SwiftOnSecurity

SwiftOnSecurity

@swiftonsecurity.com

computer security person. former helpdesk.

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This is ridiculous. Quad9's mission is literally free DNS with malware blocking, to help collective Internet defense and threat investigation. That's all they do.

Actually, every single person interviewed with that microphone on a credit card should be excluded from the mainland and put on some kind of floating area legally between a state and a colony

Before capitalism, guys got together to pick straws for who to lead their band of non-competitive pillagers, and assign their new polycule members - equitably decided without regard to membership in a protected class. Only thing they competed on was being emotionally available to definitely an adult

It's really unfortunate that the people who have known I run this account for 11 years know I talk like this, and everybody else will just think I'm LLM output.

There is WILD simplification of car detailing products chemical reaction realities, where manufacturers leave out 95% of the detail on how to make them most effective, so as not to scare-off users. This also explains wildly different product results for different users. Even professional products.

No, actually it doesn't make sense why two different people using the exact same batch of product would have a different experience, if they were informed of all the contributory factors. But dumbing it down and hiding the complexity even existing is worth more on the market than getting bad reviews

We are all beholden to the slopification driven entirely rationally by the violently un-requisitionable cognitive budget of market actors, and our education systems middling focus on chemistry between people instead of siloxane sol-gelling on clearcoat. All our cars could be beautiful.

The future looks like a few who can responsibly mentally employ the capabilities of AI, an increasingly behind luddite class, and a massive psychosis life-neutering chasm between them. Like the people who cannot master cocaine, and those who can.

Finally working! Deionized water removes ~all minerals from tap water. This makes car washing spotless, can significantly improve efficacy of surfactants that control many cleaning product's positive behaviors like wetting/emulsify/suspension. (Set to low flow here on new resin)

IT Ops: "Why is this Windows setting gray'd out?" Me: "It's insecure we can't... Actually, I jumped ahead of myself. Why does the user know this option exists? What is the problem they are trying to solve by changing it?" IT Ops: "Actually we don't know." This is why they pay me.

"Jesus Christ get over her," I begin to say, suddenly reflecting on the Taylor Swift fan account I've posted on every day for 11 years

Ant@agramuglia.bsky.social

Predictably, Shad's Malfoid obsession has driven the only traffic his channel has gotten since our initial back and forth right back into the ground. Stay down there. Good boy.

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There are certainly animals with weird complex genomes. But let me update your graph with the maize numbers.

jim mallet@wtf-r-species.bsky.social

It's not just maize, it's every genome. Currently, my favourite organism, Heliconius butterflies, is one of the champions of mess -- Fang, B., & Edwards, S.V. 2025. Pangenomes: new tools for ecological and evolutionary genomics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 41:230–244. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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We’re approaching the five-year anniversary of the publication of The United States of Anonymous, which I wrote to remind people of the value of anonymous speech. Sadly, by the 10-year anniversary (and likely much sooner), states will have destroyed online anonymity. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

yahoo.comGeorgia’s Social Media Age-Verification Law Can Now Be Enforced, Court RulesGeorgia's social media age-verification law can now be enforced after a federal appeals court lifted the injunction blocking Senate Bill 351.

You know that feeling when you're at the very top of the rollercoaster, and you see all the track in front of you, and know there's nothing you can earthly do, but hold on? Yeah. You're there, right now.

The "conceit" was Taylor Swift is so smart and competent she could easily be an InfoSec expert in her free time. That was "the joke." An immensely earnest, vulnerable, silly, flawed effort. Tell me, a decade later, where the people who hated the shadow of their subject are now?