify the constitution in 1787. Today is the celebration of the declaration to reject the monarchy. No Kings 250. 

There is so much of this absolute trash out there, trying to scam everyone who's in the hustle culture and get us to work 80 hours a week doing this garbage work so we can make these AI companies money. Remember: hustling makes YOU money, and ONLY you. Don't let this dog shit steal it from your wallet. https://www.loom.com/share/c5e062fb9c1144db87da79d7aceff215

Someone just shipped something to me wrapped only in a target shopping bag and USPS was all about it

What an AQI of 400 looks like from above. Hope you didn’t throw your respirators out after Covid. 

Today’s hotel nightmare

Today’s hotel nightmare

Same tbh

OpenAI disabled guardrails on its most advanced models and was surprised when they engineered a sandbox escape and launched cyberattack against Hugging Face to accomplish their tasking. angry_shocked_pikachu.jpg https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5982665-openai-sam-altman-cyberhack-ai-hugging-face-system/

Me running Windows apps on Linux 

OpenAI turning off frontier model guardrails in a desperate bid for attention be like

Evangelion is the Arch Linux of anime

Lots of "Dude, how was that conference you spoke at ON A TRAIN" questions this week, and honestly Adam Schaal has a solid writeup on Hobocon that mimics my experiences here: https://blog.adamschaal.com/posts/2026-07-21-hobocon/ Of course, it mimics my experiences because we were all stuck inside the same metal tube for 22 hours...

@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange in don’t follow how that response makes sense