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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/116399482954754093 Can I bring your attention to one of the best security write-ups I’ve read in a long while. Bravo, Davi. @mttaggart@infosec.exchange flagged this one to me.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

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Good lord, I hate security conferences these days. Save me.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 21, 2026

I’ve just witnessed a horrific LinkedIn trend in person. There’s an increasing contingent of cultists saying: “We should refer to the field of IT as ‘AI’ because that’s what the future is” I’m not sure what podcast they heard it on, but some guy just said to me: “You work in AI, don’t you?” Um… no? Security and IT “Yeah, AI” This person made a choice to attend a major tech conference and be this stupid. Stop the planet, I’m disembarking.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @emilymbender@dair-community.social

@emilymbender@dair-community.social @trochee@dair-community.social I wouldn’t want to add to that, and I am very supportive of your work. I will say, it gives off very mixed messages if a post on a public forum carries rules of which way is the acceptable way to reply to it, especially for neurodivergent folks. I’m used to this, but I could have worded my allegedly supportive message of your position better, maybe even braved a quote tweet. I’m not here to argue, and you leaving would be a significant loss.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @emilymbender@dair-community.social

@emilymbender@dair-community.social @trochee@dair-community.social possibly, certainly wasn’t the intent, but there’s a lot of it around. I still find quote toots a bit ‘twittery’ in that they’re used to insidiously inject an agenda or narrative, rather than add to the current discussion thread. Maybe it’s just me. Perhaps I should adjust that perception somewhat and embrace it.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @emilymbender@dair-community.social

@emilymbender@dair-community.social @trochee@dair-community.social forgive me, my rant wasn’t at you, it was just *shakes fist at clouds*

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @emilymbender@dair-community.social

@emilymbender@dair-community.social @trochee@dair-community.social once again promoting my campaign to stop calling it ‘hallucination’ and start calling it what it is, ‘erroneous output.’ What software error rate is acceptable? 0.1% is a good starting point, 1% a bright red line for a PoC, negligence in the real world. 10%? Don’t be silly. 20%? It’s just working by accident at this point. Real world tests put the average at 45% last month. Correct output just over half the time. A coin flip. The starry-eyed, hopeful, technology-loving childhood me did not want any of this.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 18, 2026

Ok. Put a good shift into Lords of the Fallen (2023). I’m about 7 or 8 bosses deep.

It’s really good. I’m a big Soulsborne fan, I’ve finished pretty much every FROM game made, even their other franchises, and this is probably as close to it as you’re going to get to that Dark Souls feeling.

Has some interesting mechanics, like your first death not being ‘final’, but results in an increasingly hostile world until recovery, and switching between the current and a darker, more decayed version of the same world.

Boss fights feel looser, and on regular difficulty it’s not particularly difficult, but there’s lots of tweaks you can make to the game from the menu, including the sorts of things you’d usually get with mods, like enemy randomisers, iron man, hardcore mode etc.

But that looser combat paves the way for an enormous amount of viable builds, with an impressive array of weapons, magic, armour and other loot, with many weapons giving unique movesets. Even ranged is viable.

It also incorporates some of the great features Sekiro and Bloodborne had which encouraged aggressive, or just engaged play. Such as no damage being 100% ‘blockable’ but lost health being recoverable unless you’re hit again before counter attacking, so great if you like a parry… or don’t.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 18, 2026

Spent 30 minutes trying to get Lords of the Fallen updated to 2.5 yesterday.

Turns out they remade the game with the same name, basically the same theme and environments 9 years later, and just didn’t say anything.

Purchased now, but feeling a bit silly.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 18, 2026

Gonna defrag this SSD to make sure the transistors are aligned.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 18, 2026

Folks in the UK reading this like “where do I sign up for cheap rail travel?!”

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 18, 2026

I’m at ‘just typed the time into a search engine’ levels of tired.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 16, 2026

I’m just a boy standing in front of any Microsoft management portal asking it not to show me the fucking welcome tour any time I sign in, regardless of whether I’ve completed it or not.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @CGM@mastodon.scot

@CGM Return Point Objective and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @Maitre@mastodon.online

@Maitre "Test your backups or your backups will test you" Maybe one for @SunTzuCyber

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 15, 2026

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Colleagues asking for opinion on absolutely any vendor: "Do you trust..." No.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt

@LunaDragofelis that’s easy. Turn it off and run away. Immediately

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange

“Didn’t you say this a couple of months back?” Yeah. It’s never a bad day to test your backups. Well, almost never. When you actually need them might not be optimal. That’s my point.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 15, 2026

It’s international test your backups day! Go test your backups, don’t just check they exist. Do they restore? Is the RPO expected? Do they reintegrate? Is data integrity preserved? HA is not BCDR. You’ve been warned.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 07, 2026

Captain Climbdown appears to have done us a favour for once.

No nukes tonight at least.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 07, 2026

Just getting ready to do a genocide.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 07, 2026

Daylight savings time is getting in the way of me quickly calibrating my nuclear war clock today.

Usually it doesn’t matter, but we’re on short notice lately.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io

@evacide I mean there’s a clear loophole here… it says nothing about not *telling them* why they’re wrong on the internet… But I agree, I failed quickly.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 06, 2026

How’s my echo chamber doing this fine evening?

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 04, 2026

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 04, 2026

Find myself just waiting on the Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon title screen as the song goes so hard.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Apr 02, 2026

Been in a gaming slump lately.

Picked up Voin on a whim. And it’s a real hidden gem.

A solo developer, too. Such an achievement.

It’s like Doom meets Skyrim meets Borderlands meets Dishonoured meets Dark Souls.

A dungeon crawling, parkour exploration, loot farming, build crafting, parry/dodge murderfest.

Bloody gorgeous too.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 29, 2026

My wife always wonders how I’m a both a ‘morning person’ and a ‘night owl’.

I remind her I start the day by washing amphetamines down with tea, and then continue this trend throughout the day.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 28, 2026

Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”

Me: “My account is 23 years old”

Valve: “That just proves your account is old”

Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 25, 2026

@jerry@infosec.exchange just thinking through the inevitable nightmares inbound from UK, EU, and US age verification requirements for social media, where does this land us on Infosec.exchange?

Early days I know, but curious on your thoughts.

infosec.exchange

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 25, 2026

I won’t be verifying that I’m over 18 on iOS 26.4, and as of yet, I haven’t seen any downside to not doing so.

I do think this is going to backfire though. If it’s age restricted apps I can’t download, surely I’d just use the website instead.

I hear that the intent is to utilise some sort of age verification flag, but I can’t see it being implemented at all.

Put it this way… from 2016 to 2026, following GDPR mandates for handling visitors to websites only around 15% of public facing websites are GDPR ‘compliant’.

Good luck getting age verification uptake. You can’t block by default, the internet would implode.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 23, 2026

We're in good hands.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 11, 2026

Love getting flagged by an AI service for using AI to plagiarise coursework.

They quote a reference on a AI slop outlet site which scraped the content from another source.

That source was….

Meeeeeeee

Currently arguing with their submissions team.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Mar 01, 2026

I’ve been really burned out of modern gaming for a few years now. Sure there’s the odd gem, but there’s a good reason I’ve not been compelled to upgrade my 1080Ti. Arguably the best consumer GPU card ever released, turning 9 years old this month. I’ve been drawn to older, more polished, more mechanically sound games, entirely unphased by the allure of raytracing and more Ks to the screen. This isn’t nostalgia talking. Looking back you can see key points where the artistry and passion of it all met rampant commercialism. I’ve figured it out. It’s the 1997-1998 transition.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 25, 2026

In a ditch or abandoned at the side of the road. Day 1. Depending on deployment numbers.

Almost certainly by week 2.

Just you wait. These people have no clue what car combat awaits an unattended car on UK roads. It’s bad enough in the US.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2drw12z51o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 24, 2026

IP stealing machine gets its IP stolen by IP stealing machine. Cries foul play.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/anthropic-says-chinese-ai-firms-used-16.html

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 22, 2026

Up your CTI game by knowing the correct threat actor names for executive briefings. Security isn’t about being right, it’s about being accurate, after all: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gayint-name-converter/ Courtesy of @gayint@infosec.exchange #threatintel #cti #security #cybersecurity

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 19, 2026

Because there’s no data to suggest there’s a problem. As the article clearly says.

There is however data to show significant road safety benefits to LED headlights.

Except the new Ford Puma. Fuck that car and its skyward pointing headlights.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 19, 2026

They’ve arrested the nonce. I can’t stop laughing.

On his fucking birthday.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 18, 2026

The PlayStation 2 was so popular that production and subsequent sales of it continued throughout the entire PS3 era until the launch of the PS4.

You could buy a *retail* new PS2, PS3, and PS4 in stores, on the same day.

A true testament to the popularity and longevity of good hardware well supported.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 18, 2026

I am LOVING seeing so many AI projects being paused or binned.

There’s one silver lining in the mass layoffs, they can’t lay off their absurd investment in power, cooling, and hardware. Loss adjusters and liquidators are rubbing their hands with glee.

Also, many silicon spinners are demanding 5 year agreements on production. It’s go big or go home time, and there will be some casualties.

One org I reluctantly work with pivoted their entire operating model to AI and agents, and they royally screwed their staff over.

They’re now hiring them as consultants at twice their original salary as everything fell on it’s arse, and who knew that go to market suits with a prompt can’t keep infrastructure or business running. Hilariously I know one engineer negotiated a one-sided 12 month contract notice period.

These people are going to get desperate, fast. Fetch the s’mores and let em roast.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 18, 2026

iCloud account up and running again. No explanation. Just a lot of hassle with support.

Thankfully it’s a secondary account and I just need to move some services off it.

🖕

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 18, 2026

Day 9 of my iCloud mailbox being disabled with no explanation.

Let’s see what today brings.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 17, 2026

Oh my god. LOOK MOM NO COMPUTER is representing us at Eurovision.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 17, 2026

Important stuff. Take note.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 16, 2026

If you’ve not played the Metro games.

Their post-apocalyptic currency is bullets.

Ours will be RAM.

But not the fast stuff, that’s reserved for the things destroying the planet.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 16, 2026

No I won’t learn.

I will not proof read my posts before publishing.

I am cursed for eternity.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 16, 2026

When your post gets shit tons of traction with ridiculous typos in it.

Love ADHD.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 16, 2026

I have 384TB of ECC DDR4 across two blades with 4 CPUs for a combined core count of 96.

It powers a fully populated 192 disk solid state SAN.

I was told it was old and in need of replacing, but apparently now it’s worth more than the GDP of the UK.

Can’t afford to run it (or hear my thoughts when in the vicinity)… but I can sit atop it like a fucking dragon.

And I will.

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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · Feb 16, 2026

The Muffin Man?

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