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AI is not your biggest cyber threat. Your shitty patching process is.

By: hoek
8 August 2026 at 06:07

This article could also have title: how we discovered automation for the fifteenth time, renamed it AI, panicked, bought six dashboards and forgot about the Windows 2008 server in the basement.

Iโ€™ve been running this blog for quite a while, and most of what I publish here is technical: guides, projects, reviews, vulnerabilities, things I

DeskEntry

By: hoek
27 July 2026 at 17:05

Because apparently I needed an app for changing app icons.

I have a growing collection of small tools that were originally created only for myself. Usually something annoys me just enough that I start thinking about automating it, and these days AI makes it dangerously easy to turn such thoughts into actual applications. A few years ago

VPScry - see what your VPS is hiding

By: hoek
24 July 2026 at 07:40

Some time ago I wrote a small script for myself because I wanted an answer to one very simple question:

Did I accidentally do something stupid on this VPS?

Which, to be fair, is a question worth asking from time to time. I run different things on my servers. Websites, databases, Tor services, monitoring, random

Goodbye Discord webhooks, hello Gotify

By: hoek
22 July 2026 at 05:15

For a long time I used Discord webhooks for notifications from my services. It was easy, it worked and almost every application knew how to send something to Discord. Create a private channel, copy a webhook URL, paste it into a service and wait until something breaks. Very advanced engineering.

The more services I added, however, the

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