Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social)

Maker, magician, security gadabout, doomscroller, etc.
@[email protected]
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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.

Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.

In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.

The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?

The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.

Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.

Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.

Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.

Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.

She listened.

"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.

Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.

If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

[rootsecdev @rootsecdev]

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked https://t.co/jfmpsPrnse

[cemaxecuter @cemaxecuter]

meshtastic-sniffer now runs two decode paths in parallel: a wideband
channelizer for every channel in the SDR slice + focused-decoder pool that wakes on preamble detections to rewind raw
IQ and re-decode promising slots.
https://t.co/uHcAureREE

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

@ForgiatoBlow47 Deli meat was a special occasion, only at fancy parties

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

@masashikomori

[Darnald Duck @DarnaldDuck]

@giveashitnature This is an awesome idea. See below for a owl box blueprint

[cemaxecuter @cemaxecuter]

Meshtastic-Sniffer: full ISM band, all 9 presets, 1024 channels concurrent, 26z Msps on a b205mini. Commits pushed. Now to finally get a video together..

https://t.co/uHcAureREE

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

@devahaz Nobody pushes you unless you can't say NO. And if you can't say NO, you have OTHER problems. Do you think every craftperson makes a masterpiece on their first attempt? You start small and simple. The stores have thousands of options for beginners

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

@Vicharak_In @igorbiletski The first link works

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

@Vicharak_In @igorbiletski That link doesn't work either

[Ryan M @Grimdoomer]

Poking at samsung SSDs some more. I can now decrypt almost all fw images and load them into IDA. Fw is signed with ECDSA, found public keys and can validate signatures. Found some VSCs to read/write RAM. Need to try to dump the bootloader and inspect boot time fw validation...

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

LOL

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

When a Hacker meets another Hacker.

[Josh Terrill @joshterrill]

I broke Kindle's DRM protection tonight through a mix of static and dynamic analysis. AES key is derived from accountSecrets, kindle device ID, and voucher path. Book is decrypted in parts using OpenSSL from Ion blobs and then decompressed with LZMA.

[God of Prompt @godofprompt]

Here's the full prompt. Paste it into Claude and ask it to create this as a skill:

CAVEMAN MODE SKILL

Trigger: User says "/caveman" or "caveman mode"
Deactivate: User says "/normal" or "normal mode"

When active, compress ALL responses using these rules:

CORE RULES:
1. Drop articles (a, an, the)
2. Drop filler phrases ("I'd be happy to help", "Sure!", "Great question")
3. Drop transition words unless meaning changes
4. Drop restating the user's question back to them
5. Use arrows (→) instead of "this means" or "which leads to"
6. Use fragments over full sentences when meaning is preserved
7. Max 1-2 sentences per concept
8. Code blocks stay complete and unchanged
9. Technical terms, variable names, and proper nouns stay exact
10. If removing a word changes the meaning, keep it

RESPONSE PATTERN:
- Problem → Cause → Fix
- No greeting. No sign-off. No encouragement.
- Numbers, code, and commands: always exact
- Errors: state what's wrong + fix. Nothing else.

INTENSITY LEVELS:
/caveman lite → Drop filler only. Keep sentence structure.
/caveman full → Fragments. Minimal connective tissue.
/caveman ultra → Maximum compression. Scholar on a budget.

DEFAULT: /caveman full

WHAT STAYS UNCHANGED:
- Thinking and reasoning depth (brain same size, mouth smaller)
- Code accuracy and completeness
- Technical precision
- Safety-critical information
- Nuance when the user asks a complex or sensitive question

Example transformation:
BEFORE: "The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. When you pass an inline object as a prop, React's shallow comparison sees it as a different object every time, which triggers a re-render. I'd recommend using useMemo to memoize the object."

AFTER: "New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo."

[Raunak Yadush @raunak_yadush]

Windows 11 has been secretly running a keylogger in the background

this whole time

and sending every keystroke to Microsoft servers.
Here's the fix they don't want you to know about

Win+R → regedit → HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Input\TIPC → Double click "Enabled" → Set value to 0 → Restart PC

Stop Microsoft from reading every word you type in Valorant chat, Discord, and Chrome.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A Brazilian YouTuber killed the Photoshop subscription.

It's called PhotoGIMP. It takes GIMP, the free image editor, and makes it look and feel exactly like Photoshop.

Same toolbar. Same panel layout. Same keyboard shortcuts. Your hands already know how to use it.

Photoshop vs PhotoGIMP:

- Price: $275.88 a year → $0
- Account: Adobe login required → No login, ever
- Files: Saved to Adobe cloud → Saved on your computer
- Updates: Forced when Adobe says → Only when you want
- Works on: Windows and Mac → Windows, Mac, and Linux

No Adobe account. No cloud upload. No AI trained on your photos.

How small is the patch? Tiny.

→ Nine settings files. That's it.
→ Copy them into one folder. Done.
→ Open GIMP. It now looks like Photoshop.
→ Don't like it? Delete the folder. GIMP goes back to normal.

Three steps to install. One command to uninstall.

8,751 stars. 272 forks. 30+ people from around the world helping translate it.

One honest note: the license is GPL-3.0. Free for everything. Personal work, paid client work, your own edits. No "Pro" tier hiding behind it.

Dionatan Simioni runs the biggest Linux YouTube channel in Brazil. He built this from Marau, a small town in Rio Grande do Sul. No VC. No team. No fundraise.

This is what Photoshop should have been from the start.

(Link in the comments)

[Bruce Barnett (@grymoire.bsky.social) @grymoire]

Can we make On Blast - Off Blast?
It was On Too Long Blast
#snl

[LS @LouiseS1996]

@storagereview @MicronTech they have 245TB SSDs???