When you update all of your software and it doesn't break any of your workflows. Very suspicious.

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.

The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

Imagine referring to the current moment as the "present." Boy are you going to look silly in a few nanoseconds.

Don't worry; you have nothing to fear but the foolish things you do when you believe you have nothing to fear.

The people who can’t remember things. The people who can’t forget things.

Meticulous. But the small details are the big details.

A wild amount of depth and detail for such a narrow color palette. Skillful.

We must take a stand and confront the truth: that frozen spinach is superior to canned spinach.

Cats are intelligent and seem to defy physics. But the real reason they manage to get around problems is that they literally approach them from different angles, which few other animals do.

If time is the most valuable currency, the theft of others’ time is a particular act of cruelty—one that perhaps can never be atoned for. It’s just not something you can give back.

Normalize saying “Hmm, not exactly” when you mean no. For comedic purposes.

When the sun burns out, I just use a pea and the Banach-Tarski paradox to construct a new one. Why, what do you do, sir?

They say that 90% of people with ADHD or OCD give up right before they’re about to achieve the cultivation of morally correct desires. Never stop grinding.

Me: “Don’t you see? Hell is other people.”

Them: “So, you’re telling me I get to be other people’s hell?”

Me: “Yes, that’s the spirit.”

The Law of Commutativity, Associativity, etc. "Hey, now don't forget, 3 + 6 = 6 + 3. And furthermore, (3 + 6) + 1 = 3 + (6 + 1)."

Have you tried solving the problem by spoon-feeding it basic, fundamental truths so it can rearrange its world model and solve itself?

All dogs eat. Therefore all dogs bite. Therefore “my dog doesn’t bite” is a universally false claim.

Hostile reminders. Tragic reminders. Brutalist reminders.

The 2008 Debian OpenSSL entropy bug [1] was introduced solely by deleting code

[1] www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Time machines don’t exist. So, if past you did something that has inevitably imprisoned present you, I’m not sure how to help. But maybe just noticing this out loud will help future people.

*Looks at you and then my notes*: Ah, I see. You’re haunted.

An executioner who doesn't kill anyone. Instead, it’s just a guy who's really good at planning and commitment.

A lot of people think that time is a river, an ocean, or that it's made out of some derivative of hydrogen. But it's actually made of stone.

The ability to feel pain and regret is actually related to the protection reflex.

The inability to feel pain or regret is related to the self-destruction reflex.

All my biology brain sees is a neuron and its dendrites reaching out.

Tonight I opened a physical book instead of a PDF or blog post, and it was like remembering some ancient sacred experience I’d almost forgotten about.

Sure thing.

Babe, would you still love me if I worked as a software engineer at Google?

Voluntary and involuntary have opposite meanings. But flammable and inflammable both mean flammable. Language is unapologetically inconsistent.

An alternate universe with a podcast called the Joe Organ Experience.

It’s a livestream of a guy harvesting baboon organs.