[RSS] From gixy-ng to Gixy-Next: rescuing Gixy from AI slop

https://joshua.hu/gixy-ng-ai-slop-gixy-next-maintained

⚗️🧪 Periodic Table of Elements (UMT d.o.o. / Igor Pravst, 1996) - a very nice example of such a program with a lot of data, found on a floppy disk 💾 💾

[RSS] Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenProject

https://mantodeasecurity.de/en/2026/01/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-openproject/

@infosecdj Hell, I can vibe-code a bot that posts publicly and outsource the whole verification mess :D

@infosecdj That's a pretty neat idea actually, would also catch invalid encoding programmatically, not to mention brightening my day with frames of events I care about :)

@infosecdj That would make a good sanity check assuming the compression doesn't change across downloads (I can imagine the stream in optimized in lots of ways), and I'll definitely give it a shot!

My other concern though is that the service may just start streaming blank/noise/whatever randomly, and I wouldn't notice.

@nieldk @13reak E-tags are a neat idea, but I'm not sure if will reflect the hash of the compressed stream delivered to me? I'll keep this in mind though!

@13reak It's 2), please explain!

@13reak There are no originals, only the data from the service with some random compression. What do I compare hashes to?

Edit: you can also think of this as analog->digital conversion (which is also part of this story actually) - how do I know there were no glitches in my encoding software along the way?

Archivists: suppose you have to scrape large amounts of media for preservation from an unfriendly service. How do you ensure that the retrieved media didn't get corrupted along the way? (I don't want to watch/listen to 1000s of hours A/V)

#archiving #scraping

@bontchev We (Hungary) don't anticipate EUR anytime soon, prices still climbed to 400% since 2015.

"Reverse engineering my cloud-connected e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock all scooters" by Rasmus Moorats

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/01/06/aike-ble/

“Maybe don’t fill every available silence with the sound of people talking” is why I almost never listen to podcasts (or audiobooks)

I put my mouse in the microwave !!

Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something.

So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet.

A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't start the nuker or magic smoke will come out 😆

#lifehack #bluetooth

Hot* take,

Phishing tests are a symptom of a failed security organization.

There's many potential causes for the failures - I'm not necessarily saying that the individuals in the org are incompetent; frequently the failure of the org is at the political level within the wider-scope org - but if a phishing test appears in a user's inbox, the security org has already failed and needs complete replacement.

* keep your opinions as to the heat value of this take to yourself.

there’s a windows 7 key in the epstein files and it’s totally functional and activates windows 7 home premium

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00002467.pdf

@lcamtuf @rationaldoge @inthehands

"- Fry, you're wasting your life sitting in front of that TV. You need to get out and see the real world.
- But this is HDTV. It's got better resolution than the real world!"

My own eyes never produced such a good image of the yellowish, semi-transparent material of a home-made PCB as the AC-DC converter slop :P

They don't exist to meet demand; they exist to game the engagement systems we put in place. I think that's true for a lot of other AI content on the internet too.

3/3

When Google restricted AlphaFold 3's commercial use, three MIT PhD students rebuilt the protein folding model in four months. Their open-source version, Boltz-1, now has $28M in funding and a Pfizer partnership. The move highlights tensions between proprietary AI research and scientific openness in drug discovery infrastructure. #OpenScience #ProteinFolding #AIResearch https://www.implicator.ai/when-google-locked-the-door-three-mit-students-picked-the-lock/

If Seatbelt Guidance Worked Like Cybersecurity Guidance

https://scribe.rip/@boblord/if-seatbelt-guidance-worked-like-cybersecurity-guidance-01dbe8b88c96