PJ Perez

@pjperez
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Catalan.

Mostly interested in software engineering and retro gaming.

I work for Microsoft, but I do not speak in their name and they do not speak in mine.

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PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
PadraigNov 7, 2022
guys will literally learn how to edit config.sys to free enough memory in msdos in 1993 just to play wing commander, but then get mad that the mastodon sign up process is too hard
PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
Chris WysopalNov 8, 2022

L0phtcrack is now open source. It was a commercial password cracker for over 20 years. Here is the history.

https://www.slideshare.net/cwysopal/history-of-l0phtcrack

History of L0phtCrack

The history of one of the most famous Windows password cracker.

PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
Bastian AllgeierNov 8, 2022

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the ā€œdā€. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Show threadPJ PerezNov 8, 2022

@ainmosni @jeff it can't be worse than he talking, or he tweeting, or he going at parties with pedophiles selling children to the rich and famous, or he exploiting people to exhaustion, or... it can't, can't it???

Also he said to Parag and Jack that he's a hardcore coder. He can code 6-7 codes in a good day. He can even compile the Linux kernel.

PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
Eugen RochkoMar 10, 2018
I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's
Show threadPJ PerezNov 8, 2022
@retrosteveuk And... EMI Records was based in Hayes? Wow. "How the turn tables" šŸ˜‚
PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
@alex Awesome, thanks for your patience! it makes more sense now. I think apart from local discoverability through local feed, everything else tells me it would be a good idea to run my own instance. Well, except the admin overhead... but for one user I bet it's not a big deal :) and who doesn't like to tinker? :)
Show threadPJ PerezNov 8, 2022
@bastianallgeier I remember people impersonating others by tweeting over SMS. I can't recall the details, but I think some journalists or public figures did it on purpose to show the dangers of it.
PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
@alex oh I see, thank you for clarifying. So I still may see e.g. a post from someone in mastodon.social boosted by someone in infosec.exchange if I'm following the latter person, as they made it "public" for their followers too (even if I am not federated with mastodon.social). It makes sense as these posts seem to be actually public 100% (by default).
PJ PerezNov 8, 2022
@alex thanks for the tip. It seems I need to read further about federation. Do I understand right that even if you're not federated with mastodon.social we can still interact if there's some other instance we're both federated to?