Grouchy Infosec

My story is just one of millions. Don’t make me pick up my tools of war to preserve the gift passed to my children through me by my ancestors.

@TheBuddyCSM Looking at DV rates of Lesbian relationships v other types of relationships…. A lot.

Trying to say this without sounding like a complete jerk, but… How many domestic assaults in which a man was arrested started like this do you think? Granted, we don’t know the whole story.

@esrtweet @robertgraham Amazon/AWS has been pure IPv6 internally for something like 15-20 years by now.

Joke's on you. The telecoms people don't talk about it, but they went to IPv6 internally almost completely, years ago - major carriers like T-Mobile and AT &T and Verizon are more than three quarters IPv6 at this point, with a sharp gradient correlating with the age of their networking gear. They did this because IPv4 address exhaustion was a real problem and they were staring down both barrels of it. This doesn't mean Paul Ehrlich wasn't an evil idiot - he was both things. It means the two cases you're analogizing aren't nearly as parallel as you think they are.

Back in the 1990s, early Internet nerds were convinced we were running out of IPv4 addresses and that we needed to create a new standard, IPv6, to prevent this. They used the same arguments as Paul Ehrlich, exponential growth meeting a fixed supply, leading to devastating collapse. They did this even after Ehrlich was proven completely wrong in 1990. This argument is a higher level Truth that can never be disproven, no matter how many times its predictions fail to come about. Over 30 billion devices are connected to the IPv4 Internet and we sill haven't run out of IPv4 addresses. Of those are 8.5 billion mobile phones on the IPv4 Internet. Yet, when people explain IPv6 to you, the first thing they'll tell you is that it's needed to prevent the Internet from running out of addresses.

@markgadala Niantic was founded by former Google Earth (aka Keyhole) guys, who were former National Reconnaissance Office guys. So yeah, if you knew who they were you knew they were into mapping the surface of the earth better than anybody alive as a 'hobby'.

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

Hello. It's important we all stay in our specific lanes of expertise. We respectfully never comment about your specific lane of expertise which is: "My Life As A Garden Gnome." We ask you show us the same respect please....

@straczynski As a former resident of Portland and customer of TFAW and Dark Horse this saddens me.

At 6'9" Mike Richardson is the only person I know of in comics who stands taller than me. At 40 years in the business he *still* stands taller than most as a man who always keeps his word...and for *sure* is light years taller than the guys who pulled off this stunt.

@OfAthenry @johnkonrad Always thought it was carrier pigeons.

This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why… Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance. Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, port gets bombed, canal gets blocked the bill lands in London. This is why the UK punches above its weight. Not the Royal Navy. Not diplomacy. Insurance. Control insurance, control trade. And London doesn’t just control the 90% of global trade that moves by sea. Lloyd’s and the London market are major insurers of almost everything skyscrapers, factories, ports, satellites, entire supply chains. You can’t participate in public markets or raise large amounts of capital without insurance. Now, the normal playbook for war risk is repricing, not cancellation. Canceling coverage entirely is a massive escalation in underwriting posture. It signals something beyond risk, it signals uncertainty so deep the underwriter can’t even price it. The question everyone should be asking: why? Why not just jack up premiums and make a fortune off the crisis like they did in the Black Sea off Ukraine? To answer that, you have to understand WHY London has maintained a stranglehold on global insurance while losing nearly submarket related to ships. The answer: better intelligence. It is no coincidence that MI6 headquarters sits directly across the Thames from the @IMOHQ, the world’s maritime regulator & a short distance from Lloyd’s itself. I have no proof of a direct pipeline, but it has long been speculated in the industry that intelligence flows from MI6 to Lloyd’s. Having the best intel in the world would be the single greatest competitive advantage any insurer could possess: the ability to price risk that competitors can only guess at. Here’s the problem: the majority of MI6’s intel doesn’t come from its own agents. It comes from Five Eyes the alliance comprising the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. And within 5Eyes, the dominant partner is obvious. The CIA, NSA, NRO, etc generate the lion’s share of intel. So if Lloyd’s pricing advantage flows from MI6, and MI6’s best intelligence flows from the US… what happens when that data pipeline gets throttled? All indications are that @Keir_Starmer was blindsided by the size and scope of the US/Israel strikes on Iran this weekend. That alone tells you something about the current state of transatlantic intelligence sharing. And we know there has been serious anger in Washington over the UK’s decision to sell Diego Garcia, home to America’s most strategically important base in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. It is not a huge leap to conclude that the submarine cables linking Langley to London have gone dark, or at minimum have been significantly throttled. What this means for UK national security is a question for the Brits. But what it means for EVERY company globally that’s insured through the London market has massive implications for the entire financial system. Because most large insurers worldwide don’t do independent intelligence work. They index off Lloyd’s rates. If you’re insuring a skyscraper in Tokyo, a semiconductor fab in Taiwan, or a port in Argentina you get a Lloyd’s quote, then shop that price around. Other insurers see Lloyd’s number and assume the diligence was done. They price accordingly. This means if London is suddenly flying blind it’s not just Lloyd’s policyholders at risk. It’s the entire global reinsurance chain. The cancellation of war risk coverage on ships isn’t the crisis. It’s the canary. If this hypothesis is correct, we could be looking at a systemic repricing event across global insurance markets…. the kind of cascading uncertainty that defined 2008 and COVID. Watch Lloyd’s. Watch reinsurance spreads. What Five Eyes. That’s where this story, and possibly Wall Street, breaks. CC @BillAckman

@WeaponOutfitter With the short barrel and collapsible stock it can be effective. Better have really good ear pro in during CQB. Been 10 years since I got to carry one. (they frown on PLT/1st SGTs carrying a SAW).

Combat gnome (jacked handsome 5’4” marine) giving me and the fellas the run down on SAW employment. Didn’t know the USMC treated the saw like a carbine in their tactics and doctrine.

@SNAFU_Sara Oh and the Army has done another Billion $ in related costs over that time to get other systems ready to integrate with IPPS-A.

@SNAFU_Sara It took so long that the DoD created and deployed DoD ID numbers to the entire workforce in less time than IPPS-A was under development. I know the original contract award in 2015 was $159 Million, but there were a lot of cost over runs. At least another $170 million more.

Meanwhile we get told to use IPPSA for PCS but they only gave the National Guard permissions to add 14 elections when there are over 100, and not the ones we need. And it’s also missing specific funding information required by regulation. How much did we pay for this system? It’s not that S1 is lazy, it’s not that S1 has too much to do. It’s that are systems are absolute garbage, don’t do what is required, and add multiple unnecessary layers of work. Anyway your weekly IPPSA rant from your burnt out S1.

@Kronykal Wonder how much the ICE activity of the last couple of months has resulted in better intel picture of potential cartel network prior to the operation today...

Re-upping this one. Head on a swivel.

@DrClownPhD Bro, then some of us went off to war for 10-20 years, to see it all thrown away.

This hits really hard! 😢

@DanPietsch @SandyofCthulhu I think you meant to say “The Rock is”

True Lies is, in fact, the best James Bond movie, and it's not close.

Galaxy Quest is, in fact, the best Star Trek movie, and it's not close.

@mypockets88 @VoxVirtutis Scenes from the deatruction of the Northern Kingdom (Arnor where Aragons line was from) by Angmar (led by the 1st Nazgul). Covered in the material released after Tolkien’s death.

@VoxVirtutis Visually looks cool. But I have no idea what is going on.

You can try to inject the whole third world and your feminism globohomo ideology into our epic. That era is coming to an end. In a few years, we’ll be making work with AI that completely overshadows the Hollywood slop. youtube.com/watch?v=SzjixE…

@infantrydort @RadioFreeTom As an E-5 in Afghanistan I made a Full Bird run away when he saw I had Chandlers Campaigns of Napoleon open next to Luvaas and modern Operational doctrine and I wanted to pick his brain on mobility corridors and meeting engagements. Great guy, but fresh from the War College.

This War College thing won’t die. Ok @RadioFreeTom I’ll tell you what. I’m gonna open up a nice tidy thread here. This is the complaint department and thousands of us have taken a number. Hear from the “customers” of the War Colleges. The supposed beneficiaries. War veterans the lot of us. We’ll spell out the most ridiculous decisions war college graduates have bestowed upon us. I’ll start: I once had a 4 star general tell us to practice “courageous restraint”. Effectively surrendering 2 of 4 characteristics of the offense (Surprise and Audacity) to the enemy. Leaving us only with Concentration and Tempo. Changing us from predator to prey. Essentially waiting to be shot at before we could shoot back. One could argue War Colleges don’t teach the will to be lethal. I’d argue they should. Because war is largely binary. There are certain things you must do to win. I’m sure some of the comments on here will be all over the place. But I hope to hear from many enlisted. For they are the chief observers of officer ineptitude. Intent is to inform everyone about the insanity we experienced due to the decisions of our very own leaders during GWOT.

@VikingRobVWO Navy got Nichols. Army got Luvaas who had the humility to know he didn't understand it all and freely admitted he learned as much from his students as they did from him. Basically invented the modern staff ride practice of actually walking the battlefield you were studying.

Those who have actually fought a war, unlike you, know exactly what the war college is, because our leadership exemplified it, and making the move to get as far away from assholes like you that have poisoned our senior leadership is one of the best moves in history. Fuck off.

@RadioFreeTom Compared to Dr Luvaas whose decades at the Army War College shaped and enhanced the understanding of Operational level warfare for generations of students; you have had no impact upon doctrine or the intellect of your students offering only a belching of hot air from your lectern

I wonder how many of these people have ever attended any of our war colleges, know anything about them, or know why they exist at all. More to come.

@LordStarkPotter @jondelarroz Having read the first four books in the Pendragon cycle back when they were first published it was already conservative by todays standard.

@jondelarroz DW turned the pendragon series into something that will fit their aesthetic push for conservatism Amazon turned LOTR into something that will fit their aesthetic push for leftism None cared for the IP , only agendas

Amazon spent a billion dollars to adapt the classic works of the greatest fantasy writer ever. And The Daily Wire comes in and is just like, "Here's a better show, it's our first try." Wild world.

@realMarkKJacobs @thejobchick Naw, just like during 2007-2008 they will report the U-6 (up to 2 years) rather than the U-3 (up to 6 months) number to attack the administration.

@thejobchick What's funny is that when your unemployment RUNS OUT you are no longer "Unemployed" even if you don't have a job.

I’m sure this is fine right?

@Kronykal Don't think I know all of the words. But in 90 when it came out I was listening to some of the early grunge/college rock stuff that was out along with a lot of classic Zeppelin, Sabbath, etc.

The eternal shame of Gen X is we all know the words to Ice Ice Baby. Any Gen X that says they don’t is a GD liar.

@DissidentSoaps The Portland Light Artillery (A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 218th Field Artillery) is on the job. (Okay, maybe not. But as an honorary member from my time with the Bn I can dream)

Hanging mortars over Portland from your firebase at the courthouse is wild.