mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchI'm a UNIX and Security Admin (#DFIR and #BlueTeam), lifelong A's baseball fan, and I enjoy opera and early music. I sing, dance, and act, read voraciously, and plan to keep learning new things for as long as I can. @UnixGeekEm on Twitter. She/her. #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
I have met two kinds of French people this trip:
There have been many more of the first group than the second so far. It helps that my teachers taught me a Parisian accent, back in the day.
Do you like security and also music?
My cat had been deaf for the last few years of his life, but he could tell I was talking to him when he looked at me, so I kept the habit of talking to the cat.
It's going to take me some time to get out of the habit, even though the cat IS NOT THERE ANYMORE to talk to.
I have had a confirmation that it can work on the Amazon Linux kernel, but also RHEL says "fix deferred" for all affected RHEL versions: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-31431
Bruce Schneier is making a fascinating point about personal trust (trusting your friends) and social trust (trusting a random person will behave in a predictable way) at the SANS AI Summit.
They are not the same but they're still both called "trust".
Yes hello, I am "dump the loose-leaf tea into the mug instead of the strainer" levels of tired today.
Months ago I saw a gorgeous painting by @TishaPaints@mastodon.art and I fell in love with it. I told myself I would use it as a motivation to finish the computer security class I was taking, and then pass the certification exam. Last night I passed the exam, and tonight I got to buy the painting.
There are a bunch of others at https://tishamark.com/shop if seascapes appeal to you as well.
RE: @blackops@universeodon.com
You know you've been in IT for too long when you see this gorgeous photo of a building in the winter and look at the pattern of the windows and think "what kind of router is this?"
Today I am "I forget how long I left my tea steeping" levels of tired.
I feel seen
You know it's going to be a long day when you're already refilling the hot water boiler for the Nth cup of tea of the day and it's only 8:30am.
Isn't it funny how in novels and fanfics the protagonist, no matter their age, likes music (and other media) that was popular when the author was a teenager?
For AI, we can't treat it like a friend. No toxic anthropomorphism.
The #OaklandRoots soccer team is playing at the Oakland Coliseum tonight.
That rusting decaying pile of concrete is where I truly learned to love sports. My #baseball team is gone from there now (asshole team owner John Fisher wanted more $$), but it's lovely to see the stadium in use.
That "Let's Go Oakland" chant ringing in the stands is making me feel things, let me tell you.
Today I wrote a sentence in German in a professional email, and only used a translation tool to confirm I had a word or two correct. I hope it didn't have too many mistakes in it that didn't occur to me.