Neil

Trading. Linux. Physics. Math.
C++
Works in Holland.

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

Seagal’s downfall came from stale roles, poor acting, and his embrace of Putin that killed Hollywood ties

Steven Seagal is not blacklisted in any real sense. He’s more or less just retired in his 70’s after a career that fell apart on its own because he was never much of an actor to begin with.
Beyond that, he moved to Russia, became a Russian citizen and became pals with dictator Vladimir Putin. We used to call such behavior “defecting,” by the way. And there isn’t much room in anyone’s heart for a defector to a fascist country who offers his full-throated support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Regardless, Seagal’s career hasn’t been much to write home about since 2001. Other than reality TV and direct to video releases, he foundered for years, never able to reclaim the glory of his early action films.
This can best be chalked up to his extremely limited range as an actor - he can only play one role, a “one man army” in a martial arts film - and even that had gotten stale by 2001. This meant Seagal was never able to pivot or reinvent himself once fans tired of the niche genre he occupied.
And his bullshido schtick has not aged well, becoming more insane over the years.
So his career died a natural death long ago.

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

For those who might have missed it the first time around, here’s my The Godfather Part II thread on how Meyer Lansky, the legendary Jewish American mobster, inspired the character of Hyman Roth.

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

In The Godfather Part II, the villain Hyman Roth was inspired by the real-life Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky - one of the most powerful criminals in the history of America. A man the US Justice Department once described as the “financial genius of organized crime.”

He was a quiet strategist who helped turn the mafia into a modern business empire. Known as “the Mob’s Accountant,” he built his reputation on gambling, money laundering, and financial cunning rather than brute force.

From Prohibition-era rackets in New York to the casinos of pre-Castro Cuba, Lansky helped shape the mob’s rise into a transnational force. He was rarely the man in the spotlight, but behind the scenes, he was one of the most cunning and ruthless criminal minds of the 20th century - which made him the perfect real-life model for the archrival to Michael Corleone....🧵 (1/8)

[Neil @NeilGartner]

@DaveInTheRC @historyinmemes Lethal Weapon 2.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

A former CIA officer just casually confirmed what every privacy advocate has been screaming about.

The CIA can turn your phone into a microphone.

Your laptop camera into a surveillance device.

Your smart TV into a listening post.

Even when it looks powered off.

John Kiriakou worked for the CIA for 15 years.

Ran operations in Pakistan after 9/11.

Then spent time in prison for whistleblowing on torture.

Now he's confirming the obvious.

The evidence is the Vault 7 leak.

2017. WikiLeaks published 8,000 classified CIA files.

Detailed cyber warfare toolkit.

Exposed a program called Weeping Angel.

Joint CIA and MI5 project.

Designed to hack Samsung smart TVs.

Put them in fake-off mode.

Still recording.

Still listening.

The leaked documents showed tools for hacking cars. Smart speakers. Connected devices.

Anything with a microphone. Anything with a camera. Anything connected to the internet.

Kiriakou just confirmed it on video.

Asked directly: can they do this?

His answer: absolutely. Vault 7 documents.

Then he went viral on X.

The tech companies said no. We don't grant direct access.

But cybersecurity specialists said yeah. You're internet-connected. You're vulnerable.

And Kiriakou just made it official.

The CIA has had these tools since at least 2013.

Probably still uses them.

Probably expanded them.

Your smart TV isn't smarter than the CIA's hacking toolkit.

Your phone isn't more secure than a classified cyber warfare program.

Your laptop camera isn't protected against tools that were designed to defeat protection.

The former spy confirmed it.

And nobody's surprised.

Because we all knew it was true.

He just made it officially true.

[Tree @ATree_Official]

Fuck you

[Boudewijn Steur @boudewijnsteur]

Op deze dag in 1929 vond de grote beurscrash (‘zwarte donderdag’) op Wall Street plaats, waarbij de waarde van aandelen dramatisch daalde. De crash had wereldwijd catastrofale gevolgen en was de directe aanleiding voor de mondiale economische crisis van de jaren dertig

[I am DK @buildwithdk]

Hey @grok, what is the best evidence that we might be living in a simulation?

[Neil @NeilGartner]

Lichtexpert.

[WNL Vandaag @WNLVandaag]

Lichtexpert Jan Denneman wil af van de zomertijd: "Wij horen bij de wintertijd. We moeten meer ochtendlicht hebben en minder avondlicht. Het licht zet je lichaam op start." #GoedemorgenNederland #WNL

[Neil @NeilGartner]

@Wantjes @bslagter Je moet ervoor zorgen dat elk wachtwoord wat daar in staat niet volledig is. Oftewel: er hoort nog een woordje voor- of achter. Die zet je daar niet in maar die onthou je.

Mocht een kwaadwillende dan die database te pakken krijgen dan kan ie er nog steeds weinig mee.

[Arnold Vogel @MacallanSWE]

R.I.P. Captain Dallas / Tom Skerrit.

They never sought the bonus situation.

[Neil @NeilGartner]

@bentebecker Jullie halen ze zelf al jaren binnen. En faciliteren ze tot en met, gansje.

[Neil @NeilGartner]

ICQ.

[Sonder 🌹 🌟 @Sonderisfon]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Security called me at 6:12 AM today.

"Patch every PHP server immediately."

I asked what happened.

"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."

Cool.

How many PHP servers do we have?

According to inventory: 12

According to reality:

Nobody knows.

We found one running WordPress.

Three running old internal tools.

One under someone's desk.

Two inside vendor appliances.

A forgotten employee directory from 2016.

And a server named:

PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH

Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.

Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.

I asked who owned it.

The documentation said:

BRIAN.

Brian left in 2019.

We called Brian.

He said:

"Oh wow, that's still running?"

Excellent.

By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.

CEO:

"Can hackers actually get in?"

Security:

"Potentially yes."

CEO:

"Without a password?"

Security:

"Yes."

CEO:

"Then why do WE need passwords?"

Not the lesson.

Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.

Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.

Finance asked for a cost comparison.

At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.

Marketing refused.

"Our campaign is live."

So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.

We finally patched everything we could find.

Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.

Hostname:

TEMP-PHP-2014

Uptime:

4,512 days.

Nobody knows what it does.

Nobody owns it.

Nobody can shut it down.

But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.

Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.

It is running PHP 5.4.

The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.

The emergency patch took four hours.

Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.

The internet isn't held together with code.

It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

[Sudeva @SudevaBairyGs]

@SarangSood What's this ?

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

On behalf of all men, we hate this🙏

[Steve Clemans @Steve09812]

If STAR WARS had a $10 Budget - Hoth Battle

[Boudewijn Steur @boudewijnsteur]

Op deze dag in 1966 raakte het dorpje Aberfan bedolven onder de afvalberg van een steenkoolmijn die door de regen instabiel was geworden. De massa bedolf een school waardoor 116 kinderen om het leven kwamen. In totaal vonden 144 mensen de dood. Ook in The Crown is dit verfilmd

[Nostalgic 90s @90stalgic]

You ever see a picture that takes you back to your childhood, but you can't remember exactly where it's from?

[Eshly 🇺🇸 @Eshly786]

They say there's a hidden elephant in this picture
I've been looking for it since yesterday, for real, I swear, and I can't find it ??