Mastodawn

Kos

Apr 20

joernchen

Apr 20

Thanks so much to everyone who showed up on the weekend in Berlin to say goodbye to FX.

“Burning bridges where we can” - this is the original Phenoelit slogan. Yet, while FX for sure burned some network bridges, he did quite the opposite for the hacking community. FX built bridges between people wherever he could. He created something way bigger than himself which we all are part of.

Each one who joined us in Berlin carries a piece of his legacy. You were there because he left something with you. We know there are many who couldn't make it in person, and they too carry his spirit with them.

FX is gone.
But the spirit lives on.

RIP FX

We collected some texts from the community in memory of FX. You can find them here https://phenoelit.de/fx.html

Phenoelit

Kos

Mar 2

Jeff Moss Mar 2

RIP FX - You are a legend.

Here Dino is delivering his Pwnie Award, as well as the last public post FX made last year.

Okay, obviously Persona is terribad. There is a real problem to address here though: how are organizations supposed to perform reasonable identity verification at a distance? Sophisticated impersonation attacks hit customer support lines every day. We need a reasonable defense against this.

Kos

Feb 25

I don't want to deal with your bullshit openclaw, leave me alone.

Kos

Feb 5

benjojo Feb 5

I present: The HSM alignment chart

Good luck, I'm behind 7 Cloudflares!

Kos

Dec 22

#MakeShitMonday
Finally built a RAW photo pipeline that I like. Can use it to backup in realtime from my camera (via phone), and for keeping track of my old photos from the last decade.

> Upload via any mobile S3 client
> S3 PUT notification
> async worker pulls first 500kb of RAW file, parses TIFF metadata
> range requests to extract embedded JPEGs
> store metadata and JPEGs in S3
> add entry to sqlite
> simple web app to browse JPEGs, with metadata & and focus area highlights
> "Send to Lightroom" button to push the big OG RAW files to an album in Lightroom for editing.

No more storing random albums all over the place. S3 clients support multipart uploads and resumes, PhotoSync has worked really well for me. And since it's all S3, I can easily sync to other S3 services for ultra cheap deep-archive storage.

Kos

Dec 17

Notion, you somehow made a worse Confluence.

Kos

Nov 18, 2025

The Tokyo Subway Backrooms