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SteveBellovin, to random
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Is it true that Republicans don't like "Return of the Jedi" because "Ewok" is an anagram of "woke"?

mrgtwentythree,
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@SteveBellovin that works this week, but something else next week

bedirthan, to DnD
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What if dragons came in broods like cicadas?
Every Y centuries a brood returned.
Brood 19 and Brood 37 overlap next year and your people are very, very worried.

mrgtwentythree,
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@bedirthan look at the pretty sky fire flies. they seem so far away. OH MY GOD THEY ARE SO FAR AWAY AND COMING IN FAST

netbsd, to random
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It turns out we have been secretly maintaining X.Org over the years and nobody noticed.

(The number of not-yet-upstreamed patches in our xsrc tree is fairly huge, working on fixing that...)

mrgtwentythree,
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@netbsd I may have something to do with this

mjg59, to random
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For no obvious reason whatsoever, AmiTCP (a third party port port of the BSD IP stack to AmigaOS that was used a bunch) enabled the chargen service (a service that just sends printable ASCII characters as fast as possible) and had no firewall so back in the 90s you could just DoS Amiga users by connecting to port 19 on their machine and they'd saturate their uplink and ping out of IRC and not everything in the past was better

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 this likely was default inetd.conf from 4BSD. netbsd only disabled chargen (and 'echo' and 'discard') in january, 1997. oh, those days.

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 if you made inetd work, and you didn't think about the copied inetd.conf default, it would just work. chargen is implemented inside inetd itself, so it really would be easy to not mean to enable it... i think.

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 that sounds like a question a security person would ask.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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New vulnerability just dropped:

NetBSD Security Advisory 2024-001: Inadequate validation of user-supplied hostname in utmp_update(8)

No CVE or CVSS assigned, but the vulnerability seems pretty minor to my naive evaluation. The interesting thing is that it affects all versions of the OS up to 10.0RC4.

I'll try updating my 9.3 vm and report. :netbsd:

Any NetBSD dev reading this, please feel free to comment before I make a fool of myself. 😊

mrgtwentythree,
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@ParadeGrotesque it means someone with login access to the host can put terminal escape codes into the hostname field, which can fool your terminal program into showing you something else. at worst it is a step in an attack sequence, and requires the attacked user do something else. if you know they have say a screen filter program that reacts to specific text, maybe you can fool that to do something. there are probably other things.

mattblaze, to random
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More often than not, booking a “newly renovated / modernized” hotel room means there’s no desk or workspace. As an older grumpy person, I hate this trend.

mrgtwentythree,
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@mattblaze i often shop hotels by room size and/or having a separate bedroom and the number of large rooms with almost useless layouts has grown so much in the last decade or two.

mrgtwentythree, to random
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i read about a "prompt engineer" complaining his prompt was stolen today and i just keep laughing at "prompt engineer". my tummy hurts

mjg59, to random
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I appreciate Synology releasing the source code for their OpenSSH modifications, but I don't really appreciate that I needed to read the fucking source code to figure out why SFTP wasn't working with key authentication (spoiler if anyone other than the user or admin has ACL permissions on the user's home directory it just silently fails unless you're running sshd in debug mode)

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 welcome to the previous millennia

mrgtwentythree, to random
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https://twitter.com/jmcwhatever/status/1747061391503032334 - netbsd/wii becomes a reality

mjg59, to random
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"No! Optus" is this a thing

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 i remember when optus started, and we were so excited to have something that wasn't telecom (now telstra). we've come a long way, baby.

mrgtwentythree, to random
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ready for tomorrow @somafm

mjg59, to random
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Wrote some terrifying code that pulls a FIT image apart, finds an embedded dtb, pulls that apart, injects a new node, and then puts it all back together again and alarmingly it actually works now

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 if only we'd listen. ;)

bedirthan, to DnD
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The movie was released on HBO in several southeast Asian nations last week. It's been the #2 movie on the platform every day.

mrgtwentythree,
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@bedirthan i watched it for a 2nd time this past weekend, and was once again entirely entertained.

mjg59, to random
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It's perfectly reasonable to buy a $25 thermostat and then spend hours figuring out how to bodge an ESP onto it rather than buying a $150 "smart" thermostat that's going to demand cloud access, right?

mrgtwentythree,
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@mjg59 $150 is only the initial monetary cost.

somafm, to random
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    mrgtwentythree,
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    @somafm woo! will match my toes perfectly. thanks :)

    mrgtwentythree,
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    @somafm oops, it's a little wrinkled already :-) special thanks for the secret agent gear!

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    mrgtwentythree,
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    @somafm i was never one of the cool kids. tho groove salads are faves (probably classic more, but that might just date me...)

    mjg59, (edited ) to random
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    Transpile:

    mrgtwentythree,
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    @mjg59 why not both

    brianklaas, to random
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    I wrote about the ten days that literally do not exist in history and how subjective our conceptions of time can be. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-ten-days-that-didnt-exist-b76

    mrgtwentythree,
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    @brianklaas thank you! i had no idea that the 1752 fix-up was merely catching up with 2 centuries ago europe.. just that it existed.

    briankrebs, to random

    We're big supporters of the EFF, but I can't get on board with the idea that somehow it's wrong or a slippery slope for Tier 1 ISPs to be blocking Kiwifarms.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

    mrgtwentythree,
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    @briankrebs what i found most ridiculous about it was the statement said leave it to the law, and a couple of sentences later admitted that the law wasn't working here. seriously unimpressed.

    somafm, to random
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    mrgtwentythree,
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    @somafm aroooo!

    SteveBellovin, to random
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    The Writers Guild needs to declare an emergency suspension of their strike for the late-night comics—we really need to hear from Colbert et al…

    mrgtwentythree,
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    @SteveBellovin while not "daily", and sometimes general vs topical, i highly recommend "some more news" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng

    SteveBellovin, to random
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    Covid isn’t gone. The CDC says that wastewater samples, test positivity, and ER visits have shown a small uptick, and hospitalizations have ended their decline and have now leveled off: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

    mrgtwentythree,
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    @SteveBellovin that's what i'm seeing too. https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@covidsewage/110735461827767578 this was at "low" for 2 of 4 regions a week ago, having not been in "low" for a very long time, for any of the regions.

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