I don’t even have a passport but I will apply for a US VISA if this is implemented, just so they have to review my most unhinged Mastodon posts.

Random realization: MS Teams is the Lotus Notes of web meetings.

Can you help me identify the compression format in the image? I know that this is a compressed binary but I don’t know which algorithm is being used. My main suspect was a raw LZMA stream but it doesn’t seem to produce file endings like this one, and my experiments with the Python lzma module have been unsuccessful. There are no recognizable text pieces in the data which rules out many other formats.

This data was preceded by a 16 bytes header: compressed size, uncompressed size, 8 bytes identifying the format. Elsewhere the latter was “gziphead”, and the data was in fact gzip-compressed. But here this field is all zeroes.

Edit: Compression factor is 49%, slightly better that gzip which was between 51 and 52%.

If anybody wants a fun end of year blog or article about cybersecurity predictions, don’t ask anybody about 2026 - look back at their predictions for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Did you know GenAI makes a majority of cyber attacks now, cyber and physical attacks are conducted simultaneously each week, three major banks have fallen to AI driven ransomware and it’s been the year of SOAR, NDR, web3 security and XDR too?

Sadly I slept through all of these.

Months ago I got a nut milk maker.

"I don't remember being drunk enough to buy this."

Put it away.

Today, pick up box - curious. Look at label. It's my neighbor's lol.

Now that it is official US policy to promote regime change in Europe and to dismantle the EU I wonder if we will take sovereignty over tech more seriously