Wouter Hindriks

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@spaf Here. It was here.

'On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (…) "In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why." After digging into the raw data, I believe I have figured out why.'

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen

Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer

curl disclosed on HackerOne: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in TELNET...

**Title:** Stack-based Buffer Overflow in TELNET NEW_ENV Option Handling **Vulnerability Description:** **Summary:** A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the `libcurl` TELNET handler. When `libcurl` connects to a malicious TELNET server, the server can trigger an overflow by sending a `NEW_ENVIRON SEND` request. This causes the client to construct a response that overwrites...

HackerOne
They are starting to get it ...
I think one main issue I have with the whole "EURO Stack" stuff is that it is not looking for an alternative. It's "we want what we got just with EU companies". But the fact that the Internet and its services have been turned into a mall is the big fucking problem. I don't want a "European Facebook" built on the same logic of exploitation.

You can now turn your old smarphone into a pocket cyberdeck. Because why not

https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/06/transform-your-old-smartphone-into-a-pocket-cyberdeck-with-kali-nethunter/

This is a Google Pixel 3 XL, but I don't see why this can't be modified to fit another mobile. The case is 3D printed and it's running Kali Nethunter

#HardwareHacking #Cyberpunk

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire

Hi all. It's been a while since I've asked, but I'm here again asking for you to support your local fediverse instance. I know many instance operators struggle to make ends meet each month, and there does seem to be a downward trend on donations across the board. If you love this place and are in a position to and your instance supports it, please consider supporting them.

Thank you!

Hard to find the original, but I love this
#BladeRunner #Gopher #AltaVista

Retro computing friends,

Has anyone done a reverse engineering of the Stacker compressed disk volume format (stacvol.dsk)? It was a predecessor to DoubleSpace/DriveSpace via third-party software for DOS.

I have a volume compressed with it that might have data of historical significance, but I believe there was some fs damage, so sufficient knowledge to process it manually would probably be better than trying to setup a VM capable of reading it only to be greeted with errors and no tooling to debug them.

Boosts for reach welcome!

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Hard to find the original, but I love this
#BladeRunner #Gopher #AltaVista
@dennisfaucher what.. no love for the flash apps.. 🤡
@dennisfaucher The struggle to uninstall RealPlayer was real. It was awful, you'd be hard-pressed to find something worse.
@neromabene @dennisfaucher The struggle to get rid of all the browser "search bars" on your parents' conputer?
@Natanox @dennisfaucher A worse player than RealPlayer. But yeah, thanks for the memories; removing those "helpful" "search bars" is essentially a family tradition apparently.
@neromabene @Natanox @dennisfaucher grandma, I don’t know what you mean by “the internet is too small”. I’ll be over this afternoon, I’ll take a look at it then.

@neromabene @dennisfaucher

Aw... I was oddly fond of RealPlayer. It basically just worked, and it filed my music collection in the 'correct' directory structure because it used the *name* of the tracks rather than the mp3 tags, so to get things put in the right place, I just had to name them correctly 😀

@neromabene @dennisfaucher I still awake in the midst of the night, shaking with remembrance of trying to uninstall Real. 😉
@dennisfaucher …seems legit. Honed my combat skills on 4-player Doom death matches. I’m not the only person who ever walked into a 24 hour computer lab with cables to hardwire four PCs together.
The rise and fall of AoL. Linkpages, dancing gophers, 3.5 inch floppy discs, sharing MP3s (and bitmapped porn), MUDs, Hack, and the glory that was SGi…

@dennisfaucher

The time to die for RealPlayer is long past.

@mndflayr @dennisfaucher

IMO Real Player should've been aborted in the 9th month...

@rickf @dennisfaucher

When I read the OP, I first thought it was a Blade Runner reference. But when I stumbled over "Real Player", I knew that it was from a Zombie movie.

#AltTextForU irwin
@irwin

l've seen things you people wouldn't
believe. Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars.
Searching for y pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating,
trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments will be lost in time,
like tears
in
rain. Time to die.

@dennisfaucher Installing your first Java applet ticker
@cmsdengl @dennisfaucher ActiveX plugins... [Wilhelm scream]
@dennisfaucher But have you ever tried to download a file from a BBS using a 400 baud modem? "Mic Drop".
@alandvalonline Do you mean 300? Because I've done that. Never heard of anyone using 400 baud. Maybe you meant 2400?
@wesdym Probably. It's been a few years since I used one, but I do remember when the 2400 baud came out I was excited.
@dennisfaucher And WAIS, Finger, Archie, Veronica...

@dennisfaucher @mpm Now this is a test of your nerd / geek levels @adhdeanasl

No imposter syndrome if you get all the references! 😁

Thanks to Dennis for posting & MArk for boosting - made me laugh … I have a version on my pinned posts.

@dennisfaucher Yes yes, but what did your .plan file say? 😎
@dennisfaucher Playing DOOM in a DOS window on OS/2 while your code compiled in the background.
@dennisfaucher line by line loading of pictures
@dennisfaucher I never really tried to _un_install RealPlayer, but have you ever tried to configure RealPlayer for Linux under SuSE?
@dennisfaucher God I'm old, I also lived through that time.
A time where McAfee were cool and innovative, where Google were a scrappy startup commited to not being evil.
I even remeber a time where MicroSoft were cool and IBM a bunch of clowns.
@johnrohde What every happened to "Do No Evil"?

@dennisfaucher @johnrohde

they tried to hold the phrase in their hands but dropped the word in the middle on the floor and left it there and at that.

@dennisfaucher

Yeah but that was when the web actually became something, there were times before that you know.

Anyway, what does it matter now, all long gone history, sure it was interesting to live through it all, but I do think it is amazing what has been created, at the start no-one had any idea it would be like this, we just had some fancy notions of what it might be like, they were mostly wrong.

@dennisfaucher marquee! Gone for good!
@dennisfaucher Was talking about a fond memory from IRC yesterday. My first encounter with a person online that made a huge impression on me.
@dennisfaucher Funny, I’d actually forgotten about those self replicating windows. Ah, good times!

@dennisfaucher

Which original?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue has the exact text, and I've attached the first instance I have found of this meme.

@dennisfaucher Spider, Geocities, newsgroups...
@dennisfaucher single-pixel gifs...everywhere!
@dennisfaucher I'm running a gopher server, gn, on my raspberry pi. It's serving a 1996-ish copy of the server I used to run on Echonyc.com
@jhhl That is so beautiful
@dennisfaucher If you have a command line and good old lynx, it can act as a gopher client! So just type lynx gopher://arty.fish and you can see it.
Since it's gn, it can also be accessed via http://arty.fish:70, but where's the fun in that?
@jhhl I was inspired and created a gophermap including a PHP front end to Ollama chat :)
@dennisfaucher Was anyone able to punch the monkey?
@dennisfaucher multiplayer PC games over the IPX protocol
@dennisfaucher I remember that altavista was a search engine, and alta-vista was a hardcore porn site, as I discovered accidentally once in a busy open plan office 😩
@dennisfaucher @LibertyForward1 Flash, the horror that was Flash....
@dennisfaucher knowing the exact path to your favorite sites on Yahoo.
Making websites ( with frames) in notepad after reading "Learn HTML in a week".
@dennisfaucher I still remember when Yahoo and Lycos were University projects and were shut down