I delete most of my posts after a month or so to keep my blog manageable and to organize my reblogs. You have my permission to reblog whatever deleted post I made. It wouldn’t be on the internet if I wasn’t okay with it getting shared.

I have started my own website where I am organizing resources I’ve made over the years (and also compiling stuff like recipes and recommendations).

I am also now livestreaming a couple times a week, come hang out on Wednesday nights to get something done and Saturday mornings to look at computers and ask tech questions. All streams will involve rambling stories and Tiny Bastard.

Here are some of the major resources I’ve made and some of my sideblogs in case you’re looking for something that I reblogged, plus my answers to the tech questions I get most frequently:

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White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources

President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Tr

ABC News

When President Donald Trump approached the podium to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few people who knew what he was about to say was allegedly setting himself up to profit from the president's words.

Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on that speech and more than a dozen others on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president's speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said.

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In certain instances, investigators uncovered times when Perez would back out of certain bets mid-speech when Trump skipped over a portion of the speech that included a word he had previously bet would be mentioned, the sources said.

According to sources familiar with the investigation, Perez sat for an interview with regulators in recent months and acknowledged some of the trades. At some point during the investigation, the sources said the CFTC alerted federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who declined to open a criminal investigation.

Regulators at the CFTC have expressed a willingness to settle with Perez, and have discussed terms with him that would require Perez to give back his profits and refrain from making similar trades, according to sources familiar with the ongoing discussions.

Beautiful, they should've sent a poet....

Also yeah i’m still around and stuff i’m just.

You know how with some kinds of mental illness the illness manifests as “okay those other people are not lazy pieces of shit but I *am* because this isn’t the result of the mental illness it’s just that I’m bad”?

Okay so it turns out that the same sort of thing happens when you’re going “I really feel for people who deal with burnout because that sounds awful, however I’m not susceptible to burnout I’m just a failure who can’t do anything.”

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ahedderick

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

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FYI Neodymium glass (aka Alexandrite glass to collectors) appears different colors under different lights:

This image is from a great writeup of why that happens on the Jennii Neutron blog.

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Oh and of course Uranium, Selenium, Manganese, and Cadmium all fluoresce under black light.

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None of these are poisonous to drink from or meaningfully radioactive, btw, but they will leech heavy metals into things stored in them the way that leaded crystal will.

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ahedderick

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

ms-demeanor

FYI Neodymium glass (aka Alexandrite glass to collectors) appears different colors under different lights:

This image is from a great writeup of why that happens on the Jennii Neutron blog.

ms-demeanor

Oh and of course Uranium, Selenium, Manganese, and Cadmium all fluoresce under black light.

this is my favorite piece of uranium glass

nudityandnerdery

ahedderick

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

ms-demeanor

FYI Neodymium glass (aka Alexandrite glass to collectors) appears different colors under different lights:

This image is from a great writeup of why that happens on the Jennii Neutron blog.

cobalt glass my beloved ruby glass (gold) my beloved uranium glass my beloved amethyst glass (manganese) my beloved

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Maybe it's because I'm more of an infosec person than a cybersec person but everything I hear about Mythos and AI-based security threats makes me feel like an alien.

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What this has been teaching me is that a lot of approaches to access control are shit.

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Basically I don't think this is a technology problem and it's weird to me that so many people in tech are acting like it is.

ms-demeanor

There's a lot of "the sky is falling!" kind of talk that I'm hearing from people who are panicky about keeping their vital business information protected from AI-based attacks and it sounds absolutely wild to me because it's people essentially saying "AI can get at the very important information that is kept unencrypted in a browser-based program that everyone in my organization logs into on their personal computers while they work from home."

Hey. Uh. There are at a minimum four things you need to worry about there before you worry about Fable.

ms-demeanor

Look, here's the thing, if you hear "mythable can hack your mainframe in two juggawatts" you are going to go "oh no, my business can't compete with that, I'd better pay an outside organization to provide security as a service so that the fear/headache is out of my hands" and then you'll pay for an MSSP that will run programs you can purchase yourself and set up rules you can set up yourself and your risk is still going to be *much* more heavily based on how well your employees are trained and what your storage, access, and incident response protocols are.

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We should have been acting like there were known exploits all along, is my point. But we haven’t been, because it requires training (expensive, works best with low turnover) and is often inconvenient.

ms-demeanor

Maybe it's because I'm more of an infosec person than a cybersec person but everything I hear about Mythos and AI-based security threats makes me feel like an alien.

ms-demeanor

What this has been teaching me is that a lot of approaches to access control are shit.

ms-demeanor

Basically I don't think this is a technology problem and it's weird to me that so many people in tech are acting like it is.

ms-demeanor

There's a lot of "the sky is falling!" kind of talk that I'm hearing from people who are panicky about keeping their vital business information protected from AI-based attacks and it sounds absolutely wild to me because it's people essentially saying "AI can get at the very important information that is kept unencrypted in a browser-based program that everyone in my organization logs into on their personal computers while they work from home."

Hey. Uh. There are at a minimum four things you need to worry about there before you worry about Fable.

ms-demeanor

Look, here’s the thing, if you hear “mythable can hack your mainframe in two juggawatts” you are going to go “oh no, my business can’t compete with that, I’d better pay an outside organization to provide security as a service so that the fear/headache is out of my hands” and then you’ll pay for an MSSP that will run programs you can purchase yourself and set up rules you can set up yourself and your risk is still going to be *much* more heavily based on how well your employees are trained and what your storage, access, and incident response protocols are.

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dingdongyouarewrong

i'm getting the sense some of you are not actually forklift certified.

averagejoey2000

dingdongyouarewrong

well damn . egg on my face

dingdongyouarewrong

THE PLOT THICKENS @averagejoey2000 explain yourself

averagejoey2000

I can't believe this is how I'm finding out that I got a scam forklift cert.

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

but I did the in person practical shit at school.

averagejoey2000

the back of the card even had fancy numbers on it. I couldn't have known that this isn't the one. this website sounded more official than certifyme.net, and there wasn't one with a .gov address.

averagejoey2000

so, I emailed OSHA, and they said that so long as I live and work in California, there's no such thing as forklift certification. I have to be told how to do it every time I get the job.

averagejoey2000

Update: I took a certification class in shipboard Material Handling Equipment at my federal job. *now* I'm forklift certified, but only on ships and piers and only for this company, but also rated to forklift explosives and hazardous materials. Also I'm a woman now.

ms-demeanor

Maybe it's because I'm more of an infosec person than a cybersec person but everything I hear about Mythos and AI-based security threats makes me feel like an alien.

ms-demeanor

What this has been teaching me is that a lot of approaches to access control are shit.

ms-demeanor

Basically I don't think this is a technology problem and it's weird to me that so many people in tech are acting like it is.

ms-demeanor

There’s a lot of “the sky is falling!” kind of talk that I’m hearing from people who are panicky about keeping their vital business information protected from AI-based attacks and it sounds absolutely wild to me because it’s people essentially saying “AI can get at the very important information that is kept unencrypted in a browser-based program that everyone in my organization logs into on their personal computers while they work from home.”

Hey. Uh. There are at a minimum four things you need to worry about there before you worry about Fable.

ms-demeanor

Maybe it's because I'm more of an infosec person than a cybersec person but everything I hear about Mythos and AI-based security threats makes me feel like an alien.

ms-demeanor

What this has been teaching me is that a lot of approaches to access control are shit.

ms-demeanor

Basically I don’t think this is a technology problem and it’s weird to me that so many people in tech are acting like it is.

ms-demeanor

Maybe it's because I'm more of an infosec person than a cybersec person but everything I hear about Mythos and AI-based security threats makes me feel like an alien.

ms-demeanor

What this has been teaching me is that a lot of approaches to access control are shit.

Maybe it’s because I’m more of an infosec person than a cybersec person but everything I hear about Mythos and AI-based security threats makes me feel like an alien.

In which I have strong opinions

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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