WTF are the metal looking pipes sticking out of the lawn?

I’m pretty sure those are natural gas meters. Around here they’re usually tucked out of the way, against the house, often with a protective pole to prevent a car from crashing into it and causing an explosion.

Why?

That used to be what Microsoft (Internet Explorer) was famous for. I guess Chrome has lived long enough to be the villain, but Firefox is still the hero to me.

I mean… the official Reddit app was so bad that they had to charge for API access in order to get real market share.

M CPUs make me a believer in ARM and other non-x86 chips, but preferably RISC-V in the long term.

Keyboard is critical to me. I can work on a MacBook keyboard short term but something like a Glove80 or at least an Ergodox is critical for me in the long term.

Also OS X Unix is nix enough for me.

• Use it without OneDrive being bundled
• Use it without a Microsoft account
• Use it without ads
• Use it without Copilot

Yes, I know there are ways around each of these but the settings are all in different places, Microsoft keeps changing where the settings are, resetting to defaults on OS updates, and at least for trying to use it without a Microsoft account, actively closing loopholes for doing so.

Kitboga has some videos where he integrates Neal’s password game into a fake bank password reset UI, and gets the scammers to play the game. It’s one of the GOAT scambait videos.

I loved BB10. It had gesture-based navigation years ahead of its time, the Hub was the best notification system I’ve ever used, and it could run Android apps alongside BB10-native apps. It helped that I liked the form factor of the devices with physical keyboards, too.

Nowadays can choose between a large, glass rectangle, and an extra-large, glass rectangle in one of two flavours: Apple and Android. It’s no coincidence that Android has become more restrictive in terms of control over your own device, as the competition has dwindled and thinned.

Get a load of Ross Ulbricht ovah here!

I’d love to see the state of online banking if everyone were to manage their own ssh keys

Most people couldn’t figure out how to download a binary release from a GitHub repo, much less clone it, regardless of HTTP or SSH.

SSH keys are more like passkeys than passwords.

I think this post is about git CLI, not www.github.com.

SSH keys are very secure and you can still encrypt them with a password if you wish.

Atomicity: either all parts of the transaction complete, or all parts of the transaction don’t complete; there’s no “partly complete” state

Consistency: the state of the database after a transaction is stable; all “downstream” effects (e.g. triggers) of the query are complete before the transaction is confirmed.

Isolation: concurrent transactions behave the same as sequential transactions

Durability: a power failure or crash won’t lose any transactions

Traditionally, ACID is where relational databases shine.

Wow, I’d love to Kyll myself on a hot, summer’s day!

I guess not too different from pr0n, h4x, etc. Maybe a tale as old as time?

See also: s*x, k*ll, r*pe, etc.

A /8 subnet is basically everything after the first of the four segments, e.g. 127.*.*.*. marine_mustang was saying that loopback (what you think of as only 127.0.0.1) is actually an entire subnet, so any address that starts with 127 will hit the loopback interface. TIL, never thought about it much before.

A highly respected school teacher of mine was known to say, “Say what you mean; mean what you say.”

I can think of easier ways of compromising the data besides brute forcing the keys, off the top of my head, and I’m just some schmuck. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

1. Compromise their endpoint with a malicious app on the app store.

2. Gain physical access to the device and compromise it. Use your imagination – pickpocket, traffic stop or customs inspection by a compromised agent, seduce them with a honeypot, etc.

3. Socially engineer them to mistakingly add you to their group chats.

4. SIM swap

Signal might be fine for journalists, criminals, cheating spouses, and general privacy when used properly with good OpSec but nation state adversaries have significantly greater resources than your average attacker, and thus require more significant security.