Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@acdha @glyph I suppose the difference is that the monetization strategy for credit card skimmers is straightforward, and in the pre-chip days it was pretty valuable to skim ~1000 cards or whatever.

Compromising random phones is probably not especially valuable even if juice jacking worked 100% of the time, and your hit rate is probably lower than what you'd get by tricking people into installing something via some other mechanism. The fact that it's mostly been mitigated on the software side probably makes it not cost-effective.

@glyph Wait is juice jacking really a toothbrush botnet? I bought USB condoms for nothing?

I guess I always thought of it like plugging a random USB device into my computer. Actually a dangerous thing to do, but also if you spent all day plugging random USB drives you found or got at conferences into your device, the modal outcome is that nothing bad would happen to you.

My workflow is such that I like to keep manual profiles to isolate different use cases for the browser, but firefox profiles are too cumbersome to switch between, and Multi-Account containers just don't work well for me, so I end up with Firefox as my "open any link" browser, and Chrome as my "different profile for each different service" browser (e.g. twitter has one profile, github has another, and LinkedIn is always in incognito windows on a dedicated "clear everything" profile — and even then I think to myself I should probably only be accessing that website via Qubes OS or something).

I can't tell if this is a good time for this to happen or a bad time for it to happen, because I just found this: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

Which, if I can get FF working again, could make it possible for me to give up Chrome entirely.

@penguingeek No such luck, just crashes immediately, with new profile, after update, after reboot, after re-install, after removing `~/.cache/mozilla` and `~/.mozilla`. Doesn't work with `firefox -safe-mode`. Anything I do gives:

```
$ firefox -safe-mode
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 5885
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
```

I also tried running `VAAPI_MPEG4_ENABLED=0 firefox`. Crash on startup. Super weird.

@penguingeek Arch Linux

Man, #firefox crashes on launch every time, and #thunderbird doesn't launch at all (`thunderbird &` just hangs on "Using `nsImapService.cpp`", then segfaults when I Ctrl+C after 24 hours...).

I have no idea what happened here and I don't feel like I have time to mess around with it too much right now. Very disappointing.

@mkennedy Do you ever make your proposals publicly available? I have never been on the PyCon committee, but I would be willing to take a look and give an opinion.

I usually get a talk in, though I don't know how much of that is from being good at writing proposals and how much of it is other factors (choice of topic, track record as a speaker, position in the community, etc).

This is the proposal that I got accepted this year: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals/-/blob/master/pytest-unittest/2023-pycon-us-pytest-unittest.md?ref_type=heads

It was rejected last year on favor of this one: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals/-/blob/master/datetime/2023-pycon-us-working-with-timezones-redux.md?ref_type=heads

The year before that I gave this talk: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals/-/blob/master/upstream_bugs/2020-pycon-upstream-bugs.md?ref_type=heads

(Originally scheduled for 2020)

@henryiii This is honestly pretty shocking to me. I would have been confident that the bottleneck for `pip` was disk I/O and network latency, in which case rewriting in Rust would not really matter.

Is `pip` just slow now because of the resolver? Or is `pip` leaving a lot of performance on the table?

Also if someone has a better version of this please let me know I am not interested in maintaining any kind of shell code.

Any #bash experts out there have an idea why this function isn't working well with `ps`? If I pipe `df -h` into it, it works fine. If I redirect the out put from `ps -aux` to a file, then `cat` that file into it, it works. When I pipe `ps -aux` directly into it, I only get the header.

https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/pull/2/files

@freemo That is actually a myth. I have played a lot of Minecraft recently and the actual rule is that if you fall into *water* you won't be hurt at all, no matter how shallow the water.

If you are working at high heights, it is best to keep a bucket of water on you in case you fall.

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn't think they would have more than 3 contestants)

(Note: I am watching a different episode than the one I linked)