Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@spoltier no exactly! Like it's relevant and real based on your experience but I'M CRAWLING UP A WINDOW HERE

Final coffee thought for this morning is this image popped into my head while someone was giving me unasked for advice and now you must be subjected to it:

imagine I am climbing up the outside of a skyscraper mission impossible style with all kinds of wild gear I made for myself and from inside the skyscraper on the other side of the windows, which they can't perceive, people yell advice based on their experience of navigating to the top by pressing elevator buttons

As you were

I made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112295528875440987

Hear me out:

Cross-posting is killing the challenger social media platforms.

Why? Well, when I visit [whatever-trying-to-grow-platform], 80% of the content I see is stuff I've already seen elsewhere. Sometimes several times already. It makes it unsustainable to use more than one platform, and if people get pushed to choose a single platform - well, it's going to be the biggest one.

🕵️🔎🔎📱 The “repackaged” EU Council version of #chatcontrol still includes #MassSurveillance & serious threats to #encryption. Fortunately 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇫🇷🇦🇹🇳🇱🇪🇪🇫🇮 have acknowledged the severe concerns. We call on EU Member States to reject this dangerous position.
https://epicenter.works/content/open-letter-eu-councils-chatcontrol-is-still-mass-surveillance-undermining-encryption

We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.

Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.

This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

Turning type into animals:

Frutiger → Fru🐯 → Fru🦁

Sreet art in #Lausanne

!B

75F and the vibes were perfect for a little walk in the woods 😩 #lichensubscribe #florespondence

855 Fotos hab ich vorhin am Apfelbaum innerhalb von 2 Stunden gemacht.

Eins ist was geworden und das macht mich froh.

Hummel im Flug. Herausforderung...

#fotografie #photography #Insekten #insects

Just found a closely related razor, Hubbard's razor:

> Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.

What I'm listening to today: "Run", Michiel van den Bos

This is from Unreal Tournament (1999), a game I don't think I've played.

One nice thing about sample trackers is the files are small and playing them back has low CPU impact, which makes them ideal for embedding in video games. Apparently UT1999's tracker files can just be extracted and played in Impulse Tracker. Some of the tracks hold up well; this one's D&B-inflected and has classic, emotionally dead-on Vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTMBOm8nII

I’m in Berlin today and tomorrow. Anyone up for a beer or a coffee?

do you think Python would let you mix 2-space, 4-space, and tab indentation, in the same file, on the same line? (poll)

[1/2]

https://standardnotes.com/blog/joining-forces-with-proton

One of my primary note-taking-services for the last almost five years - Standard Notes - have now joined forces with Proton (mostly known for Proton Mail service). My time with Standard Notes has not been entirely problem free (and what software/service is that anyway?), but the principles upon which Standard Notes is build and operaties (like their longevity commitment - https://standardnotes.com/longevity ), makes it the obvious choice for secure notes for me.

Anyway sorry I spend so much of my time on this account complaining about computers, but is just the thing is, there are so many horrible things about them,

@joanam is this not the countenance of a manifest god?

✨🆕 New project! ✨

For educational purposes only…

I HACKED A CAR IN JAVASCRIPT!!! 📡🛻

I built a web tool to hack wireless devices right from the browser and I used it to run a rolljam/replay attack against my friend's car (with consent of course) and IT WORKED!!! 😃🎉