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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wow that's big hail landing on my house

@guinan blocking the entire journa.host domain because people there wrote news articles (including articles about people who didn't agree with the articles, and articles that link to bad things) seems a bit odd; that's kind of how journalism works? I don't think I'd want to live in a world where you couldn't write news about someone without their permission. The whole point of the web (*including* the fediverse) is that you can link to anything without asking anyone's permission...

I can't find any useful context about that case (since all the links in that thread are now dead), but there do seem to be lots of legitimately-useful journalists on that instance. Would you be willing to go down to a Silence instead of a Suspension?

@filippo I'm sure all those folks have identity confirmation enabled (`ssh-add -c`), right? Right?
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?
@simlay presumably you need 2^n slack channels so you can have a channel for every subset of employees
@mcc this book was so good! Have you ever read the Steerswoman books by Rosemary Kirstein? It reminded me a bit of that universe.

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...