Videl Smith

@Videl
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Next year will be different!

#COP29 #Climate #ClimateChange

If you want me to change how I write my articles, you can pay me an eye-watering amount of money per article (more than I will ever make off of any individual article, even a super-banger).
I don't remember where I first read about shorting pins while u-boot is reading the kernel to force it to drop to a prompt, but I have hacked *so* many devices with that knowledge, so thank you whoever it was
Four ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis

Production outages are great at teaching you how not to cause production outages. I've caused plenty and hope that by sharing them publicly, it might help some people bypass part one of the production outage learning syllabus. Previously I discussed ways I've broken prod with PostgreSQL and with healthchecks. Now I'll show you how I've done it with Redis too.

Testing my new work gear, impressive stuff
- XReal
- Android with Termux
- eSYNIC Keyboard
Transferring a domain you care about across registrars
CVE-2022-45868: Password exposure in H2 Database (not an issue) · Issue #3686 · h2database/h2database

Dependabot and org.owasp:dependency-check-maven have been reporting CVE-2022-45868 (see GHSA-22wj-vf5f-wrvj) to me. I didn't find this CVE referenced from any issue in the issue tracker here, so I'...

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Further secure your digital life with #2fa. What is your favorite authenticator? https://bitwarden.com/blog/top-10-burning-questions-on-2fa/

#cybersecurity #security #passwordmanager #passwordsecurity

Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FA | Bitwarden Blog

Answers to the top ten burning questions on two-factor authentication

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This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS