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Amateur professional #selfhost sysadmin. Professional amateur #cloud #security at #AWS. Also fond of #cats, #cigars, #whiskey and #pipes. I like board games and some […]

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paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I think I should print some of these to stick them on bottles of gummies.
Photo of a roll of stickers with the danger yellow triangle and title "California Proposition 65 Warning." The warning is in English and spanish and reads: WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause duuuuude... ADVERTENCIA: Este producto contiene productos quimicos reconocidos por el estado de California que provocan duuuude...
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Character encoding is hard. Running on Paco's computer is hard, too. I'm sure I've got some weird font or graphics setting that makes #gimp 's life miserable.

Anyways, I upgraded to 園園園園< so it's all better now.
Screenshot of the splash dialog box for Gimp 2.10.36 on a Mac. It tells me "Update Available!" and says "Download GIMP" with 6 weird symbols that don't make any sense. Then parentheses released on 10 slash five slash 2025.
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Anti-Santa defences initialized. Let’s see him get through **this**.
Photo from the roof of a house. It shows a chimney with a long sheet metal tube coming out of the top. It’s about 6 meters tall and arcing to the left. It has a bright red ring at the end.
December 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
And #mrmittens swears he is just admiring my handiwork. He assures me he isn’t about to knock any ornaments off. Again.
#cat #catsofmastodon #cats
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Like any normal #homeautomation enthusiast I just happened to have an ESP32 and a 4 amp 5V power supply laying around. So I bought a couple more strands of WS2811 lights, flashed #WLED on it,and poof! second holiday tree is lit.

Here’s a hot tip from a pro […]

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Photo of an ESP32 chip laying like a dead spider with its pins up in the air. 3 wires are connected to 3 pins: power, ground, and data. The ground wire is not connected to a data pin. Only an imbecile would do that. Photo of a small, artificial Christmas tree. It has coloured lights in a rainbow pattern with green at the top on through yellow, red, and then finally green again at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Hey gang, @steggy and I want to help make #monsterdonsaveschristmas a big success this year. We are matching your donations to these 3 charities up to a total of $3000. Send your redacted data to @xoagray as usual, and we'll get the total at the end and […]

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A rainbow gradient background with a big Monsterdon logo (the monster head has a santa hat on). It says Monsterdon Saves Christmas, and gives the details of the matching. It has the 3 logos of the 3 charities also.
December 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
One more thing that really defies my expectations. This is a media LIBRARY. A library is a thing where one organises information to make it findable. So while it is fine to have “recently added” or “recently watched”, and it’s fine to make them prominent, it […]

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Photo of the movies menu in the infuse app on AppleTV. It offers the following options. All Movies Recently Added Unwatched By Genre By Rating By Release Date By Age Rating By Resolution Feature Films
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
My router interface traffic graphs are pretty useless. Every night around 2:00am, various things run backups. Some do backups across the network, others copy out to an off-site location. But the bottom line is that if I look at my network interface graphs […]

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A daily graph with hours on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. From 2:00 to almost 4:00 there's a huge spike up to 450 Mb per second. A weekly graph with days of the week on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. Each day there's this sharp green spike up to 450 Mb per second. A monthly graph with weeks on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. There are 5 sharp spikes up to 450 Mb per second in each week.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Good morning from frosty Virginia. Left side (16.1° F) is the forecast, right side (23° F) is measured outside my kitchen window. Both are frickin freezing Mr Bigglesworth!
#cold #weather #winter
Photo of a wall mounted display, run by home assistant. It shows the time and date in big letters. Then 2 temperatures as described.
December 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Here are the graphs!

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 14 Dec 2025. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 77.4 minutes long. There were 2035 posts during the event with an average of 26.28 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at […]

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A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 14 Dec 2025. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 77.4 minutes long. There were 2035 posts during the event with an average of 26.28 posts per minute. The busiest moment was at 77:00 from the start with 51 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 69:00 from the start with 14 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average. The word cloud for Sunday, 14 Dec 2025. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 6859 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: theshecreature: 712, creature: 171, monster: 109, lombardi: 91, dog: 82, will: 67, sea: 66, time: 61, back: 60, think: 53, These words were excluded from the word cloud: movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, lakeofdracula, and the hashtag monsterdon.
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I got hammered over the weekend by Singapore/Vietnam (47.76.0.0/14, Alibaba Cloud). I was surprised the bunny.net rate limiting and blocking didn't capture it. They offer rules for blocking common data centers, which I already had active during this time […]

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line graph showing december 1 to december 15 on the X axis. These are all the non-200 (i.e., not ordinary OK) responses. The requests per hour is on the Y axis. Most of the days are hundreds per hour, with occasional peaks as high as 1000. Then over the weekend there's this series of peaks in the 3200-3500 per hour range.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
The double talk in this article. “Agentic AI is super duper dangerous so we built all these precautions.” If it’s so dangerous, why add it to the core part of the browser and not relegate it to an optional plugin?

And then there’s this quote, which boils […]

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Screen cap from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 2 guards flank a king who is giving them orders.
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
@JoeWynne I skimmed through _Voodoo Woman (1957)_ to see what you meant.

It appears to be the same plot line (I didn't listen to any dialog, you can just see it).

* Woman on table -> Woman on table
* Hypnotism -> Voodoo
* Beach -> Jungle
* Evil […]

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December 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Thanks for all the fun commentary everyone. See you next week

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Definitely a she-creature. She's got boobs.

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Wook! Wabbit Twacks!
#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
`does the dog fly dot com`

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Cars made from explodium were invented later.

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Get your _authentic_ **scientist costume** for this Halloween:

* Pipe
* Glasses
* Flask
* Clipboard
* White lab coat

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
_panto voice_

"It's behiiiind youuuu!"

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I can see why he is so popular. He has such showmanship and charisma.

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
"He's as drunk as a lumber yak"

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
This dude sat still even as the monster grabbed his bed.

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
"You will go into a deep sleep."

"You will ignore the anchovies I had at dinner and the 2 cigarettes I smoked afterward."

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I grew up with tennis racquets like this, pressed in wood frames to keep them from warping.

#monsterdon
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM