In many ways a vending machine is precisely that.

AI generated SPAM is beginning to leak through. It’s getting pretty personalised and harder to distinguish from real email.

What does the future of this look like?

It always was.

I moved from VMware Fusion after a hardware failure and migrated to Proxmox. I use VMs to isolate client information and to test and use different OS versions and distros.

I have a VM that runs Docker and connect to it via SSH for running applications I don’t want to install on my main workstation.

My main workstation is also a VM.

I came from bare metal Linux for years and found that I spent too much time recompiling kernels to make it work with my hardware.

Now that everything is a VM, changing underlying hardware, and even hypervisor is trivial.

If VMware hadn’t been bought by Broadcom and allowed me to virtualise x86 on Apple Silicon, I’d still be running VMware Fusion. UTM by the way is completely unreliable … I really tried.

As it is, I’m running Proxmox on AMD.

in summary, Proxmox allows me to build what I need when I need it virtually and it’s running on a standard Debian host.

Edit: #$#__# autocorrect (unreadable -> unreliable)

It’s a collection of repos for different aspects of using SDR to decode, collate and distribute to all manner of different projects.

There’s plenty of documentation and a set of wikis.

Essentially it’s like walking into your nearest hardware store with the instructions to “build a house” … some assembly required.

Box Jellyfish, Taipan, Stonefish, Redback Spider, Drop Bear, Hoop Snake.

Yeah, I suppose you’re right, we do like to name things in an understated elegance.

PHP is written in text files which can be managed using any number of version control systems. Pick your poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_software

As someone else said, you can document your patches with a Docker file, but you’ll still need to track your changes.

Ultimately, what you’re essentially doing is maintaining a local fork of the code and keeping it synchronised with upstream.

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists who were members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist network, hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C. In a coordinated attack that transformed the planes into weapons, the hijackers intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and another into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Learning about the other hijackings through telephone calls, passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack. When the passengers attempted to breach the cockpit, the hijacker pilot, who had changed course toward the nation’s capital, crashed the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on that day, the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil, and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. Approximately two billion people, almost one third of the world’s population, are estimated to have witnessed these horrific events directly or via television, radio, and Internet broadcasts that day.

Yes please!

If you missed it, this is the video: https://youtu.be/CJZyh2EqvkU

We told you so …

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

Tomorrow my weekly podcast goes into how this map is created. It’s quite the journey.

May I ask what you do with the failures?

What are you trying to block?

I’m asking because based on the traffic I saw on a live retail website had malicious access attempts coming from significantly more addresses than you seem to be indicating and more often than not the address was different for each request.

That said, Meta DDoS bots were outright blocked because they hit the same URL thousands of times for no apparent reason.

Note that this was during the first half of this year, the landscape has undoubtedly worsened since then.

Welcome back!

What is your evidence of this?

Until just now I’d never heard of Leon Black, seems he’s never heard of the Streisand effect.

I wonder who else is hidden away in the Epstein files.

For how much data?

What are you using to get it there and back?

I’m asking because I had been using this for years and only after a catastrophic event, discovered that my “helpful” backup software had turned on versioning which AWS, also helpfully, doesn’t explicitly tell you when you attempt to delete old backup sets, showing no objects but charging you anyway.

I did recover all my data after a catastrophic event, but it was an expensive experience to put it mildly.

What’s with the watermark on the video?

“The Archbishop of Banterbury”