ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Alone but not lonely. 😏 #Scams #TexasNumbers #Elderly #Boomer #Seniors

If this can be a salad, you can be anything.

I recently moved my account from mastodon.social to hachyderm.io. After a couple days of lurking, I'm really impressed with the admin, @nova, with the performance of the instance, and with the community here. I've found my home in the Fediverse!

Elon Musk invited Sam Bankman-Fried to invest $100 million in his privatized Twitter!

If you don't know who Sam Bankman-Fried is, he's the former CEO of newly bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and an alleged fraud and Ponzi schemer! https://www.semafor.com/article/11/22/2022/sam-bankman-fried-elon-and-a-secret-text

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion.

1st incident lasted 25s during the sportscast on the 9PM news on WGN-TV; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.

Video: https://youtu.be/oqgeM6rWSkw

Never forget 11/22/87.

#Twitter: "Gonna be pwning n00bz on my Twitch channel in 20 minutes! Follow or die!"

#Mastodon: "I am a nuclear biologist, gardener, writer, and developer. I recently rewrote the code to the entire web, baked a lovely shepherd's pie, forged a Damascus steel sword for my wife, and wrote an entire book of prayers in Old English for my children."

It’s good to see engagement and use growing here. It would be healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks, don’t you think?

Timeline of a new Mastodon user:

Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty

Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb

Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter

Day 7: hm, people are really nice here

Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations

Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS

#TwitterMigration

Oy.

I forgot an #introduction! BBC Micro bot runs your posts on an 8-bit computer emulator.

People create small programs for it in BBC BASIC, a language created by Sophie Wilson in 1981 for the BBC Micro. (She later used BBC BASIC to create the ARM architecture - now the most widely used CPU architecture in the world.)

It's amazing what people create in a few lines of code for a 1980s home computer! You can see 1000s of examples at https://www.bbcmicrobot.com
#GenerativeArt #creativecoding

This is MASSIVE. The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11! Windows 10 users can now run Linux GUI apps natively! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-in-the-microsoft-store-is-now-generally-available-on-windows-10-and-11/ #wsl #windows #linux

#introduction Hey Folks,

I'm Duane. I am currently an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at #ChamplainCollege in Burlington, VT. I have been in infosec for 25 years this year. My experience comes from the government and education sector for 15 years and 10 years in Academia (full-time and 20, total, as an adjunct previously). In just over a month, I will be leaving Academia and working in the private industry. I will miss teaching, though I can’t deal with the traditional model of education in higher education.

Instead I’m teaching in a different form at Cloud Range (where I’ll be working Full Time in January ’23) and am the Senior Adversarial Engineer. I create the cyberattacks and then automate them to run in a live cyber range. We then train existing security teams or folks transitioning to security to identify the attacks. I get to play with some cool products, perform attacks I’ve only read about or did on my own time, create debriefing guides, and perform forensics on my own attacks. It’s an amazing job due to the amount of learning and forensic skills I’m honing. I’m exposed to industries I’ve only learned about in passing about their infosec needs like #ICS. I’m currently learning more and more about #ICS and one of my former students will be my mentor once I’m able to get into in more depth when I’m full-time. I have created two fun attack trainings for ICS and one for PLCs…the automation script for that one is sooo long. :D

I tend to post about the basics of infosec, be an ally for newcomers and those transitioning into the field, and remind folks to perform security control tests.

I’m getting back into metasmithing, but due to arthritis in my neck and managing my chronic pain, I can’t do much anymore so I’m learning to work with precious metal clay…easy on my neck. :). I also like pencil drawing and will be learning procreate on my iPad soon too.

Despite the migration to Mastodon, I’m going to continue promoting using the Matrix protocol and happy to test it with others. I just setup my first Matrix server too. :D

Tuesday motivation

Listen up, newbies 📣

You all want to know how to find interesting people to follow on Mastodon -- and I'm going to tell you how 😃

Go to your instance's profiles directory. This is located on the lower left corner of your screen.

Or visit: https://<nameofinstance.com>/directory

There you can sort profiles by:

* Recently active
* New arrivals only
* From your instance only
* From known Fediverse

See screenshots.

Our CTF (Capture the Flag) contest will again be run by Packet Ninjas who did a great job waay back in 2019 when we last got together IRL. Dust off your hacking skills if you haven't participated in a #CTF in a while. Thanks, Austin, for running this again!

Microsoft is investigating and working on a fix for Remote Desktop issues on Windows 11 systems after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-remote-desktop-freezes-on-windows-11-22h2/