I just learned the term βrisk launderingβ and I canβt stop giggling. Context was βAgile enables risk launderingβ.
The desantafication of the Bell house is nearly complete for another year. π
My youngest son must have had quite the NYE party. I woke up and there were people sleeping on just about every flat surface in my house and it took an hour to find the dog π
The NYE music show/countdowns remind me how far I continue to drift from knowing anything about contemporary music.
Happy new year, my friends. I hope 2026 treats you and your family well. π₯³
I decided it was too cold to attend the annual possum drop. Maybe next year.
Merry Christmas, friends β€οΈ
On the downside, my youngest son and his fiance move out in 3 weeks along with their cats :blobsadleft:
On the upside, I am reclaiming his room to be a photo and video studio.
:awesome:
I didn't sleep well last night so had way way way too much caffeine to compensate and that usually leads me to strange thoughts. Today's strange thought: I see parallels between what cell phones did to telephone service audio quality and what Cloudflare is doing to internet availability.
My fellow hose drinkers will remember the MCI ads about hearing a pin drop on a phone call to the other side of the world, and from there it was a race to have the best audio quality. Then cell phones came and the convenience was so compelling that no one gives a crap about audit quality now, so long as it's intelligible.
I see the same sort of thing happening with Cloudflare - it's so convenient that we are coming to accept outages (NB: it's not just cloudflare, they are just on my mind - also AWS, Azure, et al), and it makes me wonder if 5 years how we are going to be thinking about high availability Internet services.
I get asked a lot lately what the I think people who want to get into cyber security should focus on. My go to answer is incident response, since it seems like the mountains of vibe code and half-assed zero trust architectures is creating galactic scale potential breach energy. Would that be called vibe responders? Or is that for when we figure out how to hand over IR to AI as well?
If you find the fediverse useful, donβt forget to support your instance (assuming they accept support). While the software is free, running instances is far from it. I am glad to be part of the community and want to see it continue on as a viable alternative. Thank you all for being here and I hope you have a good holiday season.
