Notices by Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him) (xabean@infosec.exchange)

Holy shit, I am livid with Linode customer support right now.

The Linode legal-abuse website is broken, throwing HTTP 403 status codes and ... I shit you not: after telling Linode support of this, they literally linked me a blog post on a 3rd party website on "How to fix 403 errors on your website"

The error message literally says "Contact Linode support". Has something that looks like a ray-id unique request ID in the error message. I gave that to them.

I am floored at the lack of context/attention to detail. Genuinely wondering if I'm speaking to a human or if it's some AI agent.

This might be a stupid question.

I want to buy an Oreilly book on Oreilly.com.

I don't want to subscribe to a "learning" program, just buy the book.

How in the fuck do I do that on oreilly's website?

Holy shit. My, how the mighty have fallen. ORA was *the* go-to resource in my early days learning tech.

... and the Purchase book link redirects to the same "start lesson" online learning page.

What the fuck.

Holy shit, dark patterns. At the very bottom of the page "Purchase book" in small font.

@ryanc ... unless you literally meant "not" not "no" as in "number 2, 3, 4, 5" in that case, 🤦♂️

@gsuberland @riley @ryanc one person I follow is quite a math nerd and their masto instance supports TeX and oh my it looks fantastic on their instance and nowhere else

$bank's website seems to be interpreting my laptop as a "new device" solely upon whether it's connected via wifi or wired ethernet, on the same internet connection.

from a privacy perspective this is a little unsettling.

@b0rk @molly0xfff what are you two currently reading? I'm reading the Silo book series (the apple tv series)

@tilde @kaoudis great, now I want glow-in-the-dark white out contact lenses.

@feld Square D is supported, because I've read the docs and that's listed in there, and that's what I've got at the new home build.

@feld no, the panel itself is smart. https://Span.io

@feld span panel and it's own android app. But there is a JSON API you can hit, and the home assistant community has made an integration for it already.

Nice, the electrician wired up the span panels yesterday exactly how I wanted them, and now I can remotely(!) monitor it, since I also got Internet working at the house. The future is cool.

@ryanc the funny thing is I actually met someone in meatspace after they laughed their ass off at me from destroying a $800 TiVo with a radioshack soldering iron, trying to desolder the prom. I lifted *so* many pads. It was horrific.

@ryanc `KkEIo9GclBSevVHIk9GIzVnc2lmdlBiMwITNsAiZylWZuRmL`

Anybody here with a #linux #firewall #router that has two upstream internet links with #failover between primary/backup?

I'm trying to RTFM just *how* that would be done without a stupid shell script in a cron job "Can I ping interface1's gateway? No, remove it from the routing table" because routes _tend to be sticky_ and it doesn't make sense to _stay_ on a backup network connection if the primary (faster) connection has been restored.

Is there a cloud "throw money at the problem" service that cracks md5crypt passwords with GPUs?

@tychotithonus if you want to poke at it, here you go -- this is for a Yealink SIP phone. Strings in the firmware nearby suggest the password is YealinkPhone1106 but it doesn't seem to work on my hardware; which might be due to the fact that there's a config partition that overlay mounts a shadow file overtop of /etc/shadow from the ROM:

root:$1$.jKlhz0B$/Nmgj0klrsZk0nYc1BLUR/:11876:0:99999:7:::