Edition 13 – The Thing with the Wanted Posters I remember being at a networking event hosted by a university, the year being 2022. I saw someone higher up from the Bundeskriminalamt, hanging around by...

For the newest edition of the newsletter I'm writing with @jls.bsky.social, here are my thoughts on cybercrime-related investigations, being as fair as possible and access journalism.

I hope you enjoy this, sincerely open to feedback.

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I’ve noticed that Claude Code will pipe complex json into jq and I think it’s kinda cute that it also has a hard time reading this mess.

Edition 8 - Dealing with 100,000 horrible pictures for the Damascus Dossier Hi! This newsletter is a bit different, because it will also published as a blog post over at DARC, Jan's company. So whenever it says 'we' just imagine it...

In this weeks newsletter, @jls.bsky.social describes how to process 100,000 photos without looking at them. No graphic material is included, but the theme may be unsettling.

I‘m always amazed by Jan, and if you read this, you’ll know why

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readwrite What readwrite is about This is a newsletter about journalism and coding. If you subscribe, here’s what you can expect: Tutorials on finding information – pictures, profiles, malware – what’s generall...

to keep it short: @jls.bsky.social and I are starting a newsletter about #journalism and coding. If you're interested in either #OSINT or reporting (or both!), this one might be for you.

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Welcome DARC to the ecosystem! dataresearchcenter.org/projects/ We are also very proud to be working on the Library of Leaks project with y'all @catileptic.bsky.social @jls.bsky.social Can't wait to see what you have in store...

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De-Nazify shit.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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Titelseite der neuen WOZ mit dem grossen Titel "Die Predator Files"

#Breaking

Gemeinsam mit zahlreichen Medien aus verschiedenen Ländern veröffentlichen wir in diesen Minuten die #PredatorFiles.

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Someone should FOIA how many locked glove compartments were searched by police without a warrant before/after Jay-Z released 99 Problems.

Fuck the boat "Ever Given". I will never forgive the boat for what it did to the suez canal. The should shoot the damn boat. Get it out of there

Oh and max 20 characters ok ok cool and normal

It’s September 2023 and my new mobile phone service provider tells me a) I can only see my invoice if I create a user account and b) said user account cannot have a password that contains anything other than letters and/or numbers.

I wish this year Pogi and Jonas had both won the yellow jersey somehow.

Evil Architecture should be illegal.

“Let me walk over to my orange juice dispenser real quick and take a look at my calendar so we can schedule this meeting…”

Very annoyed by the fact that the two painted clocks on my hotel room wall are set to different times, what is this.

I hate that everyone’s normalizing the notch. Worst design decision ever. Fuck you Steve Apple.

Cool & normal

My p(doom) is .87 but p stands for “podcasts of dudes talking about ai”

My airplane seat has a PS/2 port, I wish I brought my IBM model M!

Is $215 too much for a wireless mechanical keyboard?

Sent a FOIA request in 2018. Now got a letter asking to confirm within 30 days that I’m still interest. I moved, changed jobs and the letter took 25 days to reach me. This is going great.