@andrewbriscoe @intrepidhero 🤘 Nice! Perfect weather last weekend. Glad you guys made it through safely.

We’re about to find out if the past few years of layoffs in tech was due to section 174 tax changes or AI productivity gains reducing demand for developers.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-hiring-us-workers-30f70207?st=wrn7hy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

@leerayl Hugs :neocat_pleading:

“I’ve got an exclusive for you. We’re offering Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome.”

“You’re not talking to anyone else?”

“Nope, exclusive for the Journal. I definitely do not have a colleague sitting next to me on the phone with Bloomberg as we speak.”

Newest OpenSSH (10.1) will now warn users if they are not utilizing post-quantum algorithms for the current session: https://www.openssh.com/pq.html #PQC

When people ask what it’s like working at a big tech company, I point to my shirt.

You can literally see the effect of summer vacation on Open AI usage. It’s incredible to think how we’ve seen the last generation of students who graduated school without using AI.

A similarly large generational gap as people born before and after smartphones & tablets.

This is crazy, a set of inland tsunamis. I go up to Lake Roosevelt most winters to fish for trout and sometimes camp. Didn't last winter though.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/how-a-set-of-rare-inland-tsunamis-rocked-lake-roosevelt/

Hey, Someone on linkedin is hiring for a Detection Engineering role.

Salary Range: 110-140,000 USD.
Fully remote, Candidate must be in the US.

Here's the relevant link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4280471012

#infosecjobs #getfedihired

• No, I don't know who the client is
• No, I don't know the hiring manager personally.
• If you have questions, you'll need to apply.

I'm just passing on an opportunity I don't need in hopes that maybe it helps one of y'all out there.

SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them
You still have possession of your nose

#waterfallwednesday #pnw #hiking

Before I saw the trail sign, I didn't know about Loowit falls. Wow.

Attending Defcon this year? Want to attend a fantastic talk? This is my pick! Watch as my co-workers Mickey and Jesse show off some really cool stuff! (Yes, I am biased, but I believe you will love this.)

It’s going to be a banger 🇰🇵

#bsideslv

I learned a new word today (via HackerNews) that still makes me chuckle b/c it's so convoluted and meta that it's definitely an apt candidate for a 2025 time capsule: "Slopsquatting."

Per Wikipedia:
Slopsquatting is a type of cybersquatting. It is the practice of registering a non-existent software package name that a large language model (LLM) may hallucinate in its output, whereby someone unknowingly may copy-paste and install the software package without realizing it is fake.[1] Attempting to install a non-existent package should result in an error, but some have exploited this for their gain in the form of typosquatting.[2]

The name is a portmanteau of "AI slop" and "typosquatting".[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsquatting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810695

Me: *silently reading a physical book*
7yo: Mom, can you please turn that off?
Me: Turn what off?
7yo: Your book!

🧐🤔🤦🏼‍♀️

i was #carjacked once. and while i spent a lot of time in SE #DC in my early 20s, the carjacking was in des moines, ia.

i was driving to a former teacher's house to fix her computer or something and i didn't put my contacts in and i was at an intersection and a dude gets in my car and tells me he doesn't want to hurt me, just drive drive! so we're driving, i'm freaking out and he's telling me to turn here, there, starts smoking crack and offers me some and i said "i am DRIVING?" 1/2

Waking up in #Vegas be like

Cloudflare has called out Perplexity for using various deceptive tactics to ignore robots.txt directives to not crawl a website for AI purposes. They tested and confirmed with brand new domains that it does not honor publisher’s request.

In the words of Jeff Lebowski, when it comes to robots.txt, Perplexity is like “Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

#thicktrunktuesaday #pnw

Look up.

NEW: CloudFlare says it detected Perplexity scraping and crawling websites that explicitly block it from scraping them.

Based on customers' complaints and its own experiments, the company says Perplexity is using "stealth" bots and changing its bots "user agent" to circumvent restrictions.

http://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/perplexity-accused-of-scraping-websites-that-explicitly-blocked-ai-scraping/