Vern McCandlish

Geeky dad jokes related to dfir, malware, osint, infosec, iiot, incident response, law enforcement, empty nest, marriage, and gaming. (he/him)

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2025-05-08 16:30:56 UTC

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2025-02-20 23:39:26 UTC

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I am used to hearing "That code is by the person that retired two years ago, nobody here now really understands it"
I guess now I may have to get used to "that code is from $AIEngine that was refreshed last week, so it doesn't even understand the code now and no one here ever understood it in the first place."

2025-01-17 14:45:59 UTC

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2025-01-17 14:41:41 UTC

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2024-11-14 16:50:05 UTC

Holy crap, we were digging through the back of a closet and I found something I didn't even know I had. Commodore C64 with external drive, in the original packaging, from 1985 and moving box full of old games. I might be having a retro weekend.
That computer is older than most of my co-workers.

2024-10-20 23:54:14 UTC

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This risk is so much greater for Open Source Code.

2024-10-16 19:35:33 UTC

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I hated when that happened, but also revelled in their moment too.

2024-10-16 19:33:18 UTC

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Just to be clear, I was replying to the post saying big crimes had gone up.
There is a chance that was snark in his part for reference to "bigly" but I was checking that claim.

2024-10-16 16:35:43 UTC

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citation needed

2024-09-17 19:41:43 UTC

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I am just glad all the election experts turned pandemic experts turned legal experts turned sniper experts can now also demonstrate they are in fact pager experts too.