Notices by JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)

Email has become too complicated for my dement mother. Also just reading a message doesn't work.

Is there such a thing as a cigarette-sized box, maybe with ePaper and SMS reception, no buttons no nothing, onto which we could send a short text "your gym session begins in 20 minutes" or something along those lines?

(Please don't say 'smartphone', you've no idea, and don't say Arduino and do it yourself.)

#followerPower #lowTech #easyUI

“We rolled out an invalid SSHd config which means that every user is locked out of SSH. Since that includes us, we now have to fix the config manually while the hosts are powered off. This will unfortunately take a while.”

Hugops. Automation can suck. ;) #sudo #cake

@nlnetlabs you will be hearing from my lawyers, as my stuff is NXDOMAIN in your book: I have checked all 3,119 pages.

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in an email stands for "best regards", right? Right?!

"Starship is an embarrassment, not just for SpaceX, but for the US. It’s not a revolution; it is a nightmare of twisted monopolistic privatisation and the idiotic inefficiency that comes alongside that. It’s pathetic and dangerous, and we can do so much better."

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spacex-has-finally-figured-out-why

"After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story."

Please call it a backdoor only if it has a door at the back. Thanks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-commands-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/

#esp32

Martine écrit en UTF-8

Today @shaft reminds me I'm old: the #ZX81 is 44 years old. It was the first computer I owned. (Not the first I used.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

I think I got quite fed up with it after a couple of weeks only; having to type the code in after every boot got boring fast.

DNS peeps, I think I need clarification of SOA record placement.

RFC1035 section 5.2 says "Exactly one SOA RR should be present at the top of the zone", which I have always taken literally, i.e. at top of zone (minus $ORIGIN or $TTL et.al.)

It could also mean "at zone apex"

named-checkzone(1) and ldns-verify-zone(1) don't care; SOA can be anywhere.

But, validns(1) bails with "the first record in the zone must be an SOA record" https://github.com/tobez/validns/blob/a7e6b4f417c0bfadfd25629ecfc5bc449e3101e4/rr.c#L301

Is it top (in $EDITOR) or is it apex?

@bortzmeyer I've never seen an AXFR which doesn't begin (and end) with an SOA. Which IMO makes sense, as those two records "enclose" the transfer.

Apex makes sense, but an SOA "somewhere" looks very weird. :)

Everything is just so fucking unbelievable. This is a bank. In Germany. In the year 2025.

#wtf8

thanks to @mnordhoff for finding the date: it was, indeed, an "oopsie" which caused .FJ go go insecure.

Last visible secure delegation to .FJ was on 2025-02-27, and since then, the .FJ DS were removed from the root (https://mastodon.social/@diffroot@mastodns.net/114077741965397990 )

Does anybody know *why*, and whether they'll re-sign sometime?

#dnssec

I looked up "18f" on Wikipedia:

> 18F was a digital services agency within the Technology Transformation Services department of the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States Government.

Was.

> On March 1, Shedd sent an email to all 18F staff, describing them as "non-essential" and "non-critical", and eliminated the office "under direction from the White House"

And a DNS query for 18f\.gsa\.gov shows NXDOMAIN

#fahrenheit451

Edit: see also: https://18f.org

for those interested, it appears to be possible to access some/all of 18f's documents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842

(Pay attention to the LFS comment)

curl | pkexec

is the new

curl | sudo

@lea "This is a request to add the CA root certificate for Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

@kevin

@icing info has always sucked IMO, and the only sane way I've found for reading those manuals is `info .. | less`.

Modern zone replication using LMDB and Lightning Stream

https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-4197-modern-zone-replication-using-lmdb-and-lightning-stream/slides/211092/FOSDEM_20_NYQrP6q.pdf

Kevin P. Fleming ( @kevin ) provides an update (to his "award-winning" FOSDEM 2023 talk -- I don't recall seeing that on world news, but probly my bad 😜 ) covering his experiences using #LMDB Lightning Stream for zone replication between PowerDNS authoritative servers.

#FOSDEM talk https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4197-modern-zone-replication-using-lmdb-and-lightning-stream/

@bortzmeyer he's good fun!