David Penfold 

@davep@infosec.exchange
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Does IT stuff. 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

Also unreasonably fond of BPMN.

Officially not right in the noggin #ʘ‿ʘ

likewhatever
SignalDave.14
CO2 ppm at birth321.37
LinkedInAHAHAHAHA

This is my custom foiled drawing of Lucy the sweet tabby kitty!

#cat #art #tabby #handmade #commissions

I grow weary of shitheads, oh so weary.
Wanna be a shithead, fine.
Wanna spread shitheadery around and fuck up your community and it leaders?
Fuck off, all the way off.

New, from me:

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

.....Those purloined credentials show the developer in question at one point used the same seven-digit password to log in to Paradox.ai accounts for a number of Fortune 500 firms listed as customers on the company’s website, including Aramark, Lockheed Martin, Lowes, and Pepsi.

Paradox maintains that few of the exposed passwords were still valid, and that a majority of them were present on the employee’s personal device only because he had migrated the contents of a password manager from an old computer.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/poor-passwords-tattle-on-ai-hiring-bot-maker-paradox-ai/

Racism makes you stupid. If you wanna hate me based on how I look, do it properly; I’m not Mexican, I’m Bangladeshi, you absolute moron!

Way more interesting and actually technologically and cryptographically sound projects you should be considering instead:

@briar
https://briarproject.org/

A secure, privacy-preserving, decentralized IM that can work over Bluetooth.

@cwtch
https://docs.cwtch.im/

Another secure, privacy-preserving, decentralized IM project.

@VeilidNetwork
https://veilid.com/

A protocol for building privacy-preserving decentralized communication tools.

No AI, vibe-coding, cryptocurrencies, nor Dorsey.

Secure messaging, anywhere - Briar

Secure messaging, anywhere

Why is anyone still treating Jack "I-trust-Musk-to-extend-the-light-of-consciousness" Dorsey seriously is beyond me.

Save yourself the trouble, and save everyone else time, and just consider any "project" of his to be bullshit unless conclusively proven otherwise.

He is "vibe-coding" a "secure" messenger using an "AI" built by his cryptocurrency company.

This is bullshit wrapped in bullshit, sprinkled with some excrement of male cow.

I am not even going to use the name or link to anything.

Am I going crazy?

On windows, you can have your display set to a non native resolution for your panel, and that will result in bigger text etc. BUT a better way to do it is have your display set to native res, and then change A N other setting that makes text physically bigger.

As far as I can see on the Mac, you have 2 choices : run display at a worse resolution than your panel can do === bigger text. OR run the panel at native res, and have shit useless tiny text? Yes/no?

Wait, what?! Is that Sarah Connor in Resident Alien? 😳😁
life hack: to increase the odds of a doctor not blowing you off or telling you it's all in your head or your non-weight-related problem will be fixed if you lose weight, the magic words are "this is interfering with my ability to work" good heavens! We must make a treatment plan right away, we can't have you going around being a less efficient cog in the machine!