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If you are following me we are both lost.
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts.

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.
cloud.google.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”

Albert Camus
Tyler Hamilton on Substack
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus
substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Idk if I posted this here before, but this is a nicely detailed, yet easy to understand breakdown of how Windows 3.x worked, and how with every update it got further and further away from DOS:
www.xtof.info/inside-windo...
Inside Windows 3
Windows 3 is often said to be just an UI on top of DOS. This article presents some of the inner side of Windows 3.x and will show that it is more ambitious and advanced than that.
www.xtof.info
February 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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So phone metadata *is* actually sensitive and important information? So hard to keep this straight.
FBI Has Warned Agents It Believes Hackers Stole Their Call Logs
FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the ...
www.bloomberg.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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Which one of you did this?

open.spotify.com/playlist/3SS...
Songs About Vim
Playlist · Dan Crews · 11 items · 1.5K saves
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Not the kind of quest I imagined myself having when I was a kid, but gold pieces are gold pieces.

m365maps.com
Microsoft 365 Licensing
A collection of Microsoft 365 licensing diagrams to view in browser or download as PDF, PNG, SVG, and Visio files.
m365maps.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Do not speak to me of the grand exoduses of the nineties. I was in the first flame wars. I’ve been banned from sites you’ve never heard of. My chats, lost to history. Text files long composted into the dirt of servers past.
November 27, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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The internet was better when the modem screamed.
November 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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November 22, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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bootc's application into the CNCF has changed Universal Blue forever. bazzite.gg, getaurora.dev, and projectbluefin.io are about to get a whole lot better.

Here's the update:

universal-blue.discourse.group/t/wtf-is-clo...
WTF is Cloud Native and what is all this
KubeCon US 2024 Project Report (I have set this post as a wiki, I am tired and need help linking to stuff, thanks!) Now that bootc is going into the CNCF that means we’re now a cloud native community...
universal-blue.discourse.group
November 17, 2024 at 4:11 AM
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Ubuntu 24.04 LPE. The bug is "old" but the writeup is pretty good 👍

snyk.io/fr/blog/abus...
Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation | Snyk
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privi...
snyk.io
November 13, 2024 at 10:13 PM