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Lee Brotherston

@synackpse.bsky.social
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Security doofus, dev prodding, general annoyance 🇨🇦 🙎‍♀️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 Currently making stuff @ opshelm.com

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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I guess if you famously burn through cash at an insane rate, why not just do it more?
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You know what might sell me on a folding smartphone? Not having some bendy hinged screen. Just have 2 "normal" screens like the Nintendo DS, etc did. Demos of one larger bendy screen being slit in half in software to show 2 apps side-by-side just rubs salt in the wound 🤣
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Surely the obvious answer is one (or more) of: - They don't care enough to be careful - They don't actually believe in their own hype Neither of which is a glowing endorsement.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The part I haven't heard is who is being held liable. In the past "oops" hasn't really passed muster as a defense against "penetration tests without a prior sign off". I would normally assume whomever ran/prompted the model, but given US laws on corporate rights, etc who knows?!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If only it had been possible to foresee this, or that someone had mentioned something.
JUST IN: Anthropic CEO says Al companies need hundreds of billions in revenue, or they'll go bankrupt.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
These CEOs have truly mastered the art of winning over people that dislike/distrust AI with their artful painting of a wonderful future eh?
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If I read the headlines correctly NVidia left the consumer market for chips that do games and AI, and are now reentering with an entirely new offering that does AI and games?
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride, fuck TERFs and Facists 🏳️‍🌈
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
So everyone who's leaving GitHub, where are you all moving to?
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
3D printer frenz, does anybody use a multi-toolhead printer? Kinda interested in the Snapmaker U1 and Flashforge Creator 5 if anyone has recommendations/counter-recommendations. The Original Prusa XL looks nice too, but it's 5 times the cost :)
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As you read this it gets progressively worse and worse.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
To a Kali box…. in Fortinet’s network
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Oooh "bank" run ahoy!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This headline is from yesterday, as in, this year: www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/m...
theregister.com
Microsoft sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home
: Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think I'm blanking out here. You know the red string, conspiracy theory, "vision board"... thing? What is the proper name for that board?
the red string, conspiracy theory, "vision board" imageAnother visual example of the red string board
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Unrelated: @waterfox.net and LibreFox exist.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
How did US people get moved to EllissonTok? Was there an app update, or was it something like DNS getting repointed to the other service?
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
LinkedIN inviting me, emailing me, and cold calling my personal cell all within 2mins is indeed "triple threat outreach", but not in the way I think you meant it Mr Salesperson.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
@hootsuite.com is reportedly supporting ICE: vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/21/v... Wonder what their customers think? @adobe.com @corewellhealth.bsky.social @ochsnerhealth.bsky.social @soundcloud.dev @britishmuseum.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uhaul.bsky.social @unesco.org @who.int
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Just a reminder that the @eff.org published this, in case it's relevant to anyone, for any reason. ssd.eff.org
ssd.eff.org
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting ...
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Access to the Epstein files is being managed by Ticketmaster?!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I almost forgot that between using all the GPUs to create magical math money, and using all the GPUs to make predictive text draw pictures, there was a period where we wanted to use very cold processors to open a wormhole and break crypto or something. Are we still doing that?!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I was looking for a way to summarize my feelings on that article since I read it this morning.... and I think that this covers it nicely.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Countdown to legislators calling for porn bans being exposed as having the most fucked up searches....
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Luckily absolutely nobody has ever used React and therefore this will have zero impact.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Epic codename, no one could possibly extrapolate what that's about.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Cool cool cool. Luckily no unhinged people have ever wanted to know the details of the jurors who convicted them, their family, their cult leaders, etc 😳
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
TIL that the golang sumdb does not use git-lfs when calculating sums for packages. So if a package has a file hosted using git-lfs it will checksum the package using the pointer not the actual file. Which is great when you *do* have git-lfs enabled and so get a different checksum.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Wow Liquid Glass is uuuggglllyyy, and there’s no accessibility option to turn it off?!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Of course being named in documents doesn’t necessarily make you guilty. But preemptively worrying about that so much has "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" vibes.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
And now I can't push changes to Github.... presumably us-east-1 will explode in an hour or so.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
media.tenor.com
big bird from sesame street singing one of these things is not like the other ..
Alt: big bird from sesame street singing one of these things is not like the other ..
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
From: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... I hope this is a poorly chosen set of words or out of context or something, because one would feel that “a spike in unusual traffic" is kinda core to Cloudflare's services
A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I see non-tech social media has replaced "so what is us-east-1?" with "so what is Cloudflare?"
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
So Cloudflare is broken then.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
President and CEOs email address is: benjamin_murray@skyservice.com They claim to care about DEI on their corporate responsibility page: www.skyservice.com/about/corpor... If you are planning to write to them, note that the address is actually Flightline Drive, not Road.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Naive question for my US friends. If the answer to “why did you pardon them?” Is “I don’t know who that is”…. Why is the next logical question not “why did you pardon someone where you don’t know who that is?” ?!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
When AI people say that “even we don’t know how it works”, I assume that this is hyperbole, not literal? We know that there’s a runtime (e.g ollama, etc), which is a traditional binary executable compiled from source code. It could have a debugger attached, logging added to the source, etc. [1/3]
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Well that explains how the spelling has improved in recent weeks (someone else, at least sometimes, posts for him). Also… the OpSec continues to be strong across the entire administration.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Excuse me Mr Clegg... Napster, The Pirate Bay, Megaupload, etc would like a quick word.
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I’m no military opsec specialist, but publicly telegraphing ahead of time when & where all the top brass will be, and by inference where they won’t be, seems…. Flawed. Unless it’s a cunning deception…… 🤣🤣🤣
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You know who does actually use the term “anti-ice” regularly? www.google.com/search?hl=en...
google.com
Google Search
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I know it’s a small qualm in the overall scheme of things, but “written in pen” is not “engraved”
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If macOS could not just pan audio 100% to the left on every software update, that'd be nice.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
For anyone looking at this, the samples I looked at, while obfuscated, were the same obfuscated code. i.e. not re-obfuscated per package. This little but of laziness means you can (at least could) simply search for chunks of the obfuscated sample to check your own repos.
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
*checks inbox*
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
@gdead.bsky.social never warned us that we shouldn’t have been wearing watches at shmoocon all those years!!!
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Had to look up the Cracker Barrel “woke rebrand” to find out what all the upset is about. I…. Am confused. Are they upset that the text looks more black than dark brown, or that there’s no barrel anymore, or…. What?
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Lee Brotherston @synackpse.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I get that Golden is the main track, but you are all sleeping on "How It's Done" (the fighting demons on a plane while making ramyeon one) youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU?...
youtu.be
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Animation
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