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Taylor Hornby

@defusesec.bsky.social

PLURR ❤️. Helping secure the Zcash ecosystem, learning music production at https://soundcloud.com/earthrise5, writing and other stuff at https://defuse.ca/, https://bqp.io/

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The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system.

Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.

Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.

09.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 173    🔁 84    💬 17    📌 15
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He came alive 😱

03.02.2026 01:43 — 👍 2149    🔁 694    💬 8    📌 4

Guys if you see observers thank them. There’s real stress and burnout in the ranks right now. People understand they are waking up every day to chase and monitor federal thugs who can execute them. But they keep doing it nonstop to protect their neighbors

25.01.2026 02:32 — 👍 3036    🔁 496    💬 46    📌 12
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What is to give light must endure burning.

— Viktor Frankl

18.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 379    🔁 54    💬 4    📌 1

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

17.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 3372    🔁 736    💬 43    📌 13
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The pink people on this website just need to all get together and stop playing prisoner’s dilemma games.

03.01.2026 12:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yeah. let’s serialize pointer offsets, send them over the network to other people, then fix them up when they get back. what’s the worst that could happen. live a little

28.12.2025 06:56 — 👍 34    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
candle on wood

candle on wood

Happy solstice! ❄️🌲

22.12.2025 02:58 — 👍 947    🔁 54    💬 34    📌 4
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Lessons Learned from a Typosquatted Audit Report - Least Authority We identified and addressed a typosquatting issue promptly, but the incident reinforced why authenticity and provenance matter deeply in security reporting.

We recently discovered an unauthorized, modified version of one of our audit reports shared online via a deceptive URL. While we quickly resolved the issue, it served as a reminder of the importance of authenticity and provenance in security reporting. leastauthority.com/blog/lessons...

26.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

24.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 1800    🔁 503    💬 33    📌 38
An example, here asking to recreate in LaTeX the definition of a pseudorandom number generator

An example, here asking to recreate in LaTeX the definition of a pseudorandom number generator

In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible. texnique.xyz

It is "fun."

21.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 95    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 7
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URGENT: Stop Alberta's Government From Overriding Charter Rights of Trans Youth Healthcare is a right, protected by evidence, compassion, and core Canadian values.

Alberta: Please speak up against Bill 9 and the Notwithstanding Clause while the legislation is being debated in the Legislature.

Here's two initiatives that send messages to elected officials & will keep you informed of next steps:

transactionalberta.ca
savethecharter.ca

#ableg #abpoli #CanPoli

20.11.2025 23:26 — 👍 38    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 1
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Hallucinate (2025 Version) Listen to Hallucinate (2025 Version) by Taylor Hornby #np on #SoundCloud

soundcloud.com/earthrise5/h...

18.11.2025 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Brightest Light Listen to The Brightest Light by Taylor Hornby #np on #SoundCloud

If you like future-bass-ish electronic music, I just posted a new track! soundcloud.com/earthrise5/t...

12.11.2025 17:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First drum lesson tonight. Haven’t taken a music lesson in uhhh… 20 years?? Looking forward to sucking at this.

As the saying goes, “Sucking at something is the first step toward being sorta good at something”-Jake the dog

11.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 227    🔁 5    💬 18    📌 1
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FEP-521a: Consider base-64-url, not base-58-btc, as the required codec Converting to/from base-256 (raw "binary" octets) and base-N is easy to do in constant-time if N is a power of 2. See: RFC 4648 for power-of-2 codecs. 58 isn't a power of 2, which makes implementing ...

If you ever wondered,

"What does it take to implement a base-256 <-> base-B codec in constant-time when B isn't a power of 2?"

Well, I have some oddly specific good news for you: codeberg.org/fediverse/fe...

06.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

i hate it when something is described as "inscrutable." you have no idea the types of things im able to scrute

05.11.2025 21:40 — 👍 527    🔁 135    💬 14    📌 6

> In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Circuit missing a gate.

13.10.2025 03:57 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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>ducted fans
>im a turbofan
>her: eww i want jet
>turbofans are jets
>i am a fucking jet aircraft

I will be alone forever

08.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 50    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

08.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 11711    🔁 4109    💬 318    📌 142

You have never been cyberd until you've been cyberd by a cyber security professional

08.10.2025 05:03 — 👍 72    🔁 5    💬 10    📌 0
To Come Home To Yourself 

May all that is unforgiven in you
Be released.

May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquilities.

May all that is unlived in you
Blossom into a future
Graced with love.

To Come Home To Yourself May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.

Friend gave me a John O’Donohue book recently. It’s quite good.

“To Come Home To Yourself”

04.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 746    🔁 86    💬 97    📌 22
an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman

text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA

an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

02.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 2721    🔁 920    💬 13    📌 12
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I found more joy in life this way.

29.09.2025 03:06 — 👍 6184    🔁 2444    💬 31    📌 80
In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.

In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.

This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

27.09.2025 01:52 — 👍 897    🔁 201    💬 8    📌 11

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

11.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 1906    🔁 526    💬 42    📌 34

There are

* 0 valid JSON strings of length 0
* 10 valid JSON strings of length 1
* 183 valid JSON strings of length 2
* 1,116,690 valid JSON strings of length 3
* 1,241,178,737,201 valid JSON strings of length 4
* 1,382,769,886,828,373,987 valid JSON strings of length 5
* ...

I have up to N = 350

23.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 76    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0
.:: Phrack Magazine ::. Phrack staff website.

phrack.org/issues/72/19...

10.09.2025 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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