Pseudo Nym / is on Nostr

I'm an older geek dad in the California bay area.

Please talk to me about #coffee , #puns , #infosec , #books , #scifi, #ttrpg, or other geeky topics.

I like cheesy 80s pop music, Rush, and GloryHammer. No apologies.

I've discovered #mastocats hash tag, and #mosstodon and #photography and they've all made this a much more humane place.

I like seeing the "slice of life" posts from real people. These kinds of moments are what connects us.

Pronouns: he/him

#Infosec, #nerd, #dad, older #geek.

Last Notes

2024-07-28 01:55:11

Never too old to learn something new.
Over 50, didn't know how to ride a bike.
I won't be winning the Tour De France any time soon, but after a few hours, got some actual pedal powered balance riding for some tens of seconds.
It's a start.
Lots of fun. Not the only adult there.

2024-05-28 06:33:19

Friendly reminder not to link to, repost, reblog or otherwise reshare the "bad stuff" be it racism, politics, hate speech, whatever, even if your intent is just to ridicule it.
That's...how...it... spreads and finds an audience.
Call the bad actors out on their shit. Didn't let it slide. Speak up. That's how they know they didn't have a willing audience with you.
But please, don't directly link to their hate speech, helping it spread. That's what they want. A platform.
Thanks.
#PSA

2024-05-01 02:53:10

Any building civil engineer tyoes out there who could opine on this?
Structurally, could you build a human habitation house out of name-brand Legos? Do they have enough structural strength? Would it be more or less earthquake safe than, say bricks(not very) or other materials?
How many layers thick would you have to make a Lego floor to support a 100 kg human?

2024-02-28 05:46:19

Someone more talented than I am needs to make the parody song "In the Zoom where it happens".
My wife came up with the phrase after hearing me hang up from a conference call at home.
"I want to be in the Zoom where it happens, the Zoom where it happens..."
#music #parody #wfh #zoom #hamilton

2024-01-30 03:47:30

Too much #adulting revolves around: changing filters, doing dishes, laundry, and paying bills.
I demand more pillow forts, s'mores, and board games!

2023-10-26 01:20:33

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@npub15rt…gl0v @npub18lj…80hq
Was going to say this too, but also add
Pick your battles, but stand your ground when it's important. Fight for what matters, but be willing to let the unimportant stuff go.

2023-10-01 01:20:04

Kid had a brilliant idea, that I just need a couple million to implement.
A coffee house / book shop, but in a tree house! I'd go there.
Then it got a little less plausible, becoming Cybertron themed, serving energon-theme-named drinks, but whatever.

2023-09-23 19:58:24

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Hard agree.
I'm honestly more curious about what it implies about human intelligence, that "spicy auto complete" can do such a good job of mimicry of our speech and writing patterns.
It's actually less interesting to think about "intelligent machines" than it is to think about how mechanistic most of our communications are.

2023-09-23 08:33:38

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@npub1psd…9sr7
I'm really enjoying this thread and all the comments.
Aside from all the Laundry Files goodness(??) of training an LLM on the Necronomnicon , my first thought went the other way.
Take the sleazy marketing pitch, and shove it in an Accelerondo-like sentient program. Go as meta as you like. A story about an author training their own LLM on their own work to co-author with their digital ghost. But it gets bought by a sentient software corporation entity and takes on a life of its own.