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Deebster

@ Deebster @infosec.pub

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Nowadays my main account, but other @Deebsters are available.

  • TIL the stop motion film industry is propped up by one rich kid

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  • I can see why you'd assume that, but it's not what that formatting indicates. Coraline, for example, individually had a budget of $60M Source 1 Source 2

  • Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place

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  • The top comment on that site says you can already disable all of these features from within the settings. Is this true?

  • Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

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  • Kinda weird experience to be reading textual descriptions of memes and having to reconstruct them in my head. They had enough to say to not need to pad out their word count that way.

  • Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

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  • I was going to quote this part as well - nice bit of malicious compliance.

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • If people want to ask something that they don't want tied to them, they should use a throwaway account. Scrapers will probably grab the text quickly (especially if they're using ActivityPub) so it's a false sense of security to do it days later.

  • agile

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  • It's a meme format (a snowclone), of the form "It's only X if it comes from the X region of France, otherwise it's just sparking Y". The original was talking about Champagne (and sparkling wine), which is why it's France.

    There's lots of versions out there, of varying quality.

  • Security Advisory for Cargo (CVE-2026-5222)

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  • The severity of the vulnerability is low, due to the extremely niche requirements needed to achieve the attack.

    Mitigations

    Rust 1.96, to be released on May 28th, 2026

    Ok, so it'll get fixed soon enough and 99% of people don't need to worry 👍

  • Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard

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  • I have a bunch of identical-looking white USB3 cables that may or may not transmit any data at all, depending on what they arrived free with. I wish they had little colour bands on like fuses do.

  • Using AI for image transcripts, yay or nay?

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  • I read this disgraceful comment yesterday, and I've dug through my history to reply to it today.

    @rako, this unacceptable. Let's remove the mention of AI to see if you can get some perspective... Imagine this exchange:

    P1: I've been cooking for the homeless but it's taking up a lot of my time and energy. Is it ok to use shop-bought meals?

    P2: You being weary of cooking is belittling the homeless! People like you are what's wrong with society.

    I hope you can agree that this is unfair, and unhinged. It's also not mischaracterising what you wrote.

    @Gonzako you don't seem to have minded rako trying to shame you, but they were way out of line.

  • Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

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  • Are you referring to the photo of a baby eating meat from a bone?

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • I was watching a video the other day that was showing WiFi sensing using TOMMY which uses channel state information (CSI) - something this article describes as the previous approach. That was already quite impressive, although not nearly as powerful as this teaser hints at.

    We'll have to wait for the hang on, the Taipei conference was last year so this is old news. Here's the paper: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000185756

  • There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science

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  • Removed

    London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50M Metropolitan police deal with Palantir

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  • Scotland Yard are saying that unless they're allowed to spend £50m on Palantir, they'll have to reduce officer numbers? I can't see their logic.

  • Towonel: Open Source drop-in Cloudflare Tunnel alternative

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  • So I built towonel. In Rust, partly because I wanted to learn the language properly

    This bit makes me a little wary.

  • Towonel: Open Source drop-in Cloudflare Tunnel alternative

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  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • This Chaotic Eclipse/Nightmare Eclipse is the same one whose opening post read:

    I never wanted to reopen a blog and a new github account to drop code...

    But someone violated our agreement and left me homeless with nothing. They knew this will happen and they still stabbed me in the back anyways, this is their decision not mine.

    I'm guessing there's plenty more to come.

    Kinda funny that they're targeting Microsoft and yet using GitHub to share the PoCs.

  • Daemon

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  • Ah, the joke's part of a quote - my first thought was you highlighting it might cause a po-faced editor to remove it.

  • AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects

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