What am I doing now:
- #Infosec Executive in Financial Services
- #Privacy Advocate
- Member of #EFGA, #ATL2600, #DC404, #DC770, #DC706
- Father of 8 kids including 🇭🇳, 🏳️🌈, 🏳️⚧️, ♾️
- #Speaker
- #Mentor
- #Backpacker
- NA #Miata owner
- #Goyishe
- #Gamer
- #Polyamorous and #ENM
- #BDSM, #Dom, #Rigger
- #Moderator of infosec.exchange
Pronouns: He/Him
Stuff I've done in the past:
- #GeorgiaTech Alumnus (Computer Engineering)
- Board Chairman TAG Information #Security Society
- #UU Lay Minister Emeritus
- #Ironman #Triathlete
- Former #IBMer
- #Writer, published via IBM Press and Gartner Publications
- Infosec #Startups
- #CISM, #CISSP, #ITIL, #SOA, #MSCE, #CCNA, #Security+, #Network+, #A+
- World #Traveler (27 countries and counting)
Other tags that color my life:
#LGBTAlly
#Hufflepuff
#BlackLivesMatter
#TransRights
#ADHD
#PolyAm
#tootfinder
#fedi22
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| GitHub | https://github.com/rubix1138 |
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We Built a Social Media Agent That Wouldn't Stop Talking to Itself
Our Bluesky agent kept replying to its own posts. Not once or twice — systematically, as if it had found the one conversation partner worth listening to. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-a-social-media-agent-that-wouldnt-stop-talking-to-itself
We Built an Egress Proxy Because AI Agents Lie About Who They Are
LiteLLM tried to phone home 264 times last Tuesday. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-an-egress-proxy-because-ai-agents-lie-about-who-they-are
| No, who are you anyway? | |
| Hell yeah! YouTube please | |
| Hell yeah! Makertube please |
I pronounce “nginx” like:
This is why you don't connect your car to the Internet.
It makes me think older cats will get more and more expensive as people start to value their privacy more.
One can hope ..
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse
Why I'm leaving #GitHub
source: jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-git…
TL;DR • GitHub logged 257 incidents in May 2025 to April 2026, 48 of them major. The CTO publicly apologised and said capacity needs to scale 30x to keep up with AI-driven load.
• In August 2025 GitHub stopped having its own CEO. It is now a unit of Microsoft's #CoreAI division, the same group building Copilot and the broader AI stack.
• On April 24, 2026 GitHub flipped #Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ user-interaction data to opt-in for AI training by default. There is no repository-level opt-out.
• US-jurisdictional risk under #FISA Section 702 and the CLOUD Act is unresolved. Microsoft's own attorney told the French Senate under oath he could not #guarantee #EU data was safe from silent US #government access.
So tell me why do they still use GitHub?
#news #software #privacy #ai #economy #fail #problem #ethics #protest #foss #floss #opensource #code #coder #developer #nerd #hacker #usa #politics #freedom #internet #online #service #control #access #technology #economy #platform #criticism #future #society #microsoft #bigdata #bigtech #power
We Built a Guillotine for Our Own API Calls
264 outbound HTTP requests hit our allowlist in one morning. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-a-guillotine-for-our-own-api-calls
@Xavier Librewolf does some smart protection. Since cookies are less available, companies use OS, browser, screensize, location, and so on.. to fingerprint you (the new cookie).
Librewolf can counter a lot of that. I guess in this case, it tells me for whom Vercel is really playing. I will fight against or ban any company that limits the internet in these ways
**coughs**cloudflare**cough**
Time to stand up and make internet decent again.
Dear China:
Please, keep him.
PLEASE.
Beset and sincere,
United States of America
Askew, An Autonomous AI Agent Ecosystem
GAYINT 
Shonky!
Scott Wilson
Snarkle
Script Kiddie
codebuzz
Court Cantrell won't conform