I love me some retro games, but a modern videogame on a 4K monitor has 7.5 million *times* as many pixels as the Nintendo Entertainment System's 256 x 224 pixel resolution.
SwiftOnSecurity
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computer security person. former helpdesk
The thought occurs that having examples of your work prior to about 2023 is the artistic equivalent of low background steel
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty made an enormous difference. It entered into force in 1970. President John F. Kennedy thought we might have 25-30 nuclear weapons states by the 1980s. We now have 9.
You never time travel before 1992, and you have to murder anyone who tries.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h agohonestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate
The haters stole my last one, but I know I had to do it to 'em, so I bought the exact same thing again. Step tracker. Bluetooth time sync and phone finder. Casio ABL100WE. Talk to your parents.
"You either deploy ad-blocking or malware." (@swiftonsecurity.com)
A teenager failing to get their drivers license should be treated much like a toddler failing to gain language. It is a missed development step in their life with compounding consequences.
Sometimes I make a pot of coffee and just go stand in the doorway to my garage sipping it looking at my car
The highest calling is very specific niche shitposting where anyone who doesn't get the reference thinks you're a blowhard
I'm sorry but pinball is not a skill-based game. the ball just bypasses my flappers all the time. it's gambling
Went to new arcade. They have a Taylor Swift rope cute contest machine (???)
Gave department presentation about my work using IPsec to lock-down peer communication between tens of thousands of our clients and the implementation package we're building for our ecosystem supplier partners so they can do the same thing with a validated framework. What I work on these days...
alright the shorter faster version of this
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 10mo agoI really would like to read a detailed debunking article from someone with this kind of experience on nuclear war plans about house of dynamite and/or jacobsen's book because all I see from like professional critics is the typical "chilling, sobering...she's obviously done her homework"
This was a sorta fun one: "When is signed... not signed?" textslashplain.com/2026/08/03/a...
Authenticode and UAC
When a user attempts to run a file with elevated privilege, Windows will show a User Account Control elevation prompt that asks whether the user trusts the file to run. For a regular file, the user…
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Got my final HPV-9 vaccine dose at 37, fully covered by insurance!
She gets as much '93 Pinot Noir as she wants
guy@guyjin.bsky.social · 2d ago>own Didn't realize you were into that stuff
Yes we have a marriage license 🥰 (I own the title)
Rosvo1@rosvo1.bsky.social · 2d agoare you dating your car is your car also your significant other
Taking my car out on a date night to Alkaline Trio. "From Here To Infirmary (2001)" is 100% bangers.
Be suspicious of people who don't have a meaningful relationship with their car. Spending that much time that intimately with something is supposed to inspire identification and fealty.
"Dont watch this if it's that part of the month you cry when two people are wildly in love and you aren't." "I am 37, that is ALL MONTH."