finity -> infosec.exchange @finity@qoto.org

Even the planet wanted to get through 2020 quicker.

https://www.livescience.com/earth-spinning-faster-negative-leap-second.html

@michel_slm trying it out...

The robots.txt issue this guy highlights are the least of his worries. He doesn't seem to realize that what he is describing as having built is embarrassingly bad.

https://james-william-fletcher.medium.com/how-a-benign-web-crawler-found-and-exploited-a-critical-vulnerability-in-my-server-f17c30e061e7

Last night my Mom said she always looks forward to Christmas so much. Then she enjoys it, but it ends so quickly, and she wonders where the time went and gets kinda sad.

I just realized that's how I feel about lunch almost every day.

@rjayasinghe nice!

https://www.kqed.org/news/11852841/christmas-day-wonder-gingerbread-monolith-mysteriously-appears-at-sf-park

"When KQED reached out to San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg, [he said]:

"Looks like a great spot to get baked," "we will leave it up until the cookie crumbles.""

@namark @trinsec I would like them more, but The Lion King biased me against them early

@namark @trinsec alright, I guess maybe it's not as universal as I assumed

Baboons are kinda ugly. Especially compared to tigers, say. I would guess lots of humans feel this way. But baboons are closer to us evolutionarily. I wonder if there's something to that... Like, an "uncanny valley" thing.

"The NSA doesn't kill people Martin."

One of the better hacking movies, and that word is not said once.

I love the little things they get right in the movie Sneakers. Solving the wrong problem when the answer is right in your face (password on keyboard scene). Crypto jargon that seems close enough (Janek's symposium scene).

https://www.geometrize.co.uk/

This is great. Stolen from HN.

Sassy Justice has a Christmas message from the POTUS:

https://youtu.be/h_jrebvmPlk

@lain I think this is really a pro-homelessness statement. He's speaking out more against the homes than the computers.

#HailAIOverlords

https://medium.com/linuxforeveryone/the-real-reason-linux-users-love-the-command-line-e8043f583028

I love the command line because it keeps me flowing between my tasks. I use my Linux GUI for a huge variety of things, but the type of work I get to on Linux really flows when I'm on the terminal. It's just an engaged state of mind. @killyourfm

@noisemakerbot samosas in a toilet? Bad use of samosas.