Notices by Erik Ableson (erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social)

@patrickcmiller there are some use cases that make sense. The one that drives me nuts these days are the blog posts with a headline AI image for no good reason. Most articles don’t need anything, but a norm has developed where people expect to see an image at the top of the page.

@patrickcmiller The opening line: “Need a good AI image generator?“

Answer: probably not

Granted they can be fun to play with - I wasted a ton of time with Kai’s Power Tools and Bryce back in the day

@fribbledom @lisamelton Heh - talking to someone spending too much time editing that automation to handle all of the edge cases that I didn’t run into on the first round…

@GossiTheDog Out of the gate qualifying question for these vendors: is your software written in a memory-safe language?

@thegrugq I believe that's the result of a limitation in the CVE categories. For some reason, nobody thought to include any of the following categories:
- 🤦 boneheaded default creds
- 🤞insufficiently obfuscated debug tool
- ☹️<insert state name> made us do this
- 🤨forgot to hook up auth mechanism

Who do we petition to get more granular CVE classification (with Emoji shortcuts)?

😁

@elizabeth @lanodan BBEdit? Or maybe just vi? On a file named index.html in the default place for nginx to server it up? Or just create a Github project and populate the readme file?

Sigh. When people aren’t taught the basics first they think everything requires a big complicated tech stack.

Odds on whether this page will end up hosted on K8S?

a new level of self-service: concrete on demand.

@agturcz @lanodan OK - Wankpanzer wins the word of the day contest

@inthehands @lanodan "the UI is obvious" Now the ultimate question here is whether the teapot is being used as designed or not...

@patrickcmiller Can you say “projection“?

@cosullivan @lanodan Oh wow. Just checked out sdf.org and had massive nostalgia hit back to my first dial-up terminal account.

And amazingly all of this tech still works and is useful.

@GossiTheDog OK - we have officially passed the line where at first and second glance I have no idea if this is:
- True
- The Onion that somehow got relinked on the BBC
- Some AI generated nonsense that got past human review
- A doctored screen shot

just lived the dream of the 3D printing future. Trigger on my Dyson was broken, but I found a replacement model on https://www.printables.com and instructions on https://www.ifixit.com

After some searching for a long shank Torx screwdriver for one hard to get at screw, all works again!

#3dprinting

@GossiTheDog @briankrebs Assuming you get hit by a competent ransolware operator. I had a client that had their ESXi servers encrypted with a Linux toolkit which rendered them unbootable so everything had to be reinstalled anyway...

@GossiTheDog OK, so what you’re trying to say is that they got pwned via their Cisco VPN (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-20269) and the attackers stole the source code so they could develop 0days to pwn all of the Ivanti boxes?

@lanodan trying to learn this was what took me to the dark side: Perl. It was another decade+ before I would consider using anything based on inspired by C

@patrickcmiller 🤦♂️

Convienence: having all your data exfiltrated is like having an extra backup…

@patrickcmiller Well then, why aren’t you deploying modern MFA? The incremental cost is negligible vs the risk…

@lanodan “puts on grumpy old man hat”: HTML in email was a bad idea. HTML *forms* in email is an atrocity.

For those of you who thought that coax was dead. The internals of your Superspeed USB cable is a collection of teeny-tiny coax cables!

Having a lot of fun reading Open Circuits: the inner beauty of electronic components

🙏 @stiefkind