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      <title><![CDATA[I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[What happens when you responsibly disclose a critical vulnerability exposing personal data - including that of minors - and the organization responds with legal threats instead of a thank you?]]></description>
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      <category>privacy</category>
      <category>gdpr</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Let's burn some Tokens! - AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Many companies ship AI chatbots as thin wrappers around commercial LLM APIs with zero cost controls. What if a tool behaved like an overly engaged, perfectly valid user - and just burned through their budget?]]></description>
      <category>security</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>llm</category>
      <category>chatbots</category>
      <category>cost-exploitation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building Observable Systems: Monitoring and Observability Patterns]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Learn how to implement comprehensive observability for microservices using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. Includes practical examples and dashboard configurations.]]></description>
      <category>monitoring</category>
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      <category>prometheus</category>
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      <category>sre</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kubernetes Deployment Strategies for Zero Downtime]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Exploring advanced Kubernetes deployment strategies including rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and canary releases to achieve zero-downtime deployments for production applications.]]></description>
      <category>kubernetes</category>
      <category>devops</category>
      <category>deployment</category>
      <category>high-availability</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Terraform Best Practices for Infrastructure as Code]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A comprehensive guide to writing maintainable, scalable Terraform code with real-world examples and patterns learned from managing multi-cloud infrastructure.]]></description>
      <category>terraform</category>
      <category>iac</category>
      <category>devops</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>cloud</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monitoring a Dremel DigiLab 3D45 using Python & Pwning It with Ease]]></title>
      <link>https://dixken.de/blog/monitoring-dremel-digilab-3d45</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My flatmates and I are huge fans of the whole DIY maker community - so a few weeks ago we bought a Dremel DigiLab 3D45. We're really happy about the quality of the prints, but it annoyed me that statistics and metrics about the current state of the machine are just available via the GUI on a computer.]]></description>
      <category>3d-printing</category>
      <category>python</category>
      <category>monitoring</category>
      <category>iot-security</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remove Local Time Machine Snapshots]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[How to reclaim disk space by removing local Time Machine snapshots on macOS using a simple shell one-liner.]]></description>
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