Jacob Latonis

screenshot of a terminal with the following text (it is a sponsorship advertisement over the output of `git push`: λ git push origin main This commit was made possible by Raid: Shadow Legends! Use code COMMIT20 to get 20$ off your next purchase. Enumerating objects: 5, done. Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. Delta compression using up to 12 threads Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 240 bytes | 240.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0) To tangled.sh:oppi.li/pdsfs 71e6e17..7df6ae5 main -> main

the future is now

oh brother here we go again

GitHub - pstirparo/machofile: machofile is a module to parse Mach-O binary files machofile is a module to parse Mach-O binary files - pstirparo/machofile

🍎 machofile 🍏 first official release is finally live: github.com/pstirparo/ma...

It is a python module to parse #Mach-O binary files, with a focus on malware analysis and reverse engineering.
machofile is self-contained.

#macho #ios #reverseengineering #detection #threathunting #threatintel 1/3

Greg Lenewich's Bluesky profile which now shows 498 followers after I jokingly unfollowed him

got em

people who don't set timers for their laundry are menaces to society

ok so it turns out that the strategy for finally learning vim motions is to take a three and a half hour flight w no wifi

Rent prices are falling fast in America’s most pro-housing cities Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data.

Rents in Spokane are down 12% as a result of pro-housing legislation, like removing parking minimums, incentivizing housing on former parking lots, and upzoning all residential parcels.

reason.com/2025/07/22/r...

I took inspiration from the always classy @jacoblatonis.me recently and added support for underscores in integer and float literals in YARA. It makes reading large integers (in any supported base) much easier.

github.com/VirusTotal/y...

YouTube video by Obsidian Tutorial my secret method for colored headings in Obsidian

hear me out for obsidian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgTg...

i wish notion had infinite heading levels. seriously what am i supposed to do with only h1, h2, and h3

a beer (peroni) in a glass sitting on a table in front of a road bike at Alfreda pizza in dupont circle

life is good

A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads: “I also have access to a printer, And I say Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line? Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture] ‘But I wanna drive my car!’ The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

i saw f1 today and it was both the worst and best movie I've ever seen

Wheee, Mathieu having some fun #TDF2025 #MvdP

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%

So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

a perfect little tomato in the sunlight

a perfect little tomato sitting in my hand

i can't stop looking at this tomato i just plucked from our tomato plant. she's beautiful

10 Things I Hate About Attribution: RomCom vs. TransferLoader | Proofpoint US Threat Research would like to acknowledge and thank the Paranoids, Spur, and Pim Trouerbach for their collaboration to identify, track, and disrupt this activity.  Key takeaways

Fun crossover blog about TA829 (RomCom) & TransferLoader with my ecrime pals @selenalarson.bsky.social it’s got it all:

🛰️ Popped routers for sending phish

📊 ACH on attribution

👾 custom protocols

👽 cool malware

🕵️ crime

🎯 espionage

❔many unanswered questions

www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/thre...

two code snippet showing let-chain vs nested if

🔔 `Let chains` is here - Rust 1.88.0 released

> feature allows &&-chaining let statements inside if and while conditions, even intermingling with boolean expressions

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...

#rustlang

I'm older than you

what differentiates a double ipa from a triple ipa

can we all stop collectively pretending that beer tastes good? just stop with the charade. i know you're lying

there is a food vending machine for cats in Turkey, the seagulls meow pretending to be cats

a cat standing politely next to a pile of books

he loves to read

A 2021 Amtrak survey found the ideal layout for a high-speed rail network across the United States. It would be relatively cheap to build and would intersect every major center of commerce:

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🚨 BREAKING: GreyNoise discovered a sophisticated backdoor campaign compromising ~9,000 ASUS routers worldwide. Unlike typical malware attacks, this operation uses the router's own legitimate features to create persistent backdoors that survive firmware updates and reboots.
1/4

It’s a strong bug.

We don’t need AI for shitty art

This is great work from GreyNoise (as always)

This is actually the stuff about ML/data science / AI that gets me excited

Every time I get my hopes up that some new AI thing will help me with anomaly detection, I just get an LLM that makes shitty art

We should be more like GreyNoise

a signal message that reads "Jacob use a normal keyboard challenge (impossible)

i can stop anytime i want