Notices by `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)

@dalias @dlakelan @ChrisMayLA6 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @karlauerbach @HarriettMB Um, I do not mean to be difficult ... but what you just said is not correct across platforms.

I can block hashtags (I hate NFL for example) and that blocks from all instances regardless. Crusing an abusive user or platform is way more useful. But tell me what you think on this. I do not think I'm understanding.

@maskedscheduler Get a rope.

This is from a financial institution web site:

"Avoid using a VPN connection or an incognito browser."

And I'm supposed to trust you with money?

Logging into Google (liability) assets to get an API key:

"This browser may be insecure ..."

1. It's the same one I logged into YouTube an hour ago. Same IP even.

2. Are we going to have the "It's not an Alphabet Product so were going to bitch at you because WE can't see EVERYTHING" argument again? Reminder, I'm an hour from Mountain View and have a "less than stellar attitude".

These two are fuckin stupid ...

Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/twin_brothers_charged_with_deleting_databases/

@dalias @computer And Remember: You're not just fucking the AI, you're fucking everyone else the AI has fucked.

@maskedscheduler Of COURSE there it is.

I've said this before, and I will say it again: Massive single serveruptime is not your friend.

Repeat after me: Kernel updates are there for a reason (I get at least one per month).

That being said ... this is a unique way of going about it.

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/on_call/?td=rt-3a

@kajer I ... I am not even surprised.

I assume they're looking for private keys and the like in memory.

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @karlauerbach That tracks. I've seen him at Oracle World (Moscone, S.F.) but fortunately have never met him.

I HAVE, however, deployed a Shitload of Oracle (SUN E-Series, Oracle Cluster ... I was very good at Solaris/Oracle back in the day) during the .Com, including a company I founded to do Web-Based File Storage (cloud storage now) in 2k1 and my eyes water and my wallet pocket burns from Oravcle licensing (it's worse than you think).

He seems like a horrible ass.

Wordpress Plugin: You site has a critical Error!

Me: What.

WP: I don't have ImageMagic

Me: You have GD and that's all you need.

WP: Want ImageMagic

Me: For What?

WP: Things.

Me: First, no. Second, I hate you.

HA!

"You're so poor, when AWS goes down you can still get into your house."

Seriously?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/

Something isn't right, can't put my finger on it.

@cpm Pifft, < I > can't do IPv6 math in my head.

We don't need to know Everything, just need to know where to look it up. And I have some of the important things bound in (*gasp*) Dead Tree if I really need it.

"I have been around long enough that I've memorized The Common FuckUps and Catastrophies and many of the more obscure." ... everything else is in the docs, StackExchange, or I actually have to work for a living amd figure it out myself.

People ...

1. Do not use one of those Site Builders to build your site. They are Ala Carte and by the time you're done you're paying more than you would for my services (and I'm bloody expensive). Get a real web person (not me) to do your site, and an actual Internet Engineer to do your business infrastructure like DNS and EMail (that's me).

2. I'm specifically looking at Wix, I've been doing BIND for some 30+ years, this "DNS" is a pile of flaming dog shit.

3, Don't listen to "your friend".

@leerayl No. I'm InfoSec (and I have an account at .exchange that I never use).

2FA is bullshit. I know this is spitting in the face of "Modern Security Strategies" but 2FA is a RISK, not a SOLUTION and I wish to Fuck people would wrap their heads around this.

I have to go to a third party that I probably don't trust (Meta, Google, my HOA, etc) to get a second set of keys so I can get into my own home WHILE my HOA is selling data of my coming and goings? That's fucking asinine.

1/2

Well that was fun.

Cop pulls over a dumbass that's TOTALLY out of control in #SantaCruz
I started recording For The Cop.

Anyway, 1.6GB of data I gotta cut down.

Cop was over the top righteous.

I said: I would have jailed him at a minimum, probably high velocity lead poisioning.

Oh great. She's driving again.
Shotgun.

@feld She's a damn good looking dog. 14 months.

And I'm beside myself stunned that she's So Easy to train.

Ok, I'm used to male Labradors ... they aren't smart. It's not their job, thinking. They're packaged Love, is what they do.

This one is scary smart.

Last night I taught her to jump over benches and picnic tables. She's all, "yeah yeah, got this... we got burrito left, in your pocket right there?".