Amethyst Basilisk

Amethyst Basilisk

@amethyst.systems

Furry hacker of the dragon and Windows variety. Blog: https://amethyst.systems/blog Puzzles: https://crackmes.one/user/frank2

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"A root beer float, please" "I'm sorry sir, we're little-endian here" "oh, I'm sorry. Then a float root beer, please"

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

root beer float implies the existence of root beer int

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Starve a data center and save a town: hire an ~artist~ Want a sign for your restaurant: Graphic designer Music for your stage play? : Composer characters for your DnD campaign?: Illustrator All these folks take up significantly less power and money than a data center and give life to your project

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Previously I have posted about a Nintendo of Europe downloadable premium animated wallpaper that featured a bizarre Toad eating the wallpaper. The files have finally been datamined, allowing the Wallpaper-Eating Toad to be observed in never-before-seen maximum quality.

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Scully: Mulder, the CIA does not transmit their one-time-pad seeds through the Wall Street Journal, that's absurd. Mulder: Look Scully, first, I said it was the New York Times. Second, of course not. I was talking pre-1994. The most difficult crossword is only a few hundred bits, now they use

Nire Bryce@nirebryce.breadthcharge.net

like I know half of my same aged peers here in the US are illiterate, statistically, but I think even then most of them know its fake when a labcoat talks to you for four minutes about some new environmental thing and then it's like BROUGHT TO YOU BY BRITISH PETROLEUM, FOR A CLEANER PLANET

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anyone telling you - you, an actual human being with rent to pay and unhoused neighbors - to throw money into the electoral industrial complex black hole is actively scamming you

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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Fire everyone on the cybersecurity team who had anything to do with this. What are you even testing here?

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Cale Michael@xjustified.bsky.social

This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

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web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

After discovering high protein helps my MS muscle symptoms, I have hopped on the protein bandwagon. My knee doesn't buckle or struggle when I stand since we switched to high protein intake.

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As someone who needs a translator for whatever the tech people are talking about, this was quite helpful as an explanation

between the catastrophic PHP vuln and the intermediate cert vuln and AI models that can turn a proof of concept into a bot net in like 10mins we’re in for a wild 24 hours

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the internet is a store but it used to be a library but it used to be a stoop where we could smoke and talk about anime OVAs

Aaron HM@aaronhm.bsky.social

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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Art is expression through the medium of effort. Humans evolved to value art because preferring the wisdom of your Freaks is a prevailing survival strategy. It's not just "artists," freaks are the people who wrote your municipality's fire code too.

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What the UK to trans people is now explicitly genocide. To deny it anymore is genocide denial. A trans woman died as she was unable to get chemotherapy from the NHS simply as she was trans. Now there is a legal case into her murder, which you can donate to here.

translegalclinic.comJustice For Joelle | Trans Legal ClinicNHS England has updated its guidance on single-sex service provision to state that trans patients should be assigned to wards based on their 'biological sex.'

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In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.

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sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer