I have been in infosec for a long time. By some measures it’s over three decades. That’s as many a three tens of years. It’s been a while.

I’d like to take this opportunity to convey some of my hard-earned wisdom to the next generation.

If you want to test EtherNet/IP message forwarding and it isn’t working, be sure you didn’t disable message forwarding to test something else and forgot about it.

This has been “Rob brings you infosec wisdom” episode 8392763.

#infosec #pebkac

Kein bluetooth adapter gefunden. Nervte mich schon etwas länger, war aber erstmal egal. Hmm, das x12 hat ne intel av201 oder so, die hat doch bt.. archwiki durchgeguckt, n paar Pakete installiert, immer noch nix. mh egal, Kabel mouse dran. Irgendwie lässt das einem ja doch keine Ruhe, weiter gestöbert, nix gefunden. Heute mal ins uefi geguckt - bluetooth (und ein paar andere Sachen) deaktiviert. 🤦‍♂️ ja gut.. reboot, plasma zeigt bt dinge an.. #pebkac #linux #dau :)

oh dear.... I put the files on my nextcloud and gave them a share link. Even tested it from my mobile phone to be 100% sure they can get the files.

'it doesn't work'

#PEBKAC

Il y a quelques temps, des bots bouffaient toute la bande passante de mon serveur, alors j'ai bloqué sans vergogne des blocs d'adresses IP entiers, dont 116.0.0.0/8.

Sauf qu'il y a aussi des serveurs Mastodon en 116.x.y.z (dont au moins lire.im), et je me demandais pourquoi je ne recevais plus rien des personnes sur ce serveur.

#PEBKAC

@SimonCHulse @SeaFury same in EU…

if someone has problems with "promo mails" in their mailbox I'd argue #PEBKAC

Awaaaa

I've been trying to enable PocketID for Dawarich and I couldn't make it work, always getting a "Record not found" error...

Turns out, it was a PEBKAC, I had copied the base64 of the client id wrong, so it had extra chars... Oh well, at least now it works !

#dawarich #selfhosted #homelab #selfhosting #dawarich #timeline #tracking #pocketid #pebkac #opensource

Well... my SSD problem turned out to be me trying to enter DFU mode in a way that wasn't The Right Way™.

I thought simply power button held until the orange light started blinking was The Right Way™.

The way that ended up working was to have the power button held down at the time I was plugging in the power cable.

The drive was not DOA, after all. I recant.

#PEBKAC strikes again.

That said... there was a LOT of misinformation, and differing sets of instructions around this, which didn't help matters any.

The math is mathing right... 2.7 + 1.3

I really love #zedEditor for most of my work. I use it for programming and to update markdown work journals. Remote folders are great. However, I ran into an annoying default setting today. Default keymaps for the project pane allow you to delete a file with just a `shift-D`. There is a `"skip_prompt":false"` argument set so it should prompt before deleting. Either it didn't or I accidentally dismissed it. Lost 6 hours of work. Deleted those keymaps.
#zed #pebkac #clumsy #keyboard
Note à moi-même: toujours vérifier que j'ai pas fait une coquille en tapant une commande avant d'ouvrir un ticket sur github. #PEBKAC