Notices by Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: (mwl@io.mwl.io)

@tek

"Suspended" means that "we all love how hard you worked to make your precious communications easily identifiable. It's a term of appreciation."

Yeah, the world is kind of crap right now.

But a qualified wildlife rehabilitator on the fedi has given a blind wild mouse a home. Lucky the mouse is currently architecting a giant fluffy nest in a cozy hammock, and that's not nothing.

This. All of this. Times several million.

https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e

Cashel would like to remind you that in a world where the Onion owns InfoWars, anything is possible.

Write that book. Release that zero-day. Lick that wire. #petrats #rats

I'm not saying that Adobe programs are hogs, but "128GB RAM" and "4TB NVMe" just entered the chat.

A great post on mutual aid and protecting yourself, from @thorncoyle.

Thorn knows their stuff. Learned it the hard way.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-community-115570830

(dear computer security folks who follow me: yes, the one-page security handout is limited. It's one freaking page, for non-experts. Chill, dude. What's there will get folks further than 95% of people.)

@thorncoyle

while signal is as good as it gets today:

as soon as https://veilid.com/chat/ goes public, you'll hear me screaming at the world to move there. Signal can be compromised: veilid cannot.

It's still hacker-only, but they're working hard to make it usable to the folks who are reading your one sheet.

Context: setting up a new PC.

I use noscript with default deny and ublock origin. Wondering if I still need to bother with both, or if ublock is enough.

Is javascript blocking still useful these days? #sysadmin

"Your cellphone primarily uses IPv6. Its IPv4 connectivity is a kludge of carrier-grade NAT and a collection of workarounds that I’d call black magic if the Evil Wizards Union wouldn’t sue me for slander."

Networking for Systems Administrators, 2nd edition, is now open for sponsorships. 23 more print sponsors and I'll do another challenge coin.

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/n4sa2e-sponsor/

The President laughing at people dying of AIDS.

School staff wondering which state institution was going to take responsibility for me when I graduated, rather than teaching me to take care of myself or finding out why I had so much trouble.

Don't conform? The excess bits will be cut off.

I spent most of the 80s contemplating suicide.

But America Was Great!

I strongly recommend you GTFO.

I guess I was living in a bubble.

Of mutual respect.

@mekkaokereke

We had openly declared white supremacists running for school board this year.

Hoping that they get crushed.

EMERGENCY RAT

Because a bunch of y'all need it. #petrats #rats

One Emergency Rat isn't cutting it?

Okay, fine. Desperate times call for desperate rodents. Digging into the National Rat Reserve here to unleash Boy Willie. #petrats #rats

@tek

I was a young child in the Apollo era, and elementary school when the shuttle launched. Those early astronauts were absolute heroes.

While totally unsuited to space flight, I desperately wanted to.

@tek The space billionaires have poisoned this whole topic. :flan_piteous:

I should be clear:

If you brag about your multi-year Wordle streak, we'll all know you crossed the picket line. And will judge you accordingly.

Yeah, it sucks. It also sucks to be a NYT tech worker.

The NYT Tech Guild is on strike.

Cooking and Games are behind the picket line. That includes Wordle, btw. An unbroken streak means you've crossed a picket line. (Which is brilliant, btw.)

News is not behind the picket line. (Should it be? Maybe. But the strikers thought long and hard about this.)

Help the strikers out here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/nyt-tech-strike-fund

And let your Wordle lapse.

Backing on the #dearAbyss Kickstarter has stopped over the last day. I suspect it's hit the natural end. I should have done this as a ten-day campaign, oh well.

But hey, in case I'm wrong, here it is. https://mwl.io/ks