Barry Dorrans

Barry Dorrans

@blowdart.me

Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET Do you really think work wants my social media opinions? Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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Stephen Collins
@stephencollins.bsky.social

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

Contemplate but that remuneration…

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

A recent securities filing spotlighted what triggered Mark Zuckerberg’s months-long power battle with board directors at Meta — a fight that sparked not-so-veiled threats from Zuckerberg and led board members to contemplate quitting.

washingtonpost.comZuckerberg can control Meta after death. He refused to give up that power.The Meta CEO can control the company from beyond the grave. He refused to give up that power.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

"In contrast to some other traffic-free areas of London, cycles, e-bikes and e-scooters will not be allowed on the pedestrianised strip at any time." LOL good luck with that Oxford Street.

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Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

.NET has released an out of band security update to address the vulnerability in the Google Brotli library. This is the same library NPM and others use. .NET and ASP.NET Core do not use Brotli by default, you have to opt-in. Details on what to look for in your code are in the advisory.

github.comMicrosoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-111497 - .NET Brotli Decoder Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability## Executive summary A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Brotli decompression library used by .NET. This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read or corrupt process me...
Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

“Projects advertised here must be all of: 1 year old (not just age, but actively maintained), have multiple contributors (subjectively 3+)”

Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

.NET has released an out of band security update to address the vulnerability in the Google Brotli library. This is the same library NPM and others use. .NET and ASP.NET Core do not use Brotli by default, you have to opt-in. Details on what to look for in your code are in the advisory.

github.comMicrosoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-111497 - .NET Brotli Decoder Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability## Executive summary A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Brotli decompression library used by .NET. This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read or corrupt process me...
Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

Hello new cybersecurity followers This week has been an on-topic week for me. Next week? Well, I hope you like beans.

Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

Factory refers to the farming method. Those cheesecakes are packed into fattening pens with no daylight, no room to move, standing in their own excrement and they've been declawed so they don't attack each other. And yet here you are making jokes.

Barry Dorrans
@blowdart.me

No matter how much you scrub the racist stench of reform isn’t going to come off.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

mirror.co.ukSuella Braverman claims huge taxpayer-funded water bill equal to 18 baths a dayEXCLUSIVE: Benefits-bashing Reform UK MP Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 in parliamentary expenses towards her water bills, newly-emerged files show - leaving the taxpayer on the hook

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
@iwriteok.bsky.social

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

CNN@cnn.com

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

cnn.comItalian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence | CNNItalian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

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Michael Baumann
@baumann.bsky.social

Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage