lithops activities involve patching cracks with mortar, ensuring adequate stockpiles of stone and tools are on hand to replace any failures that occur due to extreme weather events, centuries of erosion, or physical shocks.

which brings us, inevitably, to lithsecops

some leading security-conscious lith-oriented organisations have embraced a shift down mindset to incorporate security thinking within existing lithops teams, either by embedding security experts in the organisational groundmass, or upskilling existing practitioners. many security concerns can be addressed easily and cheaply within the geological cycle by designing and forming rocks that are too heavy and awkwardly shaped to be easily stolen or otherwise misused by the majority of unauthorised actors.

Yeah, not exactly techy stuff, but interesting someone brought it up.

My wife acquired an interest during the pandemic, so I instantly knew what this was about.