Show newer

IPv4 served its purpose, & IPv6 is much better, but with an IPv8 I should scream down the Information Superhighway.

Intel AMT drama: 

1. Details by the original discoverer: embedi.com/files/white-papers/
2. Independent rediscovery: t.co/l0rDyFlb0N
TLDR: trivial auth bug in the AMT web server...

What consequences should face those, who build web servers into our CPUs?

Remember Intel's been keen on mocking OSS for its lack of security & liability. Here's a fragment from the 2014 book by Intel ME architect:

If you have trouble understanding the difference between computer hardware and computer software, just remember this:

Hardware is something you can shoot, but it probably isn't the cause of your computer problems.

Software is probably the cause of your computer problems, but it's something that you *can't* shoot.

"Whenever you’re working on a piece of JavaScript code that deals with strings or regular expressions in some way, just add a unit test that contains a pile of poo (💩) in a string, and see if anything breaks."

mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascr

fun things to do: name a variable "x" and then just use variables with invisible unicode characters in them after the "x" so nobody can figure out how you're retrieving your values

Geopolitics 

Oh! On that note, it looks like Macron half-outsmarted Russialeaks and Wikian interference to devalue eventual dumps.

thedailybeast.com/articles/201

Also, that last statement. Trying to mask the Russian scent much?

Show thread

Geopolitics 

The world is celebrating the election of a regular pile of trash to head France because the only alternative was a fascist pile of trash.

Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.

Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.

Show thread

Strong picture bot opinion 

Picture bots that cite their sources are good. Those that link directly to the artists' posts are better. Those that obtain explicit consent as well, such as Creative Commons licensing, are the best.

I won't follow or boost picture bots that don't cite sources, not without VERY good reason.

Picture bots that don't even say what they scraped their pictures from should be shut down and sold for scrap.

Is Burgertime the first video game about a sandwich?

Would an Asteroids arcade cabinet between two Burgertime arcade cabinets be a universe sandwich?

$ ft=first-toot.sh; touch $ft && chmod u+x $ft && ed $ft && ./$ft > \
great-big-mastodon-social-world
a
#!/bin/sh

echo "I finally got on board one of these things. Hello, world!"

.
wq

Computer Fairies

Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!