Foone🏳️‍⚧️

adding a little more chaos to the world by trying to browse with a UA that calls itself

Mozilla/9.0 (Windows NT 17.2; Win128; x192) Firefox/230.0

and makes all requests using HTTP 5.0 before falling back to HTTP 2.0 when your poor server doesn't support my future tech

Jun 5 at 3:39amWeb
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5
I'm just trying to make the webserver logfiles of the world a little bit weirder
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5
back when I was in the Aggressive Archival business I had a system making two gigabytes a day of requests with the useragent "MSIE LOL"
Show threadAllan ChowJun 5
@foone oh that's more subtle than welhen i drive traffic to websites im responsible for with utm_medium=urmom
Show threadaquamarine 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5
@foone reminds me of when i got a request from a ua reporting to be chrome 44 on netbsd i386. or some random sony ericsson phone
Show threadHey GusJun 5
@aqua @foone oh look the user agent was carved into magnetic physical media by some old ass neckbeard
Show threadThe Good, Mad and UglyJun 5

@aqua @foone I patched my Mumble client to report it's running on MS-DOS on a Philips HD2581/00 (a toaster). 🤪

I could've just disabled the OS reporting mechanism, but where's the fun in that.

Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Jun 5
@foone I have an even more future one, webkit larps as Firefox/Chrome 300 when it needs to lie in the User-Agent.
Show threadchocobo13ζJun 5
@foone
In a similar vein, after getting tired of Telegram asking me to add my birthday to my account, I set it to the day just before the Unix epoch. I doubt they save it in a way it would be a negative number, but I still think it's funny
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5

@chocobo13 ooh, that's a good idea.

though I guess "people over 56" aren't rare enough that anyone would be silly enough with their site to have that be a problem. It's still a fun idea.

Show threadJoe KerhinJun 5
@foone @chocobo13 https://mastodon.social/@jkerhin/114458409882344463
Show threadAustin Nunn 🏳️‍🌈🏁Jun 5
@jkerhin @foone @chocobo13 Isn’t Verizon a former baby bell? Could conceivably have an old AT&T account kicking around in their DBs lol.
Show threadJoe KerhinJun 5
@austincnunn @foone @chocobo13 they started as Bell Atlantic in 1983, over a decade after the unix epoch. I think it wound up being my ad blocker suppressing one of their trackers, with this being the JavaScript fallback.
Show thread1000millimeterJun 5
@jkerhin @austincnunn @foone @chocobo13 Yes so at this time there were already customers...
Show threadLeelooJun 5

@chocobo13 @foone
What's funny about that? That's literally how unix timestamps are supposed to work.

Next time, try 1901-12-12.

Also, some systems don't care at all. When Steam wants me to verify my age, I always use February 31st.

Show threadchocobo13ζJun 5
@leeloo
The spec actually does allow for storing it as a signed number? I didn't realize. Though it makes sense. Would 1901 be far enough back that it would be like the 2038 problem on the early end of the date range?
@foone
Show threadLeelooJun 5

@chocobo13 @foone
Of course it uses signed numbers, it was designed in the 1970'es (or late 60'es), how do you think they stored things that occurred in the past? Also, if it used unsigned, 2038 would be the middle, not the upper limit.

The lower limit is 1901-12-13, so the 12th is just outside the limit.

Show threadLeelooJun 5
@chocobo13 @foone
68 years and a few days on either side of midnight, January 1st, 1970.
Show threadΣ(i³) = (Σi)²Jun 5
@foone Of course you should fall back incrementally - if 5.0 isn't supported, try 4.1, then 4.0, etc...
Show threadYuki Hazuki ·𐑘𐑵𐑒𐑘 ·𐑾𐑨𐑟𐑵𐑒𐑘 葉月膤 ❄️ 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5
@foone the server be like
Show threadDaveography 🇨🇦 Jun 5

@foone

This is good

Show threadJoel MichaelJun 5
@foone I have been known to visit corporate phishing “training” sites using my favourite web browser: NCSA Mosaic 0.9 running on Solaris 2.5.1. It fetches the phishing training link once a minute for a week or two, using HTTP/2.0 over TLS/1.3, because security.
Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsJun 5
@jpm "oi is joel up to his shenanigans again?" #lang_en
Show threadJoel MichaelJun 5
@ellenor2000 I want to see the report from the phishing training provider that says there were more clicks on the training link than employees in the company.
Show threadchayleafJun 5
@foone my firefox occasionally uses undefined as the HTTP version which causes so many problems, i had to use chromium for the first time in a while
Show threadAndrewJun 5
@foone reminds me of the people who learn about unreleased apple products from browser data. You could really mess with them with a big enough cluster
Show threadRealGene ☣️Jun 5
@foone
I always thought it would be fun to embed photos in the payload of jumbo ICMP packets.
Show threadJ  Jun 5
@foone 😂
Show threadHey GusJun 5
@foone you are an agent of chaos.
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5
@elebertus thank you
Show threadLisa MeltonJun 5
@foone Okay, finally some real humor on Mastodon. 🤣
Show threadEmma Loves ☕️Jun 5
@lisamelton @foone writing a plugin for Caddy that checks HTTP version and returns "Very funny Foone, now make a real request."
Show threadLisa MeltonJun 5

@emma I love it! 🤣

@foone

Show threadmabsJun 5
@foone remember to try and negotiate that future encryption on https
Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🔪 🙄Jun 5
@foone Back in the day I did web log analysis on my site, and there were always some weirdoes running or claiming to run BSD, SunOS, or IRIX, in addition to my own hits. I had a client-side hack to annoy MSIE users but didn't have an easy way to praise the weirdoes.
Show threadJernej Simončič �Jun 5
@mdhughes @foone Even IE users on HP-UX or Solaris? :)
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECOJun 5
@foone how's that expressed in ALPN
Show threadbent0_b0x 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪁🪂Jun 5

* i must learn *

@foone

Show threadGabeJun 5
@foone "(unlike Gecko)"
Show threadRairii   Jun 5
@foone you assume the NT kernel version will ever get incremented ever again
Show threadJernej Simončič �Jun 5
@Rairii @foone 10.0.137250.2195
Show threadRairii   Jun 5
@jernej__s @foone build number is currently limited to 16 bits. they already ran into hilarity when they hit the previous 14-bit limit https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_10_build_17000
Windows 10 build 17000 - BetaWiki

An open encyclopedia of software history

BetaWiki
Show threadJernej Simončič �Jun 5
@Rairii @foone I remember the 14-bit limit, and wanted to say something along "hopefully having builds beyond 65k didn't cause too many problems" :)
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5
@Rairii I can dream
Show threadDennis SchubertJun 5

@foone excuse me can you not please, this hurts my soul

or.. like.. at least use a four-digit firefox version and start reporting bugs, so that whoever poor soul does my job in 2091 has something to start off when firefox 1000 ships

Show threadJan WalzerJun 5
@foone you should identify it as „Microsoft Mozilla - a Product by Meta“
Show thread#?.info Jun 5
@foone Pffft there's no way Firefox/230 supports anything below TLS 7.3, webmasters will know what's up right away!
Show threadWilliam D. JonesJun 5
@foone LHTML, Like Chameleon
Show thread~petraJun 5
@foone I'm always thinking about what I'd have to do if I time travelled to not stick out in logs