Thomas Barrett 👨‍💻

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

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.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange 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.

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

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

I just got a text from an Unknown number that want's me to review a PDF file. I am pretty sure it is a trap...

DELETE... 🗑️

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?

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

Was anybody else getting spammed by Microsoft? #Microsoft #xbox

So Signal App has a new backup feature, and you don't get to control where the backup is stored.

Hmm... Not sure if I like this idea!

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. 🤷‍♂️

Does anybody else hate slider as much as I do when you are trying to sort and filter?

🙌 Finally…

🌨️ Winter weather inbound!

I noticed something in this last year when I code in python. When attempting to get something from a dictionary instead of doing dict['key'] I am utilizing more dict.get('key').

I think I like that more because it doesn't error, under the dict.get('key') it will just return None if it doesn't exist, or you can set a value if it fails such as dict.get('key', 'value')

Weird how some of my coding changes over time.

#Python

Well, so much for 2025. I had to fix so much vibe coding this year that it wasn'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's hope everyone learned their lessons from Generative AI.

I am so frustrated with my MacOS's design, that I am seriously looking at Microsoft Surface Laptops right now because, I cannot see some of my notifications due to the "liquid glass design". I hate to make the switch, but they royally screwed this one up! Not saying my vision is bad, but it isn't the greatest either.

Has anybody noticed that the US Job Market has gotten a little weird?

I have set up multiple automation'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

Alright... Another good day of coding! 👨‍💻

Shopping for wireless service sucks.

The word "fees" shows up in AT&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 "Admin Fee" like a certain carrier that just lost $100 million.

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.

Where in the hell is this coming from?

All I am trying to do is clean up some rules in unbound and it is "MALWARE"!

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

Guess I am done shopping at Best Buy! Too many policy changes that I don’t agree with!

So I have been playing with Vaultwarden on docker. I have even did a @tailscale@hachyderm.io 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

I don'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

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/

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social so… Can we see it?