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2026-08-17 19:13:39 CEST

This meeting could have been a duel at dawn, then I would have had the rest of the day free.

2026-08-17 18:38:21 CEST

In the immortal words of my alter ego Sam, the Social Justice Redneck
"If y'all think Fox is new and evangelicals is Christian, I've got some bad news for ya about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny"
#SamSays

2026-08-17 18:29:46 CEST

Anyone else thinking of buying taser-like devices to see if they'll take out electronic thingies you don't like? Any research been done on it? Or maybe just a good ol' cattle prod?
#PopGoesTheSurveillanceState

2026-08-10 18:56:57 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117072057818927440
Cameras are capturing war crimes and not stopping them.
#note1v9t…lf66

2026-08-03 13:58:07 CEST

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INFORMATION ROUNDABOUT

2026-08-03 13:32:15 CEST

Me
Whelmed

2026-07-31 02:18:43 CEST

Last night's Old Time jam and tonight's bluegrass jam at Jack of the Wood in Asheville.
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2026-07-29 18:36:45 CEST

Seventeen years ago today, dozens of hackers gathered at a house somewhere on the west side of Las Vegas...
Apparently we started something.

2026-07-27 14:58:15 CEST

Oh, look, another once interesting security company has become just another software brothel. No, I’m not telling you which one i’m talking about. You're probably wondering which one of several that popped into your mind, aren’t you?

2026-07-22 21:52:59 CEST

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just did a great lunch at Strange Bird, then walked across the street to Black Rabbit. Alley Cat awaits.

2026-07-22 19:49:17 CEST

Malort Negroni.
At Lone Wolf Lounge in Savannah.
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2026-07-20 01:46:21 CEST

Just saw someone suggest Danny DeVito to play Jimothy in the inevitable biopic, and that wins the internet for today.

2026-07-19 22:40:39 CEST

Bertha. Tropical Depression Two is likely to become Tropical Storm Bertha, and while it doesn't look too terrifying, I wouldn't underestimate anyone or thing named "Bertha".

2026-07-15 23:18:24 CEST

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this absolute failure is why BSidesLV has run shuttle busses every year. It's a horrible city to navigate, and with never ending construction, a misery for locals and tourists alike. But the locals suffer most.

2026-07-14 13:11:21 CEST

Happy Bastille Day!
Remember kids, with a guillotine, you can always get a head.

2026-07-12 22:27:37 CEST

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Sweet deal!
I used to get regular offers for BSidesLV, that is at least a corporation. 501(c)(3), but a corporation.

2026-07-12 18:08:21 CEST

Wow. Just got an offer to "buy" BSides.
Great research there buddy.

2026-07-09 00:34:24 CEST

On the turntable tonight.
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2026-07-08 15:26:17 CEST

I just discovered that the collapsing building in NYC used to be Pfizer HQ.
They took away the Viagra, and the building is no longer erect.

2026-07-05 13:33:46 CEST

Time for your annual reminder: please keep it quiet this morning as many people were up late last night blowing shit up and want to sleep in this morning.
#ChainsawsAtDawnMotherFuckers

2026-06-29 15:37:58 CEST

Oh, look, a keyboard for the AI experts.
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2026-06-27 15:12:23 CEST

I'm going to hang out at the local Pride gathering this evening. I cannot tell you how pissed I am that I have to bring my first aid kits and stuff (minor FAK, but also the trauma pack). There was a public threat of a mass casualty event, but the one dumb enough to threaten publicly has been arrested.
I do trust *a few* local authorities to be prepared and capable, but: Some of those who work forces, etc.

2026-06-23 15:25:49 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jack_daniel/116799635468482830
Wait, what if this line was Monty Python foretelling the creation of systemd?
#note109r…8zh9

2026-06-23 15:23:20 CEST

Oh, intercourse the penguin!

2026-06-19 17:12:11 CEST

It must be special wandering through life utterly unburdened by competence.

2026-06-18 14:28:28 CEST

455. That's the number of introductory conversations I have had with people interested in launching or relaunching a BSides event since I started tracking conversations about ten years ago. About one third of those lead to new or revived events, or new leadership for existing events.

2026-06-16 22:21:39 CEST

I really just can't with all this fuckery, and that's without getting into all that fuckery.

2026-06-16 00:09:26 CEST

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the fifth string is a drone, and has roots in its African origins. It's common in old time and bluegrass, while the four string tenors are the standard for Celtic, but there are all kinds of banjos played all kinds of ways.

2026-06-15 22:16:07 CEST

Banjo.
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2026-06-06 02:55:33 CEST

I keep trying to give some people the benefit of the doubt, and all I get back is the doubt.

2026-06-05 03:57:07 CEST

Banging new stuff from Seasick Steve
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7w-QNSlOI003DJfWfCfK_nPI65jSEylw&si=jK5UfkmZubOu616P
So much great music coming out. We must really be fucked.

2026-06-02 23:51:26 CEST

Bastille Day is July 14, time to get busy on the yard decorations.

2026-06-01 14:57:19 CEST

Teams? Ick.

2026-05-30 14:06:21 CEST

The way the tiny lady inside the nagrivation box pronounces Appalachian, I can tell she ain’t from around here.

2026-05-30 01:40:10 CEST

I have just learned that this exists, and now you must see it, too. Advertised as "the grand piano of banjos"
(you may need to take a moment here to digest that phrase, or possibly regurgitate it),
I present the Deering 12 string banjo.
Just imagine Stairway to Heaven or Hotel California on this bad boy.
Or don't, if you are watching your mental health.
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2026-05-29 05:32:39 CEST

Nothing like getting shit for coming home late. From your cat.

2026-05-16 16:25:08 CEST

Gross. It's love bug season. #Splat

2026-05-16 14:24:39 CEST

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OK, if we’re doing this, what does it mean when there’s a bass player on your porch?
It means the pizza is here.

2026-05-16 03:39:34 CEST

Tomorrow, another adventure begins. Two weeks in southern Appalachia, building banjos, swapping stories, and possibly an adult beverage or two. Suffering Bastard is ready. I am not.

2026-05-11 14:15:49 CEST

It is a tiny thing in a world of environmental disasters, but compostable packing peanuts are one of those "oh, hey, everything doesn't have to be shitty" things I like to see.

2026-05-06 01:09:44 CEST

Diplomatico Chancellor rum, $2000 usd, fewer than 1000 bottles, and sold out. Madness.

2026-05-04 17:55:48 CEST

Happy Take Five Day!
(In the US and other backwards date format places).

2026-04-29 21:45:50 CEST

I made the mistake of existing yesterday so I have new aches and pains today.

2026-04-27 02:11:09 CEST

Fucking Verizon, their spam call blocking tags calls from local emergency management agencies as spam and blocks them. You know, the folks sending updates about wildfires, hurricanes, evacuations, and shit?!?!?
I'm still only ever-so-slightly inconvenienced by these fires, but JFC Verizon, y'all out here trying to kill people.

2026-04-25 19:23:24 CEST

Well fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck. Another friend lost. Another family, and community grieving.
#FuckCancer

2026-04-25 14:41:51 CEST

RE: https://raru.re/@ocean/116461609325897641
I have had the same experience. F GoDaddy.
#note19jj…fx23

2026-04-23 03:39:10 CEST

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it is really ugly. Florida is on fire, too- not as bad as Georgia, but bad.

2026-04-23 01:06:06 CEST

Current wildfire situation in Georgia, 134 fires covering ~23,000 acres. State of emergency in 91 counties. I'm safe here on the coast, but you don't have to go far inland to run into devastation.

2026-04-21 16:06:53 CEST

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if you have insufficient rage and despair, there's a book which will send you. "It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans" by David Shulkin.
Summary: The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House.

2026-04-16 14:10:04 CEST

What if, and hear me out here, I know it is a big ask, but what if today did not suck?

2026-03-23 21:16:09 CET

Shit sucks. But my azaleas are happy af. That massive thing is over six feet high.
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2026-03-19 17:11:19 CET

I never thought lemon pound cake which I didn't eat could bring me so much joy.

2026-02-25 15:02:10 CET

Unlike many, I still have fucks to give. I wouldn't be me if I didn't. But to the fuckers who waste the fucks I give, fuck you.
Love,
Jack

2026-02-20 01:33:12 CET

"It's really simple, in theory."
Translation: whatever this is said about, while true, is stunningly, soul crushingly, difficult.

2026-02-16 19:34:43 CET

I grew up knowing that 12-14 million people were murdered in the holocaust, roughly half of them for being Jewish. I knew this because my parents and their generation fought the war. Some saw firsthand, some via news or from those who saw it.
I grew up seeing faded "Whites Only" signs where they should no longer have been.
I grew up watching Vietnam war casualty reports on the nightly news, presented similarly to the way sports were reported.
Radicalized my ass, I have always been like this.

2026-01-16 14:28:03 CET

Today in my first world problem whining, posted from my third world country, fucking American heat pumps suck when the temps drop near or below freezing. 20 year old (too old for republicans to like) well insulated house, blowing cool air unless I push the emergency heat function. Meanwhile, next door, 101 year old house with no insulation in the walls or crawl space, single pane glass, the gas furnace has them toasty warm only cycling on occasionally.

2026-01-05 02:16:25 CET

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Update: arrest made. I always have low expectations from LE on DV issues, but it sounds like these folks don't play.

2026-01-05 01:07:36 CET

Check in to hotel. Go to room. Go to front desk, request LE intervention in domestic violence in next room. Go to bar. Drink.
No, I did not intervene. My DV experience gives me a beyond zero tolerance attitude, and I did not want to have to call a lawyer and get arrested for non-subtle intervention.

2026-01-03 14:26:50 CET

Oh look, unjust war, our specialty. Does it involve people who are not white (or white enough) and oil? Well I'll be damned, it does, quelle surprise.
OBTW, he is still on the list, and I personally don't care because I believe his victims, but I do care about the docs as they may move more of his sycophants into abandoning his rotting corpse.

2025-12-21 04:22:21 CET

That will turn the sun.
#solstice
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2025-12-20 00:15:02 CET

Buddy Carter just texted me asking for money. My response?
"You are a miserable lying bastard. And clearly brain damaged. Plus, a cowardly murderer, having profited from fueling the opioid crisis, killing for money from a safe and comfortable distance. You are a part of the destruction of this once great country. I can't wait to see you weeping at mango mussolini's funeral - hopefully soon."

2025-11-28 18:10:21 CET

Apparently a lot of companies want me to buy a lot of shit today.
Sorry, not sorry, no.

2025-11-27 15:38:24 CET

"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant"
But both Alice and the restaurant are now gone.
Sums up the state of things, doesn't it?

2025-11-24 14:39:07 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jack_daniel/115599160952274592
Here's the thing about this, if MS can override or ignore Group Policy settings for Copilot, it can do so for anything else and that seems bad.
It seems bad, because it is bad.
Further proof MS can not be trusted.
I say this as a long time Windows user and admin, going back even before my MCSE+I in NT4.
#note1tf6…946y

2025-10-23 18:14:28 CEST

Just went to the doctor to review my allergy screening. Paraphrasing, but he basically said that I am allergic to critters, being indoors, being outdoors, and some other stuff.
No kidding Captain obvious excuse me, Dr. obvious, that’s why I’m here.
He said there’s a long-term solution which will help considerably overtime, but that I have to pay out of pocket because insurance doesn’t cover it in the US. It’s covered across Europe and elsewhere, but they don’t cover it here.

2025-08-11 17:08:07 CEST

Well, happy fucking Monday to you, too. It looks like newly named tropical storm Erin is the first one of the season for me to pay attention to.
it is too early to worry, but not too early to prepare.

2024-10-29 13:33:27 CET

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We loved East Berlin. There was a real generational difference when we went to the few wall remains. Generally, the older the visitor, the more somber their reaction.