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“Mastodon is Boring”


The source of Twitter's utility is its advertising algorithm, its ability to put words in front of people who are interested in things - but not interested enough to actively seek those things out, and who might not even know what to search for. It's easy to throw a few search terms into Google, but […]

Genshin Security Impact


Genshin Impact is a huge money-maker, but their kernel-based anticheat system has a vulnerability that's being used to spread malware. Taking the game down, especially right after a new release with added playable characters would cost Hoyoverse millions of dollars, and Microsoft has not revoked the certificate for the kernel anti-cheat driver. When corporations weigh […]

Politics Are Disgusting


Today has been a nasty week. Between a two-day running argument with a group calling themselves "Anarcho-Capitalists" ending in the revelation that a rape victim in their utopia would have to self-fund her own justice, and listening to someone I normally trust go hardline-centrist for no apparent reason, I am mentally exhausted already. This "ancap" […]

Crack Attack 2014


What the hell was up these last few days?? It's seemed like one exploit after another, between the bash exploit, the problems at Acme, and my own network intrusion. Talk about damaging and embarassing! :( At least CC wasn't affected. It was just one old system I used to update my phone firmware - which […]

Watch_Dogs Should Frighten You


Recently there have been many articles posted about the level of "realism" in the game Watch_Dogs and whether or not the things that happen in the game are possible. Unfortunately, most of the discussion has been about weaponized hacking - the stoplight changing and electric-junction-blowing over the top stuff, rather than the parts that are […]