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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There is a large-scale impersonation attack happening on Mastodon. People are registering typos of real people on mastodon.social and then following people who the real people follow. I’ve gotten two different ones today.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@b0rk As a backend for a new CVS project written in Haskell

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@sophieschmieg They didn’t want to make the cat-lovers happy and call it “mew”, which is indeed a message representative for “feed me” or “cuddle with me” or “I feel like talking”. So µ it is.

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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Reading Chaucer's treatise on the astrolabe last night, I was reminded of the wonderful old English word "mileway." It means "the time it takes to travel a mile on foot," and in the astrology of Chaucer's day it meant exactly 20 minutes, a third of an hour. The OED labels it "obsolete," but I'd […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@beecycling Similar but different: Crash Course on YouTube. Developed by a (now) non-profit, the videos are wildly popular in advanced high schoolers and struggling college students. thecrashcourse.com

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Crash Course

Crash Course is one of the best ways to educate yourself, students, your classmates, and your family on YouTube!

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

holy shit I got a free NordVPN subscription and their macOS client installs an endpoint kernel extension that just hangs around after an uninstall. There was a constant com.nordvpn.macos.Shield process. I had to boot into recovery and disable SIP to get rid of it. Part of that is on macOS that […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

done correctly, open source is a gratitude practice which may occasionally produce software

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"AI is inevitable." they say. Yep. I've seen this one before. It's inevitable in the way spam is inevitable. As a problem that needs solving.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

An operational style question for my DNSopy friends. I am reconfiguring my authoritative servers for my personal zones. I *always* write all the zone files on my laptop and push them out from a well-automated script; I never edit zone files on the authoritative servers. In this modern age, is […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I am putting a zippy Ethernet NIC into a refurbished mini-tower for work. I ordered both from Amazon. The NIC arrived today, the mini-tower will get here early next week. I distinctly remember that feeling on Christmas morning when I was about 7 when the giant box for me behind the tree had a […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@bagder At least in the US, janitors only clean up, not fix and create. Maybe “tinkerer”?

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Of significant interest to all my taper friends and 60’s/70’s music friends: www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e767… Hint: a large new cache of unreleased soundboards from the Family Dog on the Great […]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

A stereotype map of New England

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

A report from the field: I had to listen to two intelligent friends of mine go on and on about AI while I was putting together a bench from kit. One is a retired programmer, and he is putting together a personal use app using Claude and is amazed how well it worked with Tkinter, better than he […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

“The United States, Denmark and Greenland said late on Friday they had entered into an agreement for the US to develop a significant military presence on Greenland, while prohibiting US adversaries from building their own bases on the island.” Does this mean that Russia is allowed to, at least […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/11728632914… I'm not much of a meme reposter, but when I do, it is often the one on which this one is based.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

There are people at #1password and #DigitalOcean whose job is to weigh the risks and benefits of making public donations to nonprofits. Those people have badly failed their employers and should be out looking for new jobs right about now.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@sphcow/117234613225975367 I’m still so glad I didn’t really get into the identity morass before I realized that other good people could do it better.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@atoponce/11720267031… Of possible interest to the @homebrew folks, given how well Homebrew packaging works on Debian.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

It's 1997 again in the IETF. We will survive; we will possibly also thrive. In the interim, however, there will be a lot of unkind words aimed at "the other side".

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

30 years ago, when you bought a new small computer, you ended up with a serial cable that you probably didn't need. Today, you end up with an HDMI cable.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@jerry You also need to find a cloud at which to shake your fist.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nextdayvideo/11718… I cannot emphasize enough how useful this 30 minutes is to anyone who might ever write a simple tool that they want to share. It's Python-centric, but the ideas are not Python-specific. Even though it is full of practical advice, the […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

come to FOSS! the fucking exhausting world where brexit happens every week and nobody learns a god damn thing from the outcome

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Or *BSD, which is also (last time I checked) a huge pain in the ass to install and supports a small fraction of the hardware the Linux supports. I get it, we're all (myself included) pissed off about Debian's non-decision decision about genAI. But please understand that in the real world most of […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Listen, folks… If you're trying to convince people that there are alternatives to #Debian #Linux that aren't using AI, you're probably not going to get far by suggesting distributions that literally have no installer and expect you to install Linux by hand from an empty drive, or that haven't […]

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

>>> import math >>> import strings Vladimir Mayakovsky >>> This was a surprise! Of course it was my fault for launching the interpreter in a directory full of short-named code samples. #python

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@bagder Let us remind you. You announced self-care and followed through on it. You inspired others to do the same. You can do this again in other seasons.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

For many of us, the lyric "because I wanted to be dressed just the same" in the stage show transitively applied to Frank-N-Furter.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

May his memory be a sexually liberating blessing.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@mattblaze @jwz …and then adding “calling out scolds” to the list, but also trying to not make that entry become recursive.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@bagder Is this proof that the Summer of Bliss helps find all the bugs? :-)

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@bagder Sorry, I worded that wrong. You charge them correct money for the "how to do full version upgrades faster" training; that will cost them a lot less money over time because they aren't patching old versions and then getting to new versions anyway.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@bagder As you deliver these, please strongly consider also offering a service to help them do full version upgrades for a lot less money.

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