Notices by 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)

@whitequark That or a simple Markov chain.

I've seen bots use composed URLs that have plausible components (e.g. date fields) that do not actually exist but are close enough to correct that it takes multiple seconds to figure out otherwise.

@0xabad1dea I read it as saying that it runs open source models, not that it is itself open source, but in any case, there's nothing that prevents developers of open source software from charging for it, particularly when the platform allows only limited user control of software installation (e.g. iOS)

There it is...

Religion kills.

If your "faith" leads you to harm non-believers, it is a terrible shitty faith and you are both wrong and bad for believing it.

That includes ANY belief in "The Anti-Christ" as anything more than an allegorical depiction of Titus Flavius Domitianus, who was quite unpleasant towards Christians. He's been dead for a long time and cannot hurt you. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r6zto73jxkwebmqg663azr4f/post/3lzyk7amuvs2a

@dalias @musl Similar pattern for the ASF #SpamAssassin infra. Once we got a lot of the source networks blocked, the overload got much more bursty. I suspect that some are blindly cycling the query load around their various network providers without bothering to see when/where they are being blocked.
This is a pattern very similar to some historical spambots. They operate on a scale where the blockages are not worth tracking.

I don 't have an opinion on Tahoe yet because it will not be relevant to me until I am no longer getting Sonoma updates AND Tahoe has had at least a half-dozen updates.

#IWeep6Colors #macOS
https://toot.cat/@ceejbot/115226185803261266

@dalias I believe the point of my response slithered out from under your feet.

@dalias

I don't know anyone who would try to defend Clinton against any sort of accusation that was minimally credible and related to his uncontrolled appetites.
We all know he's a cad. We all know that he's a cheater. He has made his own reputation unstainable. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjvc76fsrmfqqtx5vuia7lrf/post/3lyeju2vvdc2o

@tab2space @dalias @eniko it would be shocking for a pharmacy to not have metformin in stock, as it is quite inexpensive and used by the majority of type 2 diabetics.

@ATLeagle @katrinakatrinka @leahmcelrath.bsky.social precisely what Trump did with Intel but with stronger justification.

@dalias It's a widespread problem. Consider the visibility of the Unix problem of a program holding open and writing to files that have been deleted from the (visible) filesystem.

BRILLIANT! https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-PP_M7-DcRX-sXsfa3HL-JA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

@dalias FWIW, I see many QRTs where the link *is* to the post in the bridged account rather than out to bsky. I think that when it isn’t, that’s because the original poster has not enabled bridging.

Glad I’m likely to never need to job hunt again…
My experience with ‘cold’ applications is not much better than it is now apparently for everyone. I have not gotten a job from the effort of looking for one in my entire IT career. Every tech job I’ve ever had, I got because someone needing me ‘knew’ me from my online activity. Or–in the most recent case–someone running the plan of “let’s fire Bill and hire some eager kids” to its natural conclusion: begging me back. https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114793140487136432

Well then, I guess I’ll have to replace that disk…

Except it’s a virtual disk, and should NOT be doing that. None of the other umpty-zillion VMs in that zone are showing trouble. Only this one. And the 3 other instances I launched before based on the the same original image, provided as a pre-built one for #OpenNebula from the #Alma site. On different physical hosts.

I am pondering how the content+config of system image could lead to this. sysctls?

#Sysadminnery #OpenNebula #AlmaLinux

@JulianOliver @clacke I am fortunate enough to have a limited number of very paranoid colleagues who could theoretically have such issues and we work to reduce the attack surface, e.g. no root login, no passwordless escalation (doas/sudo) by users who can log in, idle logouts, and we avoid issues with X and lockscreens by not having X (or any other GUI) installed.

@clacke Yes and no…
Instead of the overhead of containers, my 'jump' machines bind specific keys to the ssh commands that do the specifically authorized next hops and (where possible) restrict to specific client IPs. The OS of those machines are only accessible over a VPN or (for some VMs) a tightly secured web interface that has VNC over WebSockets inside a private network to their virtual consoles.

#infosec #bastion #jumphost
#ssh #sshd #OpenSSH

writing json by hand in a janky Java console to get a network working is what I live for.

#Sysadminnery

Not a word about WHY he’s paving it over. He just is. https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/114729442831614255

This is at the core of my depression.
For nearly all of human history, the majority of humans lived in what we today would call subsistence poverty. It was mostly unavoidable.
Sometime in the '60s we crossed over into being unequivocally able to feed everyone every year. People in the modern world only struggle to eat because of economic & political barriers designed to starve them. The world has worse famine problems right now than at any point in my lifetime.
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