Notices by John Timaeus (johntimaeus@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc

I had a 1920s house (US, so 110v standard) that would put 220 to the light over the stove if you turned on the garbage disposal while the microwave was running. Burned out a lot of incandescent bulbs. Made the first CFL I put in explode at the base.

There were also outlets with constant 110 between neutral and ground, 220 between live and ground.

I spent a lot on wire for that place.

@gsuberland

@lowqualityfacts

I don't do patreon. PayPal or cashapp?

@b0rk

I always mention that if you're lucky, some programs might support mouse. But you shouldn't make a habit of using a mouse in the terminal, because it likely won't be there when you need it. If you build a dependency on mouse in the terminal you're going to be SoL the first time you use a cloud serial console or run
docker -it exec <container> /bin/bash

@b0rk

Cloud serial is connecting to a VM in AWS/GCP/Azure via the built-in console connection. Mouse doesn't even necessarily work over rdp to an xrdp endpoint running a terminal in gnome (where you expect it to). Honestly except for true local applications, I don't remember the last time mouse worked.

I do agree on the teaching point, examples are everything.
If I can't show you what I'm talking about while I'm talking about it, I probably won't talk about it. Students don't learn by listening to me...they learn by putting hands on keyboard and breaking things.