Ronni

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[Ronni @eosophobik]

@odinkai2112 Me! Me! Me! 😜

[Ronni @eosophobik]

@odinkai2112 @defcon @WhiskeyHackers I am so sad I missed last year. I have the previous two years though. They are my favorites in my collection!

[Ronni @eosophobik]

@odinkai2112 @WhiskeyHackers That's really cool!

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

My coworker uses words like “synergy” and “leverage” unironically.

He says them louder in meetings when leadership joins the call.

Today he said we should “circle back offline to align on asynchronous bandwidth.”

He meant “talk later.”

I opened the shared doc and changed every instance of “synergy” to “basic cooperation.”

Nobody noticed for two hours.

Then he shared his screen in a meeting.

He read it out loud.

“Q2 requires more basic cooperation across teams.”

Silence.

I watched him die inside in 4K.

I’ve never felt closer to my job description: other duties as assigned.

[Dave Kennedy @HackingDave]

I understand there’s a ton of Claude fans out there. I was there too 4-5 weeks ago. Then it got way way way worse and without explanation.

What’s worse is that I would consider myself a heavy power user. What about the folks that aren’t and have no idea it was dumbed down over 60% or more since its initial release and are using this day to day.

Codex is outperforming Claude in every way right now. Additionally OpenAI is much more transparent, cheaper, and produces much better code in every way to Claude at the moment.

Claude has massive outages, lack of transparency to users, some really bad operational and security practices.

They’ve lost me. I’m done.

What happened ?

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I used to think “work-life balance” meant finishing work at 5.

Then I realized my real problem wasn’t hours, it was boundaries.

I’d close my laptop and keep working in my head until midnight.

Running fake arguments. Replaying meetings. Drafting emails I’d never send.

Now my rule is: if it can’t be written down as a task, it doesn’t get space in my brain after hours.

Worry is not a deliverable.

Anxious overthinking has never once closed a deal, shipped a feature, or fixed a bug.

Action tomorrow? Yes.

Mental torture tonight? Hard pass.

Turns out, “log off” is mostly an inside job.

[TracketPacer @TracketPacer]

have u ever seen a fake twisted pair cable?

[TracketPacer @TracketPacer]

manual DHCP

[Rachel Tobac @RachelTobac]

lol don't use clawdbot aka @openclaw unless you understand that at some point i'll ask it for your gmail's password & it might just send it to me.
if you're not trying these tools on segmented machines/ accounts, i would expect your quotes in the news this week lmao.

[𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚎 @lintile]

OMGOMGOMGOMG #DFIU #telnet
https://t.co/7CECE5lY6R
h/t @AndrewMohawk

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

This guy shows how to digitalize a camera film

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

front-facing eyes are a key adaptation for predators; therefore, clippy is a predator.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Pro tip: every vending machine has a maintenance mode that dispenses free product for testing.

You access it by typing a specific code on the keypad.

I found it in a service manual PDF while I was supposed to be fixing the printer.

Been getting free snacks for seven months.

If you're reading this and you're IT, google your vending machine model number plus "service manual PDF."

You're welcome.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Last week I hosted family for Thanksgiving.

My 12-year-old nephew asked for the WiFi password.

He wanted to play Roblox on his iPad.

I looked at the device.

Unmanaged. No antivirus. No encryption.

I’m an IT Professional. I don't run an open network.

So I didn’t give him the password.

Instead, I spent 45 minutes provisioning a Guest VLAN.

I set up a captive portal.

I throttled the bandwidth down to 56kbps.

Then I blocked all traffic on ports 80 and 443.

He came back crying. He said it wouldn't load.

My sister screamed at me to "just let him play."

I told her that Zero Trust architecture doesn't care about bloodlines.

We didn't have a "fun" Thanksgiving.

But we had a secure perimeter.

You’re welcome for the compliance.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our CFO asked me to "audit" our software subscriptions last week.

He sent me a spreadsheet with 200 rows. Slack, Zoom, Jira, Notion, Trello, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

He wanted me to survey the team to see which tools were essential.

I told him: "Surveys are for people who care about feelings. I care about OpEx."

I deleted the spreadsheet.

Instead, I logged into the corporate Amex portal and reported the card as lost.

Every single auto-renewal in the company failed instantly.

I call this "The Scream Test."

It’s simple Darwinian procurement.

If a tool goes down and nobody runs to my desk screaming within 4 hours? We didn't need it.

The Marketing team was at my door in 10 minutes begging for Adobe. We renewed it. The Sales team was crying about the CRM in 20 minutes. We renewed it.

But here’s the interesting part.

The HR department’s "Employee Wellness & Engagement Portal" ($12,000/year) has been down for six days.

Not a single person has noticed.

I didn't just save money. I quantified the exact value of our corporate culture.

It is zero.

Stop auditing. Start unplugging. If it’s important, they’ll scream. If they don't scream, it’s just noise.

[Ian A. Underwood @iunderwood]

@TracketPacer Don’t forget the manual!