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Your friendly neighborhood tech frog, here to explore society and complex systems together. My personal views are obscure and will probably be grating to most people, but we don't have to agree to be friends!

Will often discuss things like distributed systems, programming, society, and computer security. Politics WILL come up sometimes. Video games are cool too


I do serious research in between memes I swear, follow for fun computer adventures, and help build a better society together!!
Probably going to get a viral blog out of this experience, I'm trying to report a 4tb exposed cloud bucket to a company using their responsible disclosure programme... but they replaced the people with a GenAI ticket system that refuses to discuss the case as it thinks exploring open buckets is unethical and against its rules.

I've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!

Live demo: https://random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/apps/curved-markup/ (needs Chrome Canary with the canvas-draw-element flag.

Source: https://github.com/jakearchibald/random-stuff/blob/main/apps/curved-markup/src/App/index.tsx#L113

New breach: SUCCESS suffered a breach last month that exposed 250k unique email addresses. Data also included name, phone number, IP address and purchase with physical address. 80% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SUCCESS
Have I Been Pwned: SUCCESS Data Breach

In March 2026, the personal development and achievement media brand SUCCESS suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 250k unique email addresses along with names, IP addresses, phone numbers and, for a limited number of staff members, bcrypt password hashes. The data also included orders containing physical addresses and the payment method used. In SUCCESS' disclosure notice, they advised their system had also been abused to send offensive newsletters with quotes falsely attributed to contributors.

Have I Been Pwned
One of my most frequently used git settings: alias.oops = commit --amend --no-edit

This is a minimal desktop wallpaper I made for myself. Feel free to use it too!

#krita #wallpaper #mastoart #mastoart #digitalArt #wallpaperWednesday

Solar panel waste is not something you need to concern yourself with. Even if people are upgrading panels after 10 years this waste is insignificant compared to sooooooooo many things. Recycling materials in solar panels is probably a good idea, but it's not something to stop you getting panels today.

If waste is a concern for you, you should be switching to solar panels since they produce so little waste compared to other energies like coal. Like hundreds of times less. You probably should be caring more about, tires, mattresses, single use plastics, vapes, the packaging everything comes before solar panels.

(This brought to you by ABC fearmongering)

f(x,y) = ((-((16 * x) % (-y))) ^ ((~(y & x)) % (~(x % x)))) % 13

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

i don't see enough people with one of the best tool improvements i've ever made for reverse engineering, so i had to write a blog post about it!

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

your hex editor should color-code bytes

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TIL - The program view in KDE Plasma's System Monitor relies on systemd. ​

No program view for me on openrc, I guess

There's still btop, at least.