Wife: Why do you have to pretend to print a document to save it as a PDF?
Me: Do you really care?
Wife: Yes.
Me: Okay so Adobe had this thing called PostScript, which was a page description language that was also a fullβ¦
Wife: This is too long of an explanation and Iβve stopped caring.
#postscript #programming
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#enshittification #ai
Things mentioned during my talk:
- The China Syndrome
- HPβs HPIB laboratory bus
- Jack Lemmon and Jane Fonda were both nominated for Oscars for The China Syndrome, you know
- Commodore adapted HPIB for the PET peripheral bus
- They messed up the implementation though
- Oh right did you know about the topic of the talk
I am both hip and with it.
#infosec #defcon
Debian no longer supports 32-bit x86. DEBIAN.
Wow.
#linux #old
The human badges at DEFCON just fall apart sometimes without any notice.
Me too badges. Me too.
#defcon #infosec
Texting 14yo.
Me: Here weβre trying to hack an industrial controller to start water flowing, like hacking a dam.
14yo: Why would you want to flood a city full of children and elderly?
Me: Itβs so we can discover how to hack them before the bad guys do.
14yo: But what if the bad guys are at the conference?? Youβll have tipped your hand!
Me: And hereβs lock picking practice.
14yo: Youβre literally training criminals.
#infosec #defcon
Ah d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, my old friend. Youβre always there for me when I least expect it.
#infosec
So they changed the security screening situation at AUS and I can only assume itβs to make people who didnβt pony up for TSA Pre and CLEAR hate their lives.
(I have CLEAR but not TSA Pre. Really I should just get both.)
#travel