Lee Brotherston
@synackpse.bsky.social
Security doofus, dev prodding, general annoyance
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Currently making stuff @ opshelm.com
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Currently making stuff @ opshelm.com
Epic codename, no one could possibly extrapolate what that's about.
‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Epic codename, no one could possibly extrapolate what that's about.
Cool cool cool. Luckily no unhinged people have ever wanted to know the details of the jurors who convicted them, their family, their cult leaders, etc 😳
NEW: A trivial-to-exploit bug in jury systems used across the United States exposed jurors' sensitive personal data, such as full names, date of birth, emails, cell phone numbers, and home addresses — and potentially health data.
The bug allowed anyone to brute-force and access jurors' accounts.
The bug allowed anyone to brute-force and access jurors' accounts.
Bug in jury systems used by several US states exposed sensitive personal data | TechCrunch
An easy-to-exploit vulnerability in a jury system made by Tyler Technologies exposed the personally identifiable data of jurors, including names, home addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
techcrunch.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cool cool cool. Luckily no unhinged people have ever wanted to know the details of the jurors who convicted them, their family, their cult leaders, etc 😳
TIL that the golang sumdb does not use git-lfs when calculating sums for packages. So if a package has a file hosted using git-lfs it will checksum the package using the pointer not the actual file. Which is great when you *do* have git-lfs enabled and so get a different checksum.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
TIL that the golang sumdb does not use git-lfs when calculating sums for packages. So if a package has a file hosted using git-lfs it will checksum the package using the pointer not the actual file. Which is great when you *do* have git-lfs enabled and so get a different checksum.
Wow Liquid Glass is uuuggglllyyy, and there’s no accessibility option to turn it off?!
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Wow Liquid Glass is uuuggglllyyy, and there’s no accessibility option to turn it off?!
Of course being named in documents doesn’t necessarily make you guilty. But preemptively worrying about that so much has "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" vibes.
Rep. Greg Murphy: "I do have some concerns because these files are voluminous and just being named does not make you guilty. If Epstein gave you a tip or something if you worked at a door or something, it doesn't make you guilty of a crime."
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Of course being named in documents doesn’t necessarily make you guilty. But preemptively worrying about that so much has "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" vibes.
And now I can't push changes to Github.... presumably us-east-1 will explode in an hour or so.
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And now I can't push changes to Github.... presumably us-east-1 will explode in an hour or so.
From: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
I hope this is a poorly chosen set of words or out of context or something, because one would feel that “a spike in unusual traffic" is kinda core to Cloudflare's services
I hope this is a poorly chosen set of words or out of context or something, because one would feel that “a spike in unusual traffic" is kinda core to Cloudflare's services
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
From: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
I hope this is a poorly chosen set of words or out of context or something, because one would feel that “a spike in unusual traffic" is kinda core to Cloudflare's services
I hope this is a poorly chosen set of words or out of context or something, because one would feel that “a spike in unusual traffic" is kinda core to Cloudflare's services
I see non-tech social media has replaced "so what is us-east-1?" with "so what is Cloudflare?"
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I see non-tech social media has replaced "so what is us-east-1?" with "so what is Cloudflare?"
So Cloudflare is broken then.
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
So Cloudflare is broken then.
President and CEOs email address is: [email protected]
They claim to care about DEI on their corporate responsibility page: www.skyservice.com/about/corpor...
If you are planning to write to them, note that the address is actually Flightline Drive, not Road.
They claim to care about DEI on their corporate responsibility page: www.skyservice.com/about/corpor...
If you are planning to write to them, note that the address is actually Flightline Drive, not Road.
🧊✈️ Hello, Collaborator🖕
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
President and CEOs email address is: [email protected]
They claim to care about DEI on their corporate responsibility page: www.skyservice.com/about/corpor...
If you are planning to write to them, note that the address is actually Flightline Drive, not Road.
They claim to care about DEI on their corporate responsibility page: www.skyservice.com/about/corpor...
If you are planning to write to them, note that the address is actually Flightline Drive, not Road.
Naive question for my US friends. If the answer to “why did you pardon them?” Is “I don’t know who that is”…. Why is the next logical question not “why did you pardon someone where you don’t know who that is?” ?!
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Naive question for my US friends. If the answer to “why did you pardon them?” Is “I don’t know who that is”…. Why is the next logical question not “why did you pardon someone where you don’t know who that is?” ?!
When AI people say that “even we don’t know how it works”, I assume that this is hyperbole, not literal?
We know that there’s a runtime (e.g ollama, etc), which is a traditional binary executable compiled from source code. It could have a debugger attached, logging added to the source, etc.
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We know that there’s a runtime (e.g ollama, etc), which is a traditional binary executable compiled from source code. It could have a debugger attached, logging added to the source, etc.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
When AI people say that “even we don’t know how it works”, I assume that this is hyperbole, not literal?
We know that there’s a runtime (e.g ollama, etc), which is a traditional binary executable compiled from source code. It could have a debugger attached, logging added to the source, etc.
[1/3]
We know that there’s a runtime (e.g ollama, etc), which is a traditional binary executable compiled from source code. It could have a debugger attached, logging added to the source, etc.
[1/3]
Well that explains how the spelling has improved in recent weeks (someone else, at least sometimes, posts for him).
Also… the OpSec continues to be strong across the entire administration.
Also… the OpSec continues to be strong across the entire administration.
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Well that explains how the spelling has improved in recent weeks (someone else, at least sometimes, posts for him).
Also… the OpSec continues to be strong across the entire administration.
Also… the OpSec continues to be strong across the entire administration.
Excuse me Mr Clegg... Napster, The Pirate Bay, Megaupload, etc would like a quick word.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Excuse me Mr Clegg... Napster, The Pirate Bay, Megaupload, etc would like a quick word.
Reposted by Lee Brotherston
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
I’m no military opsec specialist, but publicly telegraphing ahead of time when & where all the top brass will be, and by inference where they won’t be, seems…. Flawed.
Unless it’s a cunning deception…… 🤣🤣🤣
Unless it’s a cunning deception…… 🤣🤣🤣
WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I’m no military opsec specialist, but publicly telegraphing ahead of time when & where all the top brass will be, and by inference where they won’t be, seems…. Flawed.
Unless it’s a cunning deception…… 🤣🤣🤣
Unless it’s a cunning deception…… 🤣🤣🤣
You know who does actually use the term “anti-ice” regularly? www.google.com/search?hl=en...
Google Search
www.google.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
You know who does actually use the term “anti-ice” regularly? www.google.com/search?hl=en...
I know it’s a small qualm in the overall scheme of things, but “written in pen” is not “engraved”
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I know it’s a small qualm in the overall scheme of things, but “written in pen” is not “engraved”
If macOS could not just pan audio 100% to the left on every software update, that'd be nice.
September 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If macOS could not just pan audio 100% to the left on every software update, that'd be nice.
For anyone looking at this, the samples I looked at, while obfuscated, were the same obfuscated code. i.e. not re-obfuscated per package.
This little but of laziness means you can (at least could) simply search for chunks of the obfuscated sample to check your own repos.
This little but of laziness means you can (at least could) simply search for chunks of the obfuscated sample to check your own repos.
September 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
For anyone looking at this, the samples I looked at, while obfuscated, were the same obfuscated code. i.e. not re-obfuscated per package.
This little but of laziness means you can (at least could) simply search for chunks of the obfuscated sample to check your own repos.
This little but of laziness means you can (at least could) simply search for chunks of the obfuscated sample to check your own repos.
*checks inbox*
JUST IN: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement.
That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.
That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic will pay at least $3000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
www.wired.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
*checks inbox*
@gdead.bsky.social never warned us that we shouldn’t have been wearing watches at shmoocon all those years!!!
Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."
August 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@gdead.bsky.social never warned us that we shouldn’t have been wearing watches at shmoocon all those years!!!
Had to look up the Cracker Barrel “woke rebrand” to find out what all the upset is about. I…. Am confused.
Are they upset that the text looks more black than dark brown, or that there’s no barrel anymore, or…. What?
Are they upset that the text looks more black than dark brown, or that there’s no barrel anymore, or…. What?
August 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Had to look up the Cracker Barrel “woke rebrand” to find out what all the upset is about. I…. Am confused.
Are they upset that the text looks more black than dark brown, or that there’s no barrel anymore, or…. What?
Are they upset that the text looks more black than dark brown, or that there’s no barrel anymore, or…. What?
I get that Golden is the main track, but you are all sleeping on "How It's Done" (the fighting demons on a plane while making ramyeon one) youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU?...
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Animation
youtu.be
August 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I get that Golden is the main track, but you are all sleeping on "How It's Done" (the fighting demons on a plane while making ramyeon one) youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU?...