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Troed Sångberg
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Demoscene coder. Cybersec consultant. A child of the 80s home computer era.

I use two accounts. This one is tech/retro/cybersec focused. Random social chitchat on […]

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setok.attractive.space.ap.brid.gy
Updated #sailfish to 5.0 on my #xperia 10ii. Seems to work and now microG also. However the #jeep app still doesn’t log in. It doesn’t crash anymore but then just states login error after giving credentials. The network is a bit iffy so will need to investigate further. Also #aurorastore got an […]
Original post on attractive.space
attractive.space
March 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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zarasophos.darmstadt.social.ap.brid.gy
In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to […]
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darmstadt.social
March 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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kpwn.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I'm excited to share CVE Crowd's Top 5 Vulnerabilities from February 25!

These five stood out among the 352 CVEs actively discussed across the Fediverse.

For each CVE, I’ve included a standout post from the community.

Enjoy exploring! 👇

#pentesting #appsec #infosec #cybersecurity […]
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infosec.exchange
March 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I've been looking at the background of Branden Spikes, the senior member of DOGE who is director of IT over at X (his OG email is b@x.com).

Prior to joining up with Musk, Spikes ran a company called Spikes Browser, which tried to create a sandboxed browser […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
Branden Spike's profile page on X says « Branden Spikes @ x 336 posts Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes (Fallowsyou IT and cyber security leader and investor. Early hire at Zip2, @PayPal, @SpaceX, and @Astra through to IPO or orbit. Currently leading IT at @X View more &3 Science & Technology © Silicon Valley, California 2 spikes.com & Joined May 2012 160 Following 593 Followers 2 Subscriptions @DD Followed by Thomas Brewster joe white, and 2 others you follow Posts Replies Highlights Media a Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes - Feb 27 [oJ Wow, | got my old email address back, which used to get ~1,000 spam emails per day (back in 1999). Now it's getting almost zero. [OF] Qu Q2 thi 97 na 13 Branden Spikes reposted Io) Elon Musk @ %| @elonmusk - Feb 26 [ol z
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Hi everyone. It’s a new month and here’s a new plea for you to support your fediverse instance if you can and they accept donations. My thanks to all that do, and also my thanks to the many people that make the fediverse tick.
March 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Remember those posts on how Mitre declined assigning a CVE for an IoT exploit I identified and disclosed here a bunch of months ago?

It turns out Mitre did change their minds after I had explained how it could be exploited and thus it did get published through the CVE process after all. Just […]
Original post on ioc.exchange
ioc.exchange
February 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
No, there's nothing in #firefox' new ToS that has me change browser, yet. The edits might mean things could change in the future, but any switch will be as easily made then as it would be now.
February 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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troed.masto.sangberg.se.ap.brid.gy
This is why we Mastodon and not #bluesky. An american based VC owned company will always jump when Musk/Trump tells them to

Move your account to Mastodon, enable the bridge and tell your Bluesky followers to follow that if they insist on staying behind […]
Original post on masto.sangberg.se
masto.sangberg.se
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Dear @protonprivacy

"We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit"

Where do you think your staunchest supporters are today?

/Proton Visionary that doesn't use Reddit for reasons

(quote from the account info […]
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ioc.exchange
February 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I'm with @gregkh on this: all Open Source projects should become CNAs.

Or team up with others to do it.
February 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I often see people recommending Signal for communication.

The difference between #signal and #matrix is that if a country implements legal backdoor requirements Signal will leave that market. That means no more app downloads and (I assume) IP blocks on the server.

Matrix ... will just keep […]
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ioc.exchange
February 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
After having learnt that Youtube supports #rss I just used the freedom of Unix cli to install feed2exec, wrote a three line script in addition to my existing summarize.sh glue and edited crontab.

Every night I'll now get AI transcribed and summarized posts to a Matrix channel on my server of a […]
Original post on ioc.exchange
ioc.exchange
February 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I've moved from Github to @Codeberg

Thanks to the built in migration support that was quite painless. Now to update my Github repos to mention they're archived and where to go instead ...

https://codeberg.org/troed
troed
Coder since the 80s. Nowadays mostly demoscene and hw/fw security reverse engineering.
codeberg.org
February 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
@karlemilnikka fyi - whisper-modellen för svenska som Kungliga Biblioteket släppte gör ett suveränt jobb med er pod! :D Sen gör DeepSeek ett väldigt bra jobb på att sammanfatta - inkl. översättning till engelska.

Allt lokalt så klart :P (Mitt summarize.sh-projekt)
February 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
#followfriday

@amplitudeproblem - master chiptune musician

@zerkman - fpga retro wizard

@gunstick - 68000 assembler magician

@planeturban - retro hw aficionado (up over)

@smonson - retro hw aficionado (down under)

@ggn - scene production emperor

This is a post about #atarist
February 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
"no UK customer data stored on iCloud - Apple's cloud storage service - will be encrypted, making it all accessible by Apple and shareable with law enforcement, if they have a warrant."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
There has been a fierce backlash to the request from privacy campaigners and US politicians.
www.bbc.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Nothing is free. If we want great stuff, we all need to pitch in in whatever way works for us.

I consider #matrix to be the best realtime chat protocol available - and it's my hope to see governments mandate it for all communication.

With that said:

"If you are an organisation building on […]
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ioc.exchange
February 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Oooof.. :sad_cat: 😟

Currently I am still over €440 min short for the server & media storage bills :AAAAAA:

Please, if you can think about donating to help me pay these bills

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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nw.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Great analysis of common environmental arguments I often hear against using AI. No matter what your current take is on that issue, it's worth a read […]
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ioc.exchange
February 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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zerkman.pouet.chapril.org.ap.brid.gy
New #zest release: CRT, reset, networking, bluetooth (and other stuff).

Enjoy!

https://zest.sector1.fr/posts/release_20250216/

#atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing #retrogaming
Release: CRT, reset, networking, bluetooth
Here is the new release of zeST, mostly with fixes to make life better. Scan doubler rework The scan doubler has received particular attention for this new release. Indeed, a large part of its logic has been rewritten. This module is one of the first implemented in zeST, even before I got the TOS system to boot. It was already there when I displayed my first image out of the Atari ST logic on a HDMI screen.
zest.sector1.fr
February 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I'm going to the leetest of all Atari Scene parties again this summer - Sommarhack.

4-6th of July, in the absolute middle of nowhere in Sweden:

https://sommarhack.se/2025/

I'll absolutely try to have something to release as well!

#atarist #demoscene #sommarhack #sommarhack2025
Sommarhack 2025 - Home
sommarhack.se
February 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy
#whitehousewash
My change-detection just caught something big:
dei.gov got registered around one week ago - for some days it was empty.
Than a long list appeared, which quickly got password-protected; see screenshots.

#dei
A long list of new deleted sentences, too many for this alttext. Some examples: * $78,000 to Palestinian activist group whose chairman was photographed attending an anniversary event celebrating the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Palestine terrorist group * $1 Million for foreign DEI programs, including ‘indigenous language technology’ in Guatemala, per non-public funding docs reviewed by WFB * $5 million for effort to treat eating disorders by “affirming” LGBTQIA+ patients’ sexual orientation and gender claims * Up to $3 million to defund the police advocacy group to pursue “climate justice” for convicts * $500,000 for research on “indigenous knowledge” – “a pseudoscience that posits native Indians possess unique insights into the workings of the universe” * Funded performances of play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” in which God is bisexual and communists are good, in North Macedonia * Disbursed $15,000 to “queer” Muslim writers in India * Shelled out tens of thousands to create army of 2,500 LGBTQI+ allies * Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front * $500,000 to group that “empowers women” in attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just ten days before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks * $4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance – one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology — in late 2021. Later refused to answer key questions about the funding. * $7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language” * $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers * $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities” * $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship…in developing Latin American countries.” * Education Week: “Biden Administration Cites 1619 Project as Inspiration in History Grant Proposal” * VA took at least a dozen actions aimed at bolstering DEI during the Biden-Harris administration while the number of homeless veterans increased and the amount of claims in the VA’s backlog grew from ~211,000 to ~378,000 * NASA has allocated roughly $10 million to grants advancing DEI and “environmental justice” since 2020 * Following President Trump’s executive order on DEI at federal agencies, the ATF “quietly changing the job title of its former diversity officer… to ‘senior executive’ with the ATF. * The Department of Labor requested additional funding in 2023 for “The Chief Evaluation Office for a new rigorous interagency evaluation of actions aimed at improving Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility across the federal workforce,” more than $6.5 million “to restore employee benefits programs that will advance equity by specifically addressing how opportunities can be expanded for underserved communities and vulnerable populations,” and $5 million “to evaluate actions aimed at improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) within the federal workforce.” * Fox Business: “FOX Business’ ‘Trouble in the Skies,’ a six month investigation of the FAA’s new hiring practices, uncovered changes that may put the nation’s flying public at risk as well as allegations that the newest air traffic control recruits had access to answers on a key test that helped them gain jobs with the FAA…Also uncovered was an FAA effort to promote diversity that discarded 3000 qualified college graduates with degrees in air traffic control despite their following FAA procedure and obtaining FAA accredited degrees.” --- the only new content: This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password:
February 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
A lifetime ago the album "Introducing Niels" was released by #ytcracker, produced by my good friend and #demoscene crew partner @amplitudeproblem (7an of SYNC in the #atari scene).

That album has a certain feel to it in today's environment, wouldn't you say? […]
Original post on ioc.exchange
ioc.exchange
February 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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andypiper.org
ICYMI - we need to keep Mastodon secure, and to help everyone to enjoy the latest improvements. We support older releases for fixed periods (main release version “minus two”, for six months after release of latest; so 4.1.x ends 6 months after 4.3 is released) […]

[Original post on macaw.social]
A screenshot of text in a blog post, in a warning box with an exclamation warning emoji, and text “Countdown to the end of life for Mastodon 4.1.x - this version will no longer receive updates after April 8, 2025. If you are running an instance on 4.1.x, you must update to 4.2.x or 4.3.x within the next ~ 60 days, in order to remain on a supported version of the software.”
February 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
troed.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I think there's a general need for education regarding influence operations (and my focus is on those by Russia) here on the fediverse.

1) No, Russia isn't just pushing right-wing agendas/topics. The _stated_ purpose, from 1997 IIRC, is to sow division in the west. That means that there's […]
Original post on ioc.exchange
ioc.exchange
February 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM