rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyFather, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist.
I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it).
(He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.)
(Was also @lorddimwit@mastodon.social)
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyWife: 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 full…
Wife: This is too long of an explanation and I’ve stopped caring.
#postscript #programming
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyThings mentioned during my talk:
- The China Syndrome
- HP’s 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
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyDebian no longer supports 32-bit x86. DEBIAN.
Wow.
#linux #old
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyThe human badges at DEFCON just fall apart sometimes without any notice.
Me too badges. Me too.
#defcon #infosec
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyTexting 14yo.
Me: Here we’re 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: It’s so we can discover how to hack them before the bad guys do.
14yo: But what if the bad guys are at the conference?? You’ll have tipped your hand!
Me: And here’s lock picking practice.
14yo: You’re literally training criminals.
#infosec #defcon
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyAh d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, my old friend. You’re always there for me when I least expect it.
#infosec
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallySo they changed the security screening situation at AUS and I can only assume it’s to make people who didn’t pony up for TSA Pre and CLEAR hate their lives.
(I have CLEAR but not TSA Pre. Really I should just get both.)
#travel
