Posts by tbortels@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AqqZkrPq8fjYGxZqyG by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-02-06T16:16:39Z
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@foone I almost feel sad I immediately remembered.
(DIR) Post #As7ICito9lHdXVE35U by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-03-16T15:43:08Z
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@tomjennings I spent close to a year beta-testing DVX after-hours when I worked for Quarterdeck. It was lovely - dinner plus overtime to mess with computers, which was what I was going to do anyway!
(DIR) Post #Asw3ekQ1PuoJklZD84 by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-04-10T03:29:08Z
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@foone It was honestly the last "sane" windows. Win2k was alright, but everything exse post-XP was strictly downhill.
(DIR) Post #At09F7YCARj4K7OQj2 by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-04-11T14:45:43Z
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@mhoye This is delightful. Anyone seeing this - go check out the gist. It is wonderfully opinionated and speaks to my soul.
(DIR) Post #AtRBr51i1vLlD0nNAW by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-04-24T17:01:23Z
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Hello mastodon. I could use some help.TL;DR: I was laid off a while ago, and the traditional "go scour job sites and apply" is currently broken. So - let's try social media. Please boost if you are willing, or pass this along if you know someone who needs what I can offer.I'll be brief: I'm a very experienced System Reliability Engineer, with a track record of dependability and scalability. I take people's problems - stability, uptime, scale, cost, durability, speed, security and attack resistance - and fix them. I have the dubious honor of generally costing less to employ than I save my employer. If everything is perfect - you don't need me. But if you do, you may need me badly. I'm available. Drop me a note. I am located in Ventura, California, and strongly prefer remote work. I don't require visas or special accommodation to work in the US. Here's a resume: https://www.bortels.us/TBortels_Resume_2025_public.pdf
(DIR) Post #AvKZHyOEMSNNenzqNs by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-06-19T21:51:17Z
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@darkuncle Obligatory comic:
(DIR) Post #AwKc0zxo0BMWLx28rA by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-07-20T17:24:35Z
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@paradroyd I can remember thinking, as a teen, "why would you want 1200 baud? That's faster than I can read!" (And I read pretty fast).But then, games were 8k back then.
(DIR) Post #AwOQjKuD4zkfEAZD7I by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-07-22T13:36:41Z
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@foone Docker for DOS, or DOS in Docker?DOS in Docker would be a thing - some sort of shim on top of the linux kernel to run a DOS executable. put that in a container and figure out how to attach/detach the screen and keyboard. Bob's yer uncle.But Docker for DOS? That's DESQview. "run N different things that can't run at the same time on the same box because they'd conflict" was DESQview's bread-and-butter.
(DIR) Post #AwfC4kky9ucdrL8WHo by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-07-30T15:43:04Z
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@tomjennings "Lots of people go along with it" may be selection bias. People who are defeating age verification or other identity/geography mechanisms are unlikely to be bragging about it on social media - so their voice is missing.I can tell you if a website wants PII from me - it's pretty much on my personal ban list. Identity theft is real and common, I'm not handing that sort of data out without strong assurances that it won't be misused. Age verification online in a safe manner is something without a good solution yet - and laws that assume it's existence are doomed to be worked around and ineffective.
(DIR) Post #AwsVFCQOZI9ykagdyi by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-08-05T15:57:50Z
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I really wish there was some way to detect links to subscription services I'm not subscribed to and simply hide those posts.I follow a lot of people who post interesting things, but it seems half of them are behind paywalls I'm not interested in paying for - so every morning is a string of tiny disappointments.("Subscription" as a revenue model is elitist and resulting in a balkanization of the web into haves and have nots - and having 40 $5-a-month leeches isn't a desirable state. Invasive ads aren't good - but paywalling off half the internet isn't an improvement. Authors: if your content is behind a subscription - I'll never see it, and eventually block it. Whereas if it's visible and there's a support mechanism - I might.)
(DIR) Post #AwtsABH9uAAfqJu0mm by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-08-06T17:40:37Z
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@bobcromwell @ifixcoinops This. Get em started early. If you can master DNS Zone files in their original Klimgon, the sky's the limit.
(DIR) Post #AxRWL0XWZNFi77x6Rc by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-08-22T15:20:17Z
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Am I the only one to be constantly, continually disappointed by AI? When I actually try basically anything non-trvivial, it quickly starts to sound like a n00b trying to BS their way through a technical discussion - just making things up that seem reasonable and ho-ing nobody checks their work.Until/unless they can solve for the hallucination issue, I don't see how this can be useful except in niche cases where reality doesn't matter (like a writing prompt) or the output can be rigorously automatically checked.
(DIR) Post #AxS7QKD4YoMUs6miZs by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-08-23T06:11:46Z
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@tomjennings @mike805 It was certainly college-level - and verbose. Maybe necessarily, given the tricky nature of cognition and how easily we see patterns in things that don't really have them - faces in the wallpaper, animals in the clouds, and what appears to be actual thought in strings of words put together based on probability rather than meaning.But my simple point stands: aside from niche cases, if they can't solve for hallucinations - the technology is self-limiting. Natural selection will teach humanity (painfully) not to trust the LLM - some faster, some not so much. Assuming the upcoming crash doesn't sour us on the technology sooner.
(DIR) Post #AzI27gyWIOKDs0BbLk by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-10-17T01:29:47Z
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@dangoodin Best, most practical advice I know to give: you need *at least three* sources of money for an emergency. That means (ideally) cash-on-hand and multiple banks. Because any one bank may at some point and without warning just decide to not work for a lot of bad reasons - and it can take months to straighten out. This is "don't put all your eggs in one basket".
(DIR) Post #AzI2Xxsq3Mhhq73Z9k by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-10-17T05:14:15Z
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@tomjennings @dangoodin If you don't have enough money to be practically split 3 ways - you still don't have enough money to deal with your bank deciding to freeze your account for fraud (for example). You're probably better off going cash. Multiple accounts - even with only $10 in them - mean you can swap things over far more quickly than if you don't already have them set up. They also mean fraud can only get to part of whatever you do have. Do they solve for poverty? Nope. But that wasn't the goal.
(DIR) Post #B0HspIXHo8WJdl9BcO by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-11-15T17:25:29Z
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@mhoye As soon as you bring networking into it you have to deal with *other people* and compromise sets in while attack surface increases. I think we may have hit that sweet spot with the modem - each interaction was intentional and discrete, and the norm was not connected most of the time.
(DIR) Post #B1ESIFRB6QzBJKF8gC by tbortels@infosec.exchange
2025-12-14T06:08:16Z
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@StefanThinksTwo words: password manager. Because you're right. I think I have maybe 5 good passwords memorized, but *every single service* that I use has a different, very long (20-35) heinously difficult to type password, except the ones that are so broken they can't accept a long password.