Notices by Tekniquelly correct (tek@freeradical.zone), page 2

Another new Let's Encrypt-secured website, another case of getting 82 hacking attempts in the first 30 seconds after it came online for the first time ever.

Do. Not. Kid. Yourself. "Oh, I'll delete the config files once I get it working." "Eh, I'm just some nobody. Who's going to care?" Yeah, I'll tell you who: people who watch for new sites come online and then immediately slam them with hacking probes.

"I'll get to it soon" means you better do it within 3 seconds.

https://honeypot.net/2024/05/16/i-am-not.html

I just installed @cadey's Anubis on one of my personal domains, because my little hobby website doesn't need to support 639K scraper requests per day.

A million thanks, Xe!

Well, I don't know what I was expecting.

I saw a news story about an $8000 “digital detox camp” for kids.

And here we were taking kids on Scouting campouts for free, like suckers.

Mom would never have described herself as a feminist. The local politics made that unlikely. She just didn’t see any reason why she couldn’t do the same job as the men at the railroad, so she went for it — and excelled. She was the first Wire Chief there, responsible for keeping the surprisingly huge and complex communications systems up and running, and therefore the trains rolling.

She was the first computing ... https://honeypot.net/2025/11/10/mom-would-never-have-described.html

My mom passed away this morning. We knew this was coming. She’d been sick for a while. The last stages were mercifully brief and comfortable.

We're having visitors in our office tonight, and the office manager reminded us to put away valuables, etc., and also to put away USB chargers so no one would be tempted to sneak over and top off their phone.

If you borrow a random data cable from a desk of the security team, whatever happens next is on you.

“You call everyone a Nazi who doesn’t agree with you!”

Meanwhile, in reality…

And yes, I suspend these accounts the moment they pop up without waiting to hear what they have to say. WTF of interest could this jackwagon possibly have to offer? A nuanced take on Gaza? Thoughtful insights on immigration?

LOL, fuck that guy. They can still speak if they wish, but they don’t have the right to make me spend the resources to hear them.

Find someone who looks at you like June Bug looks at this fuzzy blanket.

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day (or The Americas' First Undocumented Immigrant Day, depending on which part of country you live in).

Alright, I've put the AI away for the night because I'm about to Learn Some Stuff, and using AI to avoid learning is like using robot fingers to play the piano for you. Nah, I'll do that myself, thanks.

Now I'm building #VeilidChat.

Today I got to see the face of a very intelligent, very knowledgeable colleague when they found out that MAC addresses aren’t guaranteed to be unique or static.

Treasure these moments.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro

Don’t lose track of the idea that while we may live in tumultuous times, they are also full of miracles.

@glyph I can cite precisely one NIST standard from memory, and this is it: “According to NIST SP 800-63b, section 5.1.1.2, we shouldn’t rotate passwords unless we expect they’ve been compromised.”

I busted that out on a call once and it stopped an entire argument. My CTO was also on the call and I saw him looking over at me, mouth agape.

Happy moment of the day: realizing I had both the ability and the authority to turn off the MDM rule that made everyone update their laptop passwords every couple months.

That's enough of that.

As promised, I present: Little Fluffy Clouds. It's a command line (and an API!) to combine a list of big, overlapping, adjacent IPv4 or IPv6 networks into a smaller list of networks that contain the exact same set of addresses.

It's ludicrously fast and much more Pythonic than the alternatives I found, like using built-in classes, full typechecking, snake_case names, ruff checking and formatting, etc., etc.

https://github.com/kstrauser/littlefluffyclouds

Spent the evening writing a Python module to merge long lists of IP networks into the smallest set possible that covers the exact same ranges. You’d think that’d already exist but I couldn’t find one that didn’t invent its own IP address classes, or have O(n^3) runtime, or give the wrong results by missing lots of mergeable networks, or look like a Java programmer’s first Python project.

I’ll pack it up and put it on PyPI tomorrow if I have time.

“This political divisiveness must stop! We have to restore civility, which is difficult for those subhumans in California who want to turn your kid into a gay atheist satanist.”

I highly recommend watching Fox News tonight, if you can bear it, to understand what’s being planned. Key takeaways so far:

- Charlie Kirk died from political assassination, although we don’t have a suspect and can’t know for sure.
- All political violence in the US is from leftists.
- It’s caused entirely by the left saying bad things about Real Americans.
- It can’t be allowed to let them keep demonizing the right and thus endangering their lives.

#ReichstagFire

On this visit home, I’m learning things I never wanted to know, like how hospice works.