Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.

@gamingonlinux SEGA bass fishing? Way to reel me in there, Liam.

Elon Musk spent $44b on Twitter just so he could not own Twitter.

Hey lovely Mastodon folk. I've just released an HP-35, HP-45, HP-80 simulator called HP-1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HP-45 calculator. (Free) standalone versions for Mac and WIndows (no need for any Python installation or knowledge) & Python source for Linux. It's been a coding marathon, so it'd mean a lot to me if you could boost this post, so it gets in front of the right people. Download here: https://sarahkmarr.com/retrohp1973.html Enjoy. #retrocomputing #calculators #python #coding #rpn

On Slack, Steve said "Only OGs remember the original Apple Vision", so I had to make this dumb GIF

Now I think maybe @Cdespinosa will be the only one on the planet who might get this

@stavvers hahaha I love when they do that to themselves, always tempted to just reply with this whenever anything like that happens

@codinghorror

In June I used Google Chrome to do a Google search just to see the how the Google DeepMind AI engine worked. I was not disappointed.

If I may generalize for a moment, of all social media instances, Mastodon, I think, would be the one most excited about this new toy which arrived today

I owe you all the deepest and sincerest apology. It has been brought to my attention that my facts are enabling fascism and destroying democracy. I am especially sorry for the harmful facts stating that:

-Every month is National Potato Month.
-George W. Bush has a Foo Fighters tattoo on his back.
-Optimus Prime is the only heterosexual Transformer.
-The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New York City.
-Cher’s full name is Chernobyl.

I pray that you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me.

@jgg @Biggles @hkrn I would bet that all phones will be waterproof just so we don't have choice

Have you ever wanted to make a "you wouldn't steal a car" meme, but been disappointed with how lame the existing meme editors are?

I made a better one: https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

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The best advice I got about Mastodon is that it’s for things you love, not hate

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.

@scalzi

Evolution requires variety. Twitter exploding into a mass of writhing tentacles and dying spectacularly may be bad for Twitter and annoying for its users, but it kinda needed to die to make space for new growth.

Let's Encrypt is a great resource to learn more about TLS and PKI -- but if you want an in-depth guide, check out the TLS and PKI configuration guide, linked through our FAQ: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/faq/#where-can-i-learn-more-about-tls-ssl-and-pki-in-general

Interesting links of the week:

* https://github.com/vlang/vinix - a fresh new UNIX, written in V
* https://github.com/c-skills/vala-vala-hey - a nice bug from https://twitter.com/steaIth
* https://soez.github.io/posts/no-cve-for-this.-It-has-never-been-in-the-official-kernel/ - exploiting a never before seen kernel bug
* https://github.com/lrh2000/StackRot - another nice shiny kernel bug
* https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2023/07/03/ibm-i-dde-vulnerability-cve-2023-30990/ - the oldies are best, someone just popped System i again
* https://x64.sh/posts/ServiceNow-Insecure-access-control-to-admin/ - exploiting access control in SNow
* https://labs.hakaioffsec.com/nginx-alias-traversal/ - insecure aliases in Nginx
* https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/linux-lateral-movement-more-than-ssh - alternate forms of lateral movement on Linux (and UNIX :))
* https://github.com/apkc/CVE-2023-35829-poc - backdoored PoC for CVE-2023-35829, check aclocal.m4
* https://twitter.com/xnand_/status/1676336329985077249 - original reporting of bugdoor ^
* https://github.com/cr0nx/awesome-linux-attack-forensics-purplelabs - @cr0nym Linux forensics guide
* https://github.com/CiscoCXSecurity/presentations/raw/master/Hello%20-%20I%20bring%20you%20announcements%20from%20other%20Autonomous%20Systems%20v1%20(Public%20form).pdf - hunting in telcos
* https://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Industry%20and%20finance/C%20telecoms%20security%20framework%20consultation%202023.pdf - Jersey looks over the water at UK telco security standards

#security, #research