Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

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"!!!!

So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.

It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.

One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!

#Hugo #StaticSite #ActivityPub #Fediverse #mastoadmin

Happy Train's Secondary Compressor Stops Working Day to all who celebrate it! 🤗