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Deebster

@ Deebster @infosec.pub

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Mostly a backup account for now, other @Deebsters are available.

  • A new breed of analyzers

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  • My favourite thing around this story is the part where they found that Daniel had simultaneously introduced a Kerberos5 FTP security bug and completely broken it - and that, since that was a year ago and no-one had noticed, the fix was just to delete that feature entirely.

  • Woman Swallows Eight Live Frogs to Cure Her Back Pain

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  • Is she related to the old lady who swallowed a fly?

  • The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents

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  • I must bow to your encyclopaedic (or IMDBic) knowledge of Paw Patrol films.

    Sounds like the poster maker picked a good film to reference there being a new one of.

  • The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents

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  • The image talks about the new one at the top.

  • The box is mine!

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  • We broke it up.

    The box or the fight?

  • Wipeout series - The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

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  • I used to listen to the soundtrack (since it used to be on the CD as standard audio tracks) and never realised in my foolish youth that it was from actual musicians with whole albums I could check out.

  • Deleting Files

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  • It's a pretty old issue (and you can find others complaining online over the years) and my current machine is running Gentoo Linux, so I'm not trying to fix it any more.

  • Deleting Files

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  • I barely know er!

  • Deleting Files

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  • On my Windows 10 laptop, Task Manager virtually freezes the whole system for about four seconds when you switch tabs.

  • Deleting Files

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  • The first version of PowerToys was released for Windows 95 on 17 November, 1996 as a download on Microsoft's FTP server at the time.

    Well wadaya knows?

    I like that it wasn't a proper installed thing, just a bunch of executables in a zip file.

  • Italian navy to stop assisting Gaza flotilla despite fears of Israeli attack

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  • "Many would be happy to disrupt" a peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump, Meloni said in a statement. "I fear that the flotilla's attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade could provide a pretext for this."

    This is kinda fair enough - Netanyahu doesn't want a ceasefire since he partly started this all to avoid his legal problems.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • Yeah, I was confused too. Perhaps they didn't see any problem and instead of realising the page had been edited after I commented they just downvoted.

    Back to that article, I wonder if they were trying to add links into their footnotes and that broke stuff. They seemed to have fixed it by deleting them all, but that's quite a lot of content gone.

    E.g. after pairing up the broken footnotes with their endings that stayed in the main text you can see these:

    How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration. “No user accounts, by design”: https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html

    “Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software” (because you don’t need a manufacturer’s permission to install software on your computer).’ — Pluralistic: Darth Android: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • The author seemed to struggle with their CMS, but you can get the gist.

    Ah good, they've fixed it now. The version I saw, for reference.

  • Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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  • No robots.txt or headers to stop the resultant slop from ending up in search engines :(

    Might also have helped prevent the bill that caused him to disable generation.

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • That must have taken some practice!

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • People sometimes introduce a quote by doing that air quote gesture - I suppose with this logic they should only do it on one hand at the quote start and use the other hand to end the quote.

  • Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology

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  • I saw one comment and was sure it'd be the Arthur C. Clarke quote. I like your one, I hadn't seen it before.

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

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  • Sometimes both in the same article!

    They'll start by explaining what the internet is before descending into a dense conversation about how to use eBPF to do packet filtering and observability - just who is the audience that needs both halves of this?

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • I've been using nushell for a year and while it is great mostly, and means you don't need to use external tools like jq, the verbosity is tedious at times. I have a lot of aliases set, and I often use the caret escape hatch to run the traditional command if I just want a quick answer.