FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

disappointing. I completely disassembled this phone, photographed all the chips, then put it back together.

it all went together without issue, no screws left over, nothing broke, and I turned it on and everything works. it's almost boring

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.

The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.

The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.

It was their cell phone provider.

Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.

I am very serious.

Bar for time travelers. A programmer from the 21st century is complaining about bugs caused by time zones. A programmer from the 31st century scoffs and starts talking about bugs caused by relativistic time dilation. Next to them, the guy who writes the firmware for the time machines is grinding his teeth

conspiracy theory: the unexpected shutdown of nordstream 1 on 2022-08-31 was created artificially by time travellers who did not want to stop the explosions from 26 days later but needed to somehow prevent the collapse of the european energy market that happened in their timeline

American physicist and chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett was born #OTD in 1898.

She was the inventor of a technique for making non-reflecting "invisible" glass, a material used in virtually all camera lenses & many other optical devices. She was also responsible for developing an instrument that can measure film thicknesses to within a few angstroms. She did research on methods of removing ice from airplane wings. She is also credited with the development of a new type of smoke screen.

#science

holy shit, a C/C++ compiler for Vulkan that supports graphics features and doesn't disallow function pointers

it's extremely cool. i feel that kind of envy about it that comes from familiarity with the problem domain and wishing i'd had the ambition

https://xol.io/blah/introducing-vcc/

fuck i love this website

2. This did not begin with Musk. I would date attempts to transform Twitter into a tool exclusively for the far right to Gamergate ten years ago (and the earlier racist harassment ops by the same actors that lead up to it). Online harassment is a form of censorship, harassment is a free speech issue, and the far right tried various methods for deplatforming their enemies in online community spaces for years before the idea of simply buying the websites occurred to them.

#Furry #Shitposting

I just realized that I think you can break my hardware-in-the-loop test by setting up too many WIFI routers near our testing lab.

that's probably something I should fix

Smoking a cigarette as I bring developers into my office to administer the Complexity Voight-Kampff test. My inflection is flat as I as start to speak. “You’re in Slack. You see a team architecting a new app around Kubernetes. An engineer proposes simple tools to manage the process instead. They want to convince them, but they can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Leon?” They shoot me dead from under the table every time.

hire me

it's been one day back in the classroom and i've already had to explain to multiple students that they shouldn't come to class if they are covid positive. when i die please don't blame my students, blame my employer for absolutely failing to foster an environment of covid safety in any way

Hi! If you're finding me, this is a stress test of the ActivityPub ecosystem's IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support.

It isn't great! The software works fine, but mentioning this account on Pleroma/Akkoma right now is impossible with Markdown, unless you change the TLD to Hiragana (minna in romaji)

Other software seems to handle it alright, switching between without effort.

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IDNs are rare; you likely will never see this in the wild! The whole "xn--" prefix is by design, this is how the internet "ASCII"-ifies domains that aren't plain ASCII.

I am not breaking your instance. Your client is fine. It's doing its best. Even if it adds an emoji.

Love you~

The world's first ablative CPU cooler

"technology is real when americans announce making it" vs "technology is real when you can get it off alibaba at all price ranges"

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