The Lament Configuration is a puzzle box from the Hellraiser series of movies.
Hey @shwood.com I thought you said you didn't bring any puzzle boxes this year. I found this one in your corner of the @hak5.bsky.social booth after breakdown on Sunday.
It's devious but I'm sure I'll figure it out soon...
Ok DEF CON I’m headed out of Vegas, see you next year youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y?...
A selfie of me wearing my blue and green octopus hat and a white lab coat.
If you see me at @defcon.bsky.social I have free soldering kits I'm giving away! Say hi!
Sometimes I'll be hidden in the @defconnextgen.bsky.social village but find me when I'm out and about!
I want to find a copy. Could we dare call them a new Mondo 2000 if it's as beautiful as you say it is?
I wouldn't be mad at that comparison.
Am... am I old, do people get that reference?
And not even a full 5 minutes, and I'm ready to bounce. I hate people, except you —you're alright.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioHu...
I will be online sporadically during
@defcon.bsky.social
to try to catch up with people. I've mainly avoided social media for my sanity lately. I don't know if anyone wants to catch up or say hi, but if you do, you'll find me slinging gear at the Hacker Warehouse booth in the mornings.
Unless it was put together at Kinkos on the weekend with a sock full of quarters, a glue stick, and scissors, you're not a zine, you're just sparkling low-rent media... ;) Hope I run into you out there.
They want a culture war; we need to give them a class war.
President Trump on Wednesday signed executive orders punishing two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm, continuing a campaign of retribution that he has gleefully carried out since his inauguration. Two executive orders targeted Christopher Krebs, who as a senior cybersecurity official oversaw the securing of the 2020 presidential election, and Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during Mr. Trump’s first term and anonymously wrote a high-profile opinion article for The New York Times in 2018. Among other measures, the orders directed Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, to investigate the former officials and report their findings to the White House.
Tell me the one about "Trump will depoliticize federal law enforcement" again, grandpa.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
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Image with text Me: I need to stop being lonely and talk to people Someone: Hey Me: picture of a cat with it’s back arched
I think in 14 minutes we’re going to have a new historical milestone.
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Image description A wartime poster reminding the audience to use good OPSEC discipline, even when using encrypted messages from Signal. The text reads: "ENCRYPTED, SURE- BUT WHO'S IT FOR? THE LEAK'S IN YOUR CIRCLE, NOT IN YOUR SIGNAL." A MESSAGE FROM THE SUMMERCON MINISTRY OF SECRETS The graphic shows a hand holding a mobile device running Signal and a silhouette of a man with a large question mark on his head.
An important announcement from the Summercon Ministry of Secrets:
Want things dramatic? Just message @theatlantic.com.
I on the other hand am quite certain they do not.
This.
Can you name a more targeted group of people by state level threats and spyware?
May it ever swing swift and true
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Collimation is easily performed by eye using a couple of 3D printed parts. I’m getting eye pieces tomorrow and weather permitting will do initial focusing
To be a little more ‘extra’, because why be a basic amateur astronomer bitch I’ll be disassembling the upper tube assembly to paint the internal parts with Musou Black!
www.musoublack.com/products/mus...
Surprisingly easy! Right now minus the eyepieces I’m all in <$100! It’s all off the shelf hardware, this is the imperial version that’s all 10-24 hardware and it’s hex nuts and machine screws.
I got bougie with carbon fiber rods, printing the upper and lower tube assemblies with CF Core ABS.
Yup
I’m limiting my time on social media for my mental health but hope you all had a great weekend and an awesome week!
“And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up above cause it’s bugger all down here on earth”
youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk?...
A 3D printed telescope
I’m putting the finishing touches on a home built telescope.
Heroes do exist.
I will buy any of them the drink of their choice on demand for their bravery, that took a hell of a lot of guts!
As to Chris, seems he was hoisted by his own petard.
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
I have tinnitus and single-sided deafness, so the tinnitus acts as my personal white noise generator.
