Notices by scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us), page 2

Controversial proposal to forcibly remigrate JavaScript programmers out of the server side. "If they like it so much, they can go back" one grizzled backend dev says.

I haven't been to a con in forever. What are good ones these days?

Kilobytes? No thank you! We don't use any of that metric gibberish here. Put it in mileobytes (5,280 bytes).

TIL about Resource PKI. Maybe after decades BGP isn't anymore the unauthenticated shut down or MITM the internet at will funhouse it used to be? https://www.arin.net/resources/manage/rpki/

@52fighters so I got a camera. It wants to be dropped on a network, grab DHCP configs, and then call out to its Chinese servers. Instead, I put it on an isolated network with a laptop with a VM I spun up with a dhcpd, then manually configured IP settings, and hid it behind another of my boxes. Ports are forwarded so I can remotely connect to it but it can't get to anything I haven't forwarded for it.

Gemini loves suggesting loads of .unwrap() calls when coding rust, even when the existing code has none.

Upgraded server on its way to the laundry room data center.

I can still control it on my phone via forwarded ports etc., but it can't reach out to the internet on its own. When Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, AWS, or startup bankruptcy can't take your IoT down and China can't steal your data, you too can reach this level of smugness.

The feeling when you get a networked IoT device to function on an isolated vlan without ever letting it connect to the internet.

@lain you earned your energy star ⭐

@indigoparadox no absolutely not. Downing all sites is definitely worse than not mitigating a scrape or allowing other bot traffic

And the Internet was broken this time by a rust rewrite 😭

Don't call unwrap on critical paths, people!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

@tinker @dangoodin yes, lots of Xs representing Christ in early Christian symbology

Tech giant resolves to prevent future crippling outages by inventing even more complicated automated monitoring and management system with even more dependencies.

Friends don't let friends disable TLS server verification. (#curl is used, but the check is explicitly disabled by the app)

https://www.ush.it/2025/11/14/multiple-vulnerabilities-gosign-desktop-remote-code-execution/

Raise your hand if you have a raspberry pi with better uptime than every cloud giant

Cloudflare say they are seeing signs of service recovery, but the failed queues are getting worse on my Mastodon server.

What a coincidence that all the major cloud platforms are crashing right as AI coding becomes mainstream.

How on earth did I miss the Alaska Airlines pilot on shrooms who tried to cut engines midair with 80 people onboard.
https://komonews.com/news/local/former-alaska-airlines-pilot-joseph-emerson-sentencing-trying-to-cut-planes-engines-mid-flight-emergency-landing-psychedelic-mushrooms

If anyone's curious, the Tesla FSD miles counter on https://www.tesla.com/fsd/safety is not live updating from Tesla data, but calculated by a linear projection of miles driven per ms and start values for Nov 12. It updates every 42 ms, and fascinatingly, is on line 42 of the minified JS.