Notices by Richard "not in vegas" Harman (he/him) (xabean@infosec.exchange)

@mattl I was trying to think how would I make this <img tag invisible to humans, but visible to AI/crawlers, and realized that's not the point, it's 100% about log analysis isn't it.

I hope whatever server you host this on has resources to handle the requests, *and* the statistics that I never went to school for :)

@mattl emphatic yes. Especially if it's something just as simple as an artisanal <img src tag.

@mattl have a good sleep! I'mma do the same.

@mattl because I grew up on the internet, I read the last line there as "Hot Safari users in Massachusetts are all over this site" 🤣

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.