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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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George — Information Security professional with 30+ years across the digital frontier, from dial-up-era networks to critical infrastructure. Early career: managed networks […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ bofh.social/@gme, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
IT IS BEYOND BEING RUDE AS **FUCK** TO BLOCK SOMEONE JUST BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM, AND IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE A DEBATE ABOUT SOMETHING YOU POSTED THEN WHY THE EVER LOVING _FUCK_ DID YOU POST IT PUBLICLY? "Pink"/ @can@haz.pink YOU ARE A GODDAMN FUCKING […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
TIL Michael McKeon was Lenny (Lenny & Squiggy, Laverne & Shirley). Excuse me while I pick my mouth up from the floor.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026
Can anyone that uses #OSM/ #OpenStreetMap or #CoMaps explain to me why there are so many duplicate results returned? How the hell am I supposed to know which one to pick? This is so confusing...
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
#fastfetch gme@kde-desktop:~$ fastfetch `.:/ossyyyysso/:. gme@kde-desktop .:oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyo:` --------------- -oyyyyyyyodMMyyyyyyyysyyyyo- OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026
@levicul.us@bsky.brid.gy According to Sharkey (I refuse to use or support Mastodon) you're already on Bluesky? That's what the `levicul.us@bsky.brid.gy` means. My non-Mastodon fedi-account is Bridged to your account on Bluesky.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026
#FreeBSD? ✅ #KDE? ✅ #Plasma? ✅ #Wireless? ✅ #Webcam? ✅ #Framework Gen 1 15" laptop Still can't get the desktop to configure/ work/ or setup properly with my Nvidia RTX-3090s on my workstation though. :-(
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
Oh look, there's more. #HungerRush #hacking #security Return-Path: <bounces+15428420-0e13-george=ellenburg.email@em8199.hungerrush.com> Delivered-To: george@ellenburg.email Received: from mc01.bofhcorp.com ([172.22.1.253]) by […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
Ok, this is _interesting_ and it's confusing. The domain `hungerrush.com` is not affiliated with any of my domains. The only similarity is that we both use Cloudflare. But this is coming to my personal email domain. DNSlytics doesn't show anything out of order […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
It begins. #USpol #gas #fuel #petrol #diesel #Iran
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
While I don't like the new behavior that shows the password length in `sudo-rs`, but I'm not worried about it. Why? Because of this. RE: www.xda-developers.com/sudo-rs-pass…
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
I guess it's a good thing then that I don't have a #Ledger #Bitcoin #Wallet. #phishing #scam #security
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
Looks like scammers are starting to give up on email phishing and resort to telephone refund scams where they get you to install remote desktop software, have you log-in to your bank, and make it seem like they gave accidentally gave you too much money so they […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
Just got an Email from Hetzner that they're raising prices due to all the AI crap induced supply-chain issues for server parts & components.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
#MullvadVPN #security #privacy
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
Someone explain to me what's wrong with #DogsOfTheFediverse or #FediDogs? Why do people have the compulsion to always tack _#Mastodon_ onto every fucking thing? You're not "on" Mastodon people. You're in the fucking #Fediverse and you just happen to be using […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
I was today year's old when I discovered that you can turn landscape notebooks 90 deg. to give you a better writing surface for taking notes. Why have I never considered this?!
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026
Why does Google #Gemini think it's #ChatGPT and give me instructions for ChatGPT than instructions for itself? Is Google funneling requests to ChatGPT? Was Google Gemini trained on ChatGPT models? Something smells VERY fishy! #AI #LLMs
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
Oooh! Wow. `btop` looks _very_ good in the IBM 3270 font... #linux #kde #wayland #ubuntu #yakuake
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
Got it! Got my #IBM #3270 #font to work with #Pulsar! #Linux #KDE #Wayland
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
Heads up. New #phishing #scam is particularly nasty if you're not paying attention! It spoofs the #SocialSecurity Admin's notices about your #earnings #reports they send you periodically. Only reason I knew this was bogus is it was sent to an email address I've […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
What a goddamn fucking douchebag. I wonder if that was his mother I fucked last week? Fucking cunt. @sortius@infosec.exchange @sortius@mastodon.au @sortius@mastodon.social
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
Someone please tell me that he's not using WhatsApp. That looks a lot like WhatsApp! 😱 #USpol
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026
I want to like #AppFlowy. I really do. But the fact they charge $7.50/mo for the **_privilege_** of me storing my data _locally_ and not transferring my data to their servers, frankly is **offensive**. What a joke.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
They've been telling us Tren de Aragua is a drug ring. So which is it? Drugs or prostitution? They can't even keep their own lies straight. RE: abcnews.go.com/US/2-shot-federal-ag…
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026
FFS, the US isn't even in the Top 10 when ranked per-capita, which is a more meaningful statistic. You're blaming the US for being a large Country with a strong economy and capital markets. ---
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
Fellow Fedizens, I need your help. Am I overreacting here? (I should add the context of the conversation is one that repeats itself weekly if not more than weekly.) #AskFedi
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
#truth
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025
Kudos to #Ford for doing the right thing and keeping up with ever evolving standards! #privacy #security
screenshot
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025
#quote #Plato #humans
"According to Greek Mythology,

humans were originally created with

four arms, four legs, and a head with 

two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus

split them into two separate beings,

condemning them to spend their lives

in search of their other halves."


--Plato's "The Symposium"
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025
Good god #Synology! No! No! No! No! No! No! Gah! #AI #enshittification
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025
#USpol
ONE CHILD IS HOLDING SOMETHING
THAT'S BEEN BANNED IN AMERICA
TO PROTECT THEM.
Guess Which One.
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One girl is holding a book. Another girl is holding an AR-15 rifle.
They are sitting on the floor.
In a library.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
Call me crazy but I love to see
people happy and succeeding.
Life is a journey, not
a competition.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
#truth
Feminism - the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025
I miss her. #RBG #SCOTUS #USpol
The Notorious RBG
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025
#Facebook just openly admitted they are tracking everything we do online. I mean, I've known that for _years_ but this is the first time I can recall that #Meta actually admitted it in public. You can't KNOW what people are doing or what websites they're […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025
@selea@social.linux.pizza @ohai@ohai.social Sounds like I need to just redirect all reports from Mastodon instances to `/dev/null` then. At least Sharkey requires me to REVIEW all reports made by my users and I'm the one that decides whether to forward the report on-to the remote instance.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025
@ohai@ohai.social -- Why do you allow your users submit bullshit reports like this?
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025
Picture I took of the moon this morning about 30 minutes ago. Pixel 8 Pro. "Night Sight" mode. The moon was directly above me and I was zoomed-in all the way.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025
This is why you need to keep your shit regularly patched and updated, people. Defense in-depth. It also pays to hire a reputable firm to conduct a security audit and review of your external exposure, too. And... This is the time malicious actors are the most […] [Original post on bofh.social]
Hi George,

We identified unauthorised access to one of our application servers. The issue was contained and the server was rebuilt. The system involved did not store customer data, and no data breach occurred. No action is required from you.

All customer account information, including your email address and hashed password, is stored in a separate database that remained protected throughout the incident. We reviewed application, network, and database audit logs for the full period. These confirm that the attacker did not access, query, or copy any customer data. Payment card information is not stored on our systems and was never at risk.

At 19:46 UTC on Friday 5 December 2025, an attacker reached one application server through an incorrectly exposed network path and triggered a flaw that allowed a command to run, causing the server to stop responding. The server restarted repeatedly due to automatic recovery, resulting in intermittent service disruption. The incident was contained at 02:17 UTC on Saturday 6 December 2025. Some services, including checkout, remained disrupted for a further twenty-four hours while we applied changes across our infrastructure.

We corrected the network issue that allowed direct access and patched the software vulnerability on the affected server. Based on all evidence, no customer data was accessed.

You can contact us if you have any questions by replying to this email or by using our contact form.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
🤔 Do you use #KDEPlasma6? 🤔 Are you on #Ubuntu 25.10? 😠 Tired of #PackageKit asking you to authenticate every hour or so while #Discover is running? I know that AI is a bad-word around here, but I asked #ChatGPT and its first suggestion worked on the first try […] [Original post on bofh.social]
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025
Well this happened this morning. Unknown if anybody was hurt. #fire
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025
#AI generated images have found their way into the #RoyalInstitute.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025
Pretty sky tonight. #ABQ #sunset
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025
#meme #cartoon #ThePinkPanther
A color cartoon image of The Pink Panther. Standing. On green grass. There is a clear blue field of sky above the horizon. The Panther has his eyes closed and is shrugging.

Simple (and small) black text appears on the sky background above The Pink Panther:

"Expect nothing. Appreciate everything."
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025
_Space Cadet Pinball_ - github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball - appstream:com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinball - `flatpak install com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinball` #games #Windows #Linux #SpaceCadetPinball #Pinball #flatpak
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
LOL. #Google #Gemini has leaked it's instructions to not make shit up! 🤣 #AI #LLMs
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025
#quote Spanish: "VIVE TU VIDA QUE AL FINAL NADIE MORIRA POR TI." Translation: "Live your life because in the end no one will die for you."
Dark block letters on a light, faded background:

Origial:
"VIVE
TU VIDA
QUE AL FINAL
NADIE
MORIRA POR TI."

Translation:
"Live your life because in the end no one will die for you."
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025
#Quote #CarlJung #Zarathustra
Dark, stlyized, serifed text, on a light patterned background:

"What is meant is, that you should be
with yourself, not alone but with
yourself, and you can be with
yourself even in a crowd.
- Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1484."
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
We need a new word to replace _trump_. As in... "The First Amendment trumps any Sheriff's personal views." Because I propose that _trump_ now mean the biggest asshole criminal and family that has ever walked the face of this Earth. #USpol
Screenshot from Dictionary.com.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
View outside my back window right now. ;-) I love this place.
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