Notices by JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)

Of course it's not always the DNS, but who those who believe it is, here's a poster:

https://weberblog.net/its-always-dns-poster/

@shaft I'll trade you for some of my nslookup stickers.

I had them made just before COVID erupted and didn't get to distribute them so I still have several hundred.

Go ahead and deploy a new version of Cisco Anyconnect VPN with a new icon color and ask yourselves why I phone corporate support to ask if that's legit.

I hope all > 50,000 of your employees do that as well!

Yes, well, it is dog food, but you could still run your product name through a multilingual dictionary.

I spoke to the owner of the shop, and he was not aware that this actually means something in English. 😭

"On January 11, 2025, a new trust anchor, codenamed KSK-2024, will appear ..."

Two guesses what I would have codenamed it ;-) (I know it's the year in which it was generated; just shitposting.)

@slothrop so it seems best to just cut the bloody wire and install linux on it. Might do the trick.

JP out.

This isn't written in Java, doesn't require Kubernetes, NodeJS or three distinct NoSQL document stores, runs sans Docker or MySQL, and I horribly miss simple software like this.

@Edent wrote a two-file Fediverse bot https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

/via https://mastodon.social/@Edent/113402755271517191

I live in Germany and need this rubber stamp.

It’s been a while since I last brew installed inetutils and had forgotten that macOS hasn’t had ftp(1) for years. ncftp(1) which I first learned of via Usenet (that’s how old I am) came in handy.

"In the GNU project, man pages are secondary. [..] It’s your choice whether to include a man page in your program. [..] consider that supporting a man page requires continual effort each time the program is changed. The time you spend on the man page is time taken away from more useful work."

MORE USEFUL WORK?!?!!!!

I can't think of much in our IT world that is more useful that good and accurate documentation.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html

(h/t giulianopz)

TIL via @feld about RIPE Atlas Software Probes

Documentation https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/howtos/software-probes.html

Code https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe

@feld I hadn't expected anybody to still be asking that rhetorical question in 2024 ...

@shane_kerr

"We noticed that your probe with ID xx has been disconnected for some time now, and you have probably received reminders from our system asking you to reconnect it."

Erm, no. No mails.

I can locally ping the probe. I've rebooted it.

RIPE says (see screenshot).

Is it a bit kaputt? 🤷

the reboot was good

Please add one or two characters to the first bullet point; my eyes hurt.

"We could have used an off-the-shelf solution like mqtt but being a hacker lab where we like to experiement with the ssh protocol, we thought we could create something even simpler and just as powerful."

Even simpler?!

Authenticated Unix pipes over SSH

https://pipe.pico.sh

Mark Crispin proposed RFC 1730 in December of 1994, and I've been using #IMAP for very many of the intervening years.

Almost exactly thirty years after their invention, I use flags for the first time.

Follow me for further exciting reports on how I stay right up on top of technological progress.

Please remember, girls and boys, if you celebrate: UNIX day 20000 is on 2024-10-04 (the 4th of October). It's a special day, since the next round (10000) UNIX day is 30000 at 2052-02-20.

https://github.com/xyproto/ud

#unix #epoch

The content of the two lil’ bags seems overkill to me, but hey, who knows

IMO this has always been the world's cutest NS RRset:

$ dig mx. NS

#dns