Notices by Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc

/dev/urandom. the OG vibe coding.

@ryanc

totally up for really good cabling porn. ;)

"White House fires new AI official after 4 days. 'We've replaced them with an AI program and things are going great already!'"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/24/white-house-fires-ai-official-anthropic/

@ryanc @fanf

ah, dnsmasq... the "gift" that keeps on giving. the project hasn't been given consistent love from maintainers for reasons and router vendors are infamous for shipping really bad versions and not updating...

@ryanc

when i was at a large ISP in the DNS team, we used to get called into outage meetings and the first assumption everyone always made was that any problem must be DNS until we'd proved otherwise.

turns out that pretty much all the time, get packets to pass reliably was the problem, which broke everything including DNS.

we had patches and stickers made with "!L3 == !DNS".

@ryanc

and this is why DNS is such a solid source of employment. :D

@ryanc

- systemd-resolvd
- your router gets default resolver from upstream and that was missing/wrong/pointing to broken resolver, borking DNS for local network getting DNS to use from DHCP lease
- something in /etc/hosts
- not putting something in /etc/hosts

twice the evil. spam trying to convince me that my chatGPT subscription (which i wouldn't take at gunpoint) isn't processing and i need to give them my credit card. sigh...

@ryanc @jelte

sure, once you get used to TLS negotiation, takes a lot of work for something to seem "unreasonable" :)

white smoke was seen from the chimney of the white house. probably TACO declaring himself pope.

rather than "Habemus Papam", i guess we say "Habemus Phallus"?

bwahahahahahahahaha... GOP tone deafness and hypocrisy hitting new lows...

boebert, kicked out of a children's play for being high and feeling up her date while the play was going on, is going to judge folks for sexual misconduct.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/16/aoc-boebert-join-calls-for-sexual-misconduct-accountability-in-congress

with all the data center craziness, costs for instances are definitely not going down.

help @jerry keep this island of comforting insanity going:

https://infosec.exchange/about

@dalias @joebeone

i do blocking in my house but of a very small set of FQDNs. all are known ad brokers or malicious C&Cs. makes browsing vastly faster and i don't miss out on anything. i also do various other things but that blocking is a useful bit. it's definitely not a full solution in any sense. defense in layers.

@joebeone

an informed choice about who you get to filter your DNS, including making sure it's a well curated and frequently updated block list, can be a feature in your security profile. but the end user must be the one to decide, not some IP/copyright owner on a tear or some politician with as little understanding of security as of brain surgery.

@joebeone

it's not just a blunt/crude tool to do this. it's a mostly ineffective tool. it breaks things way more often than it does what is intended. it's playing russian roulette with 5 bullets and one empty chamber.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116196487061755930

yeah, sure. "florida democrat". that's kind of like "liberal republican" or "vegan beef butcher".

@ai6yr

huh. passenger pissed about luggage storage and using a smart phone. i could see how that highly unusual event might *cough* *cough*...

ok. i can't even type that out without laughing hysterically.

@ryanc

i have a friend, kelly, with a partner named kely. they enjoyed confusing random cold callers with "which kely are you looking for?".

@catsalad

is that waymos used as ambulances or ambulances to fetch broken waymos? :)

wow. companies really need to clean house...

i have unique emails for every vendor i deal with. i just got spam to a phone company email that i haven't needed or used since 2005. so, this telco kept a 20 year old email and failed to secure their customer PII. bravo...