Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

I am starting to see the frustrations with gnome. Looking for "how do I do X" and clicking on forums I will see multi year long threads invariably filled with "how do I do X" followed by "update 2018 method no longer works does anybody know how to do it now" "update 2019 method no longer works does anybody know what's going on" "update 2020, 2019 method has made my computer unbootable what do I do"

>new browser
>ask the developer "is it a new browser or google chrome"
>they don't get it
>pull out a chart explaining the difference between a new browser and google chrome
>they laugh and say "it's a good browser ma'am"
>download the browser, look inside
>it's google chrome

sudo intellectual: (n.) somebody who is clearly an idiot but you have to pretend they're not because they have administrative privileges.

@foone I tried arch back in the day. I was impressed that it managed to be worse than Gentoo.

I think the arch install guide may have been written by that guy who wrote the bomb defusal manual used on M*A*S*H.

"remove the tail assembly, and carefully cut the wires leading to the clockwork fuse at the head"
*next page*
"but first, remove the fuse"

omfg so i went through like an hour-long phone-call with a support person to set up my service; and after all that, I go to log in online for the first time …

… … … and it won't let me login until I "fix" my "broken" name.

THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T APPLY 'VALIDATION' TO PEOPLE'S NAMES, FOLKS

@ELLIOTTCABLE A million years ago in the dial-up BBS days there were certain systems that refused my last name “Farley” Eventually figured out the cause was trolls who would log in as “Chuck U. Farley” Due to sysops sharing block lists this problem followed me around on certain brands of BBS for a while.

Crazy read: detecting positions of players in Counterstrike by *listening to their GPU over a microphone*

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~genkin/papers/lendear.pdf

I have received a notification a minute ago that the FreeBSD team decided to resolve an issue that I reported 22 years ago. They even used my (trivial) patch. I completely forgot about that. I guess I'm a FreeBSD developer now (w).

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38727

… technically not wrong but not 100% truthful about it either 😂 when in doubt don’t run unknown commands for the internet or LLM. Be careful. #linux #unix #macos

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

@nixCraft https://xkcd.com/1597/

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.

The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.

The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.

It was their cell phone provider.

Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.

I am very serious.

@evan Babe, you have to take care to recognize all the other software and protocols in the fediverse!! You can't just call it all "Mastodon"!!!!