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"You fired you top talent. I hope you're happy.": medium.com/@deusexmachina667/y

Note: I disable JavaScript just about everywhere, and since Medium uses JS instead of HTML to embed images, that means I haven't seen any in the story.

As #OpenBSD's de-facto wifi maintainer, I first learned about this WPA problem in June. A simple patch was provided which I could commit with slight modifications.

The original embargo was already 2 months long, and then extended again for 2 months.

The generall public (you) were left in the dark about this for at least 4 months.

This is a very sad state of affairs. It takes the industry much too long to apply a simple patch.

Don't worry about today's WPA2 vuln if you're running #OpenBSD - both 6.1-stable and 6.2 release are already patched.

I don't know if I need a version of gcc so old, but I'm wearing out.

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I got past this error, at least.
$ su -
# pkg install gcc46
# exit
$ export IMAKECPP=/usr/local/bin/cpp46
$ xmkmf

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I actually like the program xcal, but not only is it not in FreeBSD ports, the only place I can find a copy of the source is in Debian's source pools.

And the source won't build because clang doesn't translate ancient imake rules/macros right: X11.rules exists, but it's trying to include ' X11 .rules' (spurious spaces).

I for one would rather have real interactive people than one-way token celebrity endorsements in my social network.

I just noticed that what they're wearing during the comparison dances are...

...sorting hats.

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YouTube is recommending folk dancers illustrating merge sort and bubble sort, too.

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I need to sort these Hungarian folk dancers as quickly as possible. What computer algorithm should I use? youtu.be/3San3uKKHgg

Oh are the new users asking about how to get the check mark again? LMAO listen:

You're important, you're valid, & you don't need that check mark 💝💝💝

There's no checkmark procedure on Mastodon. You're already verified real and valid.

My workstation is misbehaving so badly, clicking on "Boost" turned the page into a solid black screen. I'm going to take this as a hint. Happy weekend, everyone.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth, folks.

Things are getting accomplished and work disasters are getting resolved successfully, but the curse is apparently exhaustion. (And my workstation is lagging on things it shouldn't be.)

Periodic reminder: malvertising on otherwise-trustworthy websites has been such a large problem for years, and shows no sign of getting better, that an ad blocker is Internet security software.

If a site you visit asks you to disable your ad blocker, take it the same way you would a demand to disable your antivirus just to view their site.

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