llorenzin

@llorenzin@infosec.exchange

And the good girls go to heaven, but the bad girls go everywhere...

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llorenzin, to photography


llorenzin, to crochet

Today's crafting technical-debt-retirement: finishing off a WIP that has been languishing at 99% done because I wasn't sure how to block it...

This summer I made a lovely wrap for my bestie using this gorgeous moogly pattern: https://www.mooglyblog.com/alpaca-your-wrap/
and the length specified was just over four skeins of the yarn she chose, so I got five and ended up with almost a full skein left over.

Fortunately, moogly also has a lovely one-skein slouch hat in the same pattern! https://www.mooglyblog.com/fallen-leaves-slouch-hat/
So I whipped that up while the pattern was fresh in my mind. It's really cute, but I definitely want to block it, since the blocking opened up the wrap so beautifully...

And I've never blocked a hat before! So it has been stalled at this stage for, um, months. 😬
@crochet

The wrap post-blocking, with a gorgeous leafy lace pattern very clearly visible
Long rectangular crochet-lace wrap in Cian Malabrigo Dos Tierras yarn, unblocked, laid out on a blocking board

llorenzin,

Serendipitously, my bestie took me to her local yarn shop while I was visiting her this fall, and I got a chance to talk with the proprietor about it - she suggested I block it with a balloon, so the body will expand but the brim will stay snug. What a great idea! Now I just need to get a balloon...

(More months pass. I don't know why this is so hard.)

This week I had went over to a neighbor's house for a craft night, and we were talking about our WIPs... And she had a balloon! So now I'm out of excuses, and today's the day. 😁 Wish me luck!

@crochet

llorenzin,

Well, that went way better than I expected! Blowing up the balloon inside the hat was a little tricky - I didn't get it centered correctly, but fortunately I could gently adjust it once I tied off the balloon.

Also, I realized after I had it blown up that I wanted a bit of string around the opening to keep it snug - threading that while it was on the balloon was a bit nerve-wracking, but fortunately I managed not to pop the balloon with the needle. Whew!

Now I just have to let it dry overnight and see how it turns out tomorrow...

@crochet

llorenzin,

Blocking this hat opened up the pattern beautifully! And I'm really pleased with how slouchy it is - I added extra rows to the pattern because I was hoping it'd end up somewhat like a snood, and that worked out perfectly.

My one disappointment is that the edging stretched a bit more than I would have liked, despite the string hack - but that'll be easily fixed with a quick loop of stretch cord. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - and very happy to have it done!

@crochet

llorenzin,

Blocking this hat opened up the pattern beautifully! And I'm really pleased with how slouchy it is - I added extra rows to the pattern because I was hoping it'd end up similar to a snood, and that worked out perfectly.

My one disappointment is that the edging stretched a bit more than I would have liked, despite the string hack - but that'll be easily fixed with a quick loop of stretch cord. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - and very happy to have it done!

@crochet

Side view of me wearing the hat - it covers my ears and hangs down to the back of my neck

jerry, (edited ) to random

People can be so kind to moderators when they dislike a moderation decision.

Also, other may want to be wary of this person.

llorenzin,

@jerry I'm sorry you have to deal with this bullshit. Thank you for running an asshole-free space!

llorenzin, to android

Mastodon brain trust: does anyone have good that do not require installing an app?
Seeking: reliable pairing with , decent sound, sweat proof, reasonable battery life
Nice to have: noise cancelation
Don't care about: mic, audio customization

I accidentally killed my ancient JLab Epic Sport BT earbuds with a connecting wire - and of course nobody makes that anymore. (If I'm wrong about that, please let me know!!) So I've resigned myself to independent earbuds at this point and am looking for a replacement that Just Works - pairs reliably, doesn't drop out, doesn't get out of sync... Any recommendations greatly appreciated!

llorenzin,

@Rajiv Oh NICE!! And wired together! (I love BT for the flexibility but love connected earbuds because they're easier to keep track of...) Thank you!

chort, (edited ) to random

A website is trying to prevent me from printing. This is enraging, I want to defeat it just on general principle.

I’ve deleted all the event listeners that seemed plausibly related. I’ve deleted a bunch of “display: none” and “display: block” style elements. Yet when I attempt to prevent, the preview says “please use the website’s print button.”

Google is proving useless (no surprise). Is there a straight-forward way to override this BS? Can’t I just document.print() from the console or something?

llorenzin,

@chort Not a solution, but possibly an explanation - maybe they did something like this? https://www.thoughtco.com/block-web-page-printing-3466227
I ran into this before and couldn't find a way around it. Ended up resorting to select-all-copy and saving the text & images to my own local doc that I could format and print, because fuck that noise. (Also the Absolute Enable Right Click extension was clutch there...)

jerry, to random

Did I do the work I was supposed to do this weekend? No

Did I keep myself from spending too much time taking orchid pictures? Also no

llorenzin,

@jerry A+ priorities!

llorenzin, to random

Went to the farmer's market without adult supervision. Came home with a terrific haul, including a rutabaga bigger than my head... Literally. 😇

(@mbroome would like to know what I plan to do with 7 lbs of rutabaga. The recipe I had in mind takes 1.5 lbs - I hadn't really thought beyond that. Any suggestions for the rest? 😁)

Me holding a 7 lb rutabaga on my shoulder - that sucker was

llorenzin, to random

True facts. AFAICT, the mess is technical-debt chickens coming home to roost. I was at when we acquired (originators of the product), and then over the next two decades > > have tortured that legacy codebase with everything from FrankenNAC to PE-driven developer offshoring to bolt-on cloud-service offerings. TBH the only thing that surprises me about this is that it took so long.
Pouring one out for what was truly a revolutionary solution when it debuted 20-some years ago...

llorenzin,

@Viss There's plenty of this to go around, I'm sure. Feels to me like this is part of why the older vendors (Citrix, Fortinet, Juniper, etc.) keep getting hit - old code can just be such a timebomb.

llorenzin,

@Viss that'd be amusing. I did see a few orgs that had really taken the time to think through attack surface and security flows as they migrated to the cloud - but the vast majority I worked with were still bringing legacy solutions and mindsets to this new environment - understandable, but it rarely ended well for them.

jack_daniel, to random
@jack_daniel@mastodon.social avatar

And now, I start to contemplate the dreaded firewall migration. Sophos have not been great stewards of the good old Astaro line, and they are giving up on it. I'll try their latest again, but every time I've looked it offers feature parody instead of feature parity with the old Astaro platform.
I have a hunch I'll land on OpnSense, but we'll see.
I don't wanna packet anymore, but I guess I gotta.

llorenzin,

@jack_daniel I'm in the same boat. Still running a decade-old previous-employer lab castoff - it was so old when I left that they didn't want it back, and that was a decade ago! I really want to migrate before it gives up the ghost, but I haven't mustered the courage to tackle it yet...

llorenzin,

@jack_daniel Solidarity. If I get a decent OPNsense config cobbled together any time soon, happy to share...

llorenzin, to random

Since we're telling stories...

Very early in my career, I was a SOC monkey for a small local Internet & data center hosting provider. Our Big Red Button was mounted on the wall of the data center, just beyond the door, a little over 6' off the ground - low enough to reach up and hit it, high enough to avoid accidentally bumping into it... Or so we thought.

The company was small enough that our founder and CEO was still very hands-on - to the point that he was helping a brand-new employee carry a heavy server into the data center for installation one day. $newGuy - who was about 6'4" - walks backwards through the door into the data center, backs up against the wall so $CEO can swing the server around to go down the aisle... And hits the Big Red Button with the back of his head.

Instant unplanned production-outage-recovery drill, all hands on deck!

IIRC, our recovery procedure documentation improved a lot over the next few days. 🙄 $newGuy totally expected to be fired, but $CEO took full responsibility (one of the reasons I loved working there - the two founders were both fantastic people as well as visionary technogists). And the Big Red Button got a mollyguard, since "high enough to be out of the way" was clearly relative. 🤣

RE: https://dood.net/objects/6b030cfe-14d3-40b4-976a-5a08f0e1c72d
@rossgrady @lauren

llorenzin, to random


llorenzin, to random

HOPE needs help!!

The enshittification of email has led to their announcement emails getting filed to spam by Google etc al. (We run our own mailserver and have been wrestling with this for years, but at least our livelihoods don't depend on it!)

@pluralistic has a great writeup here:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

Signal boosting because fuck Big Email...

llorenzin,

@sr3 It's sooooo complicated now! Great thread on it here: https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/111779066561127096

We switched to a dedicated mail relay, so it's no longer coming from our residential-cable-modem netblock, and that helped a bit. But it's still insanely frustrating.

llorenzin,

@sr3 🙄🤬💩
My sympathies...

chort, to random

I accomplished one thing today. Please clap.

llorenzin,

@chort 👏

chort, to random

I was dealing with periodic Internet outages the past few months. I thought it was the internal interface of my firewall dying, because resetting the interface fixed the issue for a few weeks...

Turns out it was actually the switch dying, which finally slipped close enough to the grave to prevent passing traffic. What a relief, since replacing the switch is much less effort than building a new firewall.

llorenzin,

@chort What are you using for a home firewall? I've still got an ancient appliance from a previous employer - really need to replace it with something current, preferably before it goes tits-up.

llorenzin,

@chort Thanks! I'm kinda hoping to find something OTS that can handle a DMZ and simple port-forwarding - I've built my own *nix firewall in the past, I'm sure I could do it again, but I have so many other ways I'd like to spend that time... 🙄

llorenzin, to crochet

@crochet Any amigurumi gurus out there? I'm making my first one, this adorable Totoro for my husband:
https://www.deviantart.com/aphid777/art/Mini-Totoro-337092794
and have run into a challenge with the whiskers. To look right, they need to be rigid, but the ones I just got from Etsy are too fine. (They'll be perfect for the cat amigurumi I want to make next, though!)
I'd like to end up with something around the gauge of carpet thread - but rigid, not floppy. I poked around on YouTube, but the tutorials I found are generally for floppy yarn/thread whiskers. I was thinking of maybe dipping thread in glue that dries clear and hanging it to dry... What do you use?

llorenzin,

Aaaaand Totoro is finished!! I didn't get the tummy stitched on quite level, but it's not terrible - and @mbroome adores it, which is what really matters. 😊
I learned a lot while making him, and now I feel ready to tackle my original goal - making this lovely cat for a veterinarian bestie: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elon-stargazer

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