robpomeroy

@robpomeroy@infosec.exchange

TLDR: #infosec #cloud #devops #OpenSource #a11y #JC #MostlyHarmless

👋🏻🔒 Friendly British Security/Technology wonk.
♿💡 Founder of learning disability project BrightOS (looking for partners!).
😇🙏 Good guy wannabe.
✍🏻👽 Sci-fi author.
👦🏻👦🏻 Father to twins with severe learning difficulties and other disabilities.
🦸🏻‍♀️ Husband to superhero wife.
⚖️ Solicitor (no longer practising law though).
✝️ To everything there is a season.

🔐👍🏻 Visit my website for secure/private methods of contacting me

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robpomeroy, to random

Windows Update error 0x80070643!

So Patch Tuesday is causing a nuisance for many PCs. All because the Windows recovery partition is too small. You can enlarge it (details here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf) or just wait for MS to come up with a better fix.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    robpomeroy,

    @GossiTheDog @briankrebs @malwaretech

    Awww... disappointing.

    TheQuinbox, to random

    Stupid typo I've made like 7 times today. std::vectory instead of std::vector. No idea why, but almost every time, without fail.

    robpomeroy,

    @TheQuinbox

    By a similar token, I am incapable of typing director (normally).

    SecurityWriter, to random

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    robpomeroy,

    @SecurityWriter

    I started getting some strange RSI symptoms in my right shoulder, so I picked up Kensington Orbit to use with my left hand, while giving my right hand a mouse break. I particularly appreciate the scroll ring. I use it with the wrist rest attached (not pictured here).

    I feel like a trackball mouse would give me RSI in my thumb...? So I'm sticking with an Anker vertical mouse for my right hand.

    It felt odd for a while, having a controller either side of the keyboard, but now I barely notice that I'm switching between the two.

    malwaretech, to random

    I’ve never worked a job where I have to wake up at a specific time and I’ve always wondered if it’s professionally acceptable to just be honest and tell someone their 9am meeting suggestion is too early. Currently I just tell everyone my schedule is book every day until 10 am (which is technically true because I have 2am - 9am scheduled for sleeping and 9am - 10am scheduled for drinking coffee and processing being alive).

    robpomeroy,

    @malwaretech

    Pretty sure you've earned the right not to have to justify your hours. 👍🏻

    ifixcoinops, to random
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    I cannae draw.

    It's always bothered me that I can't draw. I have dyspraxia pretty bad and was the crappiest artist in my whole year at school, and I kinda shrugged and went "Guess I'll write instead" and just sort of bimbled through life making text adventures and fixing coin-ops, but it's always nagged at me that I can't draw, and my kid's been asking me "Dad how do you draw a cat" and I'm like "You're six and you already draw better than me," and I'm 40 now and wanna put some time in this year towards not sucking quite so much at this.

    Anyone got a rec for a good absolute-beginner guide? Like, sub-beginner even, think Small Child Level because I wasn't kidding when I said my 6-year-old draws better than me

    robpomeroy,

    @ifixcoinops

    Yes. Ditto, in so many respects. Try DrawABox - the lessons are pretty good: https://drawabox.com/

    robpomeroy, to Autism

    Just made my son very cross because I mistakenly referred to tea as "dinner".

    😕

    thomasfuchs, to random
    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

    So Redhat is pulling a Reddit?

    robpomeroy,

    @thomasfuchs

    I'll be much more annoyed if they torpedo Ansible.

    SecurityWriter, to random

    Do you route your internal traffic through your firewall rules and policies?

    If not, you are assuming a LOT of things about a LOT of things :)

    robpomeroy,

    @SecurityWriter

    AWS's Session Manager is my hammer and everything is a nail.

    robpomeroy,

    @kkarhan @datenritter @SecurityWriter

    ...or printers, or some hobbyist's random Raspberry Pi or...

    robpomeroy,

    @SecurityWriter 😂. But yes.

    eLife, to random
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    Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion. https://elifesciences.org/articles/82410?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

    video/mp4

    robpomeroy,

    @eLife Cool! Makes me dizzy though!

    SecurityWriter, to random

    Just a reminder to anyone putting hard-coded ‘FQDNs’ in their code:

    An FQDN must 👏 resolve 👏 to 👏 its 👏 root.

    And this is NOT the same internally and externally. Especially on complex enterprise networks.

    I can’t tell you the number of times your network engineers or technicians will have had to cover your asses with forwarders or lookup zones.

    Be kind. Terminate your FQDNs fully!

    robpomeroy,

    @SecurityWriter @djb

    😱

    I'm so done with split horizon DNS.

    0x58, to random

    The web from the 90's is back! Yay! 👴

    https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=followers&tag=

    robpomeroy,

    @0x58

    10 minutes there and I got a migraine.

    robpomeroy,

    @0x58

    Yes. I remember cold tapioca and being whipped with a towel while getting changed at school with equal fondness.

    😄

    jerry, to random

    Updates on fedia.io and Infosec.pub:

    Fedia:
    Images should be fully working now

    There are some federation issues, however many of those are due to steps other instances took to prevent overload

    An unknown number of issues are likely related to the server being overloaded.

    I am going to attempt replacing the single server with 4 nodes of the same spec using the docker swarm capability. I’ve never used swarm, so this should be exciting

    A ridiculous number of people are bit by missing the verification email which expires after an hour. If this happens to you, drop me an email or a message here with the username you tried registering.

    Fedia.io has nearly 2700 accounts active in the past few days.

    Infosec.pub
    I fixed the issue with logins. The problem was that many accounts weren’t actually verified, including mine. My hypothesis is that the default setting doesn’t require email verification and so users created while email verification is disabled are not able to login once email verification is enabled. I manually updated the affected user records and all seems to be good.

    There is an issue with replying to mastodon posts from Infosec.pub. I don’t yet know what the issue is and I don’t see any open tickets referencing the problem.

    Infosec. Pub has 167 active users.

    robpomeroy,

    @jerry

    I could dig out an Ansible playbook for provisioning Docker + Swarm across multiple nodes, if that's any help. The playbook is based on Photon OS (for insanely lean efficiency) but could be adapted to others...

    Edent, to random
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    Almost getting to the point where I'm going to buy a cheap Android phone just to run my banking apps!

    I totally get why they detect root & unlocked bootloaders - the risk is just too high for them. But it sucks that I can't keep using a perfectly good older device without jumping through lots of hoops.

    robpomeroy,

    @Edent

    Makes sense, though a cheap Android phone is going to be out of support pretty quickly (and thus fall out of PCI DSS and/or Cyper Essentials certifications). So you might have to replace it every 18 months?

    A 12-month old secondhand Pixel or Samasung Galaxy might be more cost-effective (with circa 3 years of support remaining). Let someone else pay for the first year's depreciation. 😀

    robpomeroy,

    @Edent

    Am I right in thinking an unlocked bootloader invalidates the secure boot chain guarantee?

    mjgardner, to random

    If you ain’t down with , I feel bad for you, son
    I’ve got , and 99 smaller problems inside of each one

    robpomeroy,

    @mjgardner

    Big fractals have little fractals
    Upon their backs to bite 'em
    And little fractals have lesser fractals
    And so ad infinitum

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