Derek Jacobs

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One of those “good people” who “has their shit together” and never uses “sarcastic quotation marks” as a defense mechanism to stave off the “crushing anxiety” of personal inadequacy.

Software engineer. Home automation tinkerer. Cooking enthusiast. Bad gamer. Worse writer. Cat parent.

GitHubhttps://github.com/bluevulpine
Keyoxide (PGP Key)https://keyoxide.org/2E1FEE2BE5C0DA78
Attempts at Writing Fictionhttps://bluevulpine.net
Time to set your Palo firewalls on fire: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-3400
CVE-2024-3400 PAN-OS: Arbitrary File Creation Leads to OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtect

A command injection as a result of arbitrary file creation vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software for specific PAN-OS versions and distinct feature configurat...

Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance
Can't wait for this trend to die

@sirbrialliance I bet you wouldn't have this problem with a coal plant in your backyard! /s

Was outside the totality path in northern MN, and it was severely cloudy all day, but I can still see a dip around the peak partial eclipse time for the 20kWp system in the backyard.

#solar #solarpanels #eclipse

For the past three weeks, I've been using an Apple computer that doesn't exist:

A MacPad.

I created a hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet, which lets me seamlessly switch from macOS to iPadOS. Or even use them together.

Here's my story: https://www.macstories.net/stories/macpad-how-i-created-the-hybrid-mac-ipad-laptop-and-tablet-that-apple-wont-make/

MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won’t Make

<p>It all started because I wanted a better keyboard for my Vision Pro. I had no idea that, in looking for one, I’d accidentally create the hybrid Apple computer of my dreams. As I quickly discovered after working on the Vision Pro daily, you can get by without an external trackpad, but a keyboard is...</p>

I could watch this all day

Dorothy Gambrell (@catandgirl) created the below #comic about discovering her work was used to train #Midjourney #GenerativeAI.

We spoke to her about this comic—and the broken promises of the early web—in our most recent newsletter: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/03/02/what-happens-when-your-art-is-used-to-train-ai

What Happens When Your Art Is Used to Train AI – The Markup

A conversation with web cartoonist Dorothy Gambrell on the curdled internet, labor, and how we became just numbers

Work Hard. Play Hard.
@bketelsen Test success!

I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.

1/4

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned I should have skimmed the other blog posts, I just found the home office one. :D https://www.troyhunt.com/building-the-ultimate-home-office-again/
Building the Ultimate Home Office (Again)

I was searching around for a quote along the lines of you only being as good as the tools you use and somehow, I ended up down this rabbit hole of painters quotes and carpenters quotes and stuff about artists and their brushes. Then I started thinking it sounds a

Troy Hunt