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@Xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
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Pronouns: He/Him What am I doing now: - #Infosec Executive in Financial Services - #Privacy Advocate - Member of #EFGA, #ATL2600 (founding member), #DC404, #DC770 […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ infosec.exchange/@Xavier, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I did a #neurodiversity talk yesterday at @bsidesatl. Here are the resources I shared with them: Job Accommodation Network (JAN) — free, confidential, real people. askjan.org · (800) 526-7234 JAN sample request letters (the one from the talk; names no diagnosis) — […]
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Man, did I have a blast at @bsidesatl. First off, I had a great showing for my talk on Neurodiversity in Security. Slide, bibilography, and my research has been posted on the BSides Atlanta discord […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
Photo of Xavier Ashe standing in front of the Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.  I'm wearing jeans, a blue t-shirt, and a brown corduroy sports coat.  I'm holding a backpack on one shoulder.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Last week I attended management training at work. Got all excited about my job. Then I come back to my job and reality sets in. I have a safe, but boring job. It pays pretty well. They don't work me to death. But I have zero influence to fix anything. I'm not allowed to fix any problems […]
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Guillaume Ross @g.irrelephant.co.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Finally. youtu.be/A5U8ypHq3BU
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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Following someone because their bio mentions ISO 8601 is, if not peak Fedi, at least peak-adjacent Fedi Shout out @scott
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@vibkit   

my grandma doing her best to gender me correctly is really nice   

[text]
Today 3:55 PM
Silly boy   

Today 4:05 PM
Oops. Silly they
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Depths of Wiktionary @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
[Screenshot of the English entry for "blob of death" on Wiktionary]

Noun
1. (3D printing slang) A blob of filament that sticks to the nozzle of a 3D printer, causing a partial or complete blockage.

Etymology: By analogy with terms for computer errors like blue screen of death and red ring of death.
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Sharkie @sekka.shark.community.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Also periodic reminder that I are a science fiction writer! I have three books out as part of a series, with a fourth on the way: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRMPJQ7R www.goodreads.com/series/449350-the… app.thestorygraph.com/series/116147… #scifi #author […]
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Ingmar Lippert @i-ngli.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Yesterday’s win in #AwesomeWorkbench: ~6m of building, I now have my own chat interface, on top of a local #privacy gateway to remote #LLMs. Nice here: sensitive terms get redacted locally, their semantic role is preserved for the model, and the originals are restored only on my side when the […]
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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do
various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Hey @owasp ! Looks like someone messed up DNS or something else. api-security.owasp.org Is pulling up a page for Portugese Offenisive Security company called NOX.
api-security.owasp.org
Security Notice | NOX Offensive Security
A responsible security disclosure notice from NOX Offensive Security.
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Yann Büchau :nixos: @nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I put this up in our uni's restroom in case somebody needs toilet paper
photo showing the inside wall of a restroom, showing a printed A4 paper titled "Need toilet paper?", with a two-sided scan of toilet paper below and a QR code redirecting to https://archive.org/download/toilet-paper_202609/toilet-paper.pdf
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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.
Ford app AI feature with user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
If a trans person gives a fae their true name, but later transitions and finds their new true name, are they supposed to contact the fae to get their records updated?
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
oh The BULLSH!T You'll Hear When ELECTIONS Draw Near! by Dr Seuss
#BrainDamageStudios
A Guide To Political Gobeledegook & Tomfoolery

Description:
A book cover illustration parody in the style of Dr. Seuss, featuring a colorful drawing of a character wearing a tall hat speaking to a stylized orange bull with green horns.
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
I am normally grossed out by a lot of AI generated images, but this one is too good. thehackernews.com/2026/09/weaselbis…
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WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and
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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026
Heyguysheyguysheyguys LOOK AT THIS OWL! HE IS SO UPSETTY!!! There are 2 baby penguins who are staying in a pen in the hall. They're also going to be ambassador birds, so all the keepers are encouraged to pick them up and cuddle them multiple times a day to get […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
A 10-inch tall screech owl perched on his handler's glove. He looks so incredibly upset. His ear feathers are sticking straight up, his face feathers are all sticky out, to the point that his head looks as big as the rest of his body. He's glaring daggers at the camera as if it has insulted him in the most egregious way known on this earth.
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Iris Volk @funkvolk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025
Tag war gut 😌
Meme, father asks: "Are ya winning, son?"
Son, sitting at the computer, answers: "I'm making 11 people laugh on mastodon"
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Is there a term for #ADHD specifically for music?
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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Did you update to iOS 27? Congratulations! You've now been enrolled in Apple Intelligence, because Apple knows better about what you want than you do. 1. Starting with iOS 27, there is no top-level `Apple Intelligence` setting that you can turn off. 2 […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
iOS 26 has an "Apple Intelligence & Siri" settings sectioniOS 27 has NO "Apple Intelligence & Siri" settings sectionContent and privacy restrictionsAllowed Siri Version settings page.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Just upped my monthly contribution to my local Mastodon instance. Please support your local instance if you have the means. Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird.
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
I love seeing positive articles about #ENM and #polyamory. I agree with the subject of this article. Dating other people has made me value my relationship with @Leahgashe so much. It reaffirms that I've found at least one person that I look forward to getting old with. Being #Poly is so much fun […]
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
This is some next level shit right here. "Merlin combines daily global coverage with one-meter spatial resolution, a capability that Satellogic believes is not available in Earth observation systems today. This combination is expected to enable entirely new intelligence applications by allowing […]
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Great pic of me for Hacker 101 at #DragonCon 2026. Plus a bonus pic of my #DungeonCrawlerCarl #cosplay.
Photo of me on a stage behind a table.  The table has a name panel that says Xavier Ashe.  I'm wearing a bright purple shirt with neon mushrooms.  I'm holding a microphone and am speaking into it.Picture of me in a Dungeon Crawler Carl cosplay.  Big, fake feet, white boxers with red hearts, a black shirt that looks like a Jurassic Park shirt, but says "Mongo is Appalled.  I'm holding a stuffed cat toy that looks like Princess Donut.
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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
OK, I have a request of everyone. I want you all to report these arsehole channels and influencers who are making rage-bait videos on YouTube that are designed to make men angry with women. They steal and edit clips by women and frame them with narration […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of youtube report of Jedediah Bila, a serial rage-baiter
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Project Glasswing: Claiming to have found 26 thousand real vulnerabilities but only 0.8% of them have resulted in a real fix in a real project after five months is dire. They blame it on the human independent review bottleneck, but human experts being paid for their time definitely have a […]
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Well, another #DragonCon in the bag. It was a great con, saw a bunch of old friends, did 3 talks, did several cosplays, and didn't crash until 4am several nights in a row. DragonCon is my happy place. I've been going my whole life. Seriously, I love seeing so much happiness. I will miss it […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
#DragonCon
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
TMW A10 Networks — who claim to be experts in "AI" — have an llms.txt that is filled with links to their password-protected staging server in Kinsta's WordPress cloud a10networks.com/llms.txt
Protect, Optimize, and Scale Your Infrastructure for AI
Confidently meet the demands of AI with solutions that secure and deliver your mission-critical applications and networkspartial contents of what is at the llms.txt url in the post
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Authors I hope to see at #DragonCon: Larry Niven, Jim Butcher, Matt Dinniman, Timothy Zahn, Kevin J. Anderson, and Jody Lynn Nye I imagine that all the #DungeonCrawlerCarl eventa are going to be massive lines. So we'll see! #bookstodon
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Heads up to anyone wanting to attend the #2600meeting in #Atlanta . This month (September) and this month only (September) we're moving the #atl2600 meetup to the Secret Food Court so meet our out of town friends at #DragonCon. Same bat time, 6pm to 8pm.
A map to the Secret Food Court during DragonCon. Its on the second floor of 303 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA.
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Stefano on littleFedi @stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]
My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
I just finished an automation that I want to run every night at 12:01... At 11:57. Aww yeah.... Now just get to sit back and watch.
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Giving this a whirl. #Datestodon #AM4AF #Atlanta Poly cis bi 48yo male seeking feminine folks of any gender. Liberal cyberpunk neurodivergent geek who loves going to shows, raves, burns, or getting lost in nature. Been ENM for around 3 decades, including swinging, BDSM, and rigging. I'm a […]
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Walgreen's has declared it SPOOKY SEASON! #SpookySeason #halloween #walgreens
A photo of the Walgreen's seasonal isle. They already have Halloween stuff out.
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Twice today I had read about vulnerabilities that do not have a CVE. Are companies giving up on the CVE process?
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Print a Flock Sock for... reasons. #flock #flocksock #3dprint #3dprinting makerworld.com/en/models/3107766-fl…
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
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Auditor: “It says here you have a firewall”
Customer: “.. I think so”
Auditor: “you’ve passed”
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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
A Theory of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles). This is a blog-style writeup of a paper. We show prompt injections are driven by a flaw in how LLMs perceive roles. This lets us create new attacks, explain mech interp results, and predict when attacks succeed. We then discuss […]
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
The same with xcancel.com "On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received a letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust […]
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
This thread is should win a short story award. oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow/1170447…
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i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
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ComputerNut43 @computernut43.nexto.my.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Just started seeing ads on my PAID #plex account. Deleting my plex server as I have been working on a KDE Plasma replacement, so I can stop using my Apple TV as well. #Done
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
I bought this many years ago. Today we lost an angel. She positively affected so many lives. You will be missed. #rip #dollyparton
Tall candle with a picture of Dolly Partner sitting in front a keyboard on my desk. The candle is lit.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
The legendary Cliff Stoll gave a delightful talk at DEFCON on Stalking The Wily Hacker (40 Years Later) at DEFCON. It's now online. If you've never seen Cliff, a Klein Bottle, or an overhead projector before, rush over to the youtubes and fix that right now […]
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