David Penfold 

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Too old to rock and roll, too young to die. Vegan and anarchism curious.

Likes permaculture, infosec, Tranmere Rovers. But mainly bad jokes stolen from https://www.justthetalk.co.uk/thehaven/17468/urgent-i-need-a-good-joke-right-now

Officially not right in the noggin #ʘ‿ʘ

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why call it sexual tension when you can say bangxiety

I am still available for guillotine sharpening and lever pulling.

In case anyone has need of those particular skills.

"Dad, there's been a terrible accident, I'm in the police station, they won't let me fly home unless I pay £1000 immediately, sent it to them now please."
He recognised his daughters voice and her panic like when her cat died. STOP!!!
His daughter was fine, relaxing safely on a beach.
AI clones your voice from three seconds of audio. The match is 85% accurate. 70% of Americans can’t tell a cloned voice from the real one. One family code word defeats the entire scam. Pick yours now.
I was wrong on so many Revels

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@davep/116489319376133021

Had my second meeting with the potential investors this morning. Started thinking the second chap was really inscrutable and concluded he's not interested, until I got the email for our next meeting five minutes after the one-hour call ended.

And I guess they'd have some sort of keyword to shut it down, but it lasted an hour.

So, that's all rather positive 🕺

It means I'll be spending less time honing my shitposting skills though 😟

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

Full package: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/dake-kang-garance-burke-byron-tau-aniruddha-ghosal-and-yael-grauer-contributor-associated

Now that in Texas SNAP can’t be used to buy soda and sugary drinks, the 12 pack brand name soda prices dropped from $9 to $5. Energy drink prices also dropped. Candy prices and fruit snacks have all dropped too now that no one can use SNAP to buy candy. I don’t know if chips were included in that SNAP law, but those also dropped. Bags of Lays chips went from $6.46 to $2.50. Family size boxes of brand name cereal went from $7.49 to $4.44.

I’m looking at Walmart’s rollbacks list and 98% is stuff people can no longer buy with SNAP in Texas. Walmart was massively scamming Texas taxpayers with inflated prices paid for with Texas state money.

Jazz enthusiasts calling Star Wars fans "nerds" is pretty rich.
Hey @cloudflare, how come you're protecting beamed[.]st, the DDoS service that's attacking Ubuntu? It's an obvious criminal enterprise that literally advertises botnet access.

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

oss-sec: uutils coreutils CVEs