#mistakesweremade — Public Fediverse posts

#WritersCoffeeClub April 24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.

I had decided to change the gender of a minor character and a misplaced pronoun made it all the way past me and my editor into the final printing.

I didn’t notice until I was recording the audiobook.

Minor issue at the end of the day, but oh my goodness do I feel silly about it. 😅

#CrownOfHorns #writingcommunity #editing #mistakesweremade

#WritersCoffeeClub April 24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.

I had decided to change the gender of a minor character and a misplaced pronoun made it all the way past me and my editor into the final printing.

I didn’t notice until I was recording the audiobook.

Minor issue at the end of the day, but oh my goodness do I feel silly about it. 😅

#CrownOfHorns #writingcommunity #editing #mistakesweremade

#WritersCoffeeClub April 24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.

I had decided to change the gender of a minor character and a misplaced pronoun made it all the way past me and my editor into the final printing.

I didn’t notice until I was recording the audiobook.

Minor issue at the end of the day, but oh my goodness do I feel silly about it. 😅

#CrownOfHorns #writingcommunity #editing #mistakesweremade

#WritersCoffeeClub April 24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.

I had decided to change the gender of a minor character and a misplaced pronoun made it all the way past me and my editor into the final printing.

I didn’t notice until I was recording the audiobook.

Minor issue at the end of the day, but oh my goodness do I feel silly about it. 😅

#CrownOfHorns #writingcommunity #editing #mistakesweremade

#WritersCoffeeClub April 24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.

I had decided to change the gender of a minor character and a misplaced pronoun made it all the way past me and my editor into the final printing.

I didn’t notice until I was recording the audiobook.

Minor issue at the end of the day, but oh my goodness do I feel silly about it. 😅

#CrownOfHorns #writingcommunity #editing #mistakesweremade

Codename : Scottish Bardic Alethorpe (2025)

Largely due to bad planning, and other factors, this batch is being brewed just ahead of St. Andrew’s Day, and will be enjoyed for Robbie Burns Day. In an older tradition, it is known as an 80 shilling ale, but more modernly known as a Scottish Export. A shoutout to The Apartment Brewer, I recently saw his video, and was inspired to emulate his […]

https://breowanthorpe.beer/2025/11/scottish-export-5/

Codename : Scottish Bardic Alethorpe (2025)

Largely due to bad planning, and other factors, this batch is being brewed just ahead of St. Andrew’s Day, and will be enjoyed for Robbie Burns Day. In an older tradition, it is known as an 80 shilling ale, but more modernly known as a Scottish Export. A shoutout to The Apartment Brewer, I recently saw his video, and was inspired to emulate his […]

https://breowanthorpe.beer/2025/11/scottish-export-5/

Maybe a quick #Redbull and a couple of strong #Ibuprofen weren't the best option for the first thing to go down the hatch in the morning .. My stomach is complaining and I feel nauseous ..

#MistakesWereMade #EarlyMorning

#Cryptofail can happen for larger organizations, too: #Microsoft #Office365 email message #encryption (#OME) uses AES cipher in Electronic Code Book (#ECB) mode of operation for protecting the OME encrypted messages.

The ECB mode encrypts plaintext blocks independently, without randomization; therefore, the inspection of any two ciphertext blocks reveals whether or not the corresponding plaintext blocks are equal. What this means is that repeating parts of the message get encrypted to identical values revealing structure of the messages. It also will allow creating “fingerprints” of messages, where the relationship of repeating patterns can be used to infer similarity of different messages.

To make matters worse, in addition of keeping the encrypted message in the email server itself, OME by default also sends the encrypted message as an attachment to the recipient. While email typically does best-effort TLS encryption, in practice email transmission cannot really be considered secure. In practice this means that the poorly encrypted messages can be analyzed by anyone who ever managed to intercept the email message or happens to run into any of the OME encrypted messages at a later date. This allows actors who either have large collection of email traffic or who can access the email messages to analyze messages after the fact.

When I approached Microsoft about this flaw, they awarded me $5000 bug #bounty and then proceeded to do nothing. As far as I know the flaw is still present in Office 365 today. I have no clue why Microsoft refuses to fix this flaw, but I presume the reason is that it would break backwards compatibility.

The included sample images and the corresponding “encrypted” version of it were procured by sending an OME protected message with Outlook and then extracting the image from the RPMSG attachment.

#mistakesweremade #epicfail

About a year ago I ran into a #mobile application that claimed to implement a secure message delivery over #SMS. The demonstration video of the application was "interesting": The message was #encrypted and then sent over SMS (notably the message was encrypted first and the recipient was selected only after this). The recipient would then paste the ciphertext to the app on their end to decrypt it. This immediately rang some major alarm bells: They wouldn't just use some fixed encryption key would they?

I wasn't surprised to learn that it was AES in CTR mode with key "12345678901234561234567890123456" and IV "1234567890123456" 🤦​ #cryptofail #mistakesweremade #epicfail

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I've been told that
You've been bold
With Harry, Mark, and John

Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday through Thursday
With Harry, Mark, and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

…

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 🛰️
https://li.sten.to/satelliteoflove

#JukeboxFridayNight #MistakesWereMade #LouReed #SatelliteOfLove

…

I've been told that
You've been bold
With Harry, Mark, and John

Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday through Thursday
With Harry, Mark, and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

…

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 🛰️
https://li.sten.to/satelliteoflove

#JukeboxFridayNight #MistakesWereMade #LouReed #SatelliteOfLove

…

I've been told that
You've been bold
With Harry, Mark, and John

Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday through Thursday
With Harry, Mark, and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

…

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 🛰️
https://li.sten.to/satelliteoflove

#JukeboxFridayNight #MistakesWereMade #LouReed #SatelliteOfLove

…

I've been told that
You've been bold
With Harry, Mark, and John

Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday through Thursday
With Harry, Mark, and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

…

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 🛰️
https://li.sten.to/satelliteoflove

#JukeboxFridayNight #MistakesWereMade #LouReed #SatelliteOfLove

…

I've been told that
You've been bold
With Harry, Mark, and John

Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday through Thursday
With Harry, Mark, and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

…

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 🛰️
https://li.sten.to/satelliteoflove

#JukeboxFridayNight #MistakesWereMade #LouReed #SatelliteOfLove

I am sorry for (and amused by) my latest #typo: "...experimental philosophers (i.e., people who use the stools of cognitive science to study philosophical thinking)".

It's from an earlier draft of my brief answer to, "What is experimental jurisprudence?" https://www.quora.com/What-is-experimental-jurisprudence/answer/Nick-Byrd?ch=10&oid=1477743650165973&share=044ce01f&srid=hCDA&target_type=answer

#xPhi #CogSci #xJur #mistakesWereMade 

I spent hours on Sunday creating a new image of the Cone Nebula, thinking I’d love to show it on Mastodon, then I forgot to send it to myself from my office, where I created it.

#astronomy #astrophotography #blunders #sigh #mistakesWereMade

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