@whack it is apparently *extremely crispy* up north

#TIL Windows to this day still defaults to Kerberos+RC4 for Active Directory authentication, despite RC4 being deprecated for thirty years. The attack used in this breach has been known for more than a decade.
https://flipboard.com/@arstechnica/ars-technica-nb4if9fgz/-/a-Hv8HAzxWSkyApJMPzq4j7w%3Aa%3A1805463070-%2F0

*opens Watch Duty app*

“hm, doesn't look bad in SoCal right now. But I've been hearing all about fires lately …”

*scrolls up to Pacific NW*
*cannot distinguish state lines or most landmarks due to number of fires ongoing in OR, WA, ID, and MT*

oh. oh my.

@kf dat wattage

I sure can hear echoes of The Dark Knight trilogy in this score

@kf when you suddenly don't have anybody to take care of it feels *weird* man

Also forgot how spectacular the Hans Zimmer score for this film was; completely stunning. https://music.apple.com/us/album/interstellar-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-expanded/1533983552

Time to (finally) watch Interstellar with the wife and kids. Such an amazing film. #TIL the opening images with the environmental catastrophe and blight came from a Ken Burns documentary about the Dust Bowl. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/short-wave/id1482575855?i=1000725616279

Microsoft finally has an adoption roadmap for #PQC! I've been waiting for something like this ever since my friends at Amazon Cryptography published theirs back in December 2024 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/20/quantum-safe-security-progress-towards-next-generation-cryptography/

there's an XScreenSaver mode for this, and now the original 6502 BASIC is open sourced https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/