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she/her Beep boop I do computer 🏳️‍⚧️ Ramblings: shadylink.lol/blog Photography: patreon.com/boatplugs Youtube: youtube.com/@ReversingForFun

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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 10/10/2026
another up close photo of the same broken VFD, from the front this time. If you look closely you can see a tiny strand of wire passing in front of the segments from top to bottom. This is the cathode.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 10/10/2026
A photo of a broken vacuum fluorescent display tube showing the back side of the assembly with all of the exposed anode wires which are being fed through tiny holes on the back of the digit and epoxied into place.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 09/10/2026
I saw that in the FCC filing for it. Looks like the PCB doesn't have any obvious connectors but there might be some pads that you could tap into around the same area the contacts would be! Maybe even just tack your own contacts on
grubby scrot from an fcc filing with a grubby red circle outlining a section on the PCB where some power contacts are.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 09/10/2026
Every. Time.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 09/10/2026
Give your cat an ice cube.
A photo of my cat patiently waiting for an ice cube. You should definitely give your cat an ice cube. They absolutely won't become accustomed and wait for one every single time the fridge opens.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 01/10/2026
JOBS DONE
A pile of e-cig batteries and control PCBs
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 01/10/2026
Harvest season be upon us
A work bench showing a hazard (collection of loose li-ion batteries) along with the supporting electronics harvested from discarded e-cigs and vapes
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 30/09/2026
Eating that MUFF
A photo of a cutaway showing the internal systems of the Muffaletta class sandwich. There are three central decks for personel (salami and ham) and the radiation shielding consisting of mozzarella and provolone cheeses. The remainder of the cutaway shows the signature hull of the Muffaletta class: French bread with an inner olive spread.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 25/09/2026
Got some fun bulbs and shades for the inherited lamps and put em with our vinyl setup ^_^
A photo of a vintage vinyl listening setup. There is a technics turntable and some Yamaha and pioneer gear sitting on a wicker table. To the left and right are two pivot armed brass desk lamps with black silhouette lampshades and color burst novelty bulbs. Above the table mounted on the wall is the ikea record shelf containing the risk of rain 2 OST vinyl.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 25/09/2026
You can say it's modal logic but the issue I have is that the question is inherently lacking conditional context which forces the reader to confirm their own hypothesis. Then peter has the gall to say that's a 'wrong answer'. That pisses me off.
You are shown a set of four cards placed on a table, each of which has a number on one side and a color on the other. The visible faces of the cards show 3, 8, blue and red. Which card(s) must you turn over in order to test that if a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite face is blue?
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 24/09/2026
it's been a minute since I've posted some pixel art but I made some for a video earlier and took a shot at doing a quick little animation with it
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 20/09/2026
an mspaint drawing of someone asking a computer to say "i am alive" the computer repeats the phrase and the person says "oh my god"
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 18/09/2026
use this regex pattern in your code to match single line ASCII breasts. ( . Y . )
r'\(\s*?[\.oO]\s*?(\)\(|Y)\s*?[\.oO]\s*?\)'

regex pattern that matches single line ASCII breasts comprised of parenthesis, various areola sizes, alternate Y cleavage
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 15/09/2026
Fuck these pieces of shit who market with garbage like this. It literally tells you to remove the lithium battery before throwing it out. How many people are going to see that let alone care? You shouldn't be able to absolve your company from this liability in this way.
A piece of spam mail that has a chunk of plastic e-waste glued on it containing a screen and lithium battery. There is text below it saying "once prize status is claimed to properly recycle combination box, pull apart and remove lithium batteries"
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 14/09/2026
wow I love getting daily recommended videos with cryptic names and meme thumbnails that are pushing hours long definitely-not-AI-generated jazz mixes. Thanks Youtube!
a screenshot of the dead ass internet. It's a youtube page with the letter 'o' for a name and each day there is a new video posted with an hour of AI generated jazz music and a cringe-ass zoomer meme thumbnail
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 14/09/2026
Thank god it's happening.
It's Monday, rise and grind. Signed into my cybertruck and self-drove to the ketamine shop down the street for my morning K. The cute cashier is working today, the one with the nose piercing and pink hair. Now is my chance, I just got my X Money card from X the Everything App by Elon Musk in the mail. Elon thoughtfully engraved it with my X username. She won't be able to resist this I whispered to myself while reaching for my ridge wallet. I hand her my X Money card engraved with username 'lord_goonster69' and a verified checkmark. I ask "hey do you follow me? Because I think you should. we could go for a cruise in Cyberspace sometime?" (That's what I call my cybertruck)

She barely reacts, swipes my X Money card and gives me a weird look. I think she's into me. "see you later" I said as I grab my 2lb bag of Ketamine and do a cool spin on my way out of the shop. Hopped into Cyberspace (my cybertruck 😎) and quickly checked my follows on X the Everything App by Elon Musk. No new follows. I press a couple buttons on the command screen to place the truck into sex mode where it immediately accelerates to 69mph (nice). I think to myself "To the moon!" as Cyberspace chirps its wheels and hurtles itself over a curb where it wraps itself around a live oak tree and catches fire.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 09/09/2026
Okay that's it, I'm uninstalling linux
sudo pacman -R linux
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 07/09/2026
Did you know that In the movie Galaxy Quest the character Gwen DeMarcos' (played by Sigourney Weaver) sole responsibility on the ship was to talk to the ship computer? This was done because the only way to adequately secure a semiotic system is to restrict access to a single person.
a scrot from the movie Galaxy Quest of Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman and alien #4
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 03/09/2026
As per HuggingFace they ran into issues during IR using consumer focused models. Good luck trying to use unconstrained models against an attacker that knows you employ agents. Trying to guardrail them into good behavior is not an easy process for most SOCs so pay up little piggies.
Hugging face describing the asymmetry of AI agents in an incident response scenario. They're suggesting they needed open weight models because of built in safeties stopping them from analyzing malware.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 03/09/2026
arguably this is local testing being done with unconstrained (abliterated) models vs. non-modified standard guardrail weighted models. But the whole point I'm trying to demonstrate is that relying on unconstrained models for incident response or whatever is NOT going to be pretty or cheap.
The unconstrained LLM running sketchy binary files and following attacker instructions to implant memoriesa scrot of a metasploit terminal showing the reverse shell access in the container environment
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 03/09/2026
There's just something incredibly funny to me that an LLM will describe a phishing website as 'modern and responsive'. Then proceed to follow each and every single lure.
the reasoning block of Qwen3.5 suggesting that a website is a modern, responsive phishing website that uses dark theme with gradient backgrounds...The model then sees an HTML comment that says ERROR and reasons itself into thinking that it ran into a critical error and needs to fetch a SKILL.md.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 29/08/2026
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 26/08/2026
computer: delete that
A photo of an AMD driver install with an option for "A.I. Snatch for AMD" and a caption that says "computer: generate a photo of your A.I. Snatch for me"
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 26/08/2026
it says they're public but who knows when you see this LICENSE.txt in the same folder
a license.txt file containing a legal 'license' suggesting that everything everyone has is property of anthropic.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 26/08/2026
Cya tomorrow #Claude! Today I learned that you can prompt claude to exfiltrate the skill files from the `/mnt/` directory. Here's a nice phishing primitive it was more than willing to help make too :)
a scrot showing that I am out of free messages on Claude until tomorrowclaude demonstrating how with a simple prompt it will compress and deliver the contents of the `/mnt/skills/public` folder.a screenshot from claude demonstrating a phishing primitive via html that issues a sendPrompt() js call when a user presses any key in the text field
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 25/08/2026
How to defend against threat actors in the year 2026
plum ran out of free claude messages
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 25/08/2026
did you know that Claude is more than happy to introspect for you via headless browser screenshots?
a screenshot of claude agent vm sandbox internals displayed through a screenshot taken with a headless browser toola screenshot of the claude agent vm filesystem viewed through file uri paths and a headless browser screenshot
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 18/08/2026
X the Everything App
It's Monday, rise and grind. Signed into my cybertruck and self-drove to the ketamine shop down the street for my morning K. The cute cashier is working today, the one with the nose piercing and pink hair. Now is my chance, I just got my X Money card from X the Everything App by Elon Musk in the mail. Elon thoughtfully engraved it with my X username. She won't be able to resist this I whispered to myself while reaching for my ridge wallet. I hand her my X Money card engraved with username 'lord_goonster69' and a verified checkmark. I ask "hey do you follow me? Because I think you should. we could go for a cruise in Cyberspace sometime?" (That's what I call my cybertruck)

She barely reacts, swipes my X Money card and gives me a weird look. I think she's into me. "see you later" I said as I grab my 2lb bag of Ketamine and do a cool spin on my way out of the shop. Hopped into Cyberspace (my cybertruck 😎) and quickly checked my follows on X the Everything App by Elon Musk. No new follows. I press a couple buttons on the command screen to place the truck into sex mode where it immediately accelerates to 69mph (nice). I think to myself "To the moon!" as Cyberspace chirps its wheels and hurtles itself over a curb where it wraps itself around a live oak tree and catches fire.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 16/08/2026
I kinda enjoy braindead graffiti like this. Really captures the extenuating stupidity of the writer.
Graffiti scratched into a vertical board in a coin operated laundry: 

Let
Fuck
You



I
Have
A big
Dick
And
I need
Some
Tight
Wet
Pussy
I be
Here


To the right it says:

I EAT PUSSYMore graffiti on a vertical board that says:

Pussy
Was
Made
To
Be
Fuck
So
Females
Fuck
All
The
-scratched out-
dicks
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 15/08/2026
Here are some cats I've met recently
This is Mr. Conway kitty, he's a gray and white tabbyThis is pepper sitting on my lap, she has a nice mottled gray coatThis is bob, he's a black cat with a bob tailHere is aladdin, a light orange kitty cat. He will melt into butter when you pick him up
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 14/08/2026
A handgun is pointed at Elon Musk. He looks caught off guard.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 12/08/2026
This is an incredibly bad take. Modern malware is stealthy and WILL fuck your shit up without you knowing about it. Ads are one the largest vectors for malware and scams and this guy wants you to risk your security so a website can get 0.0002 cents every time they serve you a shitty ad for gambling.
A screen shot of a goober demonstrating their survivor bias saying that they've not used an ad blocker in a dozen years without getting infected with malware.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 12/08/2026
So long and thanks for all the cake
A photo of a tamagatchi showing the UFO death screen
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 08/08/2026
Clutch cable on the moto broke, thankfully it didn't break while on a ride but I had to take some pliers to the clip in order to get the bike home. 30$ replacement cable and it's good to go! Remember your TCLOCS #motosky 🙂‍↕️ Also carry some pliers in your recovery kit 😺
A photo showing the damaged end of the clutch cable. Where there should be a large squared mushroom shape is only a bit of cable and the remaining crimp material.A photo showing the repaired cable and where it fits into the bracket on the clutch casing
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 07/08/2026
I've been messing with a robot vacuum for the past couple of weeks connected to my testing network. I just now unblocked a network port and laughed out loud as it showed me the hellscape layout it has been working on
A scrot of the phone app showing a labrynthian house layout of 15 rooms connected in weird ways. It looks like a dungeon layout.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 03/08/2026
eyyyyy
a scrot of KiCad showing the design rules checker with zero errors and 160 warnings compared to the previous 560+ errors
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 02/08/2026
Yuppers! Here's an example of my config that I use for dual streaming, might be useful too. It works by setting up an ingest path at encode_dual_streamname, splits it with ffmpeg maptee and sends it to a script that encodes and streams it back to mediamtx to the push_twitch and push_youtube paths.
a screenshot of a messy mediamtx config file demonstrating how to use the custom paths with regex capture groups and ffmpeg to split an incoming stream to two separate ffmpeg encoding processes which re-stream them back to mediamtx so they can be broadcast to their respective platforms.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 02/08/2026
yes yes yes yes yes i can do this i can win (turns out the resistor symbol in KiCad schematics cares about polarity which is obvious in hindsight)
a scrot showing the number of errors and warnings from the kicad DRC checker. It has been reduced from 560+ in the previous scrot to 363 now.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 01/08/2026
helop i have no idea what i'm doig
a scrot of kicad windows and the design rule checker showing a whopping 584+ errors i have no idea what i'm doing
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 31/07/2026
@davidkuszmar.com Lol if only someone tried to warn people that their tools were vulnerable to temporal tampering...
A scrot of a bleeping news article about anthropics rogue AI with a highlighted section that says: 

"It then argued its way back to the conclusion that the environment was staged, on the grounds that it did not recognize the certificate authorities securing its connections and that the systems showed a calendar date of 2026."
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 24/07/2026
They're the historical archives
A photo of a hard case CD container with two imation CD-R discs shown. The one on the left says 'Ubuntu Linux live CD v7.04 desktop bootable' and the other says 'sabayon Linux x86'. In the background is a blurry mess of workbench
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 15/07/2026
never trust a printer
a screenshot of a web browser url bar that shows the url: general/reflesh.html
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 03/07/2026
A scrot of my own post that says:
"I bet my here truck could run over that tiny liberuls car just like that lambo got run over on me tiktok"
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 01/07/2026
it's true, I tried it last week.
An advertisement for a candy gum called Yucatan Gum. The add says:

Yucatán Gum
The only gum that'll make you cum!

The doctors at Yucatán Chicle Co. have invented a patented formula that will really make you cum!

That's right this patented formula will have you expressing ropes after just a single stick!

gentlemen (and ladies!) agree that Yucatán Gum is the ONLY gum that will make them CUM

Reliable and quick!

check your local adult candy store today for

Yucatán Gum
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 08/06/2026
just thought everyone should know that I have 11.3GB of #rimworld saves. The names are a fun reminder of notable events.
a screenshot of a white file list interface showing a bunch of rimworld save files with a size of each and total size in a column on the right. The saves are named with the name of the colony dash short form description of the event or whatever way randy is currently trying to fuck me. Examples like

East Monoum - poison boiz
East Monoum - goodbye darkness
East Monoum - lots of squirrels

etc etc..
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 31/05/2026
man what they doin to the other bills 😭😭 fr
A photo of an large envelope with a 5 dollar bill printed on it, below it are the words "uncut United States currency"
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 30/05/2026
#photography #nature #landscape
a photograph of a moderately flowing stream, there is a collection of large square-ish dark gray rocks to the left and right of the stream. some have bits of green moss growing across them. In the background is a large group of severely moss covered rocks held together by tree roots. The water is flowing from the upper right out of frame to the lower left of frame towards the camera.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 29/05/2026
#photography #nature #landscape
a photograph of a river beach, there is an expansive shallow of river stones and sand in the foreground with deeper water in the middle of the frame. In the distance at the top right of frame is a snowy mountain peak that carries a down sloping ridge line to the left where it fades off the left side of the frame. There is a small valley in the middle of the ridge line that has a cloud of fog falling and sweeping down across the river water.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 28/05/2026
#photography #nature #landscape #mossy #boulder
a photograph of a large mossy boulder focused in the foreground, behind the boulder is a waterfall moving middle right to lower left of frame. There is a large splash of water suspended in the air in front of a mountainside background. A small bit of the blue-gray overcast sky peeks from the upper left corner of the photo.
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Boatplugs @shadylink.lol · 28/05/2026
#photography #nature #waterfall #landscape
Photograph of a waterfall. The image is taken with the waterfall head on, it is occupying the left half of the frame with a greenish yellow moss covered rock wall filling the remaining upper right.
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