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unix / internet / open source software bodger
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2022 retro-link! https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/02/25/Curious-lack-of-sprintf-scaling/ - Curious lack of sprintf scaling.

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on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-11-dnssec-policy.html

migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy

after a good amount of experimenting i think i have a reliable recipe

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@jpmens @paul_ipv6 @cynicalsecurity this is the blog article i promised, i hope you find it helpful!

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https://flatt.tech/research/posts/batbadbut-you-cant-securely-execute-commands-on-windows/ - BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows.

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well, i popped out to somewhere i hoped would be dark enough, the fields by the path from storey's way to eddington, between the astronomical observatory and huntingdon road

scores of people had the same idea, heh

the aurora was too faint to really see, i couldn't tell if it was actually aurora or just light pollution reflecting off hazy clouds

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but!

when i got back home, between putting the bike away and going inside i had another stare at the sky

and i saw a brief yellow sparkle shooting down to the east

must have been a meteor?

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@womump yep, sounds like it!

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@bsdphk 😆😭

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2022 retro-link! https://theoryof.predictable.software/articles/a-closer-look-at-cvss-scores/ - A closer look at CVSS scores.

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2021 retro-link! https://matduggan.com/why-we-need-better/ - Coding for non-programmers: we need better web GUI automation tools.

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https://www.oranlooney.com/post/angle-addition/ - A simple derivation of sin and cos by stacking triangles.

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2021 retro-link! https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pdf - How BCPL evolved from CPL.

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We used to operate one of the university's authoritative secondary DNS servers for all of the university's domains. Many years ago, we ceased doing this, reducing the server to just being authoritative for our own domains. Today I learned that there are a lot of people on the Internet still querying us for other people's domains that we haven't been NS records for for years. Where are they picking this up from? It is a mystery.

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@cks i guess some of the traffic will be necro-queries repeating ancient traffic captures

i’ve had bad ideas in the past that i realised (before perpetrating code) would make spam queries effectively immortal

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2021 retro-link! https://thume.ca/2021/03/14/iforests/ - Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps.

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https://blog.danhhz.com/compile-times-and-code-graphs - Faster compile times from simpler dependency graphs in Rust.

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2021 retro-link! https://sporks.space/2021/04/05/ghosts-of-osi-the-spectre-haunting-ip/ - Ghosts of OSI: the spectre haunting the Internet.

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2021 retro-link! https://isotopp.github.io/2021/02/28/memory-saturated-mysql.html - Memory saturated MySQL.

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old people are a lot younger than they used to be https://grumpyolddev.com/post/the-one-where-i-lie-to-the-cto/

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refilling my glass of water after an evening at the pub like that old R Whites Lemonade ad https://youtu.be/z0d68eMk4NM

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oh wow the secret lemonade drinker ads started in 1973 so they are even older than me

the 1993 remake is better, but tbh i’d prefer to be caught out on my night time excursions by harriet philpin than by ronnie corbett

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2021 retro-link! https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/ - How to handle secrets on the command line.

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2021 retro-link! https://rust-analyzer.github.io//blog/2021/11/21/ides-and-macros.html - IDEs and macros and Rust.

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on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-08-dnssec-policy.html

i'm learning dnssec-policy, so here are some notes about using it to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned

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oh dear ansible your cryptography never fails to disappoint

def secure_hash_s(data, hash_func=sha1):

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@enoclue that was exactly the punchline to one of our conversations in the pub this evening🧑‍🍳🧂

and yet i still count introducing ansible as one of my great successes in my previous job 🙃

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