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Marc Smeets

@marcoverip.bsky.social

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Does a thing or two with red teaming @ Outflank | part time race and drift car instructor

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · Feb 22

Welcome Project #HammBal

Goals: transferring this 2009 BMW 125i into a full race and drift car, weighing less than 1300kg, able to do Zandvoort sub 2min easily and have some fun along the way.

Not an ‘easy’ project, but also not hard. Ill try to update this thread as I go over the next few months.

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Scuderia Ferrari F1 @scuderiaferrarif1.bsky.social · Jun 14

Here's the moment Albon's engine cover flew off 👀

#F1 #CanadianGP

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Dirk-jan @dirkjanm.io · Jun 10

Received the news today that my talk "Advanced Active Directory to Entra ID lateral movement techniques" was also accepted for @defcon.bsky.social 🎉 hope to see everyone there!

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Rolfje @rolfje.com · Jun 10

😀

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jun 9

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · Jun 9

Oh come on, the cars are the same. There is no evidence or reason(!) why they aren’t the same, plus we have ex staff, and existing staff telling the cars are the same.

Max is a once in a lifetime talent that keeps getting better. It makes total sense he crushes his team mates.

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · Jun 7

Charging our ID.Buzz twice as fast 👌😂

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · Jun 4

Evidence nr 427 you need to ditch all things Meta if you value your privacy.

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Yuck. Meta apps listen on localhost on Android so that tracking scripts can talk to apps, and Meta can monitor your browsing and tie it to identity. Why is that allowed? www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/m...

Meta Pixel halts Android localhost tracking after disclosure

: Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins

www.theregister.com

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's all very well calling the Netherlands "the Italy of the North", but it's in fact pretty unfair to Italy which has a boringly stable government these days.

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · Jun 3

Werkt prima 👍

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 30

1) bring back the v10 engine format
2) back to 18 races a year
3) smaller cars and lower min weight

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 30

a group of blue men are playing drums in front of a display of blue cups

ALT: a group of blue men are playing drums in front of a display of blue cups

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 30

Final touches on the interior is just cleaning plus removal of steel latches and bars no longer used. Oh, and removal of windows per request by the roll cage builder.

All in all, 4ish man days work to get the interior stripped.

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 30

Step 2 of stripping the interior is a lot of work: removing sound deafening materials.

The soft ones is hard labour scrapping and using chemicals to dissolve the glues.

The hard ones are easily removed with dry ice: make it cold and it will nearly pop off by itself.

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 30

Next stop: stripping the interior ready for cage builder.

This is one of those typical Pareto things: huge progress with just a few steps, but the remaining details take a lot time. Easy: stripping seats, upholstery and cables.

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 29

Hat tip and congrats to @haroonmeer.canary.love and team! 👏

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 29

No no, the question is why *you* aren’t having champagne with your shoarma.

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 29

God forbid you would do things like invest in cancer research, or send food to starving people or maybe closer by: fix the homeless people issue in the US 🤷

But no, no, commercial space travel is *the* way of course.

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GreyNoise @greynoise.io · May 28

GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Targeting ASUS Routers. Attacker tradecraft reflects APT-like behavior: quiet, durable, and designed for long-term access. Full blog ⬇️

#Cybersecurity #ThreatIntel #GreyNoise #ASUS

GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Affecting Thousands of ASUS Routers

GreyNoise uncovers a stealth campaign exploiting ASUS routers, enabling persistent backdoor access via CVE-2023-39780 and unpatched techniques. Learn how attackers evade detection, how GreyNoise disco...

www.greynoise.io

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · May 28

Something, something, EU in crisis. Time we stop thinking about the EU's impending demise and start thinking about its impending rise.

Reuters @reuters.com · May 28

Trust in European Union at highest since 2007, poll shows reut.rs/4k9VQ5z

Trust in European Union at highest since 2007, poll shows

Trust in the European Union and its institutions has risen to an almost two-decade high, a report released on Wednesday shows, as U.S. President Donald Trump upends global trade and foreign policy.

reut.rs

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 28

Al sinds 1970 met karakter 🙈

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😭😂

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · May 26

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 25

Tagging @rolfje.com

Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 25

Greg 👍

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Marc Smeets @marcoverip.bsky.social · May 24

Once again Saturday at the Monaco F1 GP is just pure awesomeness. Mind blowing how fast these cars go through the streets. Top notch stuff. Congrats to Norris for taking pole position.