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Jilles preparing for a Red Team training event

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/01

Remember to adapt what you pack and tailor it for each red team training event as the blue team should expect the unexpected. Believable pretext is key.

[Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter: “Need to pack enough breaking and entering stuff to pull a good show during the RedTeam training but not too much to get arrested on my way to work. Then again, I might pull it off when I put YMCA on in a loop, in case I get pulled over. “

[Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter: “This will do for now ;-)”

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Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code…” – Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/31

Important code optimisation thought: [Wayback/Archive] Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code. — merb motto” – Mastodon

--jeroen

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PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle: The Unofficial PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/31

For my link archive, the source code [Wayback/Archive] PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle: The Unofficial PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide and on-line “book” version that starts with:

[Wayback/Archive] About this Guide – PowerShell Practice and Style

It covers many topics grouped into a Style Guide and Best Practices:

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CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Fun, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, LLM, Meme, Office, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

Do you have your VMware ESXi hypervisor joined to Active Directory? Well, the latest news from Microsoft serves as a reminder that you might not want to do that given the recently patched vulnerability that has security experts deeply concerned.

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Essentially, if an attacker was able to add an AD group called “ESX Admins,” any user added to it would by default be considered an admin.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/30/make_me_admin_esxi_flaw/

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Saving an era of indie games: Ruffle – an Adobe Flash Player written in Rust compiled to WebAssembly

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

I forgot this was in the queue: [Wayback/Archive] ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust.

It is cool and plays a lot of Adobe Flash content and supports quite a bit of the underlying ActionScript language.

I really wish the web version could play web.archive.org/web/20160706140910oe_/http://games.erdener.org/laser/laser.swf (older), web.archive.org/web/20061211011310/http://www.gamuz.com/jeux/laser.swf (newer) or web.archive.org/web/20030827220214oe_/http://www.lurghi.net/laser/laser.swf (newest) but alas when running from https://ruffle.rs/demo/, that SWF is trying to download https://ruffle.rs/demo/config.txt some 20-30 times per second.

Maybe there is a workaround, as I have only tried the [Wayback/Archive] Ruffle Web Demo page (which is the easiest way to get started).

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NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29

[Wayback/Archive] NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”

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Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29

From [Wayback/Archive] Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne:

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Trigger warning: recovering data of someone close to you which suddenly died

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/28

Sudden death sometimes is chosen, which makes it even for the ones close that are involved.

That’s why the below MCH2022 lecture by father and son Jilles and Jurre Groenendijk two years ago is really important.

I was reminded about it by a [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jilles_com on Thread Reader App last week, but before that a big TRIGGER WARNING from the lecture:

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Without prior warning, Twitter shares your data with grok AI, even for EU Twitter users

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/27

Mentioned this on various social media already yesterday, as then suddenly  – even for EU users, which is against their GDPR regulations – Twitter turned on data sharing with Grok AI of your Twitter data at x.com/settings/grok_settings (direct settings link) without given prior warning at all

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I got this default setting despite living in The Netherlands and Twitter knowing that:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, LLM, Power User, Privacy, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

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