James Brown

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POSIXly-correct software developer & #linux sysadmin. #Mac user at home. #HarveyMuddCollege alum. House #Rabbit enthusiast living in Berkeley, CA. Enjoys writing software in #Python, #Rust, #Ruby, and various esolangs. Amateur photographer using #Fujifilm and #Ricoh cameras.
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websitehttps://www.roguelazer.com
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wow that's big hail landing on my house
Had to explain to my two-year-old tonight that "potty training" doesn't involve an actual train.
Web Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and More

During the fall of 2022, a few friends and I took a road trip from Chicago, IL to Washington, DC to attend a cybersecurity conference and (try) to take a break from our usual computer work. While we were visiting the University of Maryland, we came across a fleet of electric scooters scattered across the

Sam Curry | Web Application Security Researcher
It's a cute error page, but why does the #CDC take their website offline for maintenance? Seems like a relatively essential service?

CircleCi is reporting a “security incident,” but the wording used and and actions advised suggests it’s probably a full blown breach:

https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/

“At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our system.”

actions advised:

“Immediately rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI. These may be stored in project environment variables or in contexts.
We also recommend customers review internal logs for their systems for any unauthorized access starting from December 21, 2022 through today, January 4, 2023, or upon completion of your secrets rotation.”

CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI (Updated Jan 13)

Read CircleCI’s security alerts from January 2023. Last updated 1/13/2023.

CircleCI
@ivory is there any way to set a tab to local or federated? I use those a lot more than filters...
This is seriously a lot of rain and wind here in the #BayArea. #hugops to the PG&E line workers keeping the lights on in Alameda County.

Holy crap! This is one of the biggest footguns in the #ruby development ecosystems, and they've finally fixed it!

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/5888

You don't know how many people I've had to support who have trashed their machines by accidentally running `bundle install` and having it automatically sudo and overwrite a bunch of system packages and leave ruby totally unusable.

Completely remove "auto-sudo" feature by deivid-rodriguez · Pull Request #5888 · rubygems/rubygems

What was the end-user or developer problem that led to this PR? I think it's time to move on and there's consensus between everyone that this is a harmful feature. In any case, I propose to release...

GitHub
We're up to #iOS 16.2 and as far as I can tell, #Safari iCloud tab sync is still totally broken. It works for a day or so after I disable it, reboot, and re-enable it on a device, then stops syncing. Why is this so hard? I only have a handful of tabs open on each device.
#COVID Poll - Have you had COVID?
Please boost to get a bigger response.
Not had it (as far as I know)
46.7%
Had it once
42.4%
Had it twice
8.9%
Had it 3 or more times
2.1%
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