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Barry Dorrans

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Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET Do you really think work wants my social media opinions? Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · Oct 10

What doesn't kill you disappoints me.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 57m

It's supposed to automatically kick off as soon as the patch is released. I don't know how long it'll take though, but it's usually within a few hours.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 2h

No shit sherlock

GB News viewers more likely to wrongly believe net migration to UK rising, study finds

Research also finds majority of people are against letting politicians front current affairs programmes

www.theguardian.com

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 3h

And he’s too big to sit

A larger kitten trying to fit in a casserole dish in a kitchen sink

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 3h

No you cannot clean this any more

A kitten sitting in a casserole dish, which in turn is sitting in a kitchen sink

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 3h

Very @horsedisc.bsky.social wording 😈

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 3h

But you’d be a participation trophy husband

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 5h

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h

Moderation is hard

Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 6h

“Unacceptable slur in record” — Bluesky, intent upon banning Homophobic Slurs, bans Frequently Asked Questions
https://alecmuffett.com/article/117533
#bluesky #censorship #stupid

“Unacceptable slur in record” — Bluesky, intent upon banning Homophobic Slurs, bans Frequently Asked Questions

This blog automatically propagates to several platforms, and the blogpost tags, where relevant, are converted into hashtags for those platforms.This morning I was debugging why one of my posts was …

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 8h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 1d

It's Patch Tuesday and ASP.NET Core has a doozy, with a CVSS score of 9.9, our highest ever. Let's examine why.

The bug enables http request smuggling, which on its own for ASP.NET Core would be nowhere near that high, but that's not how we rate things...

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Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability · Issue #371 · dotnet/announcements

Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability i...

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

lol funny because I have been forwarding the port swigger explainer to customer support folks if they get asked for an explanation, because it’s way better than anything I could write, so just send that link