The cool thing about vibe coding is that script kiddies get to be SWEs now

Today I'm inundated with yet another reminder that it's far easier to criticize than to create, and pointing out flaws is so much quicker than solving problems. Choose to be a problem solver, whenever and wherever you can.

Two things kids these days will never know the simple joy of. 1: Watching disk doctor shuffle those ANSI blocks around and stack them up while defragging your disk, and 2: Degaussing your monitor. "THNANGGgggggg....." (wigglewigglewiggle)

Maui seems to be proving that banning short-term rentals actually does drastically reduce housing costs for locals. beatofhawaii.com/maui-condo-mar…

One of the difficult things about trying to find alignment across the aisle on facts is that it's increasingly difficult to find facts on the internet, vs facts interspersed with opinions. Did X person say Y? Here's 500 out of context clips, all of them by partisan commentators.

There's two types of people in this world. Those who have never run a not-yet-full filesystem out of inodes, and those who have run a spam filtering daemon in quarantine mode.

I wonder if we are going to see AI / agentic attacks hit much sooner and faster than AI / agentic defenses because defenders face so many more consequences for making mistakes than attackers do.

For no reason at all and not subject to any particular specific current news item, I've recently been thinking about Matthew Prince's blog post from 2017. blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-termina…

blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-termina…

It appears that this vehicle, which crashed into a tree and caught fire, was not a Tesla. Also - Great work Santa Cruz Pros & Vols!

The struggle is real and the vacuum is evil

I received a survey from the heritage foundation. My responses will probably never be read and this was probably pointless, but I responded anyway.

Today's hot take: "Vulnerability" as a term has become meaningless in the industry. I propose that at a system level, a vulnerability is not a *vulnerability* if there are other intact, effective compensating controls. Many of the things we call vulns should just be called bugs

I dunno, it doesn't quite have the same snap that the others do.

I don't know if y'all know this amazing fact, but -- both Cockatoos and Conures are capable of squawking loud enough in one's office to actually overwhelm the noise canceling on a good pair of headphones and cause audio clipping. It's amazing.

Opinions wanted: If you regularly eat lunch with coworkers & they talk about work for the majority of the lunch - do you mentally bucket that as work time or as a break? Let's say the discussion isn't all gossip or blowing off steam; at least 50% is work talk.

Granted I'm not a military expert like Pete Hegseth but from afar it kind of seems to me like logistics, cyber security and drone operators are essentially carrying the weight of most modern warfare. That said, if they're getting rid of mandatory phishing "exercises" I'm game.