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Do you know anything about hackers? Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? Ever read Neuromancer? Ever experienced the new wave? Next wave? Dream wave? Or cyberpunk?

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2024-06-26 19:42:33

You can't move notifications on MacOS? What year is it?
#macos #notifications

2024-06-21 15:40:34

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@npub13d8…ycpx I thought it was mostly secret service who did all the work on those cases, not fbi (just finished reading the book about them)

2024-06-12 21:58:40

Ahahah, Boeing didn't get any orders for 737 max for the second month in a row. I'm sure the investors are really happy they cut corners and spent $450m on stock buybacks instead of QA now.
The shortsightedness of execs sometimes is mind-boggling

2024-05-22 19:04:41

Why cant they just use AI in excel to make sure the number I entered isn't a date?
#microsoft #copilot #copilotPlus #excel

2024-05-02 16:43:01

Maybe, and I'm just spit balling here, boeing should spend less on hitmen and maybe focus on plane safety. But what do I know, I don't have an mba
#boeing #whistleblower #gettingsuspicious

2024-04-18 14:11:45

Boeing is the perfect example of what happens when greedy incompetent leaders take over after a company has been built up.
A company like boeing had inertia and people that still cared, so when bad leadership took over, it was fine. The Roman roads didn't all turn to rubble the instant Rome was sacked. But over time, things will progressively get worse in small increments. It took almost 20+ years for boeing to get here.
Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, boeing should focus on their core business instead of stock buybacks.

2024-04-05 17:23:34

I gotta wonder, having done SOC 2, SSAE16, SAS70 style reports for a lot of big companies. Does anyone read them?
My guess is no, cause I've never seen a company go "oh no, this SOC 2 report is terrible, we're cancelling all contracts."
#soc2 #audit #compliance

2024-03-29 21:00:00

#xz #CVE #cve20243094 #Linux
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2024-03-06 21:18:44

Them: Hacking mainframes must be hard
Me: Not really
#mainframe #hacking #share #sharecon #SHAREOrl2024 #hacking #pentesting #redteam
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2024-02-11 17:00:42

Well, if every Canadian didn't know about flipper zero, they do now.

2024-02-05 04:54:44

Before you finalize your product, you must fight the final boss: The Scrum Master!
#scrum #agile
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2024-02-05 04:50:10

Looks like @npub14qs…qwuh announcement killed their forums.
Crazy.

2024-02-02 04:39:35

Holy moly did not realize the number of kickers stations @npub15gs…9ep4 added! Loving the Bossa Nova station right now.

2024-01-20 02:12:59

#enshittification
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2024-01-19 17:08:56

Strongly recommend you read this post by @npub1hyk…3p33 about the HOPE conference.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet
I also just love this quote
But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.
#hope #2600 #hackersonplanetearth #hackers #penn15

2024-01-12 21:40:53

I can't wait for that day when Discord gets bought by some megacorp and quickly enshitifies leading to a whole bunch of articles about things like "maybe putting our entire community on a this platform was a bad idea" and "how to archive your discord before these changes go in to effect."
#discord #enshittification

2024-01-04 16:56:55

Do you like amiga raves? Jungle? Then you should check out ptweekender.com
Here's an example
https://youtu.be/qyw_J-eAS8o?si=ODUKBSnk1vN127Tg
#jungle #amiga #junglist #90s #amigamusic #rave #ptweekender #retrocomputing

2023-11-13 05:11:03

It will never not be funny that the very 90s thinking Sears CEO, forced the business units to compete with each other, instead of focusing up and becoming a competitor to Amazon/Walmart.
The company originally started as a mail order company. What an idiot.
#sears #FailedLeadership

2023-11-02 01:13:35

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1242…l2hp @npub1dzv…5v2p I've been reading your posts, out of curiosity how many commercial properties do you have a bank loan for and how much?
Because the article may be for higher (or lower, I dunno) loans.
I'm just curious because your experience is contradictory to the article, which, despite it being BI, I assume was researched a little.

2023-10-30 04:17:31

So I got an add on YouTube today for a CTF event. I thought 'cool, a relevant ad for me! Let me click through this and see!' and LMAO it had ended weeks ago. I hope the company that paid for that ad knows they're still paying for it.

2023-10-27 04:11:54

Final Fantasy Games ranked by how much I enjoyed them after playing them last year.
1. FF5
2. FF3
3. FF6
4. Final Fantasy Adventure
5. FF 1
6. FF 4
7. FF 7
8. FF 2
Thank you for attending my Ted talk
#finalfantasy #ff #retrogaming #ff7takesforevertogetstarted

2023-10-26 02:45:50

All, I'm happy to announce that my game CICS Dungeon is out now. You can get a copy here: https://github.com/mainframed/CICS_Dungeon/ all you need is a mainframe! (Don't worry, a docker container with one is provided).
Just a note, I'm not a C programmer, let alone a good C programmer so pull requests that improve my code are highly welcome!
#rogue #roguelike #nethack #mainframe #cics #ebcdicart #mvs #retrogaming
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2023-10-23 21:05:21

it just keeps happening. Just read an article about some tech company demanding people return to the office "or else," and without fail it turns out they just signed a large lease for property.
Earlier this year it was (ironically) Zoom, now Roblox today (both public companies).
#roblox #rto

2023-10-10 08:32:51

Started making progress on CICS rogue, got the BMS loaded and the COBOL worked out. Now to try and add movement.
#rogue #roguelike #asciiart #ebcdicart #CICS #mainframe #MVS #COBOL
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2023-10-06 04:49:11

CICS Rogue mockup in Moebius
#cics #mainframe #roguelike #rogue
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2023-09-18 01:38:48

Kinda hope Godot gets the same level of attention and support at some point that Blender does
#godot #opensource #unity

2023-09-16 16:57:06

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@npub13d8…ycpx where's the mainframes? j/k
Thanks for posting these!

2023-09-16 16:34:19

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@npub13d8…ycpx VERY interested in chapter 4

2023-09-14 04:33:12

I hate to say it, but with the progress of enshitification it is probably in your games best interest to not learn some proprietary engine. Unreal is watching the Unity shenanigans very closely and if unity pulls it off you know damn well unreal will follow suit.
#unity #unreal

2023-08-25 00:21:38

I don't know how but @npub1xrj…9q43 has the Disney Haunted Mansion operations manual!
https://archive.org/details/hauntedmansionmanual/mode/2up
#disney #hauntedmansion
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2023-08-20 05:46:47

What are some movies where the sequel is the best in the series?
Terminator 2
Empire Strikes Back
Robocop 2
Die Hard 2
What are some others?
#movies #cinema #sequel

2023-08-14 05:20:58

Goodbye DEFCON, until next year
Photos: defcon led wall, sticker wall, MUD dumb terminals, the soma fm booth (I was given concent to take this picture)
#defcon #dc31 #defcon31 #defconmud #stickers
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2023-08-12 23:19:54

Saw @npub1hyk…3p33 at #defcon today, what a great talk and call to action. Down with the big 5.

2023-07-03 18:00:47

So with a lot of the online services shitting the bed in an effort to become profitable (or failing to like gfycat) does that mean our data wasn't as valuable as once thought?
I thought the idea was these apps made money because they were collecting oodles of data from our phones and selling that to ad/info brokers.
Was that business model flawed and we just didn't notice for 15+ years because interest rates were so low?
#techbubble #enshittification

2023-07-02 05:30:06

So lots of posts going around giving tips for masto.
My number one protip is to follow hashtags. There's no algo here so you kinda have to bootstrap it yourself.

2023-07-02 05:12:44

So, who's next in the great tech bubble enshitification? My money is on github, but maybe Salesforce will fuck up slack

2023-06-18 18:06:45

As they make it halfway across, the scorpion, named Reddit, poisons the frog they were riding on. Killing them both.
Seeing this betrayal, the other frog on the shore turns to his scorpion, named Discord, and says "surely you see now and won't do the same to me." "Of course not" replies the scorpion.

2023-03-22 17:42:18

Time for a tale about a grifter:
Over on bird site, right at the height of the pandemic a bunch of Unemployment systems buckled under the load. The culprit? COBOL..... okay actually it was shitty Java apps that sat in front of the mainframes that were running COBOL. But COBOL was blamed nonetheless.
A grifter who shall remain nameless made a tweet about running an entire banks COBOL application on MVS 3.8J on a Raspberry Pi. The post went viral cause it hit on all the right buzzwords of the time. This immediately set off my bullshit alarms because the COBOL we have available doesn't even support END-IF statements. There's just no fucking way on earth they were doing as they claimed. The funniest part was they posted screenshots as if they were running it, but they were screenshots from the manual!
Anyway, so I called them out, they tried to weasel out of it but I kept pressing them. So they finally posted an actual screenshot... of the hercules terminal. You should know, when you download and install TK4- there's two scripts: 'mvs' and 'start'. The one you want to run is mvs.sh, start.sh just starts hercules but doesn't actually IPL the mainframe. Any guesses which command they ran in their screeshot? If you guessed start.sh and the screenshot was just a hercules console waiting for input youd be correct! (hercules is just the emulator, it would be like claiming to play FFX on PCSX2 on a raspberry pi, but its a screenshot of the emulator UI with no games).
So I made fun of them for this and pointed out they ran the wrong command, they needed to run mvs.sh. They deleted the tweet, then reposted it with the new screenshot showing the system after IPL (LMAO!).
Anyway, calling our their grift made them VERY upset. Through back channels I find out that they've called IBM to try and get me in trouble (lol), when that didn't work they threatened to send journalists after me (nice guy).
The best part was that when that went nowhere they told IBM that they had been working on a blockchain app for mainframes but since the mainframe community hurt their feelings they were going to delete their code and not share it! Boo hoo.
Upon hearing that obvious bullshit I took it upon myself to build what they claimed, I wanted to make an interface to manage my Dogecoin in COBOL and CICS.
Thus was born DOGECICS https://github.com/mainframed/DOGECICS the coolest way to manage and send dogecoin on earth.
Not only that, but I was able to run the whole thing on my Raspberry Pi Zero W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRy6e6xDyY
Better yet, when I tweeted out about Dogecics it was picked up by Adafruit!
And thats the story about how I upset a grifter and wrote a CICS application. If you want to try DOGECICS all you need to do is download TK4- https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/ and follow the instructions in the github link.
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