#geekery — Public Fediverse posts

A love letter to cosplay

Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […]

https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/19/a-love-letter-to-cosplay/

Cybersecurity Event in Review

The conference from Bettendorf, Iowa, has resulted in a satellite event in West Central Ohio with numerous themes and missions, beginning with port numbers, followed by CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), followed by exploitation and numerous related black-hat hacking tactics. Even though user creation may have been advised, the truth of the matter was significantly more interesting with each of the users. Every vulnerability would result in additional contexts necessary to […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/cybersecurity-event-in-review/