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Ray [REDACTED]

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Past: Host of "Tribe of Hackers"; Assoc. Producer "Darknet Diaries." Current: Cybersecurity researcher and executive. Also, father of the fastest climber who has ever lived. Seriously. Warning: I talk about my son ALOT “Ut scandis, alios subleva.”

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The biggest advancement in AI isn't model size, its improved context. My swarms are multimodal, with workflow-native intelligence, extremely persistent memory, and basically zero latency.

This lets me focus on ensuring right information is avail, regardless of my flawed prompts.

13.02.2026 12:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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This is my son (and yours, too!) holding the Olympic Torch in Livigno, Italy.

Sam and I flew out to spend 29 hours at the Olympics because I wanted him to experience the Olympics from the spectator side before he qualifies for Los Angeles 2028. That’s our story are sticking to it!

07.02.2026 09:31 👍 61 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Someone in the MCO airport has a flipper zero and a mindset I can emphasize with.

But there is no way I am joining your network, brah.

But you do you.

05.02.2026 21:00 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have been a supporter of EFF.org pretty much since the beginning. I will continue to do so.

02.02.2026 04:54 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

If you were writing it for the first time ever, how would you change RFC1034 and RFC1035 based on your real world experience with DNS in the past decade?

27.01.2026 17:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Attacking AI - The New Frontier | Jason Haddix
Attacking AI - The New Frontier | Jason Haddix YouTube video by Wild West Hackin' Fest

perfect example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gh...

24.01.2026 03:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pro- tip: make sure you check out some @jhaddix.bsky.social videos on YouTube. Some of his ideas are simple, but simply brilliant. In fact, I have been inspired to create my own jailbreaks by mimicking* some of his.

* "mimicking" meaning "blatantly plagiarizing"

24.01.2026 03:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Always a pleasure having @rayredacted.com on the show! Tune in folks!

22.01.2026 11:18 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

If you are interested in learning about how I “hack” my metabolism, some of the details are in this video. Redact.link/shmoo24

23.01.2026 21:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Losing 158 pounds was the third hardest thing I have ever done in life, but it pales in comparison to the difficulty of keeping the weight off. I periodically post the results from my DEXAScans and BodyPod results as a way to keep myself accountable to staying healthy.

23.01.2026 21:52 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Do your airBnB's pans look pristine, but everything cooked on it tastes way too garlicky? Multi-tenant RAG/LLMs can be similar: broad semantic queries can leak "residual" context from other tenants.

Be careful, though: That weird taste might be from macaroni, but it also might be methyline!

16.01.2026 05:04 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Please register to see if you can get in for the ticket drop for Los Angeles Olympics. The registration is now open at LA 28 <dot> org. Registration is in extreme demand and Sport Climbing tickets will be, too.

Shmoocon and Derbycon alumni, start your F5's.

14.01.2026 18:25 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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David Lightman was played by Matthew Broderick, and “War Games” catapulted several careers in Hollywood and (eventually) in Hacking.

Go watch it. You will be surprised by how good it still is.

Here’s a tiny bit of non copyrighted parody slop making fun of me:

09.01.2026 04:16 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wow that is simply beautiful. Wow.

24.12.2025 17:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Christmas before he went to the Paris Olympics, my son Sam gave me this framed photo taken minutes after he had qualified. I love this photo! He also wrote something on the back, which chokes me up even reading it for the 800th time.

24.12.2025 17:07 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today is my birthday, and I have a wish. My birthday wish is for you to post picture of something that inspires you. It could be anything: an object, person, animal, Bible verse, or even a song. Show it to us and explain how it inspires you. And thank you!

I will go first :

24.12.2025 17:03 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

Correction: I think apple will actually drop the finale tonight. Check your apple TV's around 21:00 Eastern. (20:58, to be exact)

23.12.2025 23:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh I am 100% certain it will be a cliffhanger ending. I think they already renewed for at least one more season!

22.12.2025 19:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you start watching this now, you can bing the whole thing except the finale, which should air this week.

It's the probably the best televised show since "Mr. Robot," or at least the first eight parts were. We shall see if the finale is or not.

22.12.2025 17:11 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

I don't know Mick Foley personally, nor do I know why decided to take a stand against his employer, with or without several of his colleagues.

If you watch documentaries & interviews, Mick seems extremely genuine, empathetic, & kind to others.

And I support that.

18.12.2025 10:59 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Notre Dame refused to go to any bowl game after the 1996 season, too, but it wasn't nearly as big of a story back then.

08.12.2025 11:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
warnings, was threatened with prose
backfired on the government, as coverage of the threat propelled icke Block to the top spot on Apple's app store.
Inside the Cult of the Dead Cow, the new members brought resilient energy, a sense of urgency, and a commitment to see the group con-tinue. "Everyone wants to see this last-it's something the world needs," Katelyn said. The worse things get, as authoritarian leaders and compt oligarchs use technology to manipulate and surveil the population, the more important it will be for those in opposition to harness technology for good. They will need distributed systems like Veilid without a choke point where a government can press for control, private means of communica tion like Signal that collect almost no information on their users, and inno vative tools for evading, exposing, and disrupting the means of repressin.
"Vocal folks in tech, organizations like cDc and smaller local groups, can make it clear that we can still have progress without technofascism, sai Lindsay. "We have tech that will help in the coming rebellion."

warnings, was threatened with prose backfired on the government, as coverage of the threat propelled icke Block to the top spot on Apple's app store. Inside the Cult of the Dead Cow, the new members brought resilient energy, a sense of urgency, and a commitment to see the group con-tinue. "Everyone wants to see this last-it's something the world needs," Katelyn said. The worse things get, as authoritarian leaders and compt oligarchs use technology to manipulate and surveil the population, the more important it will be for those in opposition to harness technology for good. They will need distributed systems like Veilid without a choke point where a government can press for control, private means of communica tion like Signal that collect almost no information on their users, and inno vative tools for evading, exposing, and disrupting the means of repressin. "Vocal folks in tech, organizations like cDc and smaller local groups, can make it clear that we can still have progress without technofascism, sai Lindsay. "We have tech that will help in the coming rebellion."

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After a lifetime of trying to have the last word, I beyond honored to have the last word in @joemenn.bsky.social’s new revised edition of Cult of the Dead Cow.

08.12.2025 05:22 👍 86 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
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a computer screen displays the question " shall we play a game " ALT: a computer screen displays the question " shall we play a game "

Modern microcontroller based text adventure games (a niche space for sure) have an advantage from those back in the day of ZORK - namely, custom code.

Each year I write a new game and each year it needs a few custom behaviors ... like pressing 2 elevator buttons at the same time 😉

07.12.2025 18:28 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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If you can find screenshots of these two tweet threads from 2021, I will pay for you 133.70 for each screenshot that I use (with your permission) in a public talk or book.

(Yes, I know screenshots are not private property. But I will pay anyway. Consider it a bounty to reward digital hoarders.)

07.12.2025 13:09 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So what do you think? And which one do you prefer?

07.12.2025 11:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.. and here is Grok 4.1's instant answer:

07.12.2025 11:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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OK so now let's check with a couple LLM's. Here is ChatGPT's take via a voice conversation:

07.12.2025 11:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.. But the song is not about that. At least, it's not ONLY about that. See if you can see what else it is saying. Here it is again:

07.12.2025 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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threatening or trying to "cancel" her in the country music scene. In this song she addresses that, but says even though they complain and threaten, they still show up to hear her sing.

And I liked that.

07.12.2025 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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When I first heard this song, I thought it was about her recent controversies and 'cancellation'. You see Maren is an ourspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ human rights, BLM, and immigrant rights.

And the country music scene isn't.

So I assumed she was singing about MAGA folks...

07.12.2025 11:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0