johnchiment

Charging the hills in front of me and not the ones I trained for. Thinks professionally about counterspace and nonkinetic actions. I'm also johnchiment@infosec.exchange and johnchiment@hachyderm.io. Posts are my opinion. he/him

Really wants to leave this industry behind and run a small town laundromat. Everyone can use clean clothes; what they heck even are “nonkinetic actions”? Sounds pretentious and made up, if you ask me.

2025-07-18

New shoes who dis

A mostly laced up new converse chuck Taylor high top shoe with rainbow cloth, a pride flag converse logo, rainbow soles, black trim, and black laces. It’s held in my left hand a d you can see the light wood flooring in the background.A view into the converse show where it’s labeled as having been proudly designed by lgbtqia+ creatives and allies.
2025-07-15

What cybersecurity companies are actively avoiding generative AI? Every pitch I see touts how the company has embraced AI at all levels and yeah, I know enough on buzzword history to believe that some of them are just rebranding decision trees and logic aids as “AI”. But *so many* seem to then double down on specific use cases that highlight generative AI written reports or how LLMs can scrape together log data to predict zero days or other things that just… well, don’t match my understanding. And that understanding may be very wrong but it smells like BS.

So who is saying they don’t do that? Who is saying their reports come from analysts who can be called up and can answer questions on how the concepts discussed could apply to this other edge case? Who is watching threats and not just reading generative AI summaries of reports originally authored by someone else’s generative AI?

Have we all just accepted that, due to expected cost savings, the risk/reward equation is pushing us all towards fast, “cheap”, low quality intel? I mean I do love Wendy’s cheeseburgers and appreciate that I can get them in most of my local areas for a relatively low price, but I don’t pretend it’s a great meal. Have we all decided that fast food intel is good enough?

If your company is still maintaining the deep understanding we all used to strive for, I’d love to know more. Thanks.

2025-07-03

So many claiming their pro life values required the to vote for the guy opening death camps. I mean I’m not a Christian but a decade of Sunday school and vacation bible school camps make me question that.

2025-07-03

I keep hearing of people regretting that they voted for Trump, that they didn’t know what was coming, that only did it for (insert issue here) and all I want to hear is what they’re doing right now to make up for their mistake.

2025-06-27

I don’t recall who introduced me to the phrase or even when they did so, but the term “country club democrats” has been in my mind a lot lately.

Good for you, NYC.

Signed,
Someone from upstate who generally dislikes n’yockahs but is glad to find some common ground.

2025-06-17

I am spun again, so very dizzy;
I feel the needle’s caress and scream the sounds you carved into my skin.

- thank you, brain, for this thought when I contemplated the records I bought at the thrift shop this weekend. Maybe I will let the spirits that may inhabit them sleep a while longer.

2025-06-14

A reminder to all that they need to cut out people’s faces in protest photos. Not just blur; remove the data. Consider doing the same with other identifiers in the pictures.

All those techs used to ID folk from spiraled out faces or partial reflections or distinctive hats that then show up in CCTV from the bank atm down the street? The ones we use to catch predators and pedophiles?

Guess who has that now?

Be smart, folk. Protest legally and safely - and preserve the safety of those you stand beside.

2025-06-13

When memory fades the aches remember for me.

Scars are the lessons I cannot afford to forget.

2025-06-12

Saw the piece from apple about how crap large reasoning models but I’ll be honest, as I watch my brain chemistry go haywire and my body sabotage itself I can only assume that none of us are actually thinking.

2025-06-04

@davidr
blastron: no mention of scheduling, just a reference to a radar operator blasting out ‘trons.
Freeform: what does it do? Who knows? Certainly nothing as concrete as a schedule.
Table Runner: cuz the folks helping the waiters carry in dinner are moving dishes at speed.
McGuffin: because it forces movement while not being, in and of itself, the point of the action.

2025-06-03

@hacks4pancakes ooof. That’s a … bold salesperson. Cold call selling you something poorly? With no regard to your time? He is … confident in his skills and product.

Yeah.

Let’s got with that interpretation.

2025-06-02

@rooster …naturally 30 seconds after posting I find the post I couldn’t find before.

wandering.shop/@Flux/114544470

2025-06-02

@rooster really liked a post I saw recently; wish I could credit the author appropriately but can’t find the original - the statement was that the response we get from most generative AIs isn’t an answer to the question we asked but the generative AI’s best approximation of what an answer to our question should look like. There’s often enough of an overlap that we can work with it but every response received risks being well beyond that, driving full speed into very twisted-up answers.

It helped me realize that all the responses are at best reasonable but almost always wrong. Maybe something comes next that manages to cross the uncanny information valley but the current batch of tools not only doesn’t but I don’t think they can.

2025-05-31

@ncdominie if my flat key does dream of being a dancer I think I would t mind it sharing that with me, to be honest. I mean, maybe not when I’m holding bags of melting groceries but later, over tea?

2025-05-30

I worked enough hours this month to not need to use PTO to cover the time I spent recovering from going to the ER with stress related issues.

Maybe I need to work fewer hours.

(To be clear: I like my job and employer, and many folk there tell me to work less. They are probably smarter than me - be like them, folk, and not like me!)

2025-05-22

just cancelled my duolingo account. Been a member since 2013; paid for many years. Streak (as of today) was 1132 days.
Not a huge fan of dumping staff in favor of AI. Really not a fan of the CEO saying schools will be students working on duolingo-style apps, but not to worry - the teachers won't be fired cuz someone needs to provide childcare (businessinsider.com/duolingo-c).
I cant support them any more. I probably should have left before; these were the actions that caught my eye, however. I encourage you to leave as well.

2025-05-20

Living troops and veterans don't need Memorial Day parties or social events. That day isn't for us.

Its fine to view it as another three day weekend, as the start of summer, a day to get deals on TVs and barbecues... just please, don't say its for veterans or those in uniform. If you're wanting to celebrate the military and those who have served, go for it - but please, we already have veterans day and discounts everywhere. Memorial Day is for a different group and they deserve to be front and center.

Also, share a secret with you: some of those folk who died fighting in our wars? They were LGBTQIA+. And they served faithfully, honorably, and with distinction. They, I will remember.

2025-05-20

@Apiary saw the earlier post, thought “oh! That’s right! It’s out - I wonder if it’s good. I do love the books; maybe those reviewers were predicting badly.”

Two episodes in “OH THIS IS SO BAD”

2025-05-05

Sitting in the parking garage at work, trying to decide if going in truly causes less harm than putting my seatbelt back on and driving to a bookstore that serves coffee.

2025-05-02

@davidr one day I’ll get to work from home again… lovely view.

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