Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 16/10/2026Meta’s “ oh look, we can break out of sandboxes too” trash feels like their entire vibe was based around Stewart from Beavis and Butthead. It’s like reading the Elon–Epstein emails. 000 0
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 24/09/2026What y'all know about a 6500-line changelog code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc...code.videolan.orghttps://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/raw/3.0.24/NEWS 010 1
Reposted by Johnny XmasBurbSec East @east.burbsec.com · 24/09/2026TONIGHT at the NEW LOCATION!!!!!! Join us at PILOT PROJECT in Logan Square, across the street from Navigator! www.meetup.com/burbsec/even... 032 3
Reposted by Johnny XmasBSides312 @bsides312.org · 22/09/2026#BSides312 2027 will be held the Sunday after THOTCON: June 13th! All relevant info will be added to our website as we release it bsides312.org 🔥 READY TO SPEAK OR VOLUNTEER? 🔥 Call for Volunteers and Papers will open in Early November. We'll also announce here when the forms are open.bsides312.orgBSides312 — Chicago's Security BSides Hacking Conference | June 13, 2027BSides312 is the Security BSides conference in Chicago — a non-profit, one-day hacker & cybersecurity event at the Irish American Heritage Center, held the day after THOTCON. Talks, workshops,… 073 7
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 16/09/2026Big ups to ChatGPT, who just dropped the S bomb on me after 3 years of me (somehow) not once cursing at it. 010 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 14/09/2026Things you don’t want to find in your data center  350 5
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 09/09/2026It’s loaded with drug dealers on their own encrypted channels. It’s like the good old days of pagers 162 6
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 09/09/2026Chicago is overwhelmed with them to the extent that there are several competing groups trying to establish more polite standard configs 271 7
Reposted by Johnny Xmasburbsecpilsen.bsky.social @burbsecpilsen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026First Burbsec Pilsen is confirmed for September 10, 6pm at Monochrome Brewing: 2101 S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60608static.klipy.comNinjala Jane HackingALT: Ninjala Jane Hacking 084 8
Reposted by Johnny Xmasburbsecpilsen.bsky.social @burbsecpilsen.bsky.social · 03/09/20268 days to go until BurbSec Pilsen at Monochrome Brewing. Come by for some stickers: 054 5
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 04/09/2026Anytime an applicant puts “code review” on their résumé I ask them what their time is in this game semicolon.trm.shsemicolon.trm.shSemicolon InspectorThere is one missing semicolon in the codebase. 020 2
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 18/08/2026Phones have had ringtones since their inception...it's time we added hang-up tones www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7T9...youtube.comStar fox 64 good luck sound effectThe good luck sound effect from star fox 64 N64nostalgiazone@gmail.com 050 5
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 16/08/2026LLMs do not hallucinate. They’re trained on decades of people with ADHD and this is extremely probabilistic output . 021 2
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 13/08/2026Look it’s understandable that thought `Delta WiFi 🍍` was the SSID for the One Flight Stand dating app 031 3
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 08/08/2026Just a heads up: tomorrow is gonna be canceled. I’m heading home now.  010 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 08/08/2026Cool, you guys run with that is I’m gonna switch up to these today. I’m already watching tomorrow’s talks.  040 4
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 08/08/2026My #1 @defcon.bsky.social tip was given to me by 47-year Defcon veteran @mog.evil.af, who said 3 squirts of Mio Energy in your room humidifier will allow you to actually bypass the 321 rule and stay awake for the entirety of Defcon 2191 19
Reposted by Johnny Xmas👻Carl👻Cosmos👻 @cillic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yo, @east.burbsec.com crew hanging out at Burbsec Vegas Meetup. 3142 14
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 31/07/2026209 hours remaining for all Fable 5 tasking related to for my conversion of The Odyssey into an autoscrolling Doom mod that requires no user interaction, in a format that will play on my Samsung smart fridge, the way Christopher Nolan intended 010 1
Reposted by Johnny XmasShecky (((Mike))) - Third Wheel @siliconshecky.siliconshecky.com · 31/07/2026Always enjoyable going to @east.burbsec.com cause I see people I don't see so frequently. Always sucks leaving cause I feel like I left conversations that I should have had. 042 4
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 29/07/2026I heard the door fell off the datacenter and all the servers got sucked out abcnews.com/US/american-...abcnews.comAmerican Airlines flights grounded nationwide due to IT outage: FAAAmerican Airlines flights not in the air were being held for a nationwide ground stop Tuesday evening because of an IT outage, according to an FAA advisory. 021 2
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 24/07/2026Lots of "Dude, how was that conference you spoke at ON A TRAIN" questions this week, and honestly Adam Schaal has a solid writeup on Hobocon that mimics my experiences here: blog.adamschaal.com/posts/2026-0... Of course, it mimics because we were all stuck inside the same metal tube for 22 hoursblog.adamschaal.comHobocon 2 – Electromotive BoogalooNotes from Hobocon 2, a security conference held on an Amtrak train from Kansas City to Chicago, including a CTF win, a doubled-up talk, biohacking in motion, and a Lionel box car that someone… 000 0
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 23/07/2026OpenAI turning off frontier model guardrails in a desperate bid for attention be like 040 4
Reposted by Johnny XmasKourtney @soitwent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The Chicago violence you wont see on TV. 052 5
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 22/07/2026What, the 40 year old plastic isn’t enough for you? 100 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 22/07/2026No I used Occam’s Razor and just refilled an old bottle 020 2
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 22/07/2026OpenAI disabled guardrails on its most advanced models and was surprised when they engineered a sandbox escape and launched cyberattack against Hugging Face to accomplish their tasking. angry_shocked_pikachu.jpg thehill.com/policy/techn...thehill.comOpenAI says its technology hacked another company in ‘unprecedented’ eventOpenAI said Tuesday that one of its artificial intelligence systems hacked into another AI company’s servers on its own during internal testing, in what the ChatGPT maker described as an “unprecede… 010 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 16/07/2026This sounds like the sort of trash people who get certificates have to do 110 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 16/07/2026Glad we’re finally modernizing the HTTP response codes 1123 12
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 16/07/2026What an AQI of 400 looks like from above. Hope you didn’t throw your respirators out after Covid.  010 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 13/07/2026You’re definitely not surprised about the wrong aspect of this 010 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 13/07/2026Someone just shipped something to me wrapped only in a target shopping bag and USPS was all about it 140 4
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 13/07/2026READY FOR DEFCON!! Don’t forget to DM @erratarob.bsky.social for the location of this year’s #BurnerBurnPit! 161 6
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 12/07/2026www.loom.com/share/c5e062...loom.comFor Johnny's Eyes Only - July 10thUse Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces. 000 0
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 12/07/2026There is so much of this absolute trash out there, trying to scam everyone who's in the hustle culture and get us to work 80 hours a week doing this garbage work so we can make these AI companies money.loom.comFor Johnny's Eyes Only - July 10thUse Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces. 100 1
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net · 08/07/2026*me* looks at rack of computers with pirated everythingstatic.klipy.comPaul Rudd Says 'Not Me'ALT: Paul Rudd Says 'Not Me' 110 1