Ryan

Tech junkie | fast motorcycles and cars | chaotic²good

[Rip Wheeler @WheelerRipWA]

HEY COUNTY ASSESSOR — THIS ONE’S FOR YOU.

Let’s call this what it is.

I’m being taxed on money I never made.

Think about that.

I bought my property in 2012 for $60,000.
Now the county claims it’s worth $306,000.

Did I sell it? No.
Did I realize a profit? No.
Did I receive a $306,000 check? Not even close.

But my tax bill? That went up like I did.

That’s the problem.

This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone wrote down on paper — and now I’m expected to pay real money because of it.

If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t owe taxes until I sell.
If my paycheck doesn’t increase, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax.

So why is housing treated differently?

Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?

A home isn’t just an asset on a spreadsheet — it’s where people live. And under this system, you can do everything “right,” pay off your house, and still get squeezed harder every year based on a theoretical value you never turned into cash.

That’s not ownership. That’s renting from the government with extra steps.

And spare me the talking points about “services” and “inflation.”

This is about being billed for value you never received.

People are waking up to it.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@elonmusk 6% APY!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a Microsoft security architect.

In 1994, researchers discovered RC4 was fundamentally broken.

We made it the default cipher in Windows anyway.

By 2000, every machine on Earth was running it.

We called it "battle-tested."

Technically true. It lost every battle.

In 2013, more researchers confirmed it was still broken.

We published a knowledge base article thanking them for their passion.

In 2015, the entire industry formally deprecated it.

We kept it enabled by default.

Compatibility is more important than security.

Security is just compatibility with not being hacked.

Hospitals ran their patient records through it.

Banks authenticated their transactions with it.

Fortune 500 companies trusted their crown jewels to it.

The Ascension breach happened. 5.6 million patient records. 140 hospitals offline.

Ransomware walked through our cipher like it wasn't there.

It basically wasn't.

Senator Wyden called it "gross cybersecurity negligence."

He demanded an FTC investigation.

We released a statement thanking him for his continued partnership.

After 26 years of careful consideration, we've made a decision.

We're going to disable RC4 by default.

In mid-2026.

We're giving everyone 18 months notice.

Because we believe in thoughtful transitions.

We've been thoughtfully transitioning since the Clinton administration.

Two Clintons could have run for president in the time we've been "evaluating options."

Some things are just hard to kill off.

Like a legacy cipher.

Or institutional momentum.

Or the phrase "we take security seriously."

We do take it seriously.

We just don't take it urgently.

Urgency is for startups.

We're a mature organization.

We mature our vulnerabilities like fine wine.

26 years.

That's not negligence.

That's commitment.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@BleepinComputer Fantastic! I always thought it was strange not integrating them when russinovich was already so close to the company a decade ago.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@robertgraham 3I Atlas near Mars, and the ring of fire are a week away.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@KatieMiller Meaningful, high impact work down - less impactful pencil pushing up.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@SarahHuckabee Well...I guess I appreciate you making my job search easier. I can cross gov state work off my list unless it's contacting.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@hei27275 @DHSgov In Arkansas, that road is also a swamp. I tried to go view the bridge one day from the south and couldn't even make it up there. The road was under water.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@Erice0579 @storj Storj has the most revenue, and the least hype. A sleeping giant in tokenomics.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@IrishMonsignor @1Nicdar Costco check out my groceries way more efficient than Walmart ever did. There's still an option to use cashier checkout, and the 2-3 staff helping the lone move along are stellar!

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

Google Fi once promised multi network carrier roaming, I hoped for big 3 carrier use to no avail. US Mobile just hit one out of the park with multi network fail over on the biggest carriers, WITH unlimited plans! https://t.co/hIrfmwocHY

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@elonmusk I was backlogged with proactive projects from 8 years of onprem service due to the poisonous interruptions at the work site. Completed this working remotely, eliminated technical debt, modernized the role, and realigned with a higher level position. No better flow state with WFH

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@LundukeJournal Politics aside, who would still use notepad++ with VScode, VScodium or Cursor available? It's not the 2000s anymore. I haven't touched notepad++ for at least 10 years.

[marinamillern @Marmi_vibe9v6]

@elonmusk On the target 💯 .

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@cybersecmeg When your altcoins pop, sell for BTC, and HODL.

[Patriot Muffy @inextension]

@WallStreetSilv Bureaucracy is a slow painful death.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@Geiger_Capital Perspective

[Leovillani @Leovillani6]

@bettersafetynet @WhitfieldsDad So you were an incident manager, the actual resolver group, a problem manager, tester, and architect across what sounds like at least the majority of infrastructure. No wonder multiple people had to be hired. Companies always undervalue the generalist. 💪🏼

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

[Ryan @TurboMyPC]

@kdmalc @yifever Or that the time open exceeded a threshold with no activity, so it was closed automatically...