Nicholas Eckert

Nicholas Eckert

@vidstudent.bsky.social

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Re: BioWare, unfortunately I think a lot of folks were just waiting for the other shoe to drop for years. Reading the Bloomberg piece, the next Mass Effect was in early development? Wasn’t it announced years ago?

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Replying to @cpsc.gov

Now, I know what you're thinking. In Over the Garden Wall, when that one pumpkin guy is carving a pumpkin with a knife, is that OK? Yes. That guy is already dead. He can do whatever he wants.

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details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

nightshade →eth0:2026@nightshade.technology

oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

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Replying to @rodger.bsky.social

“I was at the game when Darren McCarty took on Claude Lemieux" the flex, we are seeing unprecedented levels of flexion!

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what do you MEAN the developers of Cookie's Bustle contacted every person who registered their copy by mail 25 years ago and invited them to a secret Cookie's Bustle party with live music and merch???

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OKAY KIDS SURVEY IS LIVE PLS TAKE IT HERE forms.cloud.microsoft/r/efnr4sYESC please note that if you don't live in Allegheny County it will kick you to the end because you are (sadly) not eligible. I still love you though.

Question for my Pittsburgh and Allegheny County people: I have been assigned to do a “budget priority” community engagement thing for my one class are there at least 20 of you out there who would be willing to do a 5 min survey if I posted it here

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Yup, that’s exactly what it was, ref. We’ve come a long ways from lifting your leg to pee like a dog.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

Thank you ABC for the clear replay of a dude miming whizzing all over the field

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The money point in here by Matt (among many) is that there's very little in this bill that does anything about "sustainability." This is why it would've been good of College GameDay to maybe consider a follow-up question when Ted Cruz used their air to explain why without this bill, teams will die

Matt Brown@mattbrown.bsky.social

In my professional opinion, the Protect College Sports Act is bad, actually, and I hope it doesn't pass. www.extrapointsmb.com/p/the-protec...

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The Tower of Zeldaga is a mashup of the Legend of Zelda and Tower of Druaga. Every room has a secret puzzle and the puzzles get more obtuse as you go on. It's free, runs in your browser (incl mobile), supports controllers, and I'd really love for you to try it out! legitimatebusiness.biz/tower/