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SecOps Director named Christopher Ward (he/him)

In one interpretation, my name means "Jovial Protector", and that suits me just fine.

Most of what I do is covered under FriendDAs, so bring beer if you want to talk shop. #Blueteam

Into stuff like: Home Theater, PC Gaming, TTRPGs, and giving away beer <stouts & porters mostly> at cons.
#BlueTeamCon, #Thotcon, #PancakesCon #Defcon #CircleCityCon (damn COVID).

**Looking for meetups in eastern Iowa and SW Wisconsin**

2025-06-26

@jalefkowit BRB, gonna write a book about a true crime podcaster who does their own murders.

2025-06-25

@jwz Poisoned Well?

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2025-06-25

#xkcd No. 3106
Date: 2025-6-23
Title: Farads
Alt text: 'This HAZMAT container contains radioactive material with activity of one becquerel.' 'So, like, a single banana slice?'
xkcd.com/3106/

Description: A four-panel xkcd comic features a stick figure, a woman with short dark hair, and a stick figure wearing a fedora. They interact with various objects that are exactly "one" of a unit, with reactions changing from casual to alarmed.
Transcript:
Panel 1:
Voice 1: THIS STICK IS ONE METER LONG.
Woman: COOL.
Man in fedora: THAT'S A NICE STICK.
[A stick figure holds up a stick.]

Panel 2:
Voice 1: THIS ROCK WEIGHS ONE POUND.
Woman: I'D BELIEVE IT.
Man in fedora: LOOKS LIKE A NORMAL ROCK.
[A stick figure holds up a small rock.]

Panel 3:
Voice 1: THIS BATTERY IS ONE VOLT.
Woman: SEEMS FINE.
Man in fedora: MIGHT NEED A RECHARGE.
[A stick figure holds up a small battery.]

Panel 4:
Voice 1: THIS CAPACITOR IS ONE FARAD.
Woman: AAAAA! BE CAREFUL!!
Man in fedora: PUT IT DOWN!!
[A stick figure holds up a small capacitor, while the woman recoils and the man in the fedora yells in alarm.]
2025-06-24

@Viss I "upgraded" twice and downgraded twice.

2025-06-24

@munin I haven't been following this stuff as closely as I would like. Is there any protection against recursive queries? If I had free time I would be trying to find prompts that are bottomless...

2025-06-23

@EndemicEarthling @mckra1g Was thinking this. Can't break the law for impersonating a federal officer if the federal officers don't even have an established persona.

2025-06-21

Just got back from a drag show at a Mexican bar in farm country.

Things are gonna be alright.

2025-06-21

@hryggrbyr @catsalad punk ya Betta back up else the whole crew will act up.

2025-06-20

@hacks4pancakes $50 says someone in the administration is buying up lead as well.

2025-06-17

@rooster lol. When I was in HS I was grounded for something and not allowed to play games. The family PC was in the living room, and my stepdad yelled at me with this screen up because he thought it was a game...

2025-06-17

@wendynather @mattblaze @strlcat @grimalkina Damn, I had one of those but cracked it in a car door while wearing an oversize coat in the winter. Even had the fax modem for it too :(

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2025-06-16

#VibeCoding your MFA

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2025-06-14

@quixote @davidho I'm woefully ignorant on the particulars of research. That said, a15% figure seemed reasonable because that's in the neighborhood of "cost plus" B2B services, so I was a bit confused. Thanks for the explanation.

2025-06-13

Today I detected a spiderweb in my office doorway with my face. How's your Friday going?

2025-06-11

Me, returning from two weeks of conferences, business trips, and visitors: I will never calorically recover from this.

2025-06-10

@Viss Apple makes toys, not tools.

<ducks>

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2025-06-05

I like how we took something computers were masters at doing, and somehow fucked it up.

ChatGPT 40 › 9.11 and 9.9 - which is bigger 9.11 is bigger than 9.9. subtract them To subtract 9.9 from 9.11, you perform the following calculation: 9.11 - 9.9 = 0.21 use python The result of subtracting 9.9 from 9.11 in Python is -0.79. This discrepancy is due to the way floating-point arithmetic is handled in Python, which can lead to small precision errors. The actual intended result should be 0.21. (›-)
2025-06-05

@BlueTeamCon 😭 First weekend of the month = most reserve component cyber people can't go.

2025-06-04

@briandunaway Looks like you already had a Jenner. I think that's what you had to do if you didn't escape. Rent a Locust and shoot your way out of the stadium.

That was wild.

2025-06-04

@briandunaway Great game. Did you steal a mech out of the arena?

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