Tabletop exercise:

Amid a rapidly changing regulatory environment, you are surprised to learn that a number of computer technicians were granted privileged access to your organization's computer systems and networks without following industry best practices or established organizational policies or procedures.

* How do you best learn to craft tabletops as you make your pivot to woodworking from whatever it is that this has become?
* How do you remind yourself that you and your friends matter, that even small positive actions are a big deal when you're constantly bombarded with news of events orchestrated to project hopelessness?
* Have you ensured that the vulnerable closest to you have been helped to the best of your ability?
* Have you taken a walk, stopped for a moment to close your eyes and feel the sun's warmth on your face, and appreciated a simple, beautiful thing in nature?

As my pfp says, "Enjoy quality dissent daily".

It comes from a mural in Rock Hill, SC painted by Shepard Fairey: https://cdmercantile.com/shepard-fairey-murals/

Coca-Cola bottling and the Friendship Nine sit-ins are both a big part of the history of Rock Hill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Nine

I know who needs to hear this, but I'm not sure they follow me on here.

You can't wrap a Linux shell safely.

I know you're going to try. I know that it's super easy to just like pass arbitrary text through your cute little CLI tool or web interface or whatevs.

But the perl CGI folks couldn't do it, the web servers couldn't do it, the network device folks couldn't do it, nobody can do it.

It's not a good pattern. Please. Stop.

(This message brought to you by the PSIRT Council and our generous donors: $ () {} && || ` ; > < ../ and so many others that I can't remember them all even though I've been watching you fail to do this well for over 2 decades)

A friend recently described me as "more book dragon than book worm", and I own that. Probably own two copies, tbh