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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 1d

You're mostly detecting Claude there. It's also easy to turn off and has lots of advantages to removing it, esp. for some languages that get messed up easily by Unicode. YMMV

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 3d

Open source pure Rust UEFI BIOS
Native Rust not just wrappers on old risky C code.
github.com/openDevicePa...

GitHub - OpenDevicePartnership/patina: Patina Firmware

Patina Firmware. Contribute to OpenDevicePartnership/patina development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 7d

If you are doing it right, you should have at least three or more.

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 7d

Speech recognition through high frequency mouse sensors. sites.google.com/view/mic-e-m...

Mic-E-Mouse

Your computer mouse has big ears. Image courtesy of GPT4/Dall-E-3, generated using the keywords "computer mouse with big ears and a microphone as a scroll wheel."

sites.google.com

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 7d

Check your answers includes using a different AI model and a problem restatement to see if it comes to a similar conclusion.

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 19d

Malicious Rust crate updates, faster_log and async_println, cryptocurrency key scanners.

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/c...

crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

blog.rust-lang.org

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · Sep 1

I want to tell you about a friend of mine real quick. I've mentioned her on here before, but you don't know any details yet, and she's about to make history in a very real sense.

Meet Michi Benthaus:

A young, blond white woman sitting in a wheelchair smiles into the camera. Behind her is the capsule of a Blue Origin suborbital spacecraft

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Sep 2

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Vaccine for Pancreatic Cancer and CRC Sparks Early Hope

While phase 1 data suggest the novel vaccine can boost immunity and reduce relapse in pancreatic and colorectal cancer, experts remain cautious at this initial stage.

www.medscape.com

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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · Aug 27

Now this is real convenient, especially on machines where it's impossible to hit the right key fast enough to enter the UEFI BIOS settings.

On #OpenBSD/amd64, you can now type "machine fwsetup" at the boot> prompt in efiboot(8).

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · Aug 25

Docker Fixes CVE-2025-9074, Critical Container Escape Vulnerability With CVSS Score 9.3

thehackernews.com

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · Aug 25

It was even on the internet of that time: alberta!dragos

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yeah ok, this is Linux's birthday in 1991. I was running Unix on my home IBM PC clone 80286 using sources I compiled from SysVr2 code two years before that in 1989.

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · Aug 24

rust is a language in which you can borrow a cow

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · Aug 22

How many AI Doomers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Seven: one to change it, six to screenshot the single frame where it isn't lit yet and post viral threads with titles like "Still Dark!"

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Laurent Cheylus @lcheylus.bsky.social · Aug 21

6 major Password Managers with Tens of Millions of Users are currently vulnerable to unpatched Clickjacking Flaws that could allow Attackers to steal your Secrets - Public disclosure by Marek Tóth at DEF CON 33 #Infosec #Vulnerability socket.dev/blog/passwor...

Researcher Exposes Zero-Day Clickjacking Vulnerabilities in ...

Hacker Demonstrates How Easy It Is To Steal Data From Popular Password Managers

socket.dev

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's weird to me that folks in places like Alberta, and the U.S. don't understand that slowing down the deployments of solar power and EV charging networks is a giant footgun self own.

It's a race. And you are deliberately choosing last place. Good luck with that.

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