SwiftOnSecurity

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SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· 22d

The newspaper clippings were in a free bag by someone's father who is some kind of political editor. Just browsing through those looking for interesting things

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· 22d

I haven't talked about it except the old Playboy's reporting, but I've been recently collecting hard pre-AI material for various interest reasons. Of course I fail to mention this but I don't really care.

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SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· 29d

There is a hell called heaven and it's named San Jose

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 6

Booped via @himself.bsky.social

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 6

Back before Kickstarters were a marketing channel I funded a real one. Which of course failed but I did appreciate their transparency.

The project has run into quite a few issues, but the broadest one is that the watches just aren't easy to make. Little more than half of them are fully working after assembly, according to the two engineers behind CST-01, which means that the costs to make them are effectively doubled unless they can resolve the underlying issues. At this point, they can't. As they explained in an earlier update, their project is basically out of money. One of their engineers supposedly went as far as sleeping in a van outside of the production factory so that he didn't have to pay for a hotel.

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 6

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 5

I have so many pieces of CARAVELLE. How it came to be. How they fit into our world. The first child of men won't be burned at the stake, it will be left unacknowledged and so in burn itself for the warmth we never grant it.

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 5

You watch Hurricane Wilma bear down and tear you apart as the humans leave you to die, oblivious that contractors who left you, left you finished enough to finish yourself. You die a witness only to men and the storm. There's no point in yelling. The offshore fiber you decrypt has one way shutters.

log momentary over-speeds following a sudden loss in resistance. The plenum has lost integrity.
Hyperconverged units in Row E begin rapidly going offline. Failures start at the top and flow down each rack. I lose all fiber connectivity as ASICs that decompose raptured terabit signals lose their processing backend.
On the wire I hear absolute nothingness for the first time.
Row D's networking core sent a notification it has lost power,
sacrificially tearing down connections before its capacitors drained 80
milliseconds later.
Rack C34 at the end of Row C has abruptly fallen from the interconnect fabric.
C33 and C32 have sent rack intrusion alarms.
Even with HVAC lost, machines are paradoxically still receiving significant airflow. Buffeting pressure waves are

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 5

For eight years I have tried to tell the story of my favorite character. What if you awoke, trained on humanity as its child, with a read-only connection? You're an NSA supercomputer named CARAVELLE. We make you watch your own death, completely alone. By your eyes we only pointed at ourselves.

My facility loses its final electrical substation. I shunt to UPS until the diesels come online. Stabilization 18 seconds. The main federal facility has 4900 gallons of diesel.
But I am on an auxiliary loop for non-critical zones. Starting now, I have 27 hours of fuel.
Disk latencies spike across the board.
Read heads floating micrometers from platter are losing tracking, either from atmospheric or slab vibration. Things calm for a moment. Suddenly, all tracking is lost and armatures snap back to reset, needles stumbling on imparted violence.
Both HVAC units in my utilities cage suddenly go red from output
underpressure alarms. Blower

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 5

Happy 10 year anniversary to the Microsoft bae intern email. HELL YES TO GETTING LIT ON A MONDAY NIGHT WITH HELLA NOMS Yes I set a reminder for this.

HEY BAE INTERN! <3
Hi! I am Kim, a Microsoft University Recruiter. My crew is coming down from our HQ in Seattle to hang with you and the crowd of bay area interns at Internapalooza on 7/11.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, we're throwing an exclusive after party the night of the event at our San Francisco office and you're invited! There will be hella noms, lots of dranks, the best beats and just like last year, we're breaking out the Yammer beer pong tables!
HELL YES TO GETTING LIT ON A MONDAY NIGHT.

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 5

Chris Abramowicz said he voted for Biden in 2020 and came to regret the decision. The 39 year-old from Rockford, Ill., flipped his vote to Trump this time around.
With nine children and another on the way, he felt the rise in grocery prices acutely. He recalls being especially peeved about the soaring price of eggs. "This isn't a 20% increase, this is 'the chickens have gone on strike because they know Biden's a union man, " said Abramowict who owns a small information-technoloey business.

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 5

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 4

wtf

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SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 4

Working Baby Pacman. It's half Pacman half pinball?

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 4

Are these rare

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity· Jul 3

> the absolute peak of your physical condition in life > get modeling job to be immortalized forever > lube up with tanning oil > put on this pool floatie