Part 3 of "A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website)" is just out the oven!
In this blog post, I explain how to make your blog discoverable in the Fediverse as an account, and also address some of the annoying pitfalls I encountered.
So, related to my #Azure struggles yesterday with Front Door (remains unresolved btw). One of the things I ran into was somewhere in the portal it telling me a health probe was failing. It couldn't be bothered to tell me what probe was failing or in what way, just offered a button that goes to basically nothing useful.
So I decided to simply disable all health probes but I couldn't because while the interface SAID it had disabled the probe, it was very much still active.
Real question, any of my followers actually knowledgable about #Azure Front Door and can tell me why a high number of requests results in 400 response codes periodically.
🛡️ Researchers uncover details of 3 vulnerabilities in #Azure HDInsight's Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark services that could have allowed attackers root access and system disruption.
Jeezus, I'm completely lost w.r.t. the features of the #Azure portal now. I know I can add authentication for a Web App which yields a secret that my Web App can check for, but this still leaves said app reachable directly through the internets.
There's also the Application Gateway which provides a frontend that can reach into a virtual network, and I can simply restrict the Web App to only be available from said subnet.
Unfortunately, I cannot find any means to have the listener on this Application Gateway authenticate any requests. Also, unlike the Web App it doesn't just create an SSL certificate for me :/
I've made #MSRC’s 2023 Q4 Top #Security Researchers Leaderboard!
It was a pleasure working with @microsoft to improve the security posture of their #Azure ecosystem. Some coordinated disclosure advisories and writeups are coming, so stay tuned on the @hnsec blog.
The first two steps where very simple, adding the well-known and actor json, these are static and I can set the content-type in #azure#storage very easily.
Now, I need to choose something that can answer the POST requests for the inbox. After a brief check on the pricing, I will use #Azure#Functions, which has enough free requests for now.
Purchased the MeasureUp practice exams today for the SC-300. After finishing the Exam Cram video last Friday, I have a decent understanding on what's on the exam. Now I'm going to focus on a few things I don't typically work with at my job and see if I can get a date set for the test.
Started John Savill's SC-300 Exam Cram video today, looking for areas I'm weak in. I've also cleared it with the boss to get reimbursed for exam purchases! Finally, I got a free Azure trial tenant setup for all the fun things. Once I get a good handle on what I do and don't need to study, I'll pick a date for the exam!
Back to the grind today. Besides normal work crap, I’m studying for the #azure SC-300. Also, I’m testing to see why #jellyfin is having a hard time transcoding files lately all of a sudden.
Die #Hochschulen begeben sich in eine selbstverschuldete Unmündigkeit, wenn ihre Öffentlichkeitsarbeiter:innen die Plattformen antidemokratischer Milliardäre bespielen, statt sich am Aufbau des Fediversums zu beteiligen – des selbstverwalteten, wirklich sozialen Netzwerks der Zukunft.
Accounts auf Mastodon-Instanzen wären ein guter 1. Schritt.
Im 2. Schritt sollten Hochschulen Fediverse-Instanzen selbst betreiben.
Ich arbeite an der #UniBielefeld in einem Team, das eine der größten wissenschaftlichen Suchmaschinen (@base) betreibt. Für einen Verein betreibe ich nebenher Fediverse-Instanzen (Mastodon und PeerTube). Gern würde ich das auch für meine Uni tun.
Auch das Rechenzentrum der Uni Bielefeld betreibt kaum Anwendungen selbst, sondern am liebsten nur leere virtuelle Maschinen. Unsere Matrix-Instanz wird von einer Fakultät für die ganze Uni betrieben. Unsere GitLab-Instanz von der Bibliothek (mir). Warum das so ist, weiß ich nicht. Aber mit etwas gutem Willen finden sich Lösungen.
Es gibt aber auch eine gegenläufige Tendenz an Hochschulen, und zwar alles Mögliche in die Cloud auszulagern, z.B. in die von Microsoft. Ich kann gar nicht sagen, wie schade ich das finde. So verlieren wir den letzten Rest digitaler Souveränität.
I must admit, this news about #Uranus and #Neptune has me shook:
"A fresh analysis of Voyager 2's images show both ice giants are in fact a similar shade of greenish blue, which is the 'most accurate representation yet' of the planets' colors, the new study finds."