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Marius Ciepluch

As a passionate pragmatic, I am thrilled to share my InfoSec concepts, latest projects, and creative endeavours with you 🚀

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AI-driven bughunting with open source and open weights models

AI-driven bughunting with open source and open weights models

Bug hunting with LLMs works. The security concept of Glaswing can be applied in open source / with open-weight models. The model is exchangeable. The logic isn't.

AI pentesting 2025 / 2026 with open source tools

AI pentesting 2025 / 2026 with open source tools

I am sure you also received a cold sales call or two. AI pentesting as a Service. Is this real or hype? In the following, I test 5 different open source AI pentest tools and how they perform against a purposely vulnerable Java Web App. While 2025 has been a

Simple Zero Trust

Simple Zero Trust

💡If you are interested in a high-level executive summary about the pillars of Zero Trust, read this article. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand Summary What problem does Zero

Serverless GPU computing with Modal (for custom models)

Serverless GPU computing with Modal (for custom models)

Are you developing custom Machine Learning models? Are you sick of heating your house with your GPU? Do you like comfortable DevOps and ML Ops things? Well-specified setups and concise Serverless function hosting? Modal is the new kid on the block. I am not an affiliate or anything. Just

Early check on Byte Latent Transformation (Dec 2024)

Early check on Byte Latent Transformation (Dec 2024)

The following is likely of interest to Data Science people, ML dev folks and some academics. I published the code in my personal research repo. I am not affiliated with Meta’s AI research. It may be that my understanding is not correct. If that is, please let me know.

Experience report: AI, LLM and data

Experience report: AI, LLM and data

Hello, World! This is a software-tech / coding focused article about experiences with Large Language Models (LLMs). The "AI" tech is at the peak of the current hype-cycle. But it appears that the first issues are manifesting. DALL-E vision of a bookworm in the AI era

Make Windows 11 taskbar smaller

Make Windows 11 taskbar smaller

Here is a quick way to reduce the horizontal size of the Windows 11 taskbar. I think someone in Microsoft Windows UX design still believes that the interaction design is made for touch screens. The Windows taskbar has existed since Windows 95. No need to make it big. People know

The end of (free tier) ESXi

The end of (free tier) ESXi

Mergers & Acquisitions: Winners and Losers. And the winner is… Free tier? - Isn't that for marketing only? Growth incentives? Like IT trainings? Not according to Broadcom in 2024. Is Linux KVM as good as ESXi? What’s the cash price for being the best virtualization tech? KVM and

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Xrdp: an open source RDP server for Linux

Xrdp: an open source RDP server for Linux

xrdp is an open source RDP server. Much better than VNC.

SearXNG: MetaSearch

SearXNG: MetaSearch

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

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Projects

AI Skills for strategic foresight, intelligence analysis and investigation theory

May 27, 2026
AI Skills for strategic foresight, intelligence analysis and investigation theory

AI Skills for decision intelligence and visualization.

Social network intelligence: X trend analysis

May 27, 2026
Social network intelligence: X trend analysis

Trend analysis via social-media open source intelligence based on Likes. Use the X algorithm for your awareness.

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