Notices by Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)

......fucking love open source software. The moment you step out of the usual use cases, fucking nothing is documented and you end up ears-deep in shit that's been entirely unexamined since fucking Carter was president.

@foone does it listen on loopback because I have a funny idea

@foone

aw, hell. so no fun "figure out the resonant frequency of the keyboard" then.

Genuinely, the shit that men are taught as kids is incredibly fucking toxic and backward in many respects, and it does them all a huge disservice.

Hey, has anyone seen IP TTL used to limit the blast radius of multicast in prod before?

Hey, so, I know - viscerally - how outrageous the story about Meta allowing slurs for LGBT people is.

Can you do me a favor and -not use those quotes-?

Or if you feel you must, stick 'em behind a consent wicket?

Because I am awfully the fuck tired of seeing the T-slur used openly and I'm gonna start getting really fucking shirty about it.

@jerry

Thank you for your attention and care.

@mattblaze

I saw someone speculate that this obsession comes from not understanding the mercator projection.

I'm inclined to think there's some truth to it.

@mjg59

not Constantinople?

are you fucking shitting me?

He put fireworks and fuel canisters in an open-bed pickup to improvise a car bomb?

seriously?

what kind of incompetent dipshit does that?!?!?!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/police-identify-matthew-livelsberger-as-suspect-in-tesla-bombing/ar-AA1wRn0x

Happy Birthday to all my infosec friends who are turning 55 today!

After a certain point in wealth accumulation, there's really no way you can be harmed at all financially.

You're just Too Rich for any involuntary expenditure to matter - the amount you have to pay for lawyers and money managers and such to handle those threat surfaces is a minuscule drop in a very large bucket.

Our Boy over there in the other place is a solid example of this - no matter what happens with his businesses, no matter what happens with his personal finances, no matter what happens politically, he has more resources than an individual is capable of expending in a lifetime.

And yet those individuals have a level of fear and horror about ever expending wealth that even those of us who have lived in the hairy edge of overdrafts for years can't match.

@hacks4pancakes

the constant "you didn't fill out the paperwork exactly correctly so we won't pay" and then eventual refusal thing sucks and I'd like to see the rest of the CEOs get player-2'd.

@hacks4pancakes

I have about $5k in reimbursements they refuse to cover so far in the past six months.

Y'ever notice that FEMA says you ought to have backup medication supplies in case of a disaster,

but insurers will never pay for you to have and maintain such a supply because it's "excess",

and doctors insist that the desire to have continuity of medication is addictive, "drug-seeking behavior"?

@hacks4pancakes

It's entirely out of reach for a lot of us. I don't get to have the option.

@onepict @va2lam @hacks4pancakes @Lazarou

Kind of off topic, but I've been coming around to the notion that luck is a skill, and one you can practice -

not so much that events will necessarily happen in your favor of themselves,

but that by cultivating opportunities for wins - like how you mention, structuring your life to enable certain kinds of work - then you'll be able to take advantage of events when they do show up.

You know, thinking about it, the only reason why drug companies can charge exorbitant amounts for cheaply-produced medications is with the connivance of insurers.

If everyone had to pay the retail price, many people wouldn't be able to pay for those drugs at all - so, by the "law of supply and demand" that people keep going on about, the pharmaceutical producer would have to lower those prices to be able to sell the drug.

But insurance companies negotiate "discounts" for their members, so the actual sales remain high - and almost nobody is paying the retail price.

This is pretty clear collusion to defraud the consumer, on the one hand, and also to create incentives for people to buy insurance - which is pretty coercive.

It also vastly distorts the profitability of the companies in question, which misleads investors - so kind of securities fraud, if you look at it in the right light.

"fi, why are you so immediately hostile to ai?"

This shit. I, and many other people, saw this shit coming, and I hate it because I am much more likely to be on the receiving end of some bullshit like this than ever see any benefits come my way from it.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-judge-runs-mini-experiment-with-ai-help-decide-case-2024-09-06/

As someone who has a very real threat hanging over her head on a daily basis,

Zero sympathy.

Suck it up, assholes, you're -still- better off than I am.