Hotel security is like drywall; it looks solid, but you can easily punch right through it. What’s a lot more solid is a homelabber’s stance on what their priorities are, as weird and strange as they might seem to someone without one. We’ll discuss these topics, as well as what the Supreme Court's upholding of the supposed “TikTok Ban” really means. We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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Everyone makes mistakes, but when those mistakes still work, they often go unfixed, because, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” In software development, though, these “mistakes” are known as anti-patterns, and if they aren’t addressed, they can lead to overly complex, unreadable, and unmaintainable code, increasing the overall technical debt of a project. In this episode, we look at the top five most common anti-patterns and how they can be avoided. We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/crowdstrike-warns-of-phishing-scam.html 

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What happens when you mix a computer nerd with books that deal with various kinds of computing and cybersecurity concepts? Answer: a boatload of unsolicited commentary nobody asked for diving into just how wild, crazy, and downright incredible those things described in the book(s) are. We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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The third, and final part, of our Core Modules mini-series is here, where we continue our look back at some of the best, funniest, and most informative moments from the history of the Dark Assassins Podcast.

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Part two of our Core Modules mini-series is here, where we continue our look back at some of the best, funniest, and most informative moments from the history of the Dark Assassins Podcast.

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Every musician has their greatest hits. Every homelab has one, or more, cornerstone servers that powers it. Every codebase has functions that are the fundamental building blocks which the project relies on. In this episode, we look at some of the best, funniest, and most informative moments from the history of the Dark Assassins Podcast. We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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You know the cyberattacks are getting serious when threat actors are going after the donuts. Have you ever thought about saying, “To heck with bounds checking,” and just throwing everything in a try-catch, and if you did, how would that affect performance? Finally, a new report suggests that Apple is working on a new server CPU. Does this mean the Xserve may be revived? We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/krispy-kreme-discloses-cyberattack-that-is-disrupting-online-orders/

https://theapache64.github.io/posts/boundary-check-vs-try-catch/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/apple-reportedly-developing-ai-server-chip-with-broadcom/

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In a somewhat surprising turn of events, government organizations want their citizens using encryption for communications in response to the various cyberattacks on telecom companies. Also, a new article suggests that AI is actually making you a worse programmer. We look into if that is true as well as the evolution of ransomware. Including its techniques, motivations, and ways to defend against it. We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/03/fbi-warns-iphone-and-android-users-stop-sending-texts/

https://slopwatch.com/posts/bad-programmer/

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Have you ever wondered what your favorite Thanksgiving dish would be if it were part of a homelab? In this Thanksgiving special, we take a look at some of the most popular Thanksgiving dishes and break down what homelab services they would be. We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2024/2024_cwe_top25.html

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What do you get when you give a nerd a brand-new technology toy to play with? Their entire free time consumed with playing with that thing. In this episode, we get into all of the nerdy things that have been going on this November and why ‘No Shave November’ should step aside for the new king: ‘Nerdy Things November.’ We are covering all of this and more on this episode of The Dark Assassins Podcast.

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