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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!!
every semi-competent computer professional has several moments in their life that resemble this comic slide tbh

unless you're in infosec, every day is this slide in infosec
the website for the US national parks service is kinda funny, this banner takes up a lot of space (although it's probably good they have it)
Fedi I'm not gonna lie for the last 2-3 months firefox would lag and break whenever I tried to move one of my tabs or open any menu in the UI, and I totally thought this was due to a compiler flag change in my build process or something

but yesterday I finally closed my 2,676 open tabs.... turns out firefox works fine and it was just struggling to render a UI with 2,676 tabs

good news is that it's very snappy now lmao
IACR out here taking shots at the non-js users
https://iacr.org/tinfoil.html
sigh

fedi I'm not doing this shit today, I'll come back tomorrow
Thanks sharkey, Got it! 🥴
I installed 8 unmaintained packages, one has an unsoundness bug, and one has a DoS vulnerability that hasn't been fixed since 2020 because everyone just uses a fork except this one project I installed apparently

I love software :^)
their SSH keys can be found via github here https://github.com/cmenders.keys

reproduced for historical reasons, and attached to the post as a TXT file note
maybe it's just some VERY badly built default wordpress setup? the HTML indicates they should have a "sign in with google" button but I can't see one on the page, meaning this is effectively wasted bandwidth that leaks every visitor's IP and browser/account details to google via the referrer header and any first party cookies that might exist whenever it loads
I'm gonna be real with y'all I am extremely alarmed by the fact that politically sensitive services such as palestinian news organization Quds News Network just loads a shitload of google javascript into the browser on their page, including requests to accounts.google.com, meaning most likely everyone who visits them gets identified via their google account automatically if logged in

this is like, extremely bad.... if you ever build websites for organizations like this, never ever do that, ever.