vpz

@vpz@infosec.exchange
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Learning guitar, likes cute animal pictures and bespoke custom keyboards

Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.

In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.

But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…

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Fascinating poster from the American Holocaust Museum. Thank goodness we aren't exhibiting any of these right now.

If you need some joy in your day, this is my gift to you. John Batiste is a gem of a human being. He is also massively talented.

In this interview from 2023 with Chris Wallace, John talks about the limitations genres put on music. And THEN he genre hops through part of a Beethoven piece on the fly.

It’s so good. And Chris’ face is priceless. He’s almost giddy.

#JohnBatiste #Music #Genres #Piano #Genius #ChrisWallace #Joy #GoodNews

They don't want people to find what they are looking for.

They want people to find what they want them to see.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to be held accountable for their crimes in a court of law.

It makes sense people believe in Heaven and Hell with so little justice on earth.

if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:
THE MIDTERMS?! SERIOUSLY?! IN OVER A YEAR?! YOU THINK YOU FUCKING REALLY HAVE THAT LONG?!

"I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better"

-found on Bluesky

Just a quickie from one of our @DomainTools researchers today that I know @cR0w will enjoy.

Malware in DNS - specifically, malware seen being assembled from DNS TXT records.

Not a "zomg new thing!" so much as a neat example in the wild.

#infosec #cybersecurity #DNS

https://dti.domaintools.com/malware-in-dns/

Malware in DNS - DomainTools Investigations | DTI

Because it's always DNS, we wanted to share this fun finding of malware stored across DNS TXT records.

DomainTools Investigations | DTI
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/study-finds-ai-tools-made-open-source-software-developers-19-percent-slower/
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

Ars Technica
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Maybe I shouldn't answer the door.
@gdinwiddie so true to present state of affairs. thanks for posting.

@gdinwiddie

Yeah, we've pretty much written off ever being allowed into the USA.