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⚠Tech Enthusiast, Open Source Advocate, Content Creator, DM's are not for tech support but forums are. ⚠ https://nitter.cf/t.co/xbxWZOT69J
Detroit, MI
Joined February 2012
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in addition to Twitter here are all the places to connect or follow me:
Sites:
lawrencesystems.com
forums.lawrencesystems.com
Socials:
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linkedin.com/in/lawrencesyst…
infosec.exchange/@TomLawrenc…
Remember folks: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous AI is with no validation & no pushback you help them raise more investment capital.
I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog.
You can read today's post ("LLMs are real, AI is fake")
at pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g…
It's also available on Mastodon at:
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117257…
And on Bluesky at:
bsky.app/profile/did:web:plu…
ALT A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
Attackers need to understand what they are attacking, how to attack it, and how to turn access into whatever they are after. AI is shrinking that learning curve. It helps attackers map infrastructure, find flaws faster, and produce more convincing lures to use against users.
Defenders have the opposite problem. It is not "we don't know what to do." Frameworks like CIS are not exotic ideas; they are approachable, practical paths to securing a company. Asset inventory, MFA, patching, and backups are well understood. Implementation falls short because someone has to fund them, own them, and accept the friction they create for users.
So how do we fix things? Defenders need to explain risk in terms leadership will act on. This is the uneasy political work defenders have to get good at.
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New: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got
And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images 404media.co/humans-reading-c…
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I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited): homelabfest.org
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Meet the New UniFi Design Center
🔹 Auto-generate walls from your floor plan
🔹 Define Zones and Capacity Requirements
🔹 Visualize RF coverage
🔹 Optimize AP placement and more!
Start designing at design.ui.com
Learn more: ui.social/Design-Center-26
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Day one of LOW we saw 30,000 downloads. My inbox is starting to see some action again.
It's not a show for everyone, but if you're one of the people it was made for it, this one is going to hit different. I am getting yelled at for making some listeners cry.
Go listen to @lowpodcast and tell me what you think!
Me and some friends rebuilt a payphone with zip ties,tape,& an LLM that you can talk to. First step is playing a tone that it's listening for. It will be at @GrrCON 2026.
Full Lab Tour 2026: Firewalls, Switches, NAS, and More
youtu.be/Y0XymQtUPK4
"Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data"
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
GoAccess v1.12 is out 🚀 Adds UTM Campaigns, live requests/sec metric, --exclude-asn, improved virtual, TLS key exchange reporting, stronger WebSocket auth, plus AI Crawler and Fediverse categories + more.
goaccess.io/release-notes
Everything I Self Host in 2026: The Full List youtu.be/6uR-xThSEYo?si=nvBb…
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VMware's licensing pushed you onto Proxmox. Your storage shouldn't have to make that same forced jump.
The new TrueNAS Proxmox Plugin provisions and snapshots TrueNAS-backed VM disks directly. No manual iSCSI LUN management.
Learn More: truenas.com/open-storage-for…
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Your ChatGPT chats are not private, and humans are reading them. Anthropic's Claude too.
More here: 404media.co/inside-project-l…
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Dave Kennedy notes that most AI security products are just wrappers for existing models like Anthropic or OpenAI. True advancement lies in fine-tuning your own models with proprietary data and expertise, not just adding a seasoned persona. #AISecurity #Cybersecurity #AI