My baby boy is the difficult age where he is learning several things simultaneously:

- How to grow teeth
- How to crawl
- Proto-communication

If you've never had a child, around 7 - 9 months (or later, each baby is different, but that's the average-average) babies will begin proto-communication.

They've picked up on people talking, and communicating back and forth, they understand the concept of sentence structure and vocal inflection being indicative of a question. They—understand—you—pausing—between—words, or pausing and waiting for someone to reply back verbally.

My baby boy now tries to join in conversations because he doesn't want to feel left out. He doesn't understand we're having a conversation, he doesn't even understand words, but he understands the "prototype of communication", hence now, seemingly out of nowhere, he inserts himself into our conversations by screaming like a psychopath and babbling incoherent nonsense.

He favorite "word" is blowing raspberries (pressing your lips together and blowing) and "ge-ge-ge" (think of the GE in "geese") or quite literally screaming as loud as he can.

Another interesting thing about proto-communication is he tries to initiate conversations now. Unfortunately, he does not possess manners. Additionally, he does not respect me as a person, place, or thing. This results in him attempting to start conversations with me, while I'm asleep, at 3 in the morning.

It's very interesting watching my baby boy grow. I remember when my wife first got pregnant and we confirmed the pregnancy visually via ultrasound. He was tiny, probably no greater than the size of a pea. His fetus kind of looked like a little sea horse, or something, and under the ultra sound we could see his little heart beating.

Now we look at him. He is much larger than a pea. He no longer looks like a sea horse (thankfully). He is screaming in my face at 3 in the morning because he wants to "talk". If he isn't screaming at my face at 3 in the morning, he's practicing his hand-eye coordination by trying to feed himself ... by putting food all over his face ... or in his pants ... or in his hair ...

As difficult as it can be being a parent, and as much as you "suffer", there is something oddly rejuvenating about the experience and it somehow (in ways I don't understand yet) makes you feel young again.

Okay, I'm done schizo ranting about being a Dad.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming of malware and kitty cats.

I just wanted to share this with someone, even if it means screaming into the void of the internet, because I don't have many friends in real life anymore who I can schizo rant about stuff to (I'm old).

I was watching this YouTube video of this Russian dude who traveled to North Korea to go sightseeing.

North Korea is notoriously strict on what visitors can and cannot do. Throughout most of the trip he risked his own safety by illegally filming around North Korea on his cell phone.

At one point during the trip he managed to sneak away from his appointed North Korean tour guide. He approached a group of people sitting down, ... just kind of hanging around ..., doing something.

They were very friendly to him.

During the conversation he asked them what they'd like to do in the future. One of the men said, "I hope some day to travel. I really want to see Yugoslavia"

The fuckin' Russian guy looked at him like this when he said "Yugoslavia"

For those who don't get it because they're unfamiliar with Europe, or history, or live under a rock like Patrick Star: Yugoslavia hasn't existed since 1992.

My post about the Russian dude visiting North Korea has escaped my core audience and I've got a bunch of random people being like, "PfffT tHaT dIdNt HaPpEn"

What the fuck?

Do you think I'm some kind of anti-North Korean account and I'm dedicating my free time to anti-North Korean posts?

Why would I (or anyone for the matter) go out of their way to lie about something visually documented on YouTube?

Whenever I didn't IMMEDIATELY respond for requests to a link for the video, people began being like, "sEe? iT dIdNt HaPpEn!". Yeah, bro. Let me drop everything I'm doing with my work, and my family, to argue with you fucking dorks on the internet.

I know I shouldn't be this annoyed... but there has been a few occasions now where when I mention North Korea I've got a bunch of schizos trying to disprove anything remotely critical of North Korea. I can't tell if it's unironically a psyop or deranged basement dwellers.

Here's the video, you jackass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inebLA3HqPo

Hello,

I appreciate everyone who offers to buy me a beer, or something, if I ever attend a cybersecurity conference. I understand the gesture and I understand it is in good faith.

Unfortunately, in a past life I had a pretty bad drinking problem (and kind of a gambling problem). I've been sober for 11 years.

Thank you

Pic unrelated

just received an email from my ISP saying downloading illegally is illegal

Wtf since when???

I HATE COMPUTER NETWORKING

I need to admit something I'm ashamed of.

I have a deep love for silly cat AI slop. I know it's slop. I know RAM sticks cost $156,000 and require a small business loan. I know it's not real.

... it's just so silly. Look at this fuckin thing

me with pierogies

Hello, Tiny People Living Inside My Computer,

I have added more malware to malware city. It's a lot. I didn't add it up. It's like, 300,000 malwares, or something, I don't know.

Thanks and enjoy your Tuesday

https://vx-underground.org/Updates

The last thing you see before you leak state secrets to the Kremlin

wtf just opened my door and found these weird looking bugs. anyone know what these are?

It appears some cryptocurrency nerds have unironically made a vx-underground cryptocurrency coin-thing (I have no idea how this works).

They've performed some sort of nerd analysis and have concluded I am an ideal candidate for something, I don't know (see attached image for their nerd analysis).

What does this mean? Nothing.

I don't trust magic internet money. I'm not going to authenticate my social media profile to cryptocurrency websites. I'm not going to do anything.

Feel free to use the weird cryptocurrency thing, or don't, I don't care

I'm not a financially motivated person, I don't intend to "claim" the cryptocurrency coin. I don't intend on "getting the bag". I am going to resume work on collecting malware, coding, and posting silly pictures of kitty cats.

Enjoy your Wednesday

> listening to music while work
> new band recommendation
> "vended"
> lol vending machine?
> song plays
> wtf this sounds just like corey taylor
> (lead singer of slipknot)
> google "vended"
> lead singer is griffin taylor, son of corey taylor

corey must be so proud omg

im so old my favorite musicians have children who are musicians

its all ogre

There is a phenomenon called "reduced proprioceptive monitoring".

When humans lock in hardcore and enter the "flow" state, time becomes distorted, weird science stuff occurs, but also the human body does weird stuff too.

The brain says, "body not important, need more focus". This results in peoples body contorting to unusual positions when focused. Most notably, them leaning forward, the shoulders tucked in, the neck "craning".

It happens with basically anything that requires intense focus. It is probably most recognized by people who work in the computer related fields (information technology, cybersecurity, etc). However, it also impacts surgeons, watchmakers, dentists, electrical engineers, jewelers, tattoo artists, animators, air traffic controllers, pilots, paleontologists, ... and more.

tl;dr have u ever locked in so hard ur entire body hurts?

I made an interesting discovery when I installed the OpenAI app "Sora".

Maybe everyone is aware of this, and I live under a rock, I don't know. But, Sora is premium real estate for fraudsters and scammers. It's evident when you install it.

I installed the app out of curiosity. I wanted to look at more silly kitty cat AI slop. Unfortunately, the app doesn't have good search functionality so you can't just search "silly cat slop". The app does possess a "latest" feed which displays, presumably in real time, the latest "creations" on Sora.

The "latest" feed is overflowing with prompts in Mandarin. It's hundreds upon hundreds of product advertisements.

Basically, scammers and fraudsters are using Sora to make fake advertisements, make them appear real with AI watermarks and fake AI slop celebrity endorsements, then use 3rd party tools to download the video and remove the watermark.

Is this surprising? No.
Was I aware this was being performed on Sora? No.

I think it's interesting because Sora is free. It also is a crystal clear illustration of Bad Actors abusing AI generated content to scam others.

Also, there are some genuinely interesting and entertaining AI generated videos. A vast majority are just ... boring, redundant, and kind of irritating.

Sora features "content creators", such as Snoop Dogg or Jake Paul. As you could assume, they're not producing content ... it is quite literally just AI slop videos of them being morbidly obese or driving dangerously. I'm skeptical these celebrities actually produce this "content", it's probably some assistant they hired to do a video or two a day, or week, whatever.

Overall, Sora AI slop novelty dissipates pretty quickly. It is impossible to curate your feed to silly cat AI slop. Currently the app is overflowing with scams and people giggling at the idea of Jake Paul being 600lbs and providing a makeup tutorial.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Enjoy your Thursday.