Remco Poortinga - van Wijnen

@RemcoPoortinga
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Optimistic cynic | Lazy^H^H^H^H Energy-efficient perfectionist | Team Worker | INFJ-T | 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇱🇪🇺 | 🌈 🦄 | cisgender | he/him mostly | Views are my own | Generalist | Cybersecurity jack-of-all-trades, master of none | Lover of FOSS | DuckDB fanboy 🦆 | Brown star to the right and gay on 'til morning. |
pronounshe/him. But they/them or else is fine too. I'm not that bothered.
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Happy international transgender day of visibility!

#TransrightsAreHumanRights #tdov

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

Chat Control 1 is dead. Let’s end Chat Control 2.

Members of The European Parliament: stand firm in your position – no mass surveillance whatsoever!

"Heb je een IT-afdeling? Of heb je een big tech-afdeling? Zijn andere dingen"
You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.

This is a hilarious commentary on the US/Israeli war with Iran:

"God is a comedian":

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

Gold and Geopolitics

OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

#accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism

enterprise grade security vs. human the weakest link in the chain 😂

>1m people displaced in Libanon, war crimes, another illegal Israeli occupation... mass destruction of agricultural fields:

»In a joint statement, Lebanon’s ministries of agriculture and the environment said some samples showed glyphosate concentrations “20 and 30 times higher than normal [use]”. Its use would, they said, “damage vegetation in the targeted areas, with direct repercussions on agricultural production, soil fertility and ecological balance.«

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/israel-accused-of-spraying-cancer-linked-herbicide-on-farms-in-southern-lebanon

Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon

President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable

The Guardian