Hirohisa Komanome, programmer at Ikegami Tsushinki, who were contracted to make the Donkey Kong arcade: Once we received a telex from an overseas company inquiring about the program of Donkey Kong. [...] I remember that it was a request to modify the program, to change Donkey Kong to their company's brand. It was easy to disassemble program ROMs and dump them in ASCII code with the development tools available then. Knowing that the bootleggers would begin their analysis of the hardware by disassembling and dumping the code, we inserted the following message at the end of the program as a joke: CONGRATULATION ! IF YOU ANALYSE DIFFICULT THIS PROGRAM,WE WOULD TEACH YOU.***** TEL.TOKYO-JAPAN 044(244)2151 EXTENTION 304 SYSTEM DESIGN IKEGAMI CO. LIM. The company that sent us that telex had read this message, and they contacted us directly. All four of us were surprised. Naturally, we refused the request. Source: shmuplations.com/donkeykong

The programmers of the Donkey Kong arcade left a message in the code to hackers mockingly congratulating them and offering to teach them as a joke. A group of bootleggers actually took this seriously and contacted the company asking for help pirating their own game.

What doesn’t kill you tenderizes you, making you more succulent and delicious. For next thing that comes to kill you

*replying to friend’s newborn baby photos* so adorable. what prompt did you use

a baby magician that gets really confused when things disappear

We Thrust-Grunters™ are equally displeased, I can tell you, at the thought of our upcoming Wikipedia page being marred by a disambiguation link at the top!

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Trying this on my next pentest

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

I really, really like this character design

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

some patients are going to die, and you have to find a way to accept that - it’s just part of being a really bad chiropractor

happily ever after 🥰

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this

Black Hat USA 2025 - Micro ICS Summit - ICS/OT Threat Landscape The Industrial Control Systems (ICS) / Operational Technology (OT) threat landscape is escalating, moving beyond traditional IT concerns to impacting cyber-physical systems. This talk dissects the div...

ICYMI 🎩

Here are my slides from last week at Black Hat covering the ICS/OT Threat Landscape.

Thanks to my @mandiant.com & GTIG colleagues for helping with the data in this presentation. Thanks @emmamstewart.bsky.social @blackhatevents.bsky.social for the invite.

www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bl...

You sneak into my office and see a ship in a bottle. Looking closer, you see tiny crewmembers screaming for help. I'm suddenly behind you.

(To messenger)

Go now! Tarry not!

(Looking out the castle window moments later)

This mf tarrying

bumper sticker that says please be patient with me I just fell through a portal and directly into the driver’s seat of this car and i have never seen this car before

an illustration by Spindle of the characters Ottilie (on the left) and Asimov (on the right). the focus of the piece is on their bottoms, as they are baking and kneading dough. Asi's butt has a hand print on it out of flour

flour butt

😜

baby needs pasta grocery store sign

rolling up to the Olive Garden like

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

I don't get why you have to call my wife *librarian ignores me while on phone* "your husband is here trying to check out a book about ramps"

what if when Dracula's fangs came out they made that truck backing up noise

Sauntering through a medical conference and eating an apple, flipping everybody off. They’re so mad. They know they can’t touch me

Stock videos of people eating in reverse

high plain, lo mein 2024 by kim day a cowboy seductively feeding lo mein to a horse

they say there is no beauty left in this world but i say neigh