AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@PawelK No I haven't but there was a large effort to replace SCADA years ago and I helped with our solution. I don't know what was picked but it wasn't our work. (The story was leaked but still I am hesitant to say anything about it.)

I highly doubt that I could win something put out by DARPA. That would mean going up against the brightest minds at MIT, UCB and other spooky Universities. I could try.

@freemo Deadpan comedy was great. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

@freemo I read that and recall the scene in Naked Gun where Nielsen asks for a Black Russian.

@freemo Libertarian views here, big government and the incestual cocktail parties of both sides prevent any meaningful changes taking hold. They morph societal rules into an unwinnable game. The Left is The Right and we are all living in their constructed reality and fighting the fights they want us to fight.

Divide and Conquer, so much for E Publis Unum.

@AmelieH@mastodon.social A hollow stainless steel tube that is perfectly safe if used correctly. It goes in the mouth and not the nose.

@freemo Masculinity: Doing something wrong so force can be used to accomplish the objective.

Femininity: Doing something the easy way.

They both work and complement the other. If the easy way doesn't work, use force. If force doesn't fix the problem, perhaps something obvious was overlooked.

It's a classic family tale, dad is usually stubborn and wrong and mom is right.

@freemo Borsht is pretty good but I only know of Lithuanian Jewish style Borsht. You have cabbage, potato, rye bread, fresh dill and broth. It's pretty tasty and a good way to feed many people without many resources.

Perhaps I forgot to mention drinking alcohol. Perhaps the fresh dill was what I enjoyed because it brought me back to being a child and eating pickles during the summer to avoid heat cramps.

Borsht is better than heat cramps hands down.

@thor The Julia Set is a subset of the Mandelbrot Set. Mathematics is my first love. Would you like a relationship to a seemingly unhinged man obsessed by numbers or are you too self centered to accept being less attractive than such a simple area of Mathematics?

Perhaps I say too much, I would like to learn more about you. A Degree in Art? You have more career opportunities than me. Have you seen a Mandelbrot fractal zoom?

If you say no, there's a Physicist down the bar from me and further from him is an Engineer.

I don't think I've mentioned it yet but welcome to hell.

@PawelK @hn100 Part of me clings to America and what it stands for. Maybe it impairs my ability to do research but I always feel indebted to my homeland. Perhaps I could help change it for the better and it would be my duty to do so. That's the way I see it.

With that being said, working with people from other countries is what I enjoy. Perhaps I will look into CZ Universities and see if there are individuals or groups that would not mind having another researcher on their work. I would learn from them and hopefully they could learn from me.

It would be academic research and I would have more protection from angry corporations. I could potentially get work published and that is very impressive on a CV. Despite my reservations about locking up knowledge, or knowledge being owned, I would gladly work towards a mutual goal.

Yes I would work in research but from my homeland and going through a foreign University. Hacker Score -40 but it is very much the same end goal. It seems to be the best option for both honing my skills and becoming more attractive to employers.

@PawelK @hn100 If they were to ask me why I visit their country, I would respond that it is a beacon of light in a dark place. I avoid the Socialism of the West and Authoritarian governments of the East. I also didn't want to go to Slovenia because no matter how I behave, people will think I went for male bonding.

@PawelK @hn100 It would be fun and I am an American so they would likely not care too much about me bringing in troublesome ideologies and politics. Reason for visit: Research, CZUB and trying to fix Yugos and Ladas.

I suspect the last one is going to be cheaply converting to electric. The death traps are very light and could likely just use deep cycle lead batteries with a forklift electric motor. It adds weight to the bottom of the vehicle and shifts the center of mass lower and towards the center of the vehicle. It's a communist production vehicle so no one would look twice at the petrol powered generator that would be added last moment just like many features of the original design.

@PawelK @hn100 In the past I've reversed, or attempted to reverse, malware that modifies firmware. I documented SE Linux and Samsomething Knux getting bypassed by a row hammer attack. As security increases, the malware becomes more magnificent.

Usually people tell me that it is impressive but they didn't ask, also fix the problems debil.

I'll have to look into it but this time I will need to be more careful of potential pitfalls. I once learned a lesson and it taught me a lot.

Still, jumping in the deep end of a pool is how I learned to swim. Nothing like applying knowledge when and where it is needed. Sorry to my parents if they read this, I was a terror to raise.

@PawelK @hn100 Czechia would be nice. CZUB definitely has experience with taking existing designs and improving them. It would be interesting to get in contact with a University there.

Ruskies and Ukrainians were really based in reversing. Je to škoda, že lidé kontrolu politiků.

@PawelK @hn100 Yes, Assignment 1-5 is getting Ghidra to compile from source.

@PawelK I miss being in a University lab. There was no wrong, only getting caught which was easy to avoid.

@freemo Mandarin is for Americans and Communists.