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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

this is normal

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David Leadbeater @dgl.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

If you have a bash command line of "exec program ..." and you can control the "..." can you make it not run the exec and do something different? The answer is yes. Even if "..." is somewhat sanitised for shell metacharacters. If you can inject $+] it will make bash error on that line and run the […]

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

whoa, duck duck go has maps?!

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@ppxl it would seem i am not well enough informed on this one, heh

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

In the hope that this might reach someone who might some day be in a position to decide whether to allow #vpn traffic to their app…
Please understand that this does not just impact your app.
Most devices run background apps that use the network frequently, including privacy-critical apps like […]

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

shits gettin weird in germany

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/2043210/germany-to-allow-police-to-shoot-down-drones

Germany To Allow Police To Shoot Down Drones - Slashdot

Germany's cabinet has approved a new law allowing police to shoot down or disable rogue drones that threaten airspace security, following recent airport disruptions attributed to Russian reconnaissance. "Other techniques available to down drones include using lasers or jamming signals to sever contr...

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

@jik i worked at twitter 2011-2012. i was there for some pretty staggeringly cool engineering feats. I was there for the SEA targeting execs, for mcdonalds fake hack marketing stunt, and arab spring.

its been amusing watching bsky flatly ignore how twitter solved the same problems back in the […]

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@jerry nice!

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@dgodon supposedly there are hooks to enable HA to use an entirely locally hosted, non cloud, private voice recognition system to control it, if thats the sorta thing you want to do. i havent tried it tho

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@dgodon setting up home assistant only costs you the price of the raspi and the sd card, and once its on your network 'it just finds stuff' that it works with. its pretty rad.

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

whoops
RIP discord i guess

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-claim-discord-breach-exposed-data-of-55-million-users/

Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users

Discord says they will not be negotiating with threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company's Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people.

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

@hrbrmstr

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115339368085653181

reminder: whitehouse dot gov is now a wordpress blog

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17h

It was a truly freeing moment when I realized I reached the point in my life I can just get up and walk out of the room in almost any situation I don't want to be in.

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

this news comes off the heels of ms' recent push to further entrench local windows 11 installations into requiting online accounts.

so how soon til you cant log into your local physical machine, because azure took another shit?

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/

go to the cloud they said
it'll be fine they said

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@hrbrmstr i cant hit certain sites that are behind cloudflare because for some reason they're blocking MY ENTIRE DATACENTER and there is no rhyme or reason as to why, no explanation and no way to appeal

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@JessTheUnstill about the same as "best practices"

Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/logitech-will-brick-its-100-pop-smart-home-buttons-on-october-15

if you're gonna do the smart home thing or get into home automation, dont use anything cloud based.

home assistant has an entire community surrounding de-clouding stuff and using brands […]

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Hmmm... Did they subpoena his ChatGPT chats, or is this all off his phone? Curious. #wildfires #palisadesfire

In the five minutes after he allegedly set the fire, prosecutors said Rinderknecht called 911 several times, but didn’t get through because he didn’t have cell service in the area. When he finally reached 911, he was at the bottom of the hiking trail and reported the fire. By that time, aresident had already reported the blaze.

‘While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: “Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes,” according to the criminal complaint.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18h

"Best in class" has to be one of the more annoying MBAisms in use these days.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Being emo is officially probable cause now

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8exz5yg14ko

so they caught the guy they think started the pallisades fire.

how?

openai turned over his chatgpt logs where he was requesting genai imagery of a burning city.

Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19h

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […]

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