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PhreakByte the Octopus
@nieldk.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
About Me

I’m Niel, a father at first, working as a Cloud Security Specialist and drive my own business doing penetration tests and Security advisories.

My […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://infosec.exchange/@nieldk, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
infosec.exchange
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 AM
The Trump administration has been called out, yet again, for using explicitly white supremacist verbiage in its increasingly aggressive social media strategy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/trump-administration-white-supremacist-language
January 17, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Where did they go? #caturday
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Some will find this of use in these times iam sure #iceraids

https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie
The Camera Shy Hoodie — Mac Pierce
A DIY wearable for avoiding recognition on IR security cameras.
www.macpierce.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Kjaerulv/115910517855780425

Do not use ANYTHING that carries Musk’ name
January 17, 2026 at 1:10 PM
A quickie is great! Almost comparable to hardware hacking!
January 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nieldk/115905497896736966

Warning! My entire repository now use OpenSSL 3.6! So things might be affected! #sailfishos
January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
techhub.social
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
#fedihire_de #FediHire
Halp!
My company goes south and there is unemployment looming on the horizon.
I am looking for a remote job or on-site in Dresden ( Germany)
I can do:

Architecture ( dotnet, Microservices, kritis, team lead for up to 6 people)

DevOps ( observability - grafana Stack […]
Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place
mastodon.gamedev.place
January 14, 2026 at 8:54 AM
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115885437502380201

This is a crime! Not that Iam surprised
flipboard.social
January 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
My wife says I have too many cables, yet, I can’t locate the charging cable for my #pebble watch. Go figure 🤣
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
"En frivillig aktivtet som ingen af de mange regler nævner med et eneste ord, er FOSS, til trods for at det bruges overalt i det danske samfund, af staten, regionerne, kommunerne, borgerne og virksomhederne."

www.version2.dk/holdning/lig...

Af @bsdphk.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy i @version2.dk
January 11, 2026 at 1:59 PM
#eu needs to break with US. It’s that simple. uS is no longer an allied.

https://chaos.social/@quincy/115876013837041603
Quincy ⁂ (@quincy@chaos.social)
Why not propose EU membership to individual US states
chaos.social
January 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
@nieldk.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy er forslagstiller sammen med Ole Tange (@prosaole.bsky.social) Thomas Bødtcher-Hansen og Klavs Thune Klavsen.
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Did #nicsure firmware for tidradio go closed source? That is so sad.
#hamradio
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]
Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe
mastodon.bsd.cafe
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
Me: oh, we could buy an oscilloscope!
@saraislet : why would we need an oscilloscope?!?
Me: uhm, because it's an oscilloscope?!?
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@je5perl/115865574436501702

Skandaløst! Men ikke overraskebde :thaenkin:
Hvordan kan Justitsministeriet i L 55 (om udlevering af oplysninger om brugere direkte til politiet i andre EU-lande) konkludere, at det er begrænset hvor mange tjenesteudbydere der vil være omfattet af lovforslaget? Vi undrede os over dette i høringssvaret […]

[Original post on eupolicy.social]
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Iran total blackout
January 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by PhreakByte the Octopus
In this latest #curl release, we are now three persons having our names on >10,000 lines of product code when doing git blame. @icing, @vsz and myself.

10 separate people have their names on 1000+ lines.
January 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
There is many reasons I disagree on time registration and KPIs!
January 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM