kaoudis

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Systems and language security research @trailofbits! Also lots of outdoors stuff.
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It’s also nice when cars don’t hit people, and their drivers pay attention. But, yknow, I happen to think about helmets.
Every time I pass a ghost bike I think about helmets and how the foam’s ability to protect the skull as intended degrades every time they’re dropped, dinged, or otherwise abused. Your risk tolerance is your own, but I like to replace my helmet once a year or anytime it’s dropped. Brains matter and it’s nice when they continue working.

TIL the software I trusted the least for data recovery - Disk Drill for macOS - turns out to be one of the best HFS+ partition recovery programs out there.

it not only discovered all files on an accidentally-reformatted HFS+ drive, but it completely rebuilt the filesystem *with* correct filenames and metadata.

#macOS

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

Approximately 87.5% of sewing is figuring out how to hold the cloth in awkward ways so you can get it permanently stuck like that. The rest except for like 1% is cutting cloth correctly for the way it’s woven and the type of cloth it is. Calling it sewing is a misnomer.

An in-depth look at how foreign scammers use US banks to facilitate large-scale transfers of funds stolen from victims of "pig butchering" scams overseas (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica)

https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering
http://www.techmeme.com/250628/p6#a250628p6

How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans

Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.

ProPublica

I used to mow our lawn every fortnight, like my Dad did, when we didn't have the sheep on it.

Since about 10 years here, I just do it 3x a year - once just before spring, once in summer after the spring flowers and clover die back, and once in winter.

And every day I look out at our messy unkempt lawn, I get a small but vital boost of joy in the day.

Not only is it a lot less stupid work, its much better for the environment - we have a family of bumblebees now under our front door, they are so cute I see them buzzing around every day - and we have a group of birds who visit regularly to poke around in the ground. I'm sure there will be 100s of other species making their home there too.

Just down the road, a farmer has switched an entire field over to "bee flowers" . He'll be rotating 1 paddock every year as usual, but has specifically focused on using insect-friendly mixes, instead of the more common plain nitrogen-fixing plants.

If you want the planet to survive, do what you can, with what you have. Radical change needs small steps as well as big ones. Stop mowing the lawn, & let the life back in.

Opinion | Belarus Is a Warning

I’m going to tell you how the people in charge of my country made the truth a crime.

The New York Times
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