Jeff Atwood

co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, blogger. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well. Let's be kind to each other.

2025-05-17

"Go that way, really fast. If anything gets in your way.. turn." blog.codinghorror.com/go-that-

2025-05-17

@Em0nM4stodon you were always in ;)

2025-05-17

@richard_vasquez "yes, and..."

Front cover of the comic book Power Man and Iron Fist (1972), issue #50, the first time Power Man and Iron Fist officially became a team for hire.
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2025-05-17

Why not form a Justice league?

From The Brave and the Bold comic book, isssue 28, (1964) this issue isfirst formation of what would become The Justice league — in this page panel; each hero is lined up left to right: Green Lantern, SuperMan, Batman, Auquaman, and The Flash.
2025-05-17

@iDGS @laaph see reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments

(re-ordered to reflect original image, but same list)
Green Lantern
Martian Manhunter
Superman
Wonder Woman
Batman
Aquaman
Flash

💯🏆 top voted reply with 71 votes

Superman
Batman
Wonder Woman
Flash
Green Lantern
Martian Manhunter
Aquaman
2025-05-17

@bjnord @laaph fixed, apologies!

2025-05-17

@benpickering hint. reference other posts I've made recently.

a frame from the collection "Daredevil: Born Again" (Daredevil comic issue 233, Aug 1986)
2025-05-17

@benpickering that person, Daredevil, is trapped in a different licensing universe. We should legislate that ;)

2025-05-17

Why not form a Justice league?

From The Brave and the Bold comic book, isssue 28, (1964) this issue isfirst formation of what would become The Justice league — in this page panel; each hero is lined up left to right: Green Lantern, SuperMan, Batman, Auquaman, and The Flash.
2025-05-17

@ehproque @bitterkarella I can prove it, from an email I sent Jan 10, 2025:

email partial text: "Well, Summer, I had to, because my mother Margaret Atwood told me to. I'M KIDDING SHE IS NOT MY MOTHER! (Though she is a truly incredible author, of course. I prefer LeGuin because I'm more of a sci-fi person but I can't stop myself from constantly invoking this silly not-my-mother writing joke, apologies.)"
2025-05-17

@rhrgrt you have excellent taste!

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2025-05-17

Hella tired of news sites that are consistently critical of EM, white supremacy, and corruption but STILL embed Twitter links in their stories ABOUT THESE TOPICS

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Brian Greenberg :verified:brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange
2025-05-17

🚀 Voyager 1 isn’t done yet — not even close 🧠🔧📡

NASA just pulled off another miracle save:
🛰️ The spacecraft’s primary roll thrusters, offline since 2004, were believed permanently dead
🧯 With backup thrusters at risk of failure, JPL engineers gambled on a high-stakes heater reset
🔥 If wrong, it could’ve caused a small onboard explosion
📡 If right, it would restore control — 15.6 billion miles from Earth

They were right. The thrusters fired. Voyager 1 can still hold its course.

This wasn’t a reboot. It was old-school problem-solving, deep systems knowledge, and the audacity to trust an idea that might just work.

The most distant human object is still flying — because a team believed it could.

#Voyager1 #NASA #Space #Engineering #Resilience #DeepSpace
theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy

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2025-05-17

I am reliably informed by Google Shield that my site krebsonsecurity.com on Monday was the target of the biggest DDoS attack Google has ever had to deal with, clocking in at ~6.3 Tbps. This is not quite a record; apparently, an attack Cloudflare had to deal with in April is the largest known DDoS to date -- at ~6.5 Tbps.

It's been a while since we've seen a big DDoS. For reference, this one was about 10x the size of the Mirai botnet attack that launched a record DDoS against my site in 2016, knocking it offline for nearly 4 days until I got the site behind Google Sheild.

I'll know more in a bit. Below is the CF blog about their April attack.

blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threa

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JA WestenbergDaojoan
2025-05-17

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

2025-05-17

I want to press CTRL+S for a moment to thank @jerry and the whole infosec.exchange community. 💛

Did I find you or did you find me?

youtube.com/watch?v=Fb2q141rMNE

2025-05-16

Just donated to donate.rewiringamerica.org/cam because electricity is the way forward... and undermining the petrodollar along the way is a pretty sweet bonus, too⚡🙌

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2025-05-16

@jwz shall we play a game.. of pinball? 🤔

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_

Bally Centaur pinball game (1981), scoreboard art.Bally Centaur pinball game (1981), playfield art.
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Star Trek Minus Contextnocontexttrek
2025-05-16
Strange New Worlds scene. We're in the Enterprise corridor. It's white and brightly lit. Nurse Chapel, who also has strikingly white hair, is talking to Spock, both are in uniform. Spock's ears look slightly different than usual, less pointy. 
Closed caption on Chapel, "Um, how's, uh, feeling going?"
Caption on Spock, "It's a lot."
2025-05-16

@jwz shall we play a game.. of pinball? 🤔

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_

Bally Centaur pinball game (1981), scoreboard art.Bally Centaur pinball game (1981), playfield art.

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