Jess👾

https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill

Queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Cybersecurity
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I am a woman, but I'm CERTAINLY not a lady.

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2026-09-05 22:39:33 UTC

Took this last week off as a "staycation" where we didn't go anywhere, just did various things around town that we'd always meant to do but never made time to do them. And I gotta say, 10/10 vacation. We didn't have to spend a day on each side traveling. We didn't have to get hotels or board the dog. We didn't feel bad about the days that were "actually, we're tired, we'll just sleep in, play games, and watch a movie". Saving all the money on travel and hotels meant it was no biggie at all to splurge on some nice meals and drinks and stuff. Plus, there's so friggin much stuff to do within an hour of our house, we could keep this up for a long time and still not hit everything. Why can't this shit happen every week ...

2026-08-28 19:59:27 UTC

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It's like the war on music piracy in the 00s. Good job, you took down Napster. Then you got Kazaa. Take down Kazaa, then you got LimeWire. Take down LimeWire, then you got BitTorrent. Take down PirateBay, they pop up again somewhere else. Etc. Nothing breeds tech innovation faster than ham fisted interference with people wanting to talk and share with one another.

2026-08-28 14:54:11 UTC

I'm really struggling to think of anyone who openly opposed trans rights who didn't slide into much more mask off bigotry within the next few years. Usually to far right, occasionally to tankie.
Once someone starts saying they're allowed to pick and choose who gets human rights, it's only a matter of time before they expand that to even more categories of people who don't get human rights.

2026-08-26 19:33:00 UTC

Replace all Confederate monuments with statues of Dolly Parton.

2026-08-21 15:50:12 UTC

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Yeah, human life is difficult to value (unless you're an insurance company). Whereas there's certainly times that you just need to send legacy software "to a farm upstate".

2026-08-21 13:58:29 UTC

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Treating a chronic health condition certainly does make more money than curing the health condition.

2026-08-21 13:50:09 UTC

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The number of times the "security" endpoint agents themselves get popped and used as an attack vector...

2026-08-21 13:37:56 UTC

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I see infosec kinda akin to firefighters. No matter how hard fire marshalls work to keep people from having piles of oily rags or blocking fire escapes or otherwise violating fire code, there's just too many builders and landlords building and operating too many shoddy homes that sooner or later, the firefighters gotta come and put out the fires.

2026-08-16 02:07:55 UTC

It's weird to think that there's people out there who don't have to battle depression demons all the damn time.

2026-08-15 16:25:49 UTC

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one of my all time favorites

2026-08-07 15:42:43 UTC

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"Should have patched everything all the time even faster!"
Bitch, please. I'm still fighting tooth and nail to get people to upgrade to versions of stuff that's even still getting patches.

2026-08-07 15:40:32 UTC

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When we have AI generated exploit kits being developed within days of a vuln being announced ... Like what the fuck is a vulnerability management program even supposed to do with that?

2026-08-03 14:35:51 UTC

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so it's not JUST that my eyes are getting shittier ...

2026-07-28 14:36:05 UTC

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A previous house, we got a nasty letter about our Pride flag saying how we would burn in hell for our sins. So I replaced the flag with an even bigger flag. Sadly we were already planning to move just a couple months later, so maybe they thought they won when we left.

2026-07-27 20:13:50 UTC

Go away or I'll replace your whole SaaS company with a shell script.

2026-07-21 02:00:00 UTC

It sure is wild seeing senior developers with 20+ years of experience whining and complaining towards the end of any given month about how they're out of AI tokens and now they can't do work until the 1st unless they get more tokens. Like these are people who have been coding since the 20th century complaining about how they can't code anymore without AI. What are we even doing.

2026-07-13 17:36:43 UTC

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Says a man who has been Secretary of State while a dozen or more top foreign officials including a head of state was assassinated by a foreign power, and another was violently kidnapped and is being tried in a foreign country.

2026-07-13 13:41:51 UTC

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I don't care how many people hours it saves from people managing to self-service. A lot more of the savings are people just giving up and thinking poorly of your support.

2026-07-13 13:23:08 UTC

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https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/912/880/200/346/258/original/9ec43926edbd6717.mp4

2026-06-29 13:40:41 UTC

I'm not neurodivergent, I just have a complicated System of which foods are "ingredients" and which are "food", and I can't eat "ingredients" until they've been made into "food". (Sarcasm - I'm certainly somewhere in the "low" end of the spectrum of autism and moderate to high in ADHD in various ways)

2026-06-11 14:22:30 UTC

One thing I really get uncomfortable at work with is colleagues who keep a very strict and stoic professionalism mask up all the time. As a neurospicy, it means I don't have enough context cues to figure out how they're feeling or what they're thinking. It's exhausting trying to reverse engineer a persona to interface with someone who doesn't express their personality.

2026-05-23 15:07:13 UTC

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So that's the thing where you beg and plead with the slopbot not to do the wrong thing and hope you begged hard enough?

2026-05-18 15:33:35 UTC

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Sometimes I just wake up and choose violence.

2026-05-13 13:20:20 UTC

I feel like my fear of cruise ships is justified in that it's an enclosed space, diseases can run rampant, and you can be effectively imprisoned there when something goes wrong.
The ship loses power. A disease outbreak. Fog closes the port. A bad storm. Whatever. At least (if)/when I go to a resort, I'm on land. I can go to a hospital. If there's some disease outbreak, I'm not stuck in my little tiny cabin for days on end. I can catch the next flight home if I have to.

2026-03-20 14:13:48 UTC

Kinda interesting seeing just how fast people are to erase César Chavez from places, and how slow they are to erase Epstein abusers.

2026-02-12 15:01:30 UTC

Once you learn the cycle of abuse, it's always weird to see just how many things you had taken for granted as "normal" are actually abusive. Sometimes it's something you can't directly leave. After all, still gotta live somewhere and work somewhere and eat food and shit. But at least when you recognize it for what it is, you can emotionally disconnect from it and treat it as a purely transactional relationship.

2025-12-26 01:28:09 UTC

Spicy Take:
Fuck the FOSS bro mindset of "We can overlook bad behavior of maintainers because if it gets TOO bad we can just fork it."
And "It's okay to use 'open core' products even though the whole project couldn't survive without its corporate overlords who refuse PRs and public maintainer communities.
I can count on one hand the number of major FOSS projects not from Sun/Oracle who successfully forked and became larger than the original.
Forking a project results in one of two outcomes: <li><p>the fork dies because most of the contributors, maintainers, and users don't leave because they just can't be bothered to give a shit</p></li><li><p>Many people do schism, and the entire original AND fork decline in popularity as many people just go elsewhere rather than mess with it all </p></li>
Fight bad behavior, corporate ownership, toxic bullshit, bigotry, wrong project direction, etc. where you find it. Not by saying a fork is the release valve.
Among many others, this is a subtoot about Firefox

2025-11-18 16:16:26 UTC

"Why won't people talking about this thing I don't like/don't care about"!
My sibling in Satan, the mute word filter is RIGHT THERE!
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/

2025-10-23 20:56:41 UTC

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Yeah, if you're talking medical shit, just talk about the medical shit. Gender doesn't even have to be mentioned.
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2025-09-28 17:39:30 UTC

It has to be a very depressing job to be one of the liberal Justices on the Supreme Court, knowing the rest of your career, you're just going to be sitting around writing dissents and being ignored by the supermajority while the whole legal system falls apart around you.

2025-09-13 22:49:53 UTC

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I knew of them basically as just the alt right 4chan KiwiFarms fucks. I'd not looked at them much more than that.

2025-07-08 15:06:11 UTC

Just a reminder - when Republicans are talking about how "all these non-disabled people are getting Medicaid and need to get a job", There's an AWFUL lot of people who are legit super disabled whose disability claims get denied because of insufficient doctor documentation and medical history and missing paperwork and missing hearings because... They're disabled ... Getting approved as disabled is the classic Catch 22. It is nearly impossible to be declared disabled if you're too disabled or you don't have sufficient access to good doctors or you can't get a disability lawyer to help after your initial claim was denied for any damn reason at all or...

2025-06-10 13:56:10 UTC

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They're scared and weak and already know they're going to lose this all in the end. That's why they don't want to show their faces. They know in a few years, Their Guy won't be in charge, and they'll have to be the ones living their lives with their faces on viral videos as the Gestapo who kidnaps innocent people without a fascist dictatorship to hide behind.