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Tony Jones
@apjone.bsky.social
Heavy Metal IT Geek dipping into Cyber

~ posts are my own~
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, joyful Yule and what ever else you may be celebrating.

Peace 🙏 at least until the monopoly tantrums start 😂
December 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
For the last 2 decade been telling people not to `curl | bash` but that is exactly what is being pushed with AI.
December 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Early Christmas present for all the those Dev's, coders and scripters out there staring at their screens .......

; # the semicolon your missing

😂
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Is Santa a member of the Q continuum?
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Wish there was a 2M or 3M tapo 304M ....
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Got my chrome casts working across networks VLANs again. Forgot to install UDP Broadcast Relay after firewall hardware upgrade to deal with multicast proxying.

#OPNSense #Multicast
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Wonder how many corporate email addresses are in the PornHub breach? Awkward discussions about to be had if the data drops ......
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Some techie updates for the house, an extra 2 TPLink 304M extension leads and HDHomeRun. Next up is to spin up a Plex Server, would prefer jellyfin but only Plex is supported on the target devices.
December 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Duolingo icon gets angry .......
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Lando!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking AI is digital hot sauce

People trying to put it with everything
Most of the time it isn't needed
Ruins what was fine without it
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Seen a brute force from 195.24.236.0/24, looks like splitting out 57-67 attempts per IP Address
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
So ADGuard home had to add a custom repo ( probably did last time but forgot )

`fetch -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/mimugmail.conf www.routerperformanc...`
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Upgrading from Dual Core box to Quad Core N150 for my router/firewall.

Flashed latest version of OPNSense and restored config and run into issues.

Noticed this box gets hotter!!!
1/3
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans out there 🦃🦃🦃
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So whose going to be the big name(s) hacked this Thanksgiving 🦃? Long weekend, fewer eyes on the logs .......
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Another randgrid.sys BSOD when playing BO7 .... Turning off Core Isolation to see if that will fix the AntiCheat malware and allow me more than a few games.

Should just pull the Xbox out but too lazy
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The 2 most prevalent things I see in BEC

1. Attacks come in the form of shared documents from Microsoft OneDrive and always make it through Exchange Online Protection.

About a year ago started seeing a change from open link share to restricted by confirming email.

1/2
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Manually adding NAT and Firewall rules to OPNSense to get BlackOps NAT mode to stopping being strict. Not using UPnP as don't want random things opening up ports.
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Lando could be in trouble

No / Driver 4 - Lando Norris
Reason Alleged breach of Article 3.5.9 e) of the FIA Formula One Technical Regulations –
Rearmost skid is less than required thickness.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Need to figure out why my rig is crashing, another game I was doing well in and got an unhandled exception.

Mem check came back fine ......
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
So BlackOps 7 complained secure boot was disabled and BIOS was out of date and would not let me play. These Anti Cheat Rootkits are a real pain
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's not a Vegas F1 session if there is no loose man hole covers ......

FP1: session disrupted by loose manhole cover
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM