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Simon Zerafa

@simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
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Old school IT Technician and Cyber Janitor. Interests in #InfoSEC, #History, #Physics and #SciFi. Anti-fascist. Wacky Improvisation and Drive by Philosophy […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ infosec.exchange/@simonzerafa, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Looks like GrokVoxus is the next generation of internet based buzzword laden schemes to separate people from their money 🤔 grokvoxus.com Probably worth avoiding.
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Grokvoxus now available with biggest early bonus
Join the Grokvoxus GROK presale at $1.00 before public launch. Built for xAI Grok integrations, AI marketplaces, and Autotrade AI rewards.
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h
RE: digipres.club/@timixretroplays/1173… @revk and @bloor might enjoy this 🙂🤦‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h
RE: digipres.club/@timixretroplays/1173… @revk and @bloor might enjoy this 🙂🤦‍♂️
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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
The first packet sent on a RFC1149-compliant (avian carrier) network is up for auction: onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-pri… For background, see blug.linux.no/project/rfc1149 and […]
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h
OH: AI/LLM security breaches comes from poor system design, leaky sandboxes, and a lack of basic cybersecurity and oversight not out-of-control or rogue AI's. These systems are doing as told by these AI labs. #AI #LLM
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 13h
let’s freaking gooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3ol
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heise online @heiseonline.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy · 6h
Thunderbird for iOS: The first beta is getting closer www.heise.de/en/news/Thunderbird-fo… Posted into heise online international @heise-online-international-heiseonline
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Thunderbird for iOS: The first beta is getting closer
Thunderbird offers insights into the native development of its iOS app. The focus is on account setup, synchronization, and basic functions.
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 6h
OPSEC: Be careful how you generate and use passwords. Consider using a password manager to generate random unique passwords for each service 😀🖖
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9h
RE: infosec.exchange/@dannyjpalmer/1173… @GossiTheDog Maybe your dream career move? 🙂🤷‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: chaos.social/@janbeta/1173653695082… Doom for the Commodore 64 🙂👍 #Doom #Commdore64
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: toot.community/@EdwardPhilips/11736… These ducks are valued 😉👍
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1173… The end of Reddit 🙄
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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
@mralancooper you might enjoy definitelynotwindows.com
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Definitely Not Windows — Windows 11½
The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. An interactive parody of Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Copilot, updates, ads, and subscriptions.
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Enfys. The same one. A complete one from horizon to horizon. #Wales #Pembrokeshire #Enfys
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
Regular warning regarding backups and data recovery with Windows 11 25H2 and Bitlocker encryption. By default, new installations of Windows 11 25H2 have BitLocker automatically enabled, on laptops and desktops. In theory, the BitLocker recovery keys are transferred to the online Microsoft […]
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
@simonzerafa Employers will be dishing out burners, won't they, just like the do for other dodgy parts of the world?
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The owner of my go-to coffee shop on Kaua'i says business is about 10-20% of pre-Hurricane Lowell numbers. FEMA did not declare a disaster for the county (I just checked their website) so small businesses don't have any federal aid. So many people are losing their […] [Original post on mas.to]
Screenshot from FEMA website showing two tropical storm-related disaster declarations for Hawaii recently...storms Lala and Noll but not Lowell, which impacted Kauai.
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@heiseonline/heise-on… Don't take personal or work phones into the US.
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heise online @heiseonline.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Ruling allows cell phone searches at US border without suspicion www.heise.de/en/news/Ruling-allows-… Posted into heise online international @heise-online-international-heiseonline
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Ruling allows cell phone searches at US border without suspicion
Searches of electronic devices upon entry into the USA require no suspicion, says a U.S. federal appeals court. The method question remains open.
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
This is a work of genius 😎 “I gave my coffee table feelings. Mostly bad ones. Meet Greg” #homeAssistant #HHGTTG community.home-assistant.io/t/i-gav…
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I gave my coffee table feelings. Mostly bad ones. Meet Greg
This is Greg. He’s my coffee table. He’s also an open-source Home Assistant integration now, which wasn’t the plan when I bought a vibration sensor a couple of years back. Because that’s where it actually started. A vibration sensor I bought thinking “this’ll come in handy one day,” for triggering some lights by sitting somewhere specific or banging on a desk. Never useful enough for my place, so it sat in a drawer collecting dust for months. Found it again while tidying. I wasn’t about to ...
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
TIL: Do you use LibreOffice and LibreOffice Writer? If so then go to Tools → Options → Writer → Formatting Aids and select the Auto Complete option. Read the tooltip. Send all thanks and financial donations to @neil 😀
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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
* “Of course it’s a #genocide. We would shoot at anyone, children and women too”. * “Even if they didn’t pose any danger?” * “Of course, none of them had any weapons! I think I saw an armed Palestinian only once, but we used to kill hundreds of them every day” * “We were fine. We were […]
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
AI Slop accounts are not allowed on loops.video If you use AI occasionally, that is fine (so long as you label it as AI so people can filter it out if they prefer) But an account with a fake AI persona is a waste of resources that is often mass blocked. Please report them so we can […]
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
It's just occured to me that the final scenes in the Italian Job Movie are a literal cliffhanger 🫤🤦‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I think we've upset the local slug population 🫤 They were messing with our milk bottle holder yesterday and changed today's order indicator from 3 bottles to 2 😂 There does seems to be a lot around this year though. And Spiders. Cobwebs everywhere 🙂🤷‍♂️ #Wales #Slugs #Spiders #Milk
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Kristian Kiehling @kristian-kiehling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
The Swedish authorities have observed an increase in the number of ethnic russians from the Baltic States who claim to be visiting Sweden to 'go fishing', but who do not have any fishing equipment. Instead, these suspicious dual citizens, carry several mobile phones, cash and drones […]
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Pizza Cake Comic [Unofficial] @pizzacakecomic.com.web.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@itvnews/itv-news-im7… How is that hard work and dedication to your employer paying off the folks? 🤨🤷‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Please don't accept the "AI Factory" nomenclature for Data Centers. This is blue-collar washing. They are _not_ factories, they are data centers which won't employ many people when operational. Construction won't employ many local people either. #AI #AIFactory #DataCenter
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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
New EU directive bans producers from claiming to be carbon neutral, if such claims are based on the bullshit "carbon offset" industry. Major step in the right direction: eeb.org/en/new-eu-greenwashing-law-…
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New EU greenwashing law makes sustainable shopping easier
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/science-and-… Who could ever have guessed that building houses in a flood plain and then moving into a climate crisis would be such an issue 😕🤷‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Monday Morning Anthem 🥱🤘 youtu.be/HbJ6Jsy0JfY #Monday
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Why do UK and International Keyboards have two vertical bar characters? 🙂🤷‍♂️ youtu.be/BktIY7VbrUs #ComputerHistory #ASCII #|
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Pretty solid resource for #NoAI as in, why *shouldn't* I use it, with links and such. codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slop…
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Call or platform equivalents. +o writeout-only issues pagecache writeback.
Terms. See section "Alternate.
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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
For almost a year, my Ansible connection plugin for FreeBSD jails had a jail escape. A symlink inside a jail, a root-owned mv on the host, and every file transfer could land wherever the jail wanted. Rejecting ".." didn't help at all. Now it's CVE-2026-55074. Here's the bug, the fix, and what […]
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Fun fact: the U.S. Constitution does not require citizenship to vote. I'll repeat that: the U.S. Constitution does not say that only citizens can vote. It does not ban non-citizens from voting. A federal *statute* contains this requirement, as do many states' laws. But if the law was changed […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
是犹百门而闭一门焉,曰盗何从入? "It's like closing one door and leaving ninety-nine open, and then saying, how did the thieves get in?" - ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi, concerning the mysterious phenomenon of AI "going rogue" and "escaping sandboxes" when absolutely no basic infosec principles have been […]
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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Warning that not even Nigel Farage can sidestep widespread anti-Reform tactical voting highlights the real barrier facing populist takeover plans. Relying on constitutional gimmicks can't overcome a united public defending democratic norms. Why surrender to extremism? 🤔 #FBPE […]
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
This is a modern motherfucking website. And it’s still fucking perfect. modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…
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This is a modern motherfucking website.
Zero of the bullshit.
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: social.lansky.name/@hn50/1173376406… Who would be able to or want to buy one? 😕🤷‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: sciences.social/@alfiekohn/11733385… If you were looking for a reason to stop using Metas products then this might be it 🫤🤷‍♂️ #Meta #AI
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@amalia22/117336545… @archlinux @CachyOS What have you done to upset people now?! 😂🤦‍♂️
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: aus.social/@Unixbigot/1173342329324… Everyone! Please don't tell @bloor they have specials on Warp Core diagnostics at Aldi 🤫🖖
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! 🙂🖖 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Pet… #StanislavPetrovDay #StanTheMan
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Given all the issues with Vinted UK at the moment there exists an opportunity for someone to create a Resellers Platforms, for Resellers. Especially a similar platform, with the ability to host or self-host ( perhaps federate?). This would mitigate the major issues of a centralised platform […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/113206030… Happy #StanislavPetrov Day to all those who celebrate, live it like it's your last. I guess I could observe this year's #Ramadoom by refusing to use LLMs but you'd have to make me in the first place. Like the one where the Catholic gives […]
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Gwyn 😈 @lunalapin.slime.global.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Are you looking for an #icon or #favicon for your #website ? I am opening commissions for 16x16 pixel art icons, maximum of 20 (lmao) per person. (If you want me DM me and we'll work something out) you know you want a cute icon for your site! 🥺 […] [Original post on slime.global]
A plethora of cute icons done in my pixel art style for various sites, page elements, and flags.
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
RE: social.lansky.name/@hn50/1173333742… Well we all know what the best response to that will be, don't we? 🙂
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Rosa is absolutely delighted with her new box, but rather worried when I told her that Uncle Erwin was coming to visit 😂🤦‍♂️
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