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Barry Dorrans

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Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET Do you really think work wants my social media opinions? Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 12m
Hello, Thanks for reaching out. Our network team is aware of legitimate users getting blocked from the site and are working to fix the issue. Thanks for your patience while the team works to get this resolved. Thanks, Stack Exchange Community Support Team OOPS
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 4h
They’re rolling it out in smaller markets where they’ve got more modern setups but Seattle and surrounding environs were their first market.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 4h
Utah has signed off on letting Nolla Health’s AI system scan a user’s face and issue a prescription directly. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
Would you trust AI with your acne?
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 4h
ISP doesn't support it 😐
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h
It’s at 9 days now
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h
If this was public you could tell I work for Microsoft, because the estimate is going up, not down.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h
How long would replaying and processing the whole jetstream take?
A progress estimate that says "Historical replay in progress. Approximate time remaining: 7 days 17 hours 21 minutes."
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h
Yea the leap to 10, as much as I wanted an SPF connection, wasn't going to save much.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h
I could have gotten 200Gbps …
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 6h
One day I'll get structured cabling ran
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 6h
Doesn’t help that the Xbox is on a wifi bridge. It’d be useful there. But the price difference between 2 and 5 wasn’t a lot and once I cancel Comcast it’ll be an actual saving
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 6h
Ziply, who have been promising IPv6 for 3+ years
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 6h
Totally worth not having IPv6
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 6h
Oh that's better
A speed test showing 5.32 Gbps down and 5.47 Gbps up
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h
Also if you’ve ever seen a website I hand coded the ux is “lacking”
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Nothing Beats An Epcot Holiday @epcot.gay · 8h
Finally… @swiftonsecurity.com pfp has become real
A220-100 reacts to landing fails
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 8h
If only
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 8h
You talk like those services and that approach are in the past 😂
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 9h
And yes, I absolutely let copilot to the majority of the work here.
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The Daily Mash @the-daily-mash.bsky.social · 9h
Overnight oats, and five other foods for awful people buff.ly/8OiVbOD
buff.ly
Overnight oats, and five other foods for awful people
CONSIDER yourself too good for normal meals because you read the recipes in The Guardian? Then you’ll love these needlessly complicated versions of basic food.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 9h
I’m half hoping that the status reveal the person replying “Jerry no” to @jcsalterego.bsky.social posts is, in fact, Jerry himself.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 9h
OK as the backfill from the entirety of every Jerry Now post progresses the numbers are starting to move up
A screen shot of a web site which tracks the number of times Jerry was told no.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10h
Oh sure, this will help recover your reputation.
theguardian.com
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor launches legal action against police over Epstein raids
Former prince to challenge whether Thames Valley police acted lawfully over searches relating to his arrest
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Fantastic M. Fox @mrfox.bsky.social · 10h
tom morello, famous white guy
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 11h
Dominate
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 05/10/2026
I'm doing a thing. I don't think my numbers are correct though, far more people must have said Jerry No to @jcsalterego.bsky.social
A shot of a web site that is counting the number of "Jerry no" replies to Jerry since Bluesky started.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 20h
Jerry no
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 20h
Well I’m not even the the table and I know I’ve said it
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 22h
It’s mostly black and white because Jerry is so old that’s what television was when he first started watching it.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 05/10/2026
I'm doing a thing. I don't think my numbers are correct though, far more people must have said Jerry No to @jcsalterego.bsky.social
A shot of a web site that is counting the number of "Jerry no" replies to Jerry since Bluesky started.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry, today’s not my day for this kind of snarky bullshit.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
It runs as a windows service, so yes, you have to be admin (as you also need to be to set it up), but pausing the service should be an option in the cloudflare cli imo
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
I hate that cloudflared allows you to configure and setup a tunnel to your local machine, but not stop that tunnel.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
You know what would make a connected washer and dryer useful? An app that you could scan the washing instructions on clothes with, and it'll figure out the right wash and dry settings for your next load of clothes.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
I think @theverge.com doxed @darthbluesky.bsky.social, this has to be his neighbourhood. www.theverge.com/report/10021...
theverge.com
Potato by air
Millennial potato subsidy
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
So I moved to the US 16 years ago (and I grew up in NI), and I laughed at all the American flags on flagpoles on houses. Heck the idea of having a house flagpole is silly enough. I wonder if they know how American they're being.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
You can take my 35-year-old Barbour, with the detachable liner so I can wear it in autumn and sping, out of my cold waxed hands .
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
I saw that @swiftonsecurity.com ... too slow in your deletes
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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
inside of you are two women
Medusa with the Head of Perseus sculpture by artist Luciano GarbatiMs Rachel
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
I refuse to answer that on grounds I'm a bit scared of you.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
Good grief. A plugin used to authenticate to Swift, Qatar's national identity provider, the Swedish Tax Agency and many banks had a piss simple RCE "they implemented a cryptographic check, and they did it themselves" amibeingpwned.com/blog/8-in-10...
amibeingpwned.com
8 out of 10 Banks HATE This One Weird 3SKey RCE
SConnect (1M+ users), the extension and native host used to authenticate with 3SKey, SWIFT, eIDs and other hardware signing tokens, had a drive-by RCE: any site or iframe could silently download and r...
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
Woohoo, @kagi.com has passkey support now.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
youtube.com
The Blame Game: Flegs
YouTube video by BBC Northern Ireland
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you for the mental image, this is the cursed shit I come to Bluesky for.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:
An entirely black frame with the words "Things must stabilise soon" in small white letters.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’
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Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’
Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser The former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself defending Britain’s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after inviting the US rightwinger and Vladimir Putin sympathiser Tucker Carlson into his home for an interview. During the encounter, Carlson repeatedly suggested the west was to blame for inviting aggression from Russia and said of the prospect that Britain could have lost to Hitler: “Who cares?” Continue reading...
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we dab speed in this web zone
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/10/2026
This article, about the railroading of data centers (pun intended, given the location) is well written and wonderfully detailed.
theverge.com
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 04/10/2026
At home my [adblocking/DNS/network security] stack is uBlock Origin (PC)/AdGuard Pro (iOS), Ubiquiti CyberSecure ($99/yr) on UDM DreamMachine, NextDNS Pro ($20/yr) over DNSCrypt. Each is heavily customized, but my customizations are only right for me. IMO, CyberSecure requires expertise to justify.
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ᴉpᴉǝH 🐐💕 @summerheidi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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