⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

How I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering [Windows Security Center]

https://blog.es3n1n.eu/posts/how-i-ruined-my-vacation/

Defender disabler tool:

https://github.com/es3n1n/defendnot

Starting plans for the first "Don't get arrested on entering the UK" experience of 2025, let's see if I can maintain my 100% record

The US trade deal is a bad deal, and it has the potential to get worse https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/09/the-us-trade-deal-is-a-bad-deal-and-it-has-the-potential-to-get-worse/ Someone should tell Starmer that sometimes (by which I mean usually, or even always) no deal is better than a bad deal, because that is what he's got with the USA.

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/exploiting-copilot-ai-for-sharepoint/

Something to be aware of if you work in a Microsoft shop with security requirements: Copilot on Sharepoint will apparently allow ACL bypass without logging or alerting.

You can just ask it for things.

It looks like what's going on under the hood here is that Copilot introduces a new category of user account for their agents, who have expansive read permissions by default and Copilot doesn't know how to map what the agent can read/reply against user permissions.

@glyph Yeah, it could well be a intractable problem with the one-model-per-organization approach when within that org not everyone has equal access. Which is... all organizations I've ever been part of, certainly.

What's the responsible process for disclosing to a vendor that their product is working exactly as they intended?

Lots of very happy people cheering at the Vatican. Looks like the new guy is going to be..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

*Pope*ular

(no you fuck off)

@codinghorror You’ll code what she’s coding.

Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!

Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.

We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.

#SaveOurSites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o

#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #NetPlurality #ukpol #ukpolitics #wikipedia #freedomofexpression

Skinflint.co.uk -- vendor-independent price comparison

https://skinflint.co.uk/

«
The German language predecessor of Skinflint, Geizhals Preisvergleich, was conceived in 1996 as an independent price comparison and soon enjoyed enormous popularity.
»

https://fwupd.github.io/libfwupdplugin/uefi-db.html

" it may be impossible to install existing Linux releases on newer machines "

More anticompetitive shit from your favourite neighbourhood convicted abuser, #microsoft

#efi #linux #secureBoot

Here is my #review for #CibolaBurn, book 4 of #TheExpanse series.

This is day 62 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/cibola-burn

#Books2025 #Reading #Bookstodon #SciFi #ScienceFiction