Elvith Ma'for

But can it run Doom?

Rules for thee,
not for me

And don’t listen to the promises of big companies with billion-funds, they cook with water like the rest of us.

Oh, yeah, I remember when one of our super important core systems was migrated to SaaS. My system was interfacing with it, so I got notified about the migration to make a plan. I basically told them: “We’re using $API to connect to your system. Tell me the new hostnames and IP ranges and ports and I will configure the firewall on our end. Also, our connector for your migrated system will be deployed in $IP-range so please allow these inbound connections in your firewall.”

Half a year later I got a message: “Yeah, we just found out, that $SaaS-provider never configured the firewall after our tickets and everything is reachable from the public internet. We’re forcing them to lock down the system now. Can you please tell us again from where you connect to us?”

If you put any data anywhere, assume it will be contained in a breach in the future. Blue teaming is hard. You have to be perfect every time. Red teaming is easy. You just have to wait till the blue team makes a simple mistake…

Mails sent to a company? Their or your mail account will be breached one day.

Account details on a webpage? Their user database will be leaked.

Your cloud drive, ect.

Even your data on your NAS at home or on your PC could get accessed in one way or another, you’re just a zero day and an unfortunate click away from disaster.

On the upside, as long as you do not have a target on your back, patch your stuff in a timely manner and keep some hygiene in configs, secops … You should be fine, as most automated attacks aren’t that high level and target the low hanging fruits. But that doesn’t make you completely safe.

To be fair, if you would use your PC as rarely as you seem to use your gaming console, it’s probably also want to take an hour to update…

Instructions unclear, drinking straw stuck in telescope.

IIRC release is in two days, but definitely this week.

Reminder that today is the anual change your nuclear launch codes day. I heard that they’re using 00000025 now.

In the German Ubuntu Wiki there’s a list of many streaming URLs of (local) radio stations ordered by country: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Internetradio/Stationen/

Then they also have this list of online only radio stations, but those are heavily skewed towards German stations: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Internetradio/Internetradio-Stationen/

Just plug those URLs into VLC or any other app of your choice (heck, even the browser should work) and you’re good to go.

Yeah, but HTML5 needs a webbrowser that may have an Adblocker and then you cannot do tracking and you „cannot“ earn money. Also all (client side) features are potentially available for anyone and anyone can provide userscripts to improve your webpage for free.

If you wrap it in an App, it’s against the DMCA (or your local equivalent) to reverse the App and disable the tracking. Or make a better version, or enable some features that are purely client side and you just decided to paywall into a subscription to earn more money. Or generally do anything that might hurt your current or future profits.

That’s Black Mirror S01E02 - Fifteen Million Merits. It’s on Netflix.

If you haven’t seen that Series, give it a try. Also it’s an anthology, so you can usually watch any episode in any order without needing the other episodes (at least as far as I have watched it).

Every episode is usually its own story in its own universe and depicts a not-very-far-in-the-future dystopia that (ab)uses media and technology and extrapolates from our current social issues.

John Wick: I’m coming for you!

…wait…

It looks like your website is unavailable. Looks like you’ve been cloudflared!

Having not read the article: “Let’s apply Hanlon’s Razor: Oh, probably it just collects the data locally and caches it until the vendor’s servers are reachable. After a while the data partition was full and it stopped working as this case was never deemed possible when this was developed.”

Having read that the kill command was logged and he found it in the logs: “ok, there are no technical details, so there might still be a misunderstanding, but that’s not what I expected!”

✅ hot ✅
✅ prepares food ✅
✅ costly ✅
✅ you can turn it on (or off) ✅
✅ drains “the grease” ✅
❌ comes with a manual ✅

I was so pumped back then, when I learned where the book scanner in my university’s library was located. Although I never needed it for class itself, when you need to write some papers and needed some literature - just go to the library, get the book, put it on the scanner, copy all chapters you need and then rinse and repeat with the next book. No need to carry a fuckton of paper home to cite from or work for hours in the library. A single pen drive is enough for that.

German has both genders for dogs, but since the variants look (and sound) slightly different, it’s not instantly obvious:

Der Hund - a male dog
Die Hündin - a female dog

I know, but still it’s clearly a “you had one job to do, taskmanager”.

Also the task manager currently has a bug where it’s process keeps running when you close the window. So, to get rid of it, you now either need to open another task manager and kill that process (and the one you have currently open) or do a reboot…

It’s not that I’ve been healing 27 times throughout the fight and he only once. It’s that I just realized, that I probably need to heal 54 times or more in this fight, but I only brought about 30 potions…