Keep an eye on my Medium blog posts. Will be doing more of these crash dump analysis and other troubleshooting related stuff.
https://bird.makeup/users/debugprivilege/statuses/1963541699247943917

If you've ever spent time around Wikipedians, you've doubtless heard its motto: "Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a mess." It's a delicious line, which is why I stole it for my 2017 novel *Walkaway*.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

"In a time of misinformation, in a time of suppression, having this place where people can come and bring knowledge and share knowledge, that is a statement."

#Wikipedia

yesterday's weird discovery is that every regular sized carrot I have tested is almost exactly 100kΩ end to end with sharp probes stuck in it. a couple of them come out at 100.0k on the dot.

inb4 NIST carrot-based electrical resistance metrology reference

This is a fascinating article about AI-based productivity claims, with a ton of data to back up his claims. Definitely worth a read regardless of your stance on AI.

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

It's time to take a sneak peak at the new Dynamic Xref Graph and Xref Tree. With these, you can now see function relationships and data flows more clearly, simplifying the task of mapping code paths in complex binaries.

https://hex-rays.com/blog/mapping-relationships-in-ida-9.2-dynamic-xref-graph-and-xref-tree

When the only tool you have is an LLM …
everything looks like a linguistic pattern problem…

Seems like people are jumping to LLMs to solve any task now, when simple ML models or linear regression just do the job at a fraction of the power cost and better precision.

PHRACK Ambassador @dugsong hand delivered a signed hardcopy and PHRACK-COIN to umich.edu Prof Peter Honeyman for his awesome article 🤟

https://phrack.org/issues/72/14_md#article

In 1983, Peter (+2 others) wrote a significant revision of UUCP (Unix2Unix Copy), part of System V Unix.

Preview of PHRACK #72 🐊 BSides Canberra/Australia 🦘edition.

👉Release: 25th of September. GET READY👈

How many logos of famous Australian/New-Zealand cons can you spot on the back cover?

retoot to scare a cryptographer

Pro tip: if you're using @kagihq's video search instead of #YouTube's own search (which you should), you can customize your search results using the little shield icon next to each result just like with the regular search, except you don't block entire domains here but individual YouTube channels, allowing you to permanently ban trash/clickbait/AI channels from your results.

https://hachyderm.io/@gollyhatch/114998713218333668

You know what's really great? Not getting polio.

#BOFH excuse #404:

Sysadmin accidentally destroyed pager with a large hammer.

CVE-2025-53149: Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Kernel Streaming https://www.crowdfense.com/cve-2025-53149-windows-ksthunk-heap-overflow/