Alex Forster

@Alex_Forster

Developer working on DDoS mitigation

Austin, TX
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  1. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    I wonder how disappointed the people in 1994 who thought we'd be able to make phone calls to domain names by now are

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    Aug 24

    A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-known place for funy computer forgotten by time. His NDA has expired. He has such sights to show us. Join me and I will be your silent guide into a world of horror.

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  3. Retweeted
    Aug 23

    1998: we'll start a project on reimplementing Windows, to keep supporting old software. We'll call that ReactOS. 2018: LOL

    I put Windows 95 into an Electron app that now runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's a terrible idea that works shockingly well. I'm so sorry. Go grab it here:
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  4. Retweeted
    Aug 17
    Replying to

    Agreed. Very interesting findings, particularly regarding the unexplained connections during the election day. This really reinforces that argument for enhanced log monitoring and periodic filesystem analysis of the ballot scanning devices. Regular L&A testing is not sufficient.

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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 16

    I may be losing my voice, but I can still send a message, and I have one for : If you vote for Kavanaugh we will fund your future opponent for 2020. Vote NO and Pledge $20.20 to this campaign and share it:

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    Aug 3

    Interested in ? Come to to learn about how netops leverages for chatops, orchestration, config management, and more!

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    Jul 26

    A year ago, we were celebrating the fact that we got six Emmy Noms after being on the air for 3 months. This year, we beat out all the other nightly newscasts with NINE Emmy Nominations. If you're not watching us yet, perhaps you should be. …

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  8. Retweeted
    Jul 24

    You can shoot up heroin in public, toss the needle into the street and then take a shit on it, but God help you if you try to drink iced coffee with a straw afterward

    : San Francisco leaders vote unanimously to ban plastic straws, single-use foodware.
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    Jul 12

    There's nothing quite as nefarious as a technical decision made via Slack: stakeholders miss it if they're not around, points are poorly stated as they're strung across 50 half-baked thoughts, context exists across pages of jumbled noise, *and* it's time consuming. I miss email.

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    Jul 3

    You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements. The only problem is: they go all blurry and useless during this

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    Jun 19

    HP iLO4 authentication bypass: curl -H "Connection: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" No, that's not a crash PoC. That's a full blown auth bypass. sscanf into fixed buffer overwrites a flag field that bypasses auth. Yes, really.

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  12. Jun 14

    ever read some great tech blog and wish you thought to write it first?

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  13. Jun 9

    this is my favorite game now

    Flight Simulator, a six hour video game where you play as a passenger on a transatlantic flight. Read a book, take cloud photos, or take a nap. An student game designed for
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    Jun 8

    The year after my dad died was so bad I don't remember 90% of it. I moved to a new apt and was unable to unpack. For MONTHS. I was ashamed I couldn't unpack. How can you be UNABLE to unpack? Just open the g.d. boxes. That was the year I cried for 19 days. Straight. /1

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    Jun 8

    It's the absolute conviction that your best work is behind you, or not as good as someone else's worst work, or that all your friends hate you and only tolerate you because mumble mumble reasons. It's the fear that says "don't self-promote, don't talk about your successes."

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    Jun 6

    This afternoon, I received text alerts from my kids' school that they were on lockdown. I thought you might like to know what happens, from the perspective of my 12yo. I just picked her up from school and she was rattled and full of adrenalin.

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    Jun 2

    A simple means by which to begin the rehabilitation of a deeply fractured nation would be through the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, which required all TV and radio broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on all issues. Introduced in 1949, revoked in 1985. Bad move.

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    Jun 1

    Clever power move by North Korea to make Trump’s hands look as small as possible in every photo

    Kim seriously brought him a giant game show check letter. Man do they have him figured out.
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  19. May 13

    "Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning" – on talking yourself through a problem with stream-of-consciousness writing

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  20. Retweeted
    May 11

    You fucked up a perfectly good wolf is what you did. Look at it. It's got capitalism.

    Good/clever boy
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