Thomas Barrett 👨💻
trbarrettjr@crosstalk.tech
<p>📍I live in the USA 🇺🇸<br />📚 MBA - This means I will get a little nerdy… Too nerdy! Just ask questions. It’s okay; I won’t bite!</p><p>🐍 Python code archaeologist.<br />🏖 Quiet vacation connoisseur.<br />💬 I am on Signal, but you have to ask for the name<br />❌ No Crypto Solicitation Please</p><p>Powered by curiosity, caffeine, and questionable hobbies.</p>
Posts
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Post #4289594
@GossiTheDog so… Can we see it?
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Post #4289593
Just got done reading this little humdinger. I swear anything that AI touches increases the attack surface. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/
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Post #4289592
I don&#39;t know if you just heard my big sigh of relief. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-sp-500-index-funds-investors.html
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Post #4289591
So I have been playing with Vaultwarden on docker. I have even did a @tailscale sidecar with it. But, I am still not sure about this deployment. I like having the convenience of an app. I guess I need to sleep on this one. #Vaultwarden #tailscale #docker
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Post #4289590
So #netflix is starting to irritate me. I get it that you want to cut down on password sharing. But this crap where you email me a code is getting annoying. I am about ready to cut them off again.
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Post #4289589
I saw this cool cloud around my house today. I assume the water droplets were acting like a prism and was giving off the rainbow colors. #clouds #bluesky #photography
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Post #4289588
Guess I am done shopping at Best Buy! Too many policy changes that I don’t agree with!
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Post #4289587
Where in the hell is this coming from? All I am trying to do is clean up some rules in unbound and it is &quot;MALWARE&quot;! Need a little better detection and the ability to turn this off or down when needed. I know what I copied and I know what I am going to paste! #DNS #Unbound #Apple #Cybersecurity
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Post #2969432
Is #debian having an issue with a mirror? I am doing `apt update` and one of the mirrors wants to take 4 hours. I think I am going to try a new mirror.
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Post #2969431
Shopping for wireless service sucks. The word &quot;fees&quot; shows up in AT&amp;T service agreement 93 times and most of those terms are in the legal disputes area. I cannot get a clear image if they have an &quot;Admin Fee&quot; like a certain carrier that just lost $100 million.
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Post #2376556
Alright... Another good day of coding! 👨💻
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Post #2376555
Has anybody noticed that the US Job Market has gotten a little weird? I have set up multiple automation&#39;s to watch and database various job boards and I am starting to notice a pattern that job descriptions clarity are going down, pay transparency is almost non-existent, etc. #economy
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Post #2376554
I am so frustrated with my MacOS&#39;s design, that I am seriously looking at Microsoft Surface Laptops right now because, I cannot see some of my notifications due to the &quot;liquid glass design&quot;. I hate to make the switch, but they royally screwed this one up! Not saying my vision is bad, but it isn&#39;t the greatest either.
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Post #2376553
Well, so much for 2025. I had to fix so much vibe coding this year that it wasn&#39;t funny. Working with a co-worker, and he had a pretty bad idea, and the Generative AI kept going down the rabbit hole of the bad idea. When done it was over 300 lines of code mess. I condensed it down to 60 lines of code. Let&#39;s hope everyone learned their lessons from Generative AI.
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Post #2376552
I noticed something in this last year when I code in python. When attempting to get something from a dictionary instead of doing dict[&#39;key&#39;] I am utilizing more dict.get(&#39;key&#39;). I think I like that more because it doesn&#39;t error, under the dict.get(&#39;key&#39;) it will just return None if it doesn&#39;t exist, or you can set a value if it fails such as dict.get(&#39;key&#39;, &#39;value&#39;) Weird how some of my coding chan...
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Post #2376551
🙌 Finally… 🌨️ Winter weather inbound!
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Post #2376550
@GossiTheDog @briankrebs I think that is something people miss with CloudFlare, or any CDN; limit your origin firewall. Shodan is showing a lot of miss-configurations out there.
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Post #2376547
Does anybody else hate slider as much as I do when you are trying to sort and filter?
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Post #2376546
For some reason, I keep every resume for every job that I apply for. And I now have a dataset that is over 120 artifacts. 🤷♂️
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Post #2376545
So Signal App has a new backup feature, and you don&#39;t get to control where the backup is stored. Hmm... Not sure if I like this idea!
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Post #2376544
Was anybody else getting spammed by Microsoft? #Microsoft #xbox
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Post #2376543
Been so busy that I haven’t had the opportunity to share some of the things I have been up to. Got a new project in the works with these things that I want to be able to “track GPS/GNSS data” while out on a trek then plot the route later! #rapberrypi #adafruit
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Post #2376542
https://youtu.be/0pvJmxe7LdE?si=kre4HxJnanEwhFsh I have to be honest. I wonder if lawyers and people are going to think twice about these slapp lawsuits?
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Post #2376541
I just got a text from an Unknown number that want&#39;s me to review a PDF file. I am pretty sure it is a trap... DELETE... 🗑️
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Post #2376540
Something totally skipped my headlines from over a month ago. SpaceX is regulated under the Railway Labor Act?!? Oh dear god! If I worked there I would run; even as management–Run! I could write volumes on the difference between RLA and NLRA, so there is going to be people tripped up and going to get into a lot of legal trouble in the near future! Think burden of proof. #spacex
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Post #2376539
Interesting, another snowflake hack. This time it appears to be Rockstar Games. https://www.theverge.com/games/910815/rockstar-games-says-hack-will-have-no-impact