Notices by Aris Adamantiadis :verified:💲Paid (aris@infosec.exchange)

I thought that copyright trolls were dead but a Belgian non-profit I'm member of received an extorsion attempt from a copyright troll over an astronomy picture inside a 12 years old PDF deep on their website. They want more than 700€ of fees.... The original author is part of the amateur astronomy community, I bet he would be excited to learn his work is being used to ransom money out of nonprofits for saving the night sky.

@ryanc and despite all that information, 90% of the Belgian websites still serve the wrong language by default to French-speaking visitors.

@ryanc duplex mismatch

A question I ask myself often when seeing one of these projects, is "why do you hate your users that much that you're using sourceforge to host them?" SF is trash and there are at least 3 better alternatives that aren't github.

@dalias You have chromatic aberrations in your glasses? That doesn't look right

@soatok @dalias I don't think they're idiots, I think they know exactly what they're doing and why they're aligning with the interests of the oil businesses and/or Russian government.

@dalias I never heard of that happening in Belgium, but our gas stations pumps usually have modified triggers so you can't leave it locked and the weather isn't that cold so we have less temptation to stay inside the car.
I think I may have driven off once or twice with a door/trunk left open or stuff on the roof.

Is there an ICE car equivalent to jumping in your EV and attempting to start with the charging cable still plugged in? It happens to me quite regularly.

@dalias @thedarktangent I don't think rewarding clickbait articles with exposure is the way to go. I'd rather share an article from a competing newspaper that doesn't use artificial engagement mechanisms (you won't believe which ones).

@malwareminigun @fleaz I'll never forgive them of deciding to make USB3 backward compatible with USB2 by multiplexing USB2 electrically instead of tunneling USB2 through USB3. It makes so many USB2 devices unstable when behind a hub.

bought it for 50€ at Hubo in 2015, maybe the certification rules improved since then.

I opened my 12v battery charger that had a magic smoke event in the past to see if I could fix it...
I don't understand how that kind of electronic could be sold in EU (bought it in Hubo or Brico IIRC).

• Fuse but at the output only
• Only a transformer. Not a single cap to flatten the voltage, I'm not even sure there is a diode rectifier.
• No connection to ground (no ground pin) despite the all metal packaging
• Absolutely no charge monitoring, fail check or anything

This thing is a electrical shock hazard in addition to a fire hazard. Let's say it burns (like it did) and one of the copper wire touches the case... Nothing would happen (not even differential tripping) until the owner touches the case and gets shocked.

@uztq https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=175461877809835&w=2
Enjoy your rabbit hole

Damn, I missed the backdoor in OpenSSH accusation flame thread and now I didn't have any popcorn when reading it. Without saying that the OpenSSH dev team have stronger nerves than me

Today on freelancer reddit "I earn a lot of money through dividends from my company but I don't feel like sharing half of it with my fiancée, what should I do?"

I lost another friend to mental health issues and that sucks 😭

Friends from the EU. It doesn't matter which EU country you're from, it is very important that you sign the petition for ban on conversion therapy across the EU.
The threshold has been reached for number of countries but very far from the target on raw numbers of votes. It does not matter which EU country you're from. every vote counts.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@ryanc I don't get RS232 on appliances when the rest of the embedded world moved to 5V UART

@bortzmeyer Que le grand cric me croque, le problème de ce concept c'est que l'ordi quantique qui pète tout sera précédé de centaines d'ordis quantiques qui pètent presque tout, d'autres centaines d'ordis quantiques qui pètent rien ou presque, et qu'entre les deux ça sera le brouillard complet. C'est pas un concept très utile pour faire de l'analyse de risque.

I'm curious to know who from my friends still consider going to Defcon this year. The political situation there is degrading further and further and already reached the "I definitively won't go for the next 4+ years" threshold for me. Would you go to a defcon equivalent in Russia or North Korea?
This week a French CNRS research was illegally searched and sent back home because he had private chats critical of His Majesty Trump. People from Germany have disappeared for weeks and suffered from torture because they were looking white enough.