Paul Hoffman

@paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
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Old Skool Internet geek, particularly DNS. Pronouns: us/y’all.

Installed Teams because I have an interview later today:

Sign into Teams.

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Sign into Office.

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Sign into Office.....

HOW IS THIS THE FUCKING DEFAULT EVERYONE REACHES FOR?!?!?!

I keep running into situations with my Apple devices that make me think nobody with decisional power at Apple lives in the same dimension as I do.

Apparently in their dimension, nobody they know ever dies so there’s no need to enter death dates into Contacts to stop Calendar from celebrating someone’s birthday.

In their world, the neighbours live far enough that there is never interference and the Apple TV remote never ever randomly stops working for 20 seconds at a time.

At Apple, everybody has multiple pointing devices lying around everywhere so it’s no problem at all for the mouse USB port to be located where that makes it unusable during charge.

Beings that dwell at Apple don’t have elderly relatives so you see they never need to control someone’s iPad remotely to perform any maintenance task at all.

Speaking of mobile devices, everyone in Cupertino also has a computer so if an iOS update can’t install for lack of space, this can always be worked around by updating via a computer, you know.

@annaf There’s some weird shit in the dusty corners of Unicode: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf
Seriously. What’s your excuse for still being on X at this point. They’ve literally built HitlerBot.
Musk made a Nazi salute and programmed his bot to spew antisemitic conspiracy theories, but of course these two things occur in complete isolation from each other and it would be unfair to draw conclusions about a person based on the things he does and says.

I'm curious how other folks #selfhosting @gitea or @forgejo instances are handling Identity.

having others log in via GitHub OAuth seems a little counter-productive, but I don't want to require password-based user signups 🤔

https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/ is funnier than any April 1 RFC from the past many years.
You MUST listen to RFC 2119

It turns out you can just pay people to do things.

My partner and I bought a "family" subscription to @kagihq recently. Instant satisfaction. I wish I had done this ages ago. Every time I think, "Hey, I wonder if Kagi does <blah>?" the answer is, "Yes, and does it well."

✅ Docs for setting up default search on various browser/OS combos
✅ Tips for use in private browser windows
✅ Fast, relevant results
✅ Reachable via IPv6
✅ Zone is DNSSEC signed
✅ Block/demote/promote results per domain

_fans self_

I really don’t understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.

I'm having a "special" day today so I'll break the cycle and just spread some love.

Someone in my feed said thanks to #foss #developers and I enjoy that sentiment.

Thank you to all who make #opensource software and make this world a little bit better. You are doing important work.

I know money would be great but a sincere thank you is all I have atm.

To everyone using foss software. Maybe spread some love as well. :)

#fosslove #thankfoss