When all you got is a crimper, everything looks like a ferrule

I've decided it's time to reclaim the em dash—enough is enough.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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ZionSiphon is an AI-generated, non-functional attempt at ICS malware. Malicious intent doesn't imply ability, and broken malware like this is a distraction when we have proven threats like VOLTZITE/Volt Typhoon out there hitting water utilities.: www.dragos.com/blog/zionsip...

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Is there a term for when people spend exponentially more time trying to get an LLM to do a task correctly, than it would have taken to just do the task themselves?

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

Whenever I use Chrome to debug a modern website, it's so funny to see all the requests usually blocked by my normal setup. It's like watching a fish being released back into the sea, swimming happily, gobbling up all the data and sending telemetry out to the other fish.

FYI I am no longer involved with Phrack

"MIPS" more like May I Please See the disassembly and hex dump because the decompiler has no idea wtf is going on

Random Atmel logo on a chip in the NBC logo animation for the super bowl

Last day of BGGP6 today!

We are excited to announce the CFP for the next tmp.0ut Volume 5! tmpout.sh/blog/vol5-cf...

Deluded wine moms are committing deadly crimes in your area

is he... y'know... a friend of claude

Rest in power, Renee Good. 💔

NEW BLOG POST: Gbyte leaks gigabytes of data - #FuckStalkerware pt. 8 the tale of a chinese stalkerware service with fully remote android spying, plus an MMO boosting service and patented ToS violations maia.crimew.gay/posts/fuckst...

cannot believe that the US kidnapped a foreign president and is holding him in the jail behind the Micro Center

Another conflict, another claim of wartime cyber capability being used. I really need you all to understand how unlikely it is that cyber-enabled power outage is going to be used in a conflict like this. Let me walk you through this...

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"The lights of Caracas were largely turned off, due to a certain expertise that we have" It's honestly not particularly hard to attack critical infra, but if you do, you're just as bad if not worse than the people who ransomware hospitals.

the kids, they know how to name libraries. www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...

My top 4 art pieces of 2025 1. tmp.0ut Volume 4 ToC 2. Phrack 72 CFP Promo Flyer 3. Phrack 72 Cover 4. BGGP6 Flyer The first one is ASCII art, the rest are physical collages created with scissors, glue, stickers, stamps, typewriter, and photocopier.

My 3.3-9v ass when a power engineer mf calls 480v "Low Voltage"

𝙿𝙰𝙶𝙴𝙳 𝙾𝚄𝚃! #𝟾 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝙳𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙴: 𝟺 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼 𝙴𝚘𝙳 𝙴𝚘𝙰 Save the date if you're planning to write an article or showcase your digital art in the next issue of our magazine. pagedout.institute P.S. We're looking for sponsors for issue #8 as well.

Part 1 of my #BGGP6 writeup about nasm's most mysterious object file format, RDOFF. n0.lol/bggp6-rdoff/

Today I got RDOFF (.rdf) files working in nasm 2.15. I wrote my own lib bc nasm didn't generate properly. Also patched the 32-bit loader in `rdx` with mmap tricks (shoutout ixi). An executable RDOFF has likely never run on a 64 bit system before today. Writeup soon! #BGGP6

Doing this again! This time I am looking into resurrecting an old object file format using scapy, and will probably look at some more entries for #BGGP6 . If you're working on any cool file stuff or just want to chat, come thru!

Doing this now! Come hang Link discord.gg/Hc6TbXrS

This weekend I'm thinking about chilling in the @binary.golf discord voice chat and working on some ideas for #BGGP6 if anyone else wants to play with weirdo files or just hang.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

I've never been prouder of @2600.com and speaking at @hope.net than now. 2600 has apparently been told HOPE can't return to St. John's University - allegedly because some attendees last year were ""too anti-police."" Censorship won't stop the signal - especially not 2600 Hz

the goal of posting is to convey every possible thought until you can communicate exclusively via quoting your own posts

I'm running for Senate. Fuck it

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Decompress DEFLATE using only HTML5 Canvas retr0.id/stuff/canvas...

New writeup for #BGGP6 !! What's the smallest Wireshark dissector? What's the most annoying Wireshark dissector? Find out here: n0.lol/bggp6-wiresh...

**patches the compare instruction** "The subtle art of nop giving a fuck"

Chatting about Ouija boards this Halloween and was reminded of the CSS animated ANSI art Ouija board I made for the last episode of ThugCrowd. The font I designed for this was reused for the original @tmpout.sh logo too! I just expanded some glyphs to make them line up better.

github.com/xero/text0wn... the "BLOCKTOBER" release brings new plain text file export, fixes for tool context switching and move mode, html minification, new selection tool keyboard features, and finally we've updated to vitest v4 while optimizing the tests for better memory usage! 🎃

tea time

Something that surprised me a little (but made sense in retrospect) was that core dump files are ELFs

The HPE NonStop Itanium and amd64 systems use them for their "Guardian" OS and the "OSS" layer on top of that, They also added the extra vendor/os fields in the wrong spots for some of the enums

What's the most unexpected or interesting place you have seen the ELF format used? Especially non-Linux use cases (eg Firehose programmers)

AWS (Antifa Web Services) doing the #NoPings protest today

Binary Golf Grand Prix 6 begins now! #BGGP6 theme: "Recycle" Challenge Announcement: binary.golf/6

Today is another good reminder of @k8em0.bsky.social's iconic line: We have an internet built on rock n roll and silly string.