Notices by emily, emitter of spooky noise (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)

I mean, *I* would find it very amusing to have this on my phone, but

dreamed that I found an airport in Hawaii where they forgot to build runways. they also forgot to build the rest of the airport. just a segment of normal road that had somehow gotten an ICAO code as a historical accident, that they'd occasionally close so a plane could land on it

@ErinRose do I really count as ET though

I think I'm in my own little time zone over here

okay fine I just switched all my domains off wildcard CNAMEs because letsencrypt is too smart

it goes to look up _acme-challenge.domain.tld, sees *.domain.tld CNAME domain.tld, and then looks for its validation TXT record on domain.tld when it's actually on _acme-challenge.domain.tld

computers D:

requesting an addition to the tz database for "emily's weird circadian rhythm"

the completed CH cat feeding contraption!

seems to work well, he can walk into it on his own and is happily eating without assistance

my order of several assorted types of chipout-covering substances have not arrived yet, but I'll be returning to this and cleaning up the edges once it does, for cleanability

#catsofmastodon #theWorkshop #woodworking

I just referred to the shape of a piece of food as its "package", I might be a nerd

(for non-nerds: this is a normal term for the shape of an electronic chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_component_packaging_types)

wtf, I just woke up and it's already getting dark outside

I demand that the sun adjust itself to my circadian rhythm

how people told me I'd injure myself in the workshop: various terrifying digits-or-limbs-stuck-in-machine scenarios

how I actually injure myself: usually smacking my hand into the pointy part of a stationary cutter

@diedofheartbreak yeah that is pretty weird. the whole unit system selector is weird honestly

millimeters are actually the perfect length unit for woodworking, because you can just round to integers and everything will be okay

ugh AWS support is so bad

I reported a phishing site to them. It's a page on S3, which redirects to a domain registered with Amazon (which serves through Cloudflare, but I don't know what's behind the Cloudflare).

They insisted on seeing the email headers where I found the link before they'd do anything about it. (The emails weren't sent through Amazon.)

So I provided them today because I didn't care to argue further, and they responded, ignoring the domain name, and telling me the S3 site was no longer up, so nothing to do here.

Well, yeah, it's not loading for you because *you dropped the latter half of the URL*.

or, as I explained it to said friend: they are advertised as condoms, but they're really more semen delivery services

It's time for my periodic reminder that VPNs do not magically increase security or privacy.

They take your network traffic and deliver it to someone else on your behalf, then deliver the responses back to you. That is all they do. That's what a VPN is.

The only time this helps with privacy is when you don't want your ISP to know where the traffic is going or you don't want the website to know where the traffic is coming from, *but you're okay with the VPN operator knowing*. If your use case does not fit into that very specific description, including the caveat, a VPN will not help you with privacy.

(Inspired by a friend asking me VPN questions this morning, because "everyone was talking about VPNs so I assumed that's a thing we're supposed to be doing now".)

@ids1024 @foone yeah I don't think you could do it by just splitting the usb cable, enumeration requires bidirectional communication even if the HID reports are unidirectional

but you could probably do it with sufficient determina--no, I will not start another dumb project, bad emily

@foone mouse that has two USB cables and outputs on both of them simultaneously

heck yeah, heated blanket time has arrived :3

like if you didn't know what bears were and I said "there's an animal that curls up in a warm cozy spot and sleeps for a long time" you would think I was describing an average housecat

hibernation is such a cat-coded activity that I am surprised actual cats don't do it

my ISP now offers a VPN for $7/month to "boost the cyber safety of [my] AT&T fiber"

unrelated to that, my ISP famously operates several surveillance centers in cooperation with the NSA