Notices by Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)

tesla investor: "i'm sure it's fine..."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/tesla-limits-investors-ability-to-sue-over-breach-of-fiduciary-duties.html

@adamshostack @heidilifeldman

there is a certain beautiful irony in the thugs of the guy who is acting like he has a get out of jail free card getting stopped by actual immunity.

@GottaLaff

"oh, you caught us blatantly breaking the law and ignoring judicicial orders? our bad. we promise not to do that any more..."

sure. like "oh, well DHS was told not to do that so we had DOD do it instead..."

@Viss @ryanc

one of my pet peeves was the seemingly endless parade of congress-critters on CSPAN getting up to talk about something technical and starting with "i don't know how any of this techy stuff works at all but i think we should...".

no one goes to a "doctor" who starts with "i have no idea of how diseases or the body works and have no medical expertise but i think we should...".

@ryanc @laird @filippo @cazabon

i just snorted out a spray of coffee at this.

i have very similar feelings about djb and systemd...

@SteveBellovin

people making "lists of people" has never worked out well for those on the list... even santa has a naughty list.

this administration is definitely going full nazi playbook, including pending eugenics.

@ryanc

IP addr parsing code is total nutso stuff. ;)

the zoom.us issue seems to have started as a payment/account issue. the domain was on serverHold until 1:21pm PDT, which would have gotten the NS records/glue removed from the .us zone. it's now back. any trailing issues are likely to be cached NXDOMAINs in various recursive DNS servers.

my condolences to anyone back on a zoom call...

@ryanc

so we have no UBI or universal health insurance but we can get automated laser turrets. that sure sums up our current situation...

we're trying to complete the foods of the world alphabet with only 3 letters left (x/y/z). there is no english name for a country with X so we're stretching the rules a bit and going with the greek spelling xile (chile). doing pastel de choclo, kind of a shepherd's pie but with a corn pudding topping rather than mashed potatoes.

doing it with impossible beef rather than meat.

assembly starting now.

@wendynather

i decline to answer on the grounds that it could carbon date me.

@inthehands

yup. there is no "trump is playing 4D chess against our 'enemies'". he's eating the checker pieces, throwing ketchup, and soiling his diaper while he burns our trade reputation into ash.

this is why we need to keep pushing against every over-reach and unlawful power grab of the WH. sometimes they back down:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/g-s1-59463/trump-social-security-ssa-in-person-offices

@ryanc

go for it!

kre has a wicked sense of humor. :)

@inthehands

someone standing up (for hours) and saying "it's not politics/business as usual" and "these are extraordinary times", calling out all the damage the WH is causing that will take years for fix, finally!

@inthehands

this makes the various fiascos with the patent office software and IRS rewrites seem like massive perfection by comparison. and those took years, multiple attempts, insane amounts of dollars.

of course, the problem here is that they *WANT* to completely blow all this up and don't care about the suffering and possible deaths of actual human beings this could cause.

@ryanc @Em0nM4stodon

LOL. perfect!

kind of like naming your earpods "these are not your earpods" so people don't keep trying to pair with them on the plane.

@ryanc

the old dhcpd.conf config file is a wonderful example of this, as is sendmail.cf.

if you can solve the tower of hanoi problem in your "config file", it's a programming language. :)

@inthehands

i'd also be concerned about uber/lyft lowering your "rating" as a passenger, making those services mostly unusable.

uber/lyft are far more likely to care about not pissing off TFG/muskrat than they are passenger safety, at least while they can get insurance and avoid criminal prosecution.

@inthehands

i'm with you but as i said, not everyone can control this completely. in some towns, teslas are also a large proportion of the rides.