"The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately," said Owl.

Be kind to your friends. Give them compliments regularly. Make them feel valued and loved.

We all need this, especially right now 💚

PoC for Windows PnP LPE https://plugandpwn.com/

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/1727226/microsoft-google-amazon-meta-and-oracle-expect-a-negative-cash-flow-of-125-billion-next-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

I've built a thing:
https://zed.dev/extensions/word-highlight-lsp

It's a @zed #lsp #extension to highlight all occurrences of selected words with multiple colors to quickly identify them in code.

I find it useful for #codereviews. Enojoy!

why the fuck is this called "Word Count Summary Property" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/word-count-summary

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

#BOFH excuse #295:

The Token fell out of the ring. Call us when you find it.

🏠 idalib is now available in IDA Home.

That means hobbyists and enthusiasts can now call IDA's analysis engine as a library — running headless analysis, automating workflows, and integrating IDA into their own tools — without needing an IDA Pro license.

To celebrate, we're offering 30% off IDA Home until August 14th.* Use promo code HOME30 at checkout.

👉 If you've been on the fence, now's a good time. https://hex-rays.com/ida-home

*Offer not available for corporations, agencies or resellers.

Even if you're doing a great job closely supervising your LLM coding ... for the love of all that is holy, stop pushing a new GitHub release every ten minutes.

Being able to tell GitHub to only notify the user when new releases are cut is a critical attention-management feature that you are breaking.

(Please do not reply with "shouldn't be using LLMs in the first place", "close supervision is impossible" etc noise)

らくがき

Insane and inhumane: "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/30/lemonlime-tattoo-job-interview/

After a short #EMFCamp induced hiatus, it's back...

First up this weekend is interesting talks from #emfcamp2026:

Threats:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-215-1-north-korean-agent-looking-for-a-job - job hunting, .kp style

Exploitation:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-93-1-they-forgot-what-happened-last-time - @Rairii's pokes the Redmond beast some more
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-206-1-breaking-in-to-buildings-with-boobs - a guide to social engineering the physical world

Hard hacks:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-57-1-obd-ii-obviously-broken-design-too - getting into ODB-II
* https://savvycan.com/ - CANbus packet parser
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-56-1-lock-picking-robot - robotic approaches to locks
* https://safetyfic.com/how-to-unlock-tsa007-lock-forgot-combination/ - how to change the code on a TSA combination lock?
* https://www.amazon.co.uk/tsa-key-007-master-luggage/ - want a TSA master key?
* https://lpubelts.com/ - how hard to pick is my lock?
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-47-1-building-a-tiny-paging-network - build your own pager network with @sammachin

Crypto:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-59-1-how-not-to-make-a-random-number-generator - return 42;
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm - finding the common factor
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_factorization_method - more on common factors

Data:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-88-1-building-a-mostly-local-mildly-judgemental-home-assistant - Mark J Cox takes us on a journey to build your own home assistant 🤖

Nerd:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-124-1-infrastructure-review - a review of the EMF Camp 2026 infrastructure
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-230-1-an-sres-guide-to-camping-in-extreme-conditions - vanlife reliability engineering from @donna_156
* https://phones.emfcamp.org/ - the EMF phone book
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-46-1-the-orphan-source-incident - more about the 2024 orphan source incident
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-277-1-reverse-engineering-007-nightfire - updating Nightfire via reverse engineering
* https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-100-1-automated-game-hacking - parsing and compiling game logic

#security, #research

Genuinely having a great time reading @tara 's exploration of purpose-built business machines (in the vein of the IBM 5280): https://www.tara.sh/posts/2026/2026-07-24_cobolito400_essay/

Honestly her site is one of my favorite little blogs. There's a fully essay behind the post!

As an industry, I know we're not going back, but it's neat reflecting on how different engineers over the decades have thought about _data_ and data portability as a first-class citizen.

Coldcard devices used predictable RNGs, and apparently this has consequences. 😂

I'm pleased to announce a new release of the #idalib #Rust bindings for @HexRaysSA IDA Pro! This release adds compatibility with latest SDK (v9.4), and a couple of bug fixes. Thanks to @raptor and @yegor for their contributions.
https://github.com/idalib-rs/idalib.git

Happy Sys Admin Appreciation Day to all to who observe it.