Ireland is a wholly owned lapdog of Big Tech -- taking advantage of a cynical system that enriches one tiny nation at the expense of everyone else, especially in the US and the EU. It's pure corruption. Why do the many, many losers in this arrangement let it go on? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/ireland-big-tech-lapdog-eu-presidency-digital-sovereignty

@matdevdug One should also be careful with wired stuff during these crazy times: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/06/03/lightning-headphones-that-require-bluetooth/

Edit - original story here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095115/https://x.com/joshwhiton/status/1796222090216886682

It's ridiculous that Windows these days silently fails if it can't find a DLL. Instead of a friendly error message saying "Hey idiot, you don't have VCRUNTIME666 installed!", I have to break out Procmon or dive into Registry to see what's going on.

I guess this has something to do with all the "Download missing DLL here" malware nests, good that we granted Google monopoly in search so they can handle such ugly cases...

@aristot73 hot take: marketing is at the heart of infosec problems.

OpenPrinter update:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/updates/progress-update-and-details-about-our-nomination-for-a-french-design-award

Google is apparently testing a new reCAPTCHA method that prompts you to turn on your device's camera to prove you are human by scanning your hands.

I assume this will eventually be mandatory, just like the current reCAPTCHA.

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

#DontBeEvil #Google #Privacy #Spying #Surveillance

@jonny @aburka "nothing can be trusted to do anything because it never throws (so that the tests pass)" OMG yes, this is literal damned asbestos as code and it's EVERYWHERE!

It's the second time I wasted way too many hours figuring out that kdnet debugging doesn't work across #Proxmox VMs because...

...fuck knows why. When I do the same stuff with a new VM it just works.

Anyway, useful resources:

https://bednars.me/blog/winpe-harness
https://kashiwaba-yuki.com/windows-windbg-proxmox-remotekd-en

We're back, analyzing CVE-2026-8037, a pre-auth RCE in Progress' Kemp LoadMaster appliance.

https://labs.watchtowr.com/enterprise-tech-in-shell-out-progress-kemp-loadmaster-uninitialized-heap-to-pre-auth-rce-cve-2026-8037/

Speak soon...

Enterprise Tech In, Shell Out (Progress Kemp LoadMaster Uninitialized Heap to Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8037) - watchTowr Labs https://labs.watchtowr.com/enterprise-tech-in-shell-out-progress-kemp-loadmaster-uninitialized-heap-to-pre-auth-rce-cve-2026-8037/

TIL: Some surprising numeric conversions in Python

https://yossarian.net/til/post/some-surprising-numeric-conversions-in-python

#til #python

Fair warning:

If you are a person involved in creating splash windows for first browser startup and we ever meet in person, I will hurt you.

Today's Tutorial [June 29, 2026]

Lesson 230: Hacking Windows Course (Chapter 27: Debugging WriteFile x86)

Dynamic reverse engineering analysis, debugging, the Windows API WriteFile function in x86 Assembly.

#STEM #Windows #ReverseEngineering

https://github.com/mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering

Did you wake up today thinking "gosh, I wonder what's the difference between semantic and syntactic entailment?" If yes, I have great news!

This is the latest in my series of articles meant to explain the foundations of math in an accessible way. My inspiration is looking at Wikipedia and then trying the opposite.

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/logic/

As promised, the stallman copypasta being read out in the nude (with my adorable british accent, as it's recently been called) https://fansly.com/post/927628617683320837

It's also pinned on my onlyfans if you're on there

@stf The main issue that I don't plan to move to Emacs, although I'm sure org-mode can do literally *everything* (khm..Unix philosophy...khm) :D

GDB is the Swiss Army knife of Linux & embedded debugging. Learn breakpoints, stepping & memory inspection: fast and hands-on. Debuggers 1012: Introductory GDB https://ost2.fyi/Dbg1012

AFL++ 5.02c release! important bugfix release for persistent fuzzing mode. New afl-health tool, C11 guidance instrumentation (helps coverage!). https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/releases/tag/v5.02c #fuzzing #afl

AI guardrails will always fail. NIST just proved it mathematically https://www.covertswarm.com/post/ai-guardrails-will-fail-nist-mathematical-proof