Scarlett Ibach

@sibach.bsky.social

Black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, ftp. InfoSec engineer, hardware hacker, book binder, machine repairer, humanist, anti-fascist, and concerned human being. Any pronouns. 🏳️‍⚧️ 😷

there is an old trail on the mountain behind my house and i never realized it was a real trail with an end. i found out with some research and today i walked the whole thing! the trail goes to an overlook on the far side of the mountain and a small climb gets you to the peak.

photo of some rocks nearest to the camera and beyond that the land drops off quickly so you can see over the forest of pines and oaks and stuff. there is a beautiful green valley with mountains or hills both in the distance and nearer across the whole horizon. the shadows have set in and where the camera is there is darkness. the sky is beautiful with blues at the top but a range of other messy clouds as you look into the distance

i was so fucking pissed at something i found out at work. after ranting to my leadership chain and legal team, i had a xanax and a pear cider (first drink this year?). now im getting a candle light bath. i am very lucky that i even saw this before it was enacted. not sure what will happen

the way huge flashlights came about in us america in the late 60s/early 70s is another example of fascism, racism, police brutality, and empowering the police with weapons they pretend are tools. i still really love them but will always call out how terrible their creation/use was.

photo of a 22 inch kel-lite black aluminum 8 d cell flashlight. its sitting on a chair on my porch taking up the seat to almost the top of the chair. maybe unreadable but next to the on/off switch it says Roger Mac in fancy cursive. 

if this is an 8 d cell and not one of the other longer flashlights that had 5 d cells with a spacer than this could be quite rare as they were special order. more research needs to be done

invented a new game today at work, i call it "homicide or suicide". it's like fuck, marry, kill but it's how one reacts to terrible shit like ai generated tickets, wildly inept developers/PMs (using ai rather than thought/understanding), security incidents, etc.

the tarp for my kitties to hide/eat under was filling with water so i redid it and now there is a much larger area covered. they dont seem to be staying under there but at least its a drier place to eat/drink for another week of rain

i sat down for a few minutes at my computer and was going to spend a few minutes to get some data ready to pentest an app on monday. i accidentally found like 10+ critical vulns and spent like 2 hours looking at it. why do i do this to myself

if llm use was ethical for code gen (it is not) would it make sense to use one to generate code for platforms/langs you don't understand to get "working" examples of how to do something then fully reimplement the code? could this help speed up your ability to learn how to start new projects?

i have to read so much more at work now that most of the shit people send me is from llms as either tickets, messages, or god forbid bmad arch documents. ever had to read a set of bmad documents describing some shit app? i tell them all the shit thats fucked and they make 10x docs to review

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · 4w ago

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

i was stressed and tired but could not sleep or do the housework i needed to so i went for a walk in the woods. now i have no clear quick path home, my phone is at 6%, moderate rain starting soon (first rain in weeks), and i found this

photo of ground in woods with many of the bones of a large animal including maybe its skull and some of the spine. i am too tired to be sure what it is right now