Brian

I said DON’T click that!
Tech lurker who moonlights as a security guy. Coach and President of Minnesota Wild Blind Hockey.

2025-06-22

@Em0nM4stodon ok so I voted Linux and then then tried to post something snarky about cats and the mastodon client crashed. Clearly cat gods with their revenge.

2025-06-20

@hacks4pancakes I once did consulting work for a law firm that prosecuted cases for it. Does that count?

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2025-06-20

Oh man, I’m getting some “three years later” follows off X and - hi, I’m still here posting about infosec shit, um - I retired from the military, gave up and left America, live in Australia now, I’m even more radical justice punk, I have a Mohawk, my conference is on to year 6, I teach SANS now, 🫠👋🏻

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Nick's world 🌎 👨‍🦯gocu54@caneandable.social
2025-06-19

For those who use braille displays, , how do you quickly navigate to the emoji keyboard with your apple devices running IOS? #Blind

2025-06-18

@nyanbinary like jenny.8675309 ?

2025-06-16

@hisold Essentially its in the colors & themes under splashscreen. I changed it from Breeze to None. It had been on Breeze since I installed Arch months ago.

Screenshot of KDE Colors and Themes showing the Splash Screen setting with Breeze, Oxygen or None as possible selections. None is selected
2025-06-16

That's twice now that an update to #archlinux or its default breeze theme or related package broke my ability to log in. This time it appears to do with the default breeze splash screen. Changing to none got around the issue.

I learned my lesson last time though and installed timeshift and use it before I do updates. It was easy to revert back.

This one was odd in the fact that it was broken for wayland but not x11.

#linux #linuxonthedesktop

2025-06-14

I miss the days where the weekend was only consumed by zero days and analyzing how they could affect my clients.

2025-06-10

All this AI in all these things is breaking people’s ability to critically think

Apple at WWDC - We didn’t really get our AI ready so check out these icons.

WTF Apple where is all your AI!!!

#apple #ai

2025-06-06

I go make dinner and come back here and now I wonder if @da_667 needs a wellness check…

2025-06-05

Why do all the Microsoft products constantly tell me about new things like shortcuts and features and settings and do it repeatedly for the same thing? Can that be turned off? My linux box doesn't do that but I can't use that for work due to policies. #windoes11 #microsoft #linux

2025-06-02

@da_667 I was think about interview questions the other day and since people are going to continue to use the copilots and ChatGPTs that I need to add a questions like “When your LLM gives you an answer based on old information, what do you do?”

2025-05-18

@jerry sure cats can do that but when I do it, there’s always comments about sticking my rear out and it not being appropriate.

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2025-05-17

Putting this out there for whatever good it does.

#Email #Spam folders are a problem because they contain a mix of emails that are clearly spoofed and faked based on #SPF and #DKIM failures, along with others that maybe might, perhaps, be spam based on HTML content, language, whatever. We train people to expect Spam folders are usually wrong. But emails that fail SPF and DKIM should be taken seriously!

Email providers. Why not deal with this by either providing 2 SPAM folders or else showing emails that land in the spam folder because of the #DMARC p=quarantine policy, in red, bold letters, and with a "!!" flag, so people know to be extra cautious?

And when opened, give notices like the sending server is not authorized to send email for the sender or the from address is not authorized to be sent by the sending server.

Why not?

#CyberSecurity #Spoofing
@runbox @Tutanota @thunderbird

2025-05-17

@Jerry @runbox @Tutanota @thunderbird I miss the S in SMTP…

2025-05-14

@da_667 That really depends on what you are filtering for. City I'm in had to build a treatment plant due to high concentrations of manganese which is not good to drink. That plant did not fix the hard water issue.

Essentially we have a water softener and a single water filter for drinking water and coffee etc.

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2025-05-13

The last paragraph of this week's Crux, from @daedalus ...

Yes.

Fuck yes.

"A lot of developers seem to believe that what people really want from their computers is surprises and nagging. I do not. I want computers that do what they have been told to do, and only that, until they are explicitly instructed to do something else. In a world beset by unpredictable disruption, I crave the comforts of technology that is boring and predictable."
2025-05-10

@GossiTheDog I’m looking forward to it

2025-05-10

@mainframed767 does Copilot count as an advertisement?

2025-05-09

@hacks4pancakes Get your cry in and then enjoy your weekend. You just accomplished a lot of positive things which may not be clear to you yet. You need to take the opportunity to relax and enjoy when the opportunity is there, like this weekend.

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