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cendyne

@cendyne@furry.engineer

#cryptography and cloud infrastructure naga #infosec #appsec
Not into internet fun money

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foone, to random
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look I'm not an expert at this computers thing, but I'm pretty sure a pointer shouldn't be set to 14

cendyne,
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@foone or a boolean to 234.

cendyne, to random
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Why are bots posting my blog with... ChatGPT generated (and factually incorrect) summaries?? For no one to see too (4 views)

@soatok has some of this as well.

cendyne, to random
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A few hours went into figuring out how to make my site IE6 friendly.

Just holiday 2 AM kind of coding.

cendyne, to random
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Why the heck is Flipper (Yes, that flipper) sponsoring NFTs accessories?

Such an incredible waste of resources to appease a few financially unsavvy whales.

cendyne, to random
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Tried ts-node and oh my g*d, really? What incantations do I need to have it know node has fetch now? Blah blah work around that and... are you kidding me? Unknown extension '.ts'??? This is typescript! Something about modules.. try this and that and...

Fine.. deno. See if deno will.. work..

Okay.. I have to use this rando CDN that reads my github repo and.. I have to make all imports use explicit extensions. And.. its cached. Okay Release and tag!

Well, that's working.

Deno is okay.

m2m, to random

Just wiped out WebP images from my website.

Why?

It's not that I don't really feel the need anymore because I already have stellar performance benchmarks.

It's not that with WebP I felt compelled to provide a fallback to support 4-year old browsers.

It's because of the workflow. To gain an irrelevant 0.something in performance I was wasting my time exporting a Google-made image format that clogged my markup with convoluted <figure> and <picture> tags.

Now it's just Markdown.

cendyne,
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@m2m @alcinnz I used to have picture tags too. Now, I just have an immutable handle that derives a compatible format on the fly with content negotiation.

cendyne, to random
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Someone submits a link complaining about HN selectively adding noreferer to a link, the author does not want attention from HN and makes it very clear. The referer was used to redirect attention away from them.

HN has a history of misogyny, racism, discriminating against trans people, queer people, and apparently autistic people too.

dang, the big mod-admin of HN: I just don't understand what's wrong, I guess I'll just add noreferer to every link then.

Wow. Way to not do any reflection.

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Safari 17 is coming with support for Ed25519!

cendyne, to random
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Apparently there's an RFC now that includes image support in x509 certificates. The justifications feel kind of weak to me.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9399.html

cendyne, to random
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In typical Hacker News style, the moment diversity and inclusion of people of color is mentioned, everyone focuses on that in the comments. They show how blatantly racist they are while emphasizing merit and so on without even considering the merit of the person affected is far more significant than anything they have personally offered or produced.

We need more representation and inclusion of people of color, queer, and those that live differently in tech. Not this racist bullying.

cendyne,
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@lupinia An entire day is a long time. What did you write about to keep it so sticky?

cendyne,
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@lupinia Ooooofff... visceral pain

That really meets expectations.. of HN.

cendyne,
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@philpem @lupinia oops, I can't see all replies. Oh well.

I've been tempted to throw in a banner that says something like trans rights matter or something at the top if the http referer is HN.

cendyne, to random
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Cursed idea: the light below the microwave goes out. You find it's part and get an aftermarket compatible replacement. The microwave recognizes it isn't official and won't use it (it's just a light!). Fed up after no firmware downgrade guides work, you look for the official part. The original bulb lasted so long they don't sell the part anymore.

cendyne,
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Okay, so you find out some furry queer hacker wrote a blog post where they disassembled the original bulb expertly and found out that the inside chips can be used to identity a new bulb. The blog post is distracting with custom emoji reactions throughout the text but it makes sense. They even refer to Nintendo CIC chips having similar handshake ceremonies with the host system for authenticity, and this is how custom game carts could work: a donor CIC chip.

cendyne,
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The theory seems fine, and when you try to take apart the bulb, you get a lot of cuts and the shell of the bulb looks like it won't make it.

Frustrated, you find out that you can 3d print a new bulb chip base and with silicone and then a blend of epoxy resin, you can make a heat safe bulb base. Who has it? Someone that posts with anime girl characters everywhere with occasional words consistently misspelled.

cendyne,
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After getting a 3d printer, a starter kit of silicone, and the time and patience to follow the anime girl's website, you have a new base. The chip seats in and you put in a common socket part from a hardware store inside. Finally you plug in your generic bulb that looks the same on the outside as the old one and it fits.

cendyne,
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You've spent more than it would take to replace the microwave and followed esoteric documentation made by queer people, but at least you stuck up to capitalism or something, right?

Those people are kind of... highly engaged in something, and it kind of inspires you to create with your own tools that you now have.

cendyne,
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Two years later, you end up on Hacker news with a my little pony original character as your identity.

All the comments say "I can't read this! There's too many colorful images! It's a waste of bandwidth"

And your article describes how you eventually reverse engineered the firmware of this microwave of all things and removed the light bulb DRM. Honestly a subject that would perfectly match the content of DEF CON. As long as you didn't show any ponies.

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It's finally a Friday

jerry, to random

Starting a fundraiser to start up the .js and .php TLDs. I think it’s around $300k. We can DO this

cendyne,
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@jerry who will register index.php first?

cendyne, to random
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Me, idly curious while researching an obscure thing I found on a tangential topic of a tangential topic. "Hi, I found this paper from before I was born, can I read it?"

Academic publisher: "would you like to pay $120?"

Me: "no"

cendyne, to random
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Even on my day off, I'm waiting on GitHub Actions. Which Furry Engineer at GitHub went to FWA early??

cendyne, to random
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Oh no, I feel like writing again.

cendyne,
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@itsOasus concerns with application of AI Technology at scale.

cendyne,
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@philpem @itsOasus
90% done now with 35 pages.

Turns out I have a lot of pent up feelings and things to say and point at on this topic.

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