Jay

@jws@infosec.exchange
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I work on networks, but mostly cat-and-shitpost on the socials.
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Webpage:https://jaystapleton.ca/
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Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.
It occurs to me that the are so many YouTube creators now who use the term "rinse and repeat" to mean "repeat" are too young to have ever needed to read a shampoo bottle to pass the time.
im almost fifty and online a lot so i must be what mid century modern means right

Hungary has banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which essentially means Pride. Today over 500,000 people in Budapest turned up for a Pride march and told the government to: 'Fuck off!'.

#Pride2025 #Hungary #Budapest

The interoperability era of PCs was a great time. I have so many old phones and tablets with no standard "bios", and various maybe kind of hacks to get some other software running on it.

I just want to be able to install Linux on a tablet that is too old to run the stock os usefully. The screens, even the cpus are decent for a lot of uses, but with no security patches, they're mostly unusable.

There ought to be a law!

I have a short talk featured on PlatformCon's remote stream:
https://platformcon.com/sessions/complexity-simplicity-through-abstraction
Complexity simplicity through abstraction | PlatformCon 2025

This session explores the evolution of network abstraction, highlighting how past approaches introduced unnecessary complexity and how new strategies can simplify operations while enhancing control and security.

I'll never be able to unsee this
If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity.
https://xkcd.com/3101/

@futurebird

so, you're saying a medium frenched these fries?

“You want to get your data into an LLM, but you don’t want everyone else to see it.”

MCP is evolving fast — but its security model hasn’t kept up. Our own Lee Briggs shows how to build a realistic and secure model for AI data access using @tailscale.

🔗 https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2025/06/08/secure-mcp-connectivity

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If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity.
https://xkcd.com/3101/
@xkcd This made my day!!!