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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · May 15

It’s conference & festival season—♪ the most wonderful time of the year ♪

…bc I get to send my most ludicrous graphic design requests to local print shops and see which are brave enough to deliver

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Apr 25

Very excited to share that I’ll be presenting at @sleuthcon.bsky.social in June!

Jim & I will share the backstory behind AkiraBot that didn’t make it into the blog—and what they’ve been up to since.

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Apr 15

Mood board while drafting my @sleuthcon.bsky.social CFP submission (thanks for the sweet challenge coin, Sleuthy Sleuthington!) 🐍

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 21

A friend made these, similar energy

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 18

I do that regularly! That may explain why everything feels better when I’m in Europe

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 18

I finally feel like the stars are aligning!

And if they aren’t, I’ll move them myself. Someone’s gotta do it.

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 17

Everyone wants my data tho, hardly unique to the void

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 17

Lately, the call of the void is increasingly loud.

And today, the void says to install Xiaohongshu for research purposes

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 15

Hell yea, wya?

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cabal @cabal.cx · Jan 14

our network has raised hundreds of dollars to give firefighters the zyn they need to keep protecting LA from the fires. Thank you!!

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Jan 11

Apparently I’ll be last minute lobbyconning at Shmoo. Say hi if we should hang!

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Dec 28

ADIB

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Dec 21

OMG! I should complain on social media more often. You are a lifesaver!!! TYSM

The aggressive junk filtering and no new mail badges still sucks but huge quality of life improvement. ⭐️

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Dec 20

Brutal. I haven’t had that issue, but that’s unacceptable.
My problem is that messages are automatically sorted to the new categories and I don’t see them (bad UI decisions) and I also no longer get new message badges so I have no idea when messages arrive. Also everything goes to Junk now.

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Dec 20

Oh hell no. Onboarding email sent to junk? I’d be done.

Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Dec 20

I would like to take a moment to reflect on how awful the updates to the iOS Apple Mail client have been.

It’s practically unusable now and everything sent to junk is legitimate mail. Huge downgrade.

Is it just me?

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Dec 15

I hadn’t seen the cat one!! Love how it turned out

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Winnona @winnona.bsky.social · Nov 26

CTI is the cause of my brainrot but I really cooked on this #salttyphoon #telecomhack

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aaron @aaron.cat.gf · Nov 26

super simple bluesky firehose with references
gist.github.com/aaronsdevera...

Very very very simplified Bsky go brrr

Very very very simplified Bsky go brrr. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Nov 25

The Aircrafts Comments signal
sticker pack is having a moment

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Nov 23

I need to look at the other LLM’s API key formatting to see if I can hunt for tools using them.

I found Predator through a different hunting rule I made for malicious cloud tools—I started hunting for OpenAI API keys after I found Predator using one.

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Nov 23

Good times in DC. WAG drag was a success!

For our unofficial post @cyberwarcon.bsky.social WAGINT party, I LARPed as Pavel Durov’s WAG, Juli Vavilova.

nypost.com/2024/08/26/w...

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Nov 23

International House of Bots? Sign me up

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Nov 23

I’m surprised I haven’t seen more malicious tools using AI since Predator. I scrape VirusTotal for any scripts that contain an OpenAI API key. No other major finds yet.

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Alex Delamotte @alex.leetnoob.com · Nov 22

We have those on the West Coast too! But far fewer spies