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Published: October 31, 2026 08:36

"I can be trusted with an unmanaged computer because I am built different, maybe even better than the gods" is isomorphic to why we're still spending so much time tripping over C

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Published: October 30, 2026 23:34

Unmanaged laptops should not have access to sensitive corporate resources thank you that will be $10,000,000

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Published: October 30, 2026 23:26

Dealing with the RAM crisis plugging a memory doubler into Keanu Reeves' head and shoving him into a rack

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Published: October 30, 2026 18:58

Spent the last couple of evenings poking at my soundbar to figure out why it only had Google Cast functionality in Australia and whether I could do something about that: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/getting-google-cast-on-my-soundbar/

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Published: October 27, 2026 11:04

There is already a Knightmare game, and it was actually good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightmare_(1991_video_game)

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Published: October 22, 2026 06:02

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon:…

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Published: October 21, 2026 08:58

A company fucks up somehow and then someone using non-standard pronouns shows up and fucks that company up much harder just because they can look I'm going to call it we are absolutely in the Gibson future cyberpunk is more than a Billy Idol album now

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Published: October 21, 2026 06:51

I'm a security professional, and I can tell you that security professionals only talk about PHP when they're very distressed

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Published: October 21, 2026 05:09

Cannot wait for the fucking discourse on responsible disclosure tomorrow

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Published: October 21, 2026 04:25

Pleased to report that I have no PHP

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Published: October 20, 2026 22:48

Phreak: "Alright, what are the three most commonly used private keys?" Joey: "156, 115, 55. But not in that order, necessarily, right?" Cereal: "Yeah but don't forget 4. System operators love to use 4. It's that whole male ego thing."

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Published: October 20, 2026 22:31

Elon absolutely seething that none of the keys were 69 or 420

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Published: October 20, 2026 18:30

If you are interested in poking at traffic generated by IoT devices, today would be a good day to ensure that automatic firmware updates are turned off

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Published: October 18, 2026 08:15

It's been out for a couple of days so I don't think this is a spoiler, but: fuck finding out that Nathan Fielder was dead the entire time was a mindfuck

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Published: October 15, 2026 20:51

I wrote another blog post! This one is about why Epic's new Linux anti-cheat approach doesn't seem like it'd deter any enthusiastic cheaters: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/epics-eac2-v2-seems-fairly-easily-bypassable/

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Published: October 14, 2026 08:05

New blog post! Yet another attempt to implement secure hibernation on Linux when lockdown is enabled: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/linux-lockdown-and-hibernation-again/

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Published: October 13, 2026 13:26

Dream where I realised I only had 15 minutes to get to my gate before my flight closed and Heathrow Terminal 2 had been turned into a dark place full of wooden fixtures and deep red carpeting and for some reason there was a tiki bar in the walkway to the…

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Published: October 12, 2026 19:56

"Men read less than women, this must be because—" You awake in your bed, bolt upright. It is 1972 and you are Bob Metcalfe. Ethernet must never be allowed to happen.

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Published: October 12, 2026 19:52

"They doxxed the Prodigy crab" is something that will forever live in my brain [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 12, 2026 18:50

Trump accidentally handing over regulation of AI to the International Bureau of Weights and Measurements

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Published: October 12, 2026 13:46

Like yes I know *and also* "our legal tender"? BoE notes aren't legal tender in Scotland or Northern Ireland, but, alas, English MPs [contains quote post or other embedded content]