Notices by Tekniquelly correct (tek@freeradical.zone)

In certain forums I frequent, some people developed the habit of commenting on other users that “this sounds like AI wrote it”. Confession: I downvote every one of those. This blog you’re reading at this moment is 100% handwritten. I haven’t used AI to write a single word or edit a single sentence. It’s wholly, completely, my work. Yet, one tool I tested labeled it “about 30% slop”, apparently because I enjoy punctuation and sentences longer than 4 words. I have no patience for that.

Whoa. UTF-8 is older now than ASCII was when UTF-8 was invented.

Reddit post:

My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"

I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.

This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app

@scattergather I'd gotten a report from @SnazzyGumball about the same with Tusky. The root cause is that I recently updated the SSL cert (which expires yearly), and now it's signed with a root cert newer than older versions of Android support. Tusky is fixing this by bundling the root cert with their app.

BTW, we're using Sectigo, which has about a 25% SSL CA market share. I mention that just to point out it's not a local weirdness thing, but a widespread issue.

Saw an older fella in a @2600 cap. Told him “like your hat”. He smiled and nodded back.

This place is filled with my people.

Firestarter: They set the land ablaze from the sky – and then wait for their prey to run - BBC Wildlife Magazine https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/fire-hawks

Settlers: Did you know sometimes hawks spread fire?

Locals: You mean the firehawks?

Settlers: No, these are real things we’ve observed, not myths.

Locals: Right. The firehawks.

Settlers: But now we’ve actually seen them!

Locals: Here’s a detailed description we wrote in a book 60 years ago.

Settlers: I bet we get an award for this!

Locals: …

@pluralistic I'm so envious. Our local vet prices are extortionate now after PE ruined it. We needed to have some relatively minor treatment for our dog last year. I did the math and it would have been cheaper to fly first class to a Midwest city, stay at a 4-star hotel, have the work done, and come home than to pay the local vet.

No doubt about it, PE is literally killing pets. Everyone wants to do right by their furry friends, but when you get a quote for $10K, you start to weigh options.

I just tried Marmite for the first time, and I ask as a friend: what's wrong with you people? Is peanut butter illegal where you live or something? Was a famine involved? Dire times and zombies, perhaps?

New .gov just dropped: https://americabydesign.gov

Real quotes:

"We've been conditioned to accept that mediocre [sic] in government is normal."

"This is President Trump going bigger than President Nixon."

Your first day on the job is making this site less shitty.

Hey you.

LOL, good, no, GFY

I was digging through old caches of Def Con trinkets and re-found just about the best sticker ever.

Do not let a good crisis go to waste. If you ever tell management “this thing we talked about would have prevented that other thing”, and they say wow, you’re right, then you can infer you have permission to make that first thing happen. Go do it.

“Why did you switch to working on that new stuff?” “So that p0 problem will never happen again.” “Oh, right! Cool.”

I talked to my company today and told them how phishers use a sense of 1) danger, and 2) urgency, to push smart people to do rash things. I offered to be their personal, confidential fear consultant: “hey, I got this scary thing. Is it real?” Let me do the worrying for them.

This, more than goofy phishing tests that make people feel dumb, is how we help our friends avoid scams.

@dpreacher Yep. I told them all, in front of our CEO (who agreed with me), that no one will *ever* contact them about something important via SMS or email. We're a small company: if someone needs something, they can just ask in person. If it ever *did* happen that an exec got mad at an employee for ignoring phishy looking emails or texts, I'd stick up for them immediately. "We train them not to do this!"

Our BART got stuck at West Oakland for a medical emergency. Some ass was yelling at the conductor: "are you going to get moving or not?" Finally, some other guy started shouting him down: "dude, someone might be fucking dying! Shut the fuck up and wait like the rest of us!" And yes, everyone clapped. I sure did.

Dick.

@prplecake Ugh, I hate those things! I always get caught in them, because I see that they’re scams and look at them to see what my colleagues are going to be hit with this week. “Ha-ha, we tricked you!” “No you didn’t, mf’er, and I’m not taking that remedial training.”

@ansuz @purple Yep, that’s exactly it. Add labciirlkabzyxoesjzg.example.com to DNS, get a cert for it, and you’ll start seeing targeted hits for that hostname in seconds.

@pft @ansuz @purple Not so much. The IPs are so many and so ephemeral that it’s an eternal whack-a-mole. I ended up running a script like “get the IP’s ASN, look up all netblocks in that AS, and block them”. (Plug: and then compact them with https://github.com/kstrauser/littlefluffyclouds.)

I ended up blocking all of Brazil with automation in the first 2 days. L