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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

God. Damn. This was an amazing reply. He didn’t back down, explicitly called out the Islamophobia of the “just asking questions,” and then flipped the guy’s bigotry back on himself. This may not change hearts and minds, but feel like it’s an answer that’ll motivate his own base.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I am glad some group chat software lets you *delete* messages sent by others from your own view of the group chat that you don't want to see yourself.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

This is _by far_ the most progress I've ever made on _any_ reverse engineering project, and the most time consumed.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Little wins. Breathing life back into an EOL device, where the vendor has given up on it, all you're doing is _making it work as it should again_ which is not impressive from an external perspective "oh, it's just working?" but I'll take it. I finally got "home" and "product detail" pages […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Today I learned: Home Assistant OS runs fucking _everything_ as a container, so when you serial-console (or ssh) into the Home Assistant OS instance, yes that root filesystem is read only, you need to shell into the correct container first, _then_ this command works. I got into the correct […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Can y'all imagine the anxiety a Stegosaurus had when the meteor struck? "fuck how am I going to pay off my mortgage?"

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

me: "My being unkind to others was unnecessary" <deletes mastodon most> Internet Rando: "Oh, you're one of those woke assholes" <blocks me> nothing of value was lost.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

CON saving throw: if you are older than a Millennial _you take 3d4 psychic damage_

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

It's midnight, the time when you're on the cusp of sleep, and at the same time can't sleep. The house is dead quiet, aside from the quiet drone of a rainstorm on a metal roof. Suddenly, a voice two rooms away breaks the silence announcing loudly enough to revive the dead, and give me a heart […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

$COMPANY makes a press release about adding AI to a product $COMPANY stock price dips in response for the 3rd time in a row When will they learn?

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@darkuncle hachyderm.io seems to have incredibly high quality people

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

If you're going to interact with maston users via the bridge please consider enabling the brid.gy bridge for your account. Thanks.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Random scumbag brain thought: are PAL, NTSC and SECAM still a thing today where HDMI is involved? Sorry this DVD is NTSC, your OLED based TV can't show this content

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Huh. For the longest time, fascism was one of the top lookups on m-w.com. It's not, at this very moment. :(

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@thedarktangent IMO a firewall policy that is configured by an untrustworthy source is no different than an allow all policy, but I can't threat model on your behalf.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@thedarktangent the only thing I can think of that might be what you're looking for is a duct tape and bailing wire combo of: Query logging RPZ entries to make cdn.example.com *sticky* rather than round robin Dynamic RPZ zone updates A RPZ zone file "Grove tender" that prunes stale entries […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@thedarktangent oh, are you literally asking for dynamic firewall rules that punch holes in your default deny outbound policy based on responses from dns servers?

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Dear Discord, please learn what the fuck consent is.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

<snerk> random throw-away website/account "Error! Your password must be 12 characters and have lots of punctuation" <open developer tools> <remove disabled attribute on button> <clicks button> Subject: Your Audio Imperia account has been created! Go get […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I want persian kebab, and in the recipe I see "1/8 tsp ground saffron" and my eyes catch the "ground" part and instantly I say to myself "Holy shit that's a lot of saffron" saffronandherbs.com/2020/11/16/kaba…

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mloxton @mloxton.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Dear women (and ONLY women, please) Say a 20yr old woman is walking on her own in town, clearly drunk or disoriented. It's a Friday, it's late. What would you prefer a man should do if he encounters her? I will collect answers to build a poll, and then collect what women say and compare what […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

me: "Why are the ORM accessor methods across relationships missing from the generated DBIx::Class schema?" "Because fuck you, that's why. They don't exist"

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

boo, the calibre sqlite database itself does table relationship foreign keys in a roundabout way: triggers.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I have now reached the point in my #nook #cloud implementation where I _need_ to integrate with the #Calibre backend sqlite database and files. I am now painfully ensuring all my books in Calibre have an ISBN, even while knowing that the ISBN is not a unique identifier, but it's close enough to […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Apparently I need to turn on the humidifier, I've deadlocked my desktop 4x in the past 18 hours by zapping it with static electricity built up by my carpet chair mat + chair.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Any #android hackers out there? I've got a couple chunks of code that have a static constant I'd just love to flip from false to true, so I can have some better debugging output from apps. It looks like there's a way to intentionally break signature […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I’m working on a list of questions you might want to ask about the Git workflow when joining a new team gist.github.com/jvns/600e510958c4b9… Would love ideas for other questions that would be useful to know the answer to!

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

ex coworker: "Hey, check out this video, it's #Perl!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9jid5ZY6c… me: "this isn't perl, this is bash in perl, this is someone writing a shell script in perl"

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@support hey, I think some websocket something might be upsetti spagetti because the "local timeline" only shows one post (one I just made) or zero posts

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

My bank: "Your automated mortgage payment has been deducted from your checking account" me: "Oh shit, I forgot to make the extra principal payment" Bank: "You're not allowed to make a principal payment until you've made a mortgage payment" me: ... me: <calls bank> Please permit my extra […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"not my house, not my cards" but absolutely my bellows to blow it all down

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

This makes me so mad. For years, the Internet has been frustrated that there was no way to export notes (annotations) you'd take on eBooks on a B&N #Nook. It's ... right ... there ... in the code. An exportNotesToFile function, that scrapes the notes out of […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@adamhotep yeah this isn't _sweet_ but otherwise you're dead on that it's teriyaki adjacent.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I shredded some carrots, added soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sesame seeds, ginger, and garlic, then shook the crap out of them and dug in with chopsticks, then realized what I had done: I had just made vegetarian dumpling filling.

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@darthnull I forget what the situation was precisely, but some CS rep via chatbot at Amazon offered me an account credit for *more* than the purchase price of a thing I bought that was defective. I was all "Uh, that seems really dishonest" but ultimately took the credit. Somewhere, someone at […]

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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) @xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@Ichinin I had yaki(soba? somen?) last weekend with a friend, with a tea egg. Never had it before, and I suspect it was very similar "picks up a little of the flavor" as an accent

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