You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

A heron in front of some reeds by a pond, with its hungry beak open, poking out its hungry tongue. It's facing left, which means it's not trying to eat you. Not yet. But you're next. Oh, so soon, you will be next.

The dinosaurs did not die out. They walk among us. And they are hungry.

it's partly contrast where less moonlight makes it easier to see earthshine. it's mostly geometry, though. when the moon is a 10% crescent from our pov, from the moon's pov the earth is 90% illuminated. so the earthshine is brighter.

the most accurate map of south africa

pretty spot on, imho

which is why open ssh ports get pounded with such attempts…

while your sshd might be well-secured, many are not. which is why it's such a popular attack vector and has been for decades. ai has gotten really good at sussing out subtly memory handling bugs that can become vulnerabilities. however, the black hat community has also been very good at that...

obscurity has never been security. maybe now people might listen... (but probably not)

i would hazard to guess that the vast majority of those vulnerabilities have already long been known to various hacking communities. internet security is the greatest contradiction ever invented.

multiple times he'd try to give someone a ride in it and it wouldn't start. saw it get towed a couple times. so, yeah, that bit in the movie was very accurate.

first you have to get it to start which was never a given...

he got it years before back to the future came out. gonna say 1982, maybe 1983. having seen the quirks and unreliability in person made the movie that much funnier.

when i was a kid in the 80’s, a dude in our neighborhood had one. wild af.

dual intel xeon server table

server table

huh.

low carb and keto-friendly. i regret not trying it myself when i had the chance.

getting trolled. hard. his friends send me messages asking when oom tim is coming out for a moerse braai....

taco shells made from beef droëwors sold at woolworths in south africa

god i miss south africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

these tattoos always make me think that dillon brooks is a huge wikipedia fan

was once New Amsterdam.

almost 20 years ago a crazy former black hat slipped me some c code. said use that if i ever needed root on a linux box. it worked and was handy. it worked for the next decade+.

network security is up there with military intelligence in terms of contradiction…

Two pictures of the pillsbury dough boy: once is on a purple background with the caption “he is risen! happy Easter!”, and the other is tan and brown, similar to a cracker, on a white background saying “he is not! Happy Passover!”

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

biggest culture shock moving to south africa was all the damned australian trees.

or gen x in my case thanks to harbor freight.

I laughed until I cried

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We're still tracking #Artemis II with the Dwingeloo radio telescope, with four very enthousiastic amateurs staying up all night in the control room. We just witnessed the Orion upper stage separation burn in our doppler tracking.

rugby >> football. and i say that having grown up in green bay...

Amla, Smith tons lead SA to incredible win Australia tour of South Africa 2011/12, South Africa vs Australia Match Report: Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla both struck centuries that completed South Africa's humiliation of Australia on the third d...

i was privileged to be on hand at newlands for one of the most bonkers days of cricket ever: day 2 of SA v AUS where 23 wickets fell. so much for test cricket being slow and boring...

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oh, we played beach cricket together down in san carlos on a few occasions...

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*mumble* years ago i was on a roadtrip in the uk with the fam during a cricket world cup. at the start of the trip we'd be watching at the pub wondering wtf was going on. at the end we were critiquing strategy and fielding positions 😂

then i moved to 🇿🇦 and became a regular at newlands...