Notices by Ge0rG (ge0rg@chaos.social)

@ryanc
Did you get significantly extended range? That doesn't even sound like cheating if you had transverters...

@ryanc
Some fifteen years ago, somebody™️ switched the regulatory domain in the MadWifi Atheros driver to `debug` and suddenly had access to the channels -12...-1 (going down from 1, 0 in 5MHz steps), albeit with a very limited tx power, which was good enough for transmissions in the same room...

Es ist mal wieder jener Tag, darum kann ich euch das leider nicht ersparen.

Warum verwechseln Informatiker Halloween und Weihnachten?

31 okt = 25 dez!

#WortWitz

@whitequark
This is not a question of technical feasibility.
@vogelchr

@vogelchr
But you can't do TLS PKI over 83kbit/s CAN!!111
@whitequark

@whitequark
Designed by electrical engineers!

@whitequark
The real horror is that #EXI is used in an ISO 15118 sandwich on top of HomePlug AV (with broken encryption) and TCP (mostly with no encryption, but sometimes mixed with a wild PKI) to real-time control up to a Megawatt of electric power flowing into a car.

#PowerLine #V2G #EV

@whitequark
And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's connected to...

And once the data channel is up, you authorize the payment with the absolutely unforgeable and secret... *checks notes* serial number of your RFID card!

(*) SLAC (Signal Level Attenuation Characterization)

@atarifrosch
Das Arbeitsministerium sagt selbst, dass zum Geld einsparen eine "Reduzierung der Leistungsberechtigten" nötig ist, und ich habe da direkt Soylent Green (1973) vor dem inneren Auge!
@tagesschau

@whitequark
It's getting worse. #xmpp also powers Google Cloud Printing and a bunch of games / platforms, including the Nintendo Switch

Sources linked in https://xmpp.org/uses/internet-of-things/#realized-example-projects and https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming/

The numbers are probably a bit out of date, but it's hard to get them from projects that merely mentioned their foundation once in the beginning...

@aperezdc

@ryanc
How expensive is the billing status API per call, and will polling it qualify as background radiation?

OK, #CDU, warum legst du mir ein 💩-blaues Messer in den Briefkasten?

Ist das eine Drohung gegen mich als Migranten?

Ist es, damit ich mich besser gegen "alimentierte Messermänner" verteidigen kann?

Oder ist es, damit es mehr Messermänner gibt, gegen die man "Politik machen" kann?

Ist die Aufschrift #einfachmachen eine Aufforderung zur Straftat? Wenn ja, gegen wen?

Und warum ist das Messer blau?

Was willst du mit dem Dolche, sprich!

@ifixcoinops
Torn between the parallel universe where Jabber®️™️ isn't owned by Cisco¹ and the one where #xmpp is pronounced as "Zimpy!"²

...said the project janitor of Bruno the Jabber™️ Bear...

Context:
1. https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/jabber-trademark/approved-applications/
2. https://metajack.im/2010/01/31/bitesized-xmpp-news-3/

@cstross @leyrer Ringtones in filenames? I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn't stop to think if I should.

🔊 Sound on!

P.S: The delay added by ansi music would also allow animated gifs. With sound!

#SorryNotSorry #ANSI

@whitequark
As somebody who saw a new product release last year, based on buildroot-2016.xx, I can assure you that the rot often starts before the things hit the shelf
@notgull

@KuJoe
Thanks for the thread and the linked Mastodon hosting architecture. I'd love to see a write-up of the possible and reasonable architectural decisions that went into this, and how they can help reduce the Mastodon hosting bill.

As somebody running a 3k users #xmpp server on a ~15€/mo VM I'm also shocked by the huge numbers going around.

@apps I wanted to log into a @vernissage instance with Fedilab, but get an error when tapping "Continue"... Is this an easy fix or should I pull a number? Or is this a server side issue?

@ryanc
@f4grx

@LaF0rge
Das ist unfair! 1995 gab es nur Email, und IRC! Und NNTP, aber das verstarb am Spam. Die IM-Startups von 1996 sind inzwischen durch mehrere Besitzer in die Insolvenz gegangen. Die Startups von heute können erst recht keine 30 Jahre alt sein, und werden in 30 Jahren lang vergessen sein. #xmpp gibt's erst seit 1999, und es bleibt genau so (un)tot wie IRC. #matrix zerlegt sich grade selbst, und #activitypub könnte sich durchsetzen, wird nach der Apokalypse aber zu teuer zu betreiben
@johl

@jwildeboer
@jarjan
www.iomm.net is a CNAME redirect to domains.smugmug.com. For obscure historical reasons, you are not allowed to set a CNAME redirect on the domain itself, so this trick doesn't work for iomm.net. Instead, you need to either configure a web redirect to www.iomm.net, or copy the three IP address ("A") records from domains.smugmug.com to iomm.net (and periodically check if the provider changed the servers!)