Posts by walkerb@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #APRef1cvXKkekvr2v2 by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2022-11-10T00:55:38Z
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@TheGibson My battlestation (for now)
(DIR) Post #ATRcdRHvZ0rWCkBTSy by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-03-09T05:23:24Z
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Lost track of time tonight, so a late last ride of the day for me and the boys to dreamland.Goodnight all.#dogs #dogsofmastodon #lastrideoftheday
(DIR) Post #ATdqi3Ed3M0UQYIH3o by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-03-15T13:58:01Z
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@brosandprose a good read of common sense...
(DIR) Post #ATkFOiS9l6IsH3G2We by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-03-18T16:01:43Z
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Stolen but just way too good not to post.Rotate your head or your device 😂
(DIR) Post #AUhEPlrIgmN7qKB1Dk by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-04-16T02:02:46Z
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My daughters wedding today.Lots of pictures but here are the only two that matter.#wedding
(DIR) Post #AUhEWMx7gh3Acp2wa0 by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-04-16T03:01:05Z
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@creeksidewilly if you think the camo is great, wait till you hear where they are going on their honeymoon. Hunting. I am not kidding.Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AV9dYFISilmamLcNhQ by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-04-29T19:51:34Z
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@simon 22 minutes ago the driver was running late lol
(DIR) Post #AVDLRPpu7HEStdh3a4 by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-05-01T14:48:15Z
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@atomicpoet I wouldn't even call it a closed beta.That would presume a beta signup, which from experience I can say does nothing (other than possibly give them a mailing list).All of the invites I've seen have been douchy influencer types, who have zero interest in the AT protocol or federation.They are running the VC playbook to the letter, creating buzz by manufactured scarcity, and only letting high value accounts in the club.
(DIR) Post #AVw33gGYgYESegclea by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-05-23T04:24:34Z
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Time for the last ride of the day to dreamland with my boys.Goodnight all.#dogs #dogsofmastodon #lastrideoftheday
(DIR) Post #AWeyG0gShk4XeV48aO by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-06-13T17:05:09Z
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@saramg lol
(DIR) Post #AXzN3bY1ekEATSCCZM by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-07-23T14:36:40Z
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@textfiles unexpanded Vic is impressive.I had to do large amounts of code golf to get my little game of blackjack to run in the same.
(DIR) Post #AYqIInoHAbRoniSTJo by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2023-08-18T02:17:32Z
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Someone asked me tonight what text I normally use in console.log when just putting a marker in the code.I told them 'xyzzy', which necessitated explaining where that came from. Which turns out to be my hacker origin story...1983, at the start of 8 bit home computing. I had (and still have) a Commodore 64, and I was into text adventure games (I was into D&D roleplaying too at the time so this wasn't exactly a stretch).Level 9 software released "Colossal Adventure" which was a remake of Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first games written for computers. I didn't know that at the time, to me it was just a great adventure game.I played it for a while, eventually getting to a point where to progress further, you have to use the "magic word"...I ran back through the game hundreds of times looking for clues, and weeks passed with no progress.I got a hold of a disassembler and started on a bigger adventure.I dug into the code looking for the magic word. And thus started the adventure of learning assembly. The magic word wasn't stored as plain text...For its time the game was massively advanced. It ran what amounted to a virtual machine using compressed bytecode.It took me about four weeks to reverse engineer that, and then start wading through the gamecode to find the magic word.In the end, the magic word (XYZZY in case you haven't guessed by now) became the first flag I captured as a hacker...#hacking #originstory #ctf
(DIR) Post #AoOUHQHynXs8FqP1l2 by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2024-11-22T03:42:14Z
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I'm doing #adventofcode again this year. Did it last year and it was fun.Last year I rotated a few languages, this year I plan on just using #typescript and maybe some #python To warm my brain back up for competitive programming (which is different and in most ways diametrically opposed to "real" programming), I went back and did the 2015 year puzzles.Day 7 (writing a circuit parser), Day 22 (RPG magic combat) and Day 24 (package balancing) were all interesting. Most came down to figuring out how to reduce the problem space. Was fun.I'm part of a "local" (relative term - not geographically) leaderboard thats much more fun than the main leaderboard (I'm good, but I'm not solved in under 60 seconds good thats the level of the main leaderboard).If anyone here is interested in participating with us, you can contact me or @andrewhoyer and you can play along with us on a leaderboard thats real.Boosts for visibility appreciated.