Rick O / is on Nostr

I'm Rick O. I live in the #PNW. Professionally, I'm a security researcher with previous experience as a penetration tester. Most of my hobbies are related to computers and technology in some way. I like to break things or build things to help people break things. #Privacy is important to me.

I'm hoping to be part of an active community of other #hackers doing fun things because we can.

I also enjoy playing #guitar, good stories, #CrossFit, and being a #dad.

Website: https://www.richardosgood.com

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2024-08-06 04:52:23

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one account is @npub1z3m…zn2f who sometimes posts interesting accounts to check out for #FollowFriday

2024-06-19 21:40:14

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2024-06-09 19:54:41

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that sounds pretty good for such a small thing. I used to have a cheap toy one that lasted about 10 minutes. One time I attached a RasPi Zero with an RTLSDR dongle to capture APRS packets. We were launching a high attitude balloon in central Oregon. It used APRS for GPS tracking. I thought if we lost it maybe I could fly the drone high enough to get a tracking signal over some small hills of we were close enough. Never got to try it though.

2024-06-09 18:58:12

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how long do you think one of those can stay in the air? Cool idea!

2024-06-07 18:44:24

@npub1fpc…jx2d I was reading you're post about CVE North Stars last night thinking it made a lot of sense and today I'm reading about this php bug and it just further drove the point home https://devco.re/blog/2024/06/06/security-alert-cve-2024-4577-php-cgi-argument-injection-vulnerability-en/

2024-06-06 18:09:32

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interesting to hear from someone who's actually used zulip before. It seemed like it might be better then slack in the use cases were I've had to use slack. Hard to know without actually trying it in a real works environment unfortunately

2024-06-06 16:00:56

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i think zulip looks interesting but I've never known anyone using it to actually be able to try it. Looks like a slack style chat but with separate topics more like a forum. It's open source so that's a plus. It does seemed geared toward corporate environments though. https://zulip.com/

2024-05-31 01:55:01

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if I were going to play this game with my spouse would you recommend we play totally separate games and then compare notes later? Or play through a single campaign together cooperatively? I'm afraid to look anything up because I'm a big spoiler-phobe :)

2024-05-30 16:48:46

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ah yea ok that makes sense. Back in the day we had a much more limited community size. Family, friends, kids at school. So information spread much more slowly which I'm sure helped for this kind of thing. I'm definitely going to check out this game though. Sounds cool.

2024-05-30 14:43:53

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I'm not familiar with Animal Well but you have me interested in it. Are you saying the game was designed to be played collaboratively? But the internet as a whole is too large of a group and it hurts the experience?

2024-05-29 17:35:15

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As a side note, if you haven't played the outer wilds I highly recommend it. Based on what you've said here I think you might enjoy it. I recommend reading as little as possible about the game first because it's really all about exploration and discovery and connecting the dots. Once you learn something you can't unlearn it.

2024-05-29 17:33:33

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A couple years back I played The Outer Wilds on playstation. It's a single player game with a huge exploration and discovery element. Once a week I did a share play session with my brother who lives far away. I controlled the game but we discovered it together and made decisions together. It was really similar to playing games as kids together on the couch.It was a great experience and I sometimes wish I could forget the game so I could replay it.

2024-05-27 01:20:46

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bookmarking this for when my kids are older

2024-05-27 00:29:42

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when I was doing webapp pentesting a ran into this kind of thing all the time. I could never really figure out why the clients were even using jwt. I'm not sure they knew either.

2024-05-24 19:57:34

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I basically just installed an Android gopher client and started exploring from it's default home page. It was easier than I thought. Though now I'm getting in deeper of course...

2024-05-24 18:00:42

@npub1z3m…zn2f have you checked out gopherspace? I recently discovered it via Mastodon (iirc) and it seems like something you'd be into. I thought gopher was dead and never used it before but there's a community there and as I've been exploring gopherspace it feels a lot like exploring the web in the early days. Very similar feeling of exploring finding neat things here and there. One link leading to another to another. Very different from passively seeing what's in my various feeds.