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Posts about security and cloud with a mix of science, stoicism and music.

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The new pizza team - a single engineer eating a pizza while watching the output from 10 agents.

02.03.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the LowSodiumCyberpunk community on Reddit: Spend few days learning about VHS and decided to make an Reshade Preset. Thoughts? Explore this post and more from the LowSodiumCyberpunk community

This VHS effect on Cyberpunk 2077 looks impressive www.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumC...

28.12.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#BSidesLDN2025

13.12.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid Diagrams – Adam Logue

Microsoft 365 Copilot - Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid Diagrams

www.adamlogue.com/microsoft-36...

27.10.2025 07:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
iPhone Air Durability test -- I AM SHOCKED
iPhone Air Durability test -- I AM SHOCKED YouTube video by JerryRigEverything

Looks like Jerry is impressed with the new iPhone Air www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ56...

20.09.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
your terminal emulator has 16 configurable colours
	normal 	bright
black 	0 	0
red 	1 	1
green 	2 	2
yellow 	3 	3
blue 	4 	4
purple 	5 	5
cyan 	6 	6
white 	7 	7
these are called β€œANSI colours”

you can configure them in your terminal emulator’s settings

OR

run a script that prints escape codes to magically set up your colours https://wzrd.page/scripts
(my favourite way!)
programs can use ANSI colours by printing an escape code

echo -e "\033[34m blue text"

3 means β€œnormal fg colour”
4 means β€œblue”
the default ANSI colours often have bad contrast

ls --color often displays directories in ANSI β€œblue” which can look like this:

[bar of illegibly dark text against a dark background, which says β€œcan you read this?”]

ANSI β€œyellow” on white also often has bad contrast
β€œminimum contrast”

Picking ANSI colours which always have good contrast is impossible.

the only real solution is to use a terminal emulator which has a β€œminimum contrast” feature (like iTerm or kitty) which will fix contrast issues
usually if a program is writing to a pipe, it’ll disable colours

$ grep blah file.txt | less

grep, represented by a box with a smiley face: better turn off colours so that I don’t accidentally show someone `^[[34ntext here]

your terminal emulator has 16 configurable colours normal bright black 0 0 red 1 1 green 2 2 yellow 3 3 blue 4 4 purple 5 5 cyan 6 6 white 7 7 these are called β€œANSI colours” you can configure them in your terminal emulator’s settings OR run a script that prints escape codes to magically set up your colours https://wzrd.page/scripts (my favourite way!) programs can use ANSI colours by printing an escape code echo -e "\033[34m blue text" 3 means β€œnormal fg colour” 4 means β€œblue” the default ANSI colours often have bad contrast ls --color often displays directories in ANSI β€œblue” which can look like this: [bar of illegibly dark text against a dark background, which says β€œcan you read this?”] ANSI β€œyellow” on white also often has bad contrast β€œminimum contrast” Picking ANSI colours which always have good contrast is impossible. the only real solution is to use a terminal emulator which has a β€œminimum contrast” feature (like iTerm or kitty) which will fix contrast issues usually if a program is writing to a pipe, it’ll disable colours $ grep blah file.txt | less grep, represented by a box with a smiley face: better turn off colours so that I don’t accidentally show someone `^[[34ntext here]

terminal colours

wizardzines.com/comics/colou...

(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now!)

02.09.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Our first ticket release is this Monday (1st Sept) at 1337hrs:
bit.ly/BSidesLDN202...

30.08.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates β€” Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This...

Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates
www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/blog/why-you...

23.08.2025 12:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I enjoy people sending me pics of my #evolution book in the wild, this one is from @etyfishchris.bsky.social (check out his fish nomenclature project etyfish.org) in a bookstore in Richmond.

If you've read the book, please consider leaving a review with the bookseller. Thanks!

23.08.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽuBlock Origin Lite β€ŽuBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker. The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset: - uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists - EasyList - EasyPrivacy -...

uBlock Origin Lite is now available for Safari apps.apple.com/us/app/ubloc...
If you were using alternatives it might make sense to switch.

06.08.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The way I like to put it is thusly: If homeopathy worked, not only would our understanding of huge swaths of long proven physics, chemistry, and biology have to be wrong. Our understanding of huge swaths of long proven physics, chemistry, and biology would have to be *spectacularly* wrong.

19.07.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

For the longest time my google superpower was tbs=qdr:y but now its before:2023 and/or the kagi equivalent

25.06.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Security Best Practices - Model Context Protocol

The MCP spec has been updated to include security best practices

β€’ Confused deputy
β€’ Token passthrough
β€’ Session hijacking

modelcontextprotocol.io/specificatio...

23.06.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stratus Red Team AWS attack techniques are now mapped to the Threat Technique Catalog for AWS

Stratus Red Team AWS attack techniques: stratus-red-team.cloud/attack-techn...

Threat Technique Catalog by AWS: aws-samples.github.io/threat-techn...

23.06.2025 12:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Firefox "Extension Starter Pack - Firefox Staff Picks" you get on first install
vs
Firefox extensions page sorted by most users

10.06.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why MFA is getting easier to bypass and what to do about it Why multifactor authentication based on one-time passwords and push notifications fails.

Why MFA is getting easier to bypass and what to do about it arstechnica.com/security/202...

02.05.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Notice of termination of your A Cloud Guru lifetime course access | Hacker News

Looks like Pluralsight/Acloudguru cancelled "lifetime" access? Notice of termination of your A Cloud Guru lifetime course access news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265...

10.01.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Books I read in 2024. Lots of American founders Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, Boone, as well at TE Lawrence and Gertrude Bell. Some stoics and Aristotle. Also Wayfinders and Captive Collections about exploitation and indigenous knowledge.

Books I read in 2024. Lots of American founders Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, Boone, as well at TE Lawrence and Gertrude Bell. Some stoics and Aristotle. Also Wayfinders and Captive Collections about exploitation and indigenous knowledge.

The books I finished in 2024 (mostly audio). Lots of bios of American founders as well at TE Lawrence and Gertrude Bell (Arabia). Some stoic writers and Aristotle. Also Wayfinders and Captive Collections about exploitation and indigenous knowledge. God of Small Things and The East Indian were great.

30.12.2024 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB RAM Pentium II with 128MB of RAM could generate an impressive 35.9 tok/sec.

The fond memories of a Pentium II ❀️

AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB of RAM β€” Open-source AI flagbearers demonstrate Llama 2 LLM in extreme conditions www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

30.12.2024 13:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rosie's fundraiser for Cancer Research UK Help Rosie Anderson raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Here's the link! www.justgiving.com/page/bsidesl...

15.12.2024 22:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MacOS 15.2 Brings More Audio Bug Fixes We recommend updating to MacOS 15.2 as soon as you can.

MacOS 15.2 Brings More Audio Bug Fixes weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/12/12/m...

15.12.2024 20:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials Multifaceted, high-precision campaign targets malicious and benevolent hackers alike.
13.12.2024 21:47 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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AWS re:Invent 2024 Security Talks - YouTube

AWS re:Invent 2024 Security Talks www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

14.12.2024 14:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Time for #BSidesLDN2024

14.12.2024 09:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0