I made a thing: it's called the DNS Museum, and it's because I kept joking at the start of my talk, "Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS" that a lot of the things weren't alive anymore - so it was more like a museum of DNS and I was the curator. Anyway, I'm on holiday right now so I finally got around to doing something about that joke.

Consider this a first draft, I have way more notes about other things to add at some point. It's also a little bland, but one thing I'm not is a designer. Let me know about any issues - AI was used to help create the site, but of course I'm responsible for any mistakes. It's on GitHub too, so PRs are welcome.

https://dns.museum

Some brief thoughts on AI in hacking and optimizing for speed:
https://mahaloz.re/2026/09/28/hack-race.html

A bit is also a response to Flare-On 13.

RE//verse 2027 is on the way, and you should probably be there! If you know, you know. If you don’t, this is a very good year to fix that. https://re-verse.io/

High level diff of iOS 27.0 vs. iOS 27.0.1 🎉

https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-diffs/blob/main/27_0_24A437_vs_27_0_1_24A446/README.md

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator.

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For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting.

I find it rather amazing that this is possible!

This is the program he sent with the seed:

with open("seed.txt", encoding="ascii") as handle:
seed = int(handle.read().strip(), 0)
r = random.Random(seed)
pending = ""
while True:
character = chr(r.randrange(128))
if pending + character == "\x1e\x1f":
break
print(pending, end="")
pending = character
print()

CVE-2026-88771 - the loaded Citrix footgun went off again, and the screaming noise is back in our ear.

You knew it was coming - enjoy the latest watchTowr Labs blogpost.

https://labs.watchtowr.com/oh-look-the-foot-gun-went-off-again-citrix-netscaler-preauth-command-injection-cve-2026-88771/

I know this is going to sound crazy, but what I’d most like in a printer is one where, when I tell it to print something, it prints.

My second problem with computers and IT is that nearly nobody understands software anymore and I feel so-called AI will make this much worse.

The #RSS Universe — Readers, Tools & Standards

https://toolbox.rss.here.now/