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Kenn White

@kennwhite.bsky.social

U - S - A 🇺🇸 🦅

Hot diggity dog! Wienermobiles put on riveting race in Wienie 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

The top dog in a race among the six iconic Wienermobiles from Oscar Mayer proved to be the one representing the Southeast.

apnews.com

May 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM

moniker2277.bsky.social

@moniker2277.bsky.social

bruh wut

April 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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Yael Grauer

@yaelwrites.com

Butterfly meme with the question, is this a SCIF? The butterfly says “signal”

March 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Fastly

@fastly.com

If you’re a FOSS project dealing with overwhelming AI scraper bots, we will provide free security services for your project at no cost to you ❤️ #TeamSleep thelibre.news/foss-infrast...

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

thelibre.news

March 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM

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The Hacker's Choice (1995)

@hackerschoice.bsky.social

Watching the Internet realise that CloudFlare decrypts ALL https traffic at the edge is hilarious. 🍿🍿🍿 👉👉👉 TLS only to the edge. Half-way. CF sees all your dirty secrets. 🍻

blog.cloudflare.com/password-reu...

Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised

Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks and account takeover...

blog.cloudflare.com

March 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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Alt National Park Service

@altnps.bsky.social

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

February 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM